February 2010
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Twitter Status: Update Re: Phishing →
Over the past few days, we’ve seen an increase in phishing attempts and are working on resetting passwords for accounts that were affected. While we’ve updated about these attacks via both @safety and @spam, we felt that it was important to post a more complete alert. If you receive a DM or see a…
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Designing User Interfaces For Business Web... →
(via Smashing Magazine)
Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications at all, putting all of the responsibility on the shoulders of developers.
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WatchYou can watch the bipartisan meeting on health reform on www.whitehouse.gov/live. (video auto started and I couldn’t find a way to stop that, so I pulled it down. You can still watch it from the www.whitehouse.gov/live )
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How you know IE6 is dead: the funeral's already... →
(via Download Squad)
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.
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formspring.me
What is the meaning of life?
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formspring.me
Ask me anything http://formspring.me/blogoklahoma (Testing out formspring)
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5 more Buzz tips: post by email, follow the Buzz... →
(via Offical Gmail Blog)
Post by email.
Prevent your boring chat status messages from being posted to Buzz.
Look for the yellow line to see what’s new.
Link to a post.
Follow the Buzz team in Google Buzz.
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New Seesmic Web out-features Seesmic Desktop →
(via CNET)
Can a Web-based Twitter client do a better job than its downloadable stablemate? With Seesmic, it appears so. The new update to Seesmic Web does some handy thing that Seesmic’s two download apps, for AIR and Windows, don’t do…
seesmic.com
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foursquare: On foursquare, location & privacy... →
Why hello!
A lot of you are asking for our thoughts in light of the “People can use foursquare to rob houses!” thesis making the rounds so we figured we’d weigh in with our perspective. Two things:
#1. We take your privacy very seriously. That’s why every time you checkin we ask you…
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Blog Oklahoma Podcast Wins An Okie
“You like me, you really like me!”
The Blog Oklahoma Podcast has been honored in the 2009 Okie Blog Awards for Best Audio/Podcast Blog.
A heart felt thank you for this honor.
Congratulations to all the winners, runners up, and nominees.
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Add Social Networking Features to Your Blog With... →
Web Worker Daily The latest release of BuddyPress 1.2 now supports installation on single-user WordPress (version 2.9.x) blogs, which is exciting news as it means that millions of sites can now add social networking/community features to their existing blogs.
buddypress.org | wordpress.org
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Buzz Settings Page Goes Live in Gmail, Allows... →
Lifehacker
Google has updated Gmail to include a “Buzz” tab, where you can prevent the public from seeing your followers list, remove the Buzz inbox from Gmail, and, as the nuclear option, completely kill your Buzz account.
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Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail... →
Lifehacker If you just don’t have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning’s Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.
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New Oklahoma Blogging Club (via @BeckyMcCray) →
A new Oklahoma Bloggers Club has been started over at Ning. It’s purpose is for support, training and networking for Oklahoma bloggers
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Shop @ Blog Oklahoma's CafePress Store
www.cafepress.com/blogoklahoma Thought I’d post this little reminder that we have a CafePress shop where you can get all sorts of items with our logo on them.
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10 Pathways to Inspired Writing →
(via copyblogger.com)
As writers, inspiration is one of the most important of the criteria for success. Without it, well, our writing ends up pretty lame.
A huge percentage of blogs see their demise before the six month milestone. Why?
Because people don’t know what to write about – writing becomes a chore and when that happens, you might as well seal it in. Here are 10 ways to become a more...
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Google Buzz for Mobile →
See what’s going on nearby, post a message tagged with your location, and follow your friends on the go.
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The Get Satisfaction Feedback Widget
I’ve added the Get Satisfaction feedback widget to our Tumblr blog. This widget uses our existing Blog Oklahoma help desk. You’ll see the widget on the left side of the screen labeled “feedback”.
This is a handy widget for adding a quick support / feedback community for your blogs. Adding the widget is just a matter of copy & pasting some javascript to your template....
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Dive into HTML5 →
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.
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Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples →
Smashing Magazine
The email newsletter is a powerful marketing and communication tool that has various useful functions. It reminds your users about you; it informs users about your products; it tells them what you have been up to; and it helps you build a unique relationship with them. Users like email newsletters if the newsletters bring them value. …
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Subscribe to our Tumblr feed →
Our Tumblr blog has an RSS feed ready for you to subscribe to with your favorite feed reader (like Google Reader). blogoklahoma.org/rss
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A new Buzz start-up experience based on your... →
Official Gmail Blog
We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to address the concerns you’ve raised. Today, we wanted to let you know about a number of changes we’ll be making over the next few days based on all the feedback we’ve received. …
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Announcing the Gowalla API →
gowalla.com/blog
…we are excited to release the first public version of the Gowalla API. Starting now, developers can build applications that use Gowalla data in fun and interesting ways. All of the technical details can be found by browsing the API Explorer, reading the documentation, and visiting the gowalla-dev Google Group….
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Great Backyard Bird Count 2010
It’s your chance to count for fun and count for the future, from Friday, February 12, through Monday, February 15. Whether you participate once or several times, by submitting your list of the birds you see at www.birdcount.org, you will help scientists learn more about how birds are faring in your neighborhood.
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OpenOffice.org 3.2 now available for download →
Download Squad OpenOffice.org is a free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation utility, database builder, and math and drawing apps. This week the OpenOffice.org team launched version 3.2 which features a number of updates… www.openoffice.org
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Read This First: The Executive's Guide to New... →
Ron Ploof has been releasing his book, Read This First, free of charge, one chapter at a time as a podcast.
What is your Company’s Online Reputation? If you want proof that business communication has changed forever, just type your company’s name into a search engine like Google or Yahoo and behold its online reputation. The results are frequently jarring because instead of finding...