toluu – helping rss addicts everywhere
I recently found out about a new site/service out there called toluu which I would describe as an rss addicts crack 
What it allows you to do is add your feeds (manually or via opml), add friends and then discover who you are most compatible with feed wise and also help you discover new sites you may not have heard of or maybe just never got around to checking out. With toluu I have found some kool new sites and hope I have helped others discover some sites I have found through the years.
The service is far from being ready for prime time and is still in beta so keep that in mind as you play around with it but even at the point it is I would consider it a great service. A few things I would love to see added to the service would be the ability to subscribe to a feed directly into the aggregator of my choice as well as integration with friendfeed (sorry couldnt resist that one)
If you need an invite just leave a comment and I will get one to ya. enjoy!
FriendFeed Treats – Part II
Well another day and another batch of greasemonkey scripts get released for FriendFeed and they are some good ones. Internet Duct Tape keeps bringing the goods!
This time we have the following :
FriendFeed Pagerization - script that lets you “infinitely scroll” FriendFeed.
Increase Entries Per Page - FriendFeed show you 30 entries now...how about 50 or 100?
Reshare Any Link - lets you share a link from Friend Feed with ANY other social bookmarking site.
Even More Expander - FriendFeed uses "More" for links so you dont have to much "noise" on your page. with this script it brings the "noise" and displays everything.
All of these are great scripts that I have running now and they add some great funtionality and enjoyment of FriendFeed. Love it!
Just a final note please feel free to check out my friendfeed page and subscribe to all my posts.
A Few FriendFeed Treats Out There
It seems like the buzz the last week or so has been FriendFeed, FriendFeed, and a little more FriendFeed or atleast in the social media/web circle.
I think a few things have pretty much thrown the fuel on the fire and created a towering inferno like the release of the API which is gonna bring us all kinds of apps (web based, desktop based, and mobile based - fingers crossed), the integration with twitter has been a huge step, and I think some greasemonkey scripts out there now are adding to the functionality and usefulness of FriendFeed. Below are a few that I am using and am aware of....if you have any others please please feel free to leave a comment and let us know.
Greasemonkey scripts
Filter FriendFeed by Service - This one will put a line of all the friendfeed services icons at the top of your page allowing you to click on one of the icons and filter your view with just all posts by you or your friends to that service.
FriendFeed Twitter Client - FriendFeed already lets you reply to twitter messages and have them added back to twitter but with this script it actually lets you originate a twitter post from right on your page. Very handy and kool of course Oh I almost forgot it also gives you your character count so you can stay under 140 easily and it automatically checks the "reply on twitter?" box
Remove Visited Links - Already seen a link? Dont want to see it again on FriendFeed? Enough stuff to look through as it is? Well this script basically takes a link you already looked at and makes it disappear for ya. Pretty handy when you have a lot to go thru daily.
A Few Non Script Goodies
Comments WordPress Plugin - Get some comments on a blog post you put up on FriendFeed? Love to have them show up with your normal blog comments? Well this is a plugin for you. It will put those comments added via FriendFeed back on your blog! Brilliant!
FriendFeed Stats - This little site will tell you which day yourself or any user for that matter posts to FriendFeed the most or you can find out what day you post the most flickr pics, del.icio.us links, blog posts, ect. Overall just a place for us interested in numbers and stats to get our fix
FriendFeed Grid - This little site randomly throws up FriendFeed users pics in a grid and allows you to go to their FriendFeed page...it also shows the 20 most subscribed to (shocker Robert Scoble is #1 ) as well as 10 most commenting. So overall just a fun little site to discover others using FriendFeed.
Well that is a little look at some scripts, plugins and other stuff you can grab to help you enhance your FriendFeed experience and if you have any other services that have popped up recently please feel free to leave a comment with a link to them for everyone to check out.
Testing the FriendFeed WordPress Plugin
Ok kids I need some help! If you are on FriendFeed (and if you are not...why not!!) could you put a comment up on friendfeed for this post?
I am testing out the new WordPress plugin by Glenn Slaven that puts any comments about your blog posts on FriendFeed and slaps them right on the original post on your blog as well!
Looks pretty sweet and being a geek I am obligated to add it to my site
Thanks Everyone!
Guest Post [shegeeks] : Facebook Ain’t Got Nothing On nclüdr
nclüdr is "the most awesomest ultimate social network ever" that launched today after months of "development, seeding, hoeing, back-end testing, and the implementation of its revolutionary synchronization algorithms that deliver a more seamless social networking experience," according to a release issued earlier this morning.
Actually, it's nothing more than an amusing prank site and parody of social networks.
upload photos or publish notes • get the latest news from your friends • post videos on your profile • tag your friends • use privacy settings to control who sees your info • NOT WITH nclüdr!
BUT you CAN have that warm, comfortable feeling in knowing the EVERYONE and EVERYTHING around where you live study or work is YOUR FRIEND.
Profile
nclüdr actually does everything for you. To sign up you simply type in your name and answer a series of questions. Submit your answers and nclüdr will work it's magic to create your profile for you with all the necessary information. The site's interface reminds me a lot of Facebook, so I'm guessing the joke's on them. Here's a look at my profile:
For your information, I do not do one night stands. Your profile can also be regenerated and emailed to friends.
Friends
As you can see, I have 12.3 billion friends and Julius Caesar is one of them. So is my old flame Ronald MacDonald. Here's a screenshot of some of my other friends that are pretty important:
Bet you wish you had the U.S. Constitution as your friend! Ha!
Apps
Of course, no social network is complete without some sort of application platform. What does nclüdr have? Ball Krusher (which beats SuperPoke on Facebook by a mile)!
Overall, nclüdr is a cute prank and one that I'm sure we'll all have a good laugh about. I recommend checking out the FAQ, Privacy, and Terms section for more laughs! Better yet, just click on every link at that site for more laughs.
[thanks to shegeeks for the guest post]
Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound)
Always Watching has a sweet post up of scenes from movies and television that only includes the original audio and typography which makes for a kool alternative to the original work.
They have scenes from Pulp Fiction (video above), Kill Bill, Ocean's Eleven, and The Office. Pretty kool stuff so check it out!
Heart Walk – Help a geek raise some money for a good cause!!
Hey everyone this coming May 31st I will be walking with a team to help raise money for the American Heart Association and I need your help!!! If you have a few dollars to spare I would love to have your donation that will go toward helping fight the #1 and #3 killers of people yearly.
You're Making a Difference. Since 1924 the American Heart Association has helped protect people of all ages and ethnicities from the ravages of heart disease and stroke. These diseases, the Nation's No.1 and No.3 killers, claim more than 910,000 American lives a year. The association invested more than $543 million in fiscal year 2005-06 for research, professional and public education, and advocacy so people across America can live stronger, longer lives.
Thanks to all our walkers, donors and volunteers who have accepted the challenge to help fight heart disease and stroke. We cannot achieve our mission without each one of you.
Anything you can give would be awesome!!! I plan to have some pics and video's and such up after the event so you can check them out. And if you have any question please feel free to email me, IM me, or shoot me a message on twitter. Also feel free to send the url out all over the net!!!!
Make Your Donation Here
Note : I just found out for online you have to pledge atleast $25.00 (which sucks). If you wanna pledge less you can write me a check and make it out to the "American Heart Association" or there is a form on my donation page that you can send directly to the American Heart Association in Kansas City if you are doing under $25]
THANKS EVERYONE!!!!
MicroCast for 2/21/08
microcast links
take out the twitter feed in your friendfeed rss - yahoo pipe
filter your friendfeed friends by service
tw3enty3ight's microcast
robert nelson's microcast
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FriendFeed wishlist
One of the hot new web services out there and one that I am finding myself use more and more is called FriendFeed. What is FriendFeed you ask? Well it is a service that allows you to take all of your social feeds (twitter, digg, del.icio.us, youtube, google reader, ect) and aggregate them into on big lifestream.
It has really taking off with the web2.0, social media, early adopter crowd and to me has some great potential to really become something big. With that said I have a few wish list items I would love to see in the future to just enhance my use of it:
Mobile Edition : I think as more and more people continue to use their mobile options to surf the web this would be an awesome edition...being able to pull up and see what everyone is up to no matter where I am would be great.
Desktop App : As much as a mobile edition of friendfeed would be great so would a desktop application that would alert you to new posts from your friends. The idea I would compare it to would be something like twhirl that you can use with twitter and using Adobe AIR would be nice.
Replies : The ability to reply to someones twitter via friendfeed but then to have it show up on twitter as well would be really kool as well as if I put a blog post up on friendfeed the ability to have friendfeed posts in the comments of my blog would be kool as well.
Exclusion of Services : Being able to take certain services out of the feeds would be a nice added feature...maybe I dont want to get everyone's twitter updates as I already get them on my mobile device via sms...maybe I dont really care for a service and would like to exclude them...whatever the case...being able to take them out of view or off the rss feed would be a nice added feature.
[note : here is a yahoo pipe that allows you to take out twitter posts from your rss feed of friends.]
[note II : found this kool greasemonkey script that lets you filter your friendfeed by service.]
Just a little test of the microcast
Just a little test. I am checking something out feel free to listen to the microcast if you are reading this post as well.
(jeff)isageek microcast – now available on itunes
Just wanted to let everyone know that my microcast which is called the (jeff)isageek's microcast is now available via itunes.
Make sure you head over there and subscribe to it and hey if you dont use itunes you can always get it straight from the rss feed.
Enjoy!
crafts 2.0 : startup schwag stickers
For the last 5 months or so I have been getting packages from the new web service startup schwag which every month I get a package in the mail with a t-shirt from a startup and usually 5-6 stickers.
After getting stuff for a few months I was starting to have stickers laying around everywhere and that is when Allison got the idea of me turning them into magnets and putting them up on the fridge for all to enjoy.
So today we went to hobby lobby, got some magnet sheets and within 20 min's the fridge is now web 2.0'ized.
If anyone (company or individual) has some stickers they are looking to get off their hands and I could add to fridge 2.0 feel free to contact me
oldskool chat : irc last night
Last night I decided to setup a channel on irc [freenode] so that I could get some of my twitter friends togather just to talk about whatever cause we all know "twitter is not chat". 
Lets see we had linuxchic and dbobo from the alternageek podcast...we had ed roberts from the kc weather podcast....we also had angelchrys, mrgadgets, coreyharris, and bblboy54.
It was great times and I am thinking of doing it more often...best way to find out when a chat is going on would probably be via twitter, my microcast, or maybe even on here sometimes but I would say the best would be twitter so if you are not already make sure you are following me.
Right now we are setup at chat.freenode.net in channel #jeffisageek so jump on anytime as you never know when myself or someone else will be in there.
Happy Pi Day
Thats right folks its that time of year Pi Day!!! (3.14)
Pi, Greek letter (
), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535... Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.
Micropodding for 2008-03-13
- Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:41 AM http://tinyurl.com/259gsr #
- Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:49 PM http://tinyurl.com/2dhew9 #
- twitterpacks - wiki for twitter users. broken down by location, interest, groups, ect. - http://tinyurl.com/ysmzht #
- startupschwag - get a monthly package of goodies (t-shirt & stickers) from startups - http://tinyurl.com/yt94hr #
- friendfeed - all your friends rss feeds from around the net in one nice clean looking site - http://tinyurl.com/yq4699 #
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Shredz64 – Guitar Hero on the Commodore 64
I thought this was super kool and of course really geeky so you gotta love it! Guitar Hero on the Commodore 64.
Micropodding for 2008-03-12
- Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:48 AM http://tinyurl.com/yq87uf #
- hacker news (like digg, mixx, other social news sites) - http://tinyurl.com/ynjjhr #
- friendfeedfeed (aggregate your aggregators) - http://tinyurl.com/ys5ouv #
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FriendFeedFeed – Aggregate your Aggregators
If you are like me when that new social service/social aggregator comes out you jump on it and add all your information or get all your friends on the service adding their information...its like social overload
Enter ther service friendfeedfeed which can be described from the following :
Too many social newtorking aggregators?
Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!
Micropodding for 2008-03-10
- Monday, March 10, 2008 11:38 AM http://tinyurl.com/2yssdf #
- @dbobo @edroberts maybe we should do something one of the next 2 days since it is gonna be really really nice. #
- Monday, March 10, 2008 5:38 PM http://tinyurl.com/38uprq #
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twitter 400 club
Well just checked my twitter profile and I went over 400 followers for the first time today...now I know not all of those are people as I have some bots and such that also subscribe to me but still none the less pretty kool to hit that number.
If you are on twitter and just discovering my site make sure you had over and add me as a friend....pretty much just me blabing on all day mixed in with as much geeky stuff as I can find in my travels through the interweb.
SocialThing! – Invites
If anyone would like an invite to the new lifestreaming service SocialThing! I have some for the masses. You will have to be quick though with twitter they will go fast...but most likely if you check out my blog you also check out my twitter posts
Check out this recent post giving a rundown of socialthing! and how it relates to friendfeed for lifestreaming.
grab em up and enjoy!
[viddler] getting down in the backseat
Think I had this posted in the past but hey it got erased and you cant get enough of this...or atleast I can't maybe I am a little biased. if you havent seen it...enjoy!
Chocolate Rain : The 8-Bit remix
Doing some surfing on the net yesterday I found a remix of the famous "Chocolate Rain" by Tay Zonday that is in 8-bit.
Can you ever get enough of this song?
Twitter in Plain English
Sometimes have problems explaining to your non-geek friends what exactly twitter is? Well here is a little video from CommonCraft that does a good job running down the service.
Star Wars : An Alternate Intro
As much as I love the original intro to Star Wars : A New Hope this one is pretty kool.
Kind of a what if Saul Bass did the intro.
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