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Like you didn’t know this would happen… This is Patrick Sexton. I hereby declare that We Build Pages now builds widgets. As a widget developer, I have spent the last two years doing nothing else but experimenting with widgets and how they can be used for traffic and profit. I have blogged about Google gadgets for longer than people even knew there was such a thing as Google gadgets and… [Read More…]
One of my first priorities at We Build Pages was to change the way we interacted with our own information, tools and databases. To accomplish this goal, our entire development team had to stop what they were doing, not take on new projects, and spend a couple weeks to create a more flexible way of storing and interacting with our data. They did a great job. The ability to interact… [Read More…]
During Pubcon, Matt Cutts revealed a ninja secret to me, Lisa and Rhea. He said that in Google Reader there was a ninja Easter egg. If you want a ninja to come out and say hello to you while you are in Google reader…. You must go to your Google reader and then use the Contra Code… When you are in your reader, use the above code using your arrow… [Read More…]
LinkedIn announced a few months ago that it would be using the Open Social platform. They haven’t said much since. But many were waiting for how they would handle an application directory. Now they announced it’s launch. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn said: “The nine applications that you see live today on LinkedIn include productivity enhancing applications from Amazon, Box.net, Google, Huddle, Six Apart, SlideShare, Tripit, and WordPress as well a… [Read More…]