http://derekfernholz.com Mon, 10 May 2010 16:49:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So... as we all know, Facebook has been ramming some new privacy policies down our throat and also a few new grossly oversteped bounds in the area of making everything more social. Tonight I ran across the new "automatically like all of these things from my profile" box, which leads ... http://derekfernholz.com/2010/05/10/wtf-facebook/ In a blaze of glory and a whirlwind of a travel schedule I attended the Future of Web Apps conference in sunny Florida this week. As my schedule shows no signs of slowing right now, I will give you the short of it, with every hope of divulging full details ... http://derekfernholz.com/2009/02/27/fowa-miami-2009/ Update: I just noticed that as of yesterday, 13 November 2008, that IntenseDebate is no longer restricted to invite-only registration! So head on over to their site and grab an account today! Yesterday I finally got an invite code for IntenseDebate and promptly installed it right here on my Wordpress ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/11/13/review-intensedebate/ I 'borrowed' this widget from the sidebar of Paul Stamatiou's blog, changing the feed link of course and I want to see if it works for me. You'll see now, in the sidebar to the right and near the bottom, that you can subscribe to this blog via SMS. This ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/10/31/testing-pingie-widget/ Who can take a sunrise, Sprinkle it with dew... Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two? The Candyman of course, and in this case that Candyman is Carsonified. I'm writing this in response to a recent post by Ryan Carson over on the Carsonified blog about a contest they ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/09/26/i-want-a-golden-ticket/ I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. I spent a little bit of time (when I wasn't working) over the last week and turned that little script I mentioned in the last post into a full blown wordpress plugin with a working settings page and everything! This is ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/09/19/tweetfeed-plugin-released/ Update: I just realized that for some reason the wp-syntax plugin has converted a bunch of my characters to their HTML equivalents. I will go through and try to fix that later. For now, take it with a grain of salt. I will upload the file later and put a <link ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/09/10/really-simple-tweet-gathering-with-a-few-bonuses/ Hello all and welcome! As you can see, things are looking a bit different around here, both the layout/design and the actual domain name itself. I am taking things in a new direction and wanted to officially welcome you to my new home on the internet! Here I will be writing ... http://derekfernholz.com/2008/09/07/from-the-ashes/