David Herrold

My Tweet Cloud

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging, Communication, Social Networking

This is my Tweet Cloud.

Interesting, eh?

Tags: data clouds, tweet cloud, twitter

Twitter in plain english

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging, Communication, Networking, Social Networking

Video link.

I’ve been using Twitter for a while now and thought this was a great explanation of exactly how the site works. Look me up on Twitter if you’re interested.

Tags: twitter

I (heart) Skitch

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging, Design, Software

I installed Skitch this evening and I think I am in love. Seriously.

I haven’t been this impressed with a piece of software since I first played with FireFox.

Skitch is an amazingly intuitive screen capture and image editing application for the Mac. But there’s a twist. Skitch integrates with FTP, SFTP, Flickr, .Mac as well as the iSight camera. You can also post images to the social Skitch website in your Skitch account (here’s a link to my page). You can then easily embed the Skitch image from your Skitch page with the click of a button. Very impressive.

Mac-based bloggers (and there are a lot of them out there) are going to eat this up with spoons.

This could spell the death of Command + Shift + 3 for screen capture on a Mac. I’m sure I’m not the first person to pour a little malt liquor on the grave of that 3-button-plus-mouse-click pain-in-the-ass. But I’m one of the happiest.

One for me, one for my homies.

Tags: Blogging, image editor, screenshot, skitch

Blogs in plain english

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging

Link to video

I thought this was a great explanation of how blogs work.

This is almost as good as the Zombies in Plain English.

“Remember, zombies don’t dance!”

Getting Flocked

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging, Browsers, Software

I downloaded Flock over the weekend and plan on kicking the tires for a few weeks to see if I like it. Flock is a browser based on the Mozilla FireFox browser (that you all should be using by now because it contains vitamins and minerals and buttery goodness and it works on lots of operating systems out there).

Flock does something FireFox doesn’t. It connects people to their social networks out of the box. When you open Flock for the first time, you need to configure it to connect to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, Delicious, etc. It then logs you into all of your accounts at once and opens up a sidebar that allows you to see all of your social networks in one nice package.

I’ve just started playing with the blogging functionality of the browser as well. It lets you post entries to any number of popular blog sites without ever leaving the webpage you are currently reading.

I hope Flock gets some more market share in the browser wars. At the very least, FireFox can get some great ideas from them for a more socially connected browser experience.

The one thing I wish Flock had…extensions. FireFox is a development dynamo with loads of extensions to help web developers. So far, Flock is very limited in that arena. My hope is that Flock will eventually allow a smooth integration with all FireFox extension.

If that happened, it wold probably make the switch much easier for the development community.

Flock covers all their bases and is currently offering versions in Windows, Mac and Linux.

I’ll let you know what I think in the coming weeks. My goal is to use it several times a week until the end of the year.

Tags: Browsers, FireFox, Flock, social networks, Software

Google Reader goodies

Posted by Dave | Filed under Blogging, Software

Google added a nifty new feature to their reader recently that allows people to share the feeds they read via a little badge on their blog or website. Here’s how you can do it too…

• Open Google Reader
• Go to your shared items
• Click on the “Put a clip on your site or blog” link at the top of the page.
• Configure the color and number of items you’d like
• Copy and paste the code into your blog
• Now go share those cool posts about LOLcats with all your freinds.

P.S. - I opted for a simple link at the bottom of the site for my Google Reader shared items.

Tags: Blogging, Google, RSS