AIM was dead to me until a few weeks ago when they introduced Facebook Chat integration. Now it looks like I’m always on Facebook which probably has some of my friends and family questioning what exactly I do with my free time (like they didn’t already). Let me show you the quick and easy way that lets me always be on Facebook Chat (and AIM).
I recently disabled comments on an old post called “BidFire: Deceptively Easy To Get Burned” because all of the comments were senseless positive reviews for BidFire and didn’t contribute to the discussion about the service in my opinion. To put it in perspective, the 70 comments on that one article accounts for close to 25% of all the comments on this blog. I had a suspicion that these commenters were being instructed by BidFire to leave positive reviews because most of the commenters put some mangled form of “BidFire” as their website. Today, I have proof!
Last week concluded my first three months at my first job out of college. Accenture has been great! I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of great people, and am excited about the career ahead of me.
A habit is a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. I’m a consultant so my job is rarely the same, and I love that. Tonight, I realized I have a terrible unique habit for first days. I break most of the rules and still manage to succeed.
After Jim Bumgardner’s blog post Monday confessing to cheating on Foursquare and subsequent LA Times coverage, I think Foursquare will be addressing their service’s security immediately. For those of you who don’t know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Bumgardner used Foursquare’s 3 month old API to become mayor the North Pole among other notable landmarks around the world while also creating fake celebrity accounts. Luckily for Foursquare he was just having a little fun and not trying to cause any damage. What if he lost control of his scripts or had malicious intent? What if he wasn’t employing a dozen fake accounts but hundreds of thousands of fake accounts? Would Foursquare been able to survive? Read the rest of this entry »
