Archive for the 'social networking' Category

The anti-trust community is all over Google, these days, says an article in the August 2009 issue of Wired Magazine. Fred Vogelstein tells readers that the search giant is the new Microsoft – remember that huge antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for packaging their browser with Windows? Now they’re interested in the advertising and business ideas [...]


 In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the most common datatype in use in computer applications today. Yet, whilst computer science has limits embedded into its structure, Twitter does not [...]


Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do programming, and in programming, if you don’t know such basics of computer science, you’re doomed.
What the predicters of the [...]


This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed and delighted. I was able to speak to one of the programmers at Microsoft, and I was very intrigued. I [...]


Yesterday, I arrived in Seattle for this year’s Microsoft Faculty Summit, my relative accompanying me. Of course, I tweeted (hashtag #facsum) about the sessions I attended today, and took pictures of said sessions and of the Microsoft campus. You can click here to view the gallery. Enjoy! Tomorrow, I shall summarize the main developments exposed [...]


Hi readers!
I’m not sure if I mentioned that I’m pretty active on Twitter, with over 750 followers currently, and I just added a link to my Twitter account on the sidebar to the right for convenience if say you want to follow me, @maximz2005. Also, you can now subscribe to new posts on this blog [...]


Remember the inefficiencies of this FAQ post? After a few days of suffering, I figured it out with the help of customer service! So, here goes…


WordPress.com blogs don’t allow you to use plugins and javascript, so it’s difficult to let your users easily submit your post to a social network or link directory. Yet, GetSocial (download here) comes to the rescue! It’s a small .NET Framework (Windows only, sorry!) app that gives you HTML code for a cool looking toolbar [...]


While Twitter is speedily rising in popularity, companion or helper sites are springing up all over the place, and there are
already a few that collect the most retweeted updates, with options to retweet them yourself.
One of them is Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme offers a very simple and elegant retweet badge, similar to the “Digg this!” buttons [...]