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May 9

This has been a huge week for LGBT issues; both good (Tom Gabel coming out as transgender, California banning sexual orientation conversion therapy, and Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage), and bad (N. Carolina’s Amendment One). The good outweighs the bad right now and hopefully this trend continues.

The thing that I most enjoy about all this news though, is the fact that homophobes and bigots have to hear about it all. With Facebook and social media, they can no longer just stay in their little bubbles and avoid things that don’t fit in with their close-minded worldview. With every article that shows up on their news feed, they have to re-affirm their hate-filled beliefs, and continue to feel uncomfortable. Good. Keep squirming. And hopefully someday that squirming will cause the resolve to break and they will realize that hate is a shitty way to live.

Posted 3 weeks ago

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lgbt, tom gabel, obama, gay marriage, north carolina, amendment one, amendment 1, social media, facebook,

Apr 10
This will be my new series of “Stupid comments on Facebook that I want to call out but don’t want to offend so I’ll passive aggressively post them on Tumblr.” We’ll see how long before said facebookers come over here, or I accidentally press the enter button haha.

This will be my new series of “Stupid comments on Facebook that I want to call out but don’t want to offend so I’ll passive aggressively post them on Tumblr.”

We’ll see how long before said facebookers come over here, or I accidentally press the enter button haha.

Posted 1 month ago

Facebook, exes, women,

Feb 22
Just realized the top entry might look kind of funny haha. It’s the band I swear!

Just realized the top entry might look kind of funny haha. It’s the band I swear!

Posted 3 months ago

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music, facebook, north korea, envy on the coast,

Feb 15
I have been engaged in quite a few debates on Twitter and FB over the last week or so… as my new Klout topics reflect haha.

I have been engaged in quite a few debates on Twitter and FB over the last week or so… as my new Klout topics reflect haha.

Posted 3 months ago

twitter, facebook, klout, gay marriage, birth control, politics,

Feb 9
“Dammit Facebook!”

“Dammit Facebook!”

Posted 3 months ago

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facebook, reddit,

Jan 3

Alfred, and the Future of the Check-In

I was finally able to use an app called Alfred that I downloaded after hearing that it’s developer, Clever Sense, was just bought out by Google. The app is like a smarter version of Yelp. It too is used to find places to go, but uses a different method than just general categories.

To start out, a user has to “teach” the app what kinds of places to find by answering a series of questions like the one in the picture. It uses this information as well as other Alfred users with similar choices to personalize suggestions. When looking for suggestions, instead of generic restaurants/bars/entertainment/etc categories, it uses more specific things like brunch/dessert/drinks/etc. In my opinion that is way more convenient. My favorite option is the Brunch category because I never know who actually has it besides common places such as IHOP or Denny’s.

I’ve read a few articles saying that Google might be using Alfred to contribute to a Siri competitor, but I assume that it will be used to assist with location check-ins (in addition). No one effectively uses check-in based suggestions yet and this could be a competition killer. By integrating Alfred with Google+/Latitude check-ins, it would cut down on the initial teaching that Alfred needs. It could also keep track of which friends check in with you and make suggestions in the future based on who you’re with.

The only check-in service that I see consistently used across my social networks is Foursquare. Google check-ins, via Google+ or Latitude, never really took off, even with the newer Places part of their Maps app. Facebook check-ins took a sharp dive after the first few weeks. In my opinion, the reason why Foursquare keeps going is that it provides a reason to actually check in to everything instead of just times when you want to say something about the place/location. This reason may only be worthless, arbitrary points and achievement badges, but it provides a goal and creates a little competition among your friends. Alfred could provide its own “reason” since it would be helping future suggestions.

I think that if Google successfully integrates Alfred with a check-in service, but also creates some sort of achievement system a la Foursquare, they could actually pry people away from their existing check-in apps because they would be providing an actual useful service in addition to the generic check-in.

Posted 5 months ago

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android, apple, iphone, siri, google, google+, foursquare, facebook, social networks,

Oct 18
I was wondering why I kept getting hits on the walkthrough I wrote up to update Facebook from Google+, even though there are way better methods to do it now. And then I Googled it haha. At least I’m number 1 at something.

I was wondering why I kept getting hits on the walkthrough I wrote up to update Facebook from Google+, even though there are way better methods to do it now. And then I Googled it haha. At least I’m number 1 at something.

Posted 7 months ago

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google+, facebook, lifehacker,

Sep 6
ryanrussell: New Facebook update. Bet it still doesn’t work. (Taken with instagram) …but still way better than the Android app.

ryanrussell:

New Facebook update. Bet it still doesn’t work. (Taken with instagram)

…but still way better than the Android app.

Reblogged 9 months ago from ryanrussell

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facebook, android, iphone, ios, apple,

Jul 6

How to Update Facebook From Google+ (Without Using an Extension)

Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.

We can use that email address to cross post from Google+, here are the steps to configure it:

  1. Login to your Facebook account and head to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/. In the middle of the page there will be an email address that starts with some random characters followed by “@m.facebook.com”. Copy it.
     
  2. Go to your Google+ Circles page. Create a new circle (I just called mine “Facebook”) and add the email address that you just copied as the only person in the circle.
     
  3. Now just post as you normally would but include your new circle in the post and check the boxes to notify by email.
     

Facebook takes a couple minutes to update but it does work, I’ve tested it a few times. It should also work from any browser and the mobile app (although I haven’t tested it yet).Try it out.

Update: You can probably use the same method to update Twitter as well with one of the many websites that offer tweet by email, but I’m not so comfortable using those services because they are third party.

Update 2: Unfortunately it looks like your text will cut off after about 50 characters using this method. This is because Facebook uses the subject of the email as the status and Google+ truncates the subject text in the notification email. Right now I don’t think there is a way around this but I suggest that you use Google+’s “Send Feedback” function and request more subject text in the notification emails. Who knows, maybe they will consider changing it.

Update 3: Now that Google+ has had some time to grow, I found that this extension is probably the best method of cross posting. Seriously, it rules.

Posted 11 months ago

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facebook, google+, status, update,





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