Scott Mebberson » social networking

Sharing my snippets with snipt.org

Scott Mebberson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:49:08 +0000

I’m always looking for ways to improve my “Social Professional” online presence; and I’m going to be adding snipt.org to my toolkit.

Day to day I run a business and project manage RIA projects, but at heart, I’m a programmer. I keep a libraries of reusable code and a bunch of snippets; some of those snippets I use regularly and others are as close to genius as I’m going to get, so I keep them.

Other than my programming team at Enpresiv, my libraries and snippets largely remain private. Until now!
I’ve found a fantastic website that can manage my snippets and improve my online presence by automatically adding to my output streams on Twitter and my blog at WordPress.

snipt.org is kind of like delicious, only its for code snippets; and you can share your snippets in the ‘social collective’. It saves each of my snippets with their own URL, and sends that URL to my Twitter account as I create new ones.

You can also download Cloud Coder, a nifty little Adobe AIR application that integrates directly with the snipt.org API. Now all I need is direct TextMate integration like snipt.orgs competition Snipplr has.

twitterfeed.com

Scott Mebberson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:41:12 +0000

I just signed up to twitterfeed.com to alert all of my twitter friends, about any blog posts I make.

Not quite sure how it is going to work yet, but the process seemed simple enough. I guess this will be the first blog post that automatically reaches Twitter!

Market Research via Twitter

Scott Mebberson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:26:31 +0000

I’ve just been the target of some directed market research via Twitter.

A couple of days ago I posted a tweet about livingsocial.com. Today, I received a reply from LivingSocial asking if I had any suggestions for categories.

So I responded with a few suggestions, and told them about my thoughts on how I intended to use LivingSocial once I first heard about it.

I think this could definitely be considered and is considered a new and valid option for market research. I was happy to provide my feedback via a quick Twitter, but I rarely fill out the 10 minute surveys from companies like Dell, Microsoft and Adobe.

It is definitely a large task to compile bite-sized chunks of market research into something worthwhile however. It’s an interesting space to watch over the coming year or two.

ShutterClock

Scott Mebberson — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:58:44 +0000

ShutterClock is another example of an online community/social network. However, in this case, ShutterClock brings it’s global community together at a specific point in time, across the whole world.

At 11 May 07, 8PM GMT, all around the world people were taking photos, even if it was 2AM at their part of the world. It’s an interesting concept; too bad they’re not all geotagged, it would be great to see all of the photos on a global map.

Unfortunately, I’ve only just found out about it, only 8 hours or so too late…

View the Flickr ShutterClock Slideshow and Photo Pool.

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