I have started using Foursquare sometime three months ago and I got hooked. Since the first day, I have signed up with this site I had been happily “checking-in” to many different places here in my hometown, Baguio City.
Foursquare is a social networking site that lets a user post where he or she is located. As of writing this post, it can do cross-posting via Twitter and Facebook; Twitter shows the link to the details of the Foursquare venue while Facebook posts an accompanying map.
I think Foursquare would have been more awesome if its users are able to place comment on other people’s statuses within their website.
image credit to Vadim Lavrusik
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As an active user of Facebook, I keep on receiving complaints from people who are annoyed at getting tagged by annoying applications that pop up once in a while. Generally those applications tag and send notifications to Facebook users without the need to ask the user to install the application.
Recently, the Pillow Fight Application is making rounds in Facebook which annoys some users. However, the simple steps I have written below, are what I do whenever I encounter them. I find this list effective.
- Find the application update posted on your Facebook wall then click the link going to the application page. The link should go to the application page itself.
Note: Another way of going to the application page is through the navigation bar at the top of the page (in blue), hover over Settings, then click Application Settings. Change Show setting from Recently Used to Authorized to get a complete list of applications installed into your profile. Click the offending application in the list to visit the page.
- Near the upper left corner of the Facebook page, click Block Application. A confirmation window should appear.
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LunchBreakBlogger is not the only blogger I know in real life. I know three others, two who were former classmates in college and one who was a former officemate. One of these three bloggers is famous in the Philippine blogosphere. As a freelancer with lesser contact with people on a daily basis than in a typical office setting, this meetup was seriously meaningful to me.
One fine sunny day, a blogger named Jhong, the LunchBreakBlogger, left me a Facebook comment, asking to meet me. He’s coming up to Baguio and wanted to meet me in person. Alright, I said. I hope this meetup pushes through but I did not take this one too seriously. I had been through dozens of planned meetups with other bloggers that never happened.
Frankly, I’ve never been to any of his blogs but he’s one of the bloggers who had been regularly commenting on my Facebook posts at one point or another.
This month of December marks my second year in blogging, and so far I had never been to blogging events which were often held in Manila. Although Manila is just 5 hours away by midnight bus trip and full 8 hours on a daytime bus trip, for various important reasons I just could not easily drop off things here. I am usually contented and happy to watch notable blogger events via online live streams.
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Since I started earning online, I discovered those online radio stations one by one. Because I have a fast internet connection, I am able to enjoy most of these online radios stations without that annoying interruption.
Today, I got the opportunity to take a peek at another online radio station: Kerchoonz! The site is still in beta, but at a glance, the site design impressed me. It plays music from famous artists legally for free!
I clicked at the mini-player at the top of the site and waited but it did not play any random music. So I decided to sign up for a free account. In no time I saw my account’s dashboard. However, I clicked on that mini-player again and still, it did not play anything. I was disappointed, it would have been better if that mini-player could play random songs right away without consulting their online help manual. Anyway, after looking around, I was able to play music after selecting a specific artist.
I learned that there’s more the Kerchoonz, not just music. I can choose to upload videos. There’s a section for fun games too. I’m also into social networking, so I am able to add links to the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter where I actively participate in. Their KWidgets are also interesting: I saw seven widgets which is actually a good thing, since many users have different tastes. I’ve taken one of the widgets from the site and featured it here below this post. Feel free to add one to your blog’s/website’s sidebar, if you wish.
Perhaps one of the things that I like to actually see implemented on this blog is the use of email newsletters. At first I thought that this is just an optional part of the blog, but when you see your blog growing, email marketing can be a powerful tool that can bring more money in.
Over these past few days I’ve been busy configuring WordPress blogs which are designed for listbuilding purposes. I actually learned from that experience – I had not noticed that some blogs are made for a different goal: to get people to subscribe to their email list. The email list is often used to pitch in offers to attract people to buy a particular product or service.
I saw a few mailing list software and got to play with them. I just saw one from ActiveCampaign – they call it 1-2All – which offers a 30-day free trial limited to 250 subscribers, 2 admin users, and up to 4 mailing lists. To start with the free trial, an account with ActiveCampaign had to be setup before the download can proceed.
After the trial period, one can opt to order either a full license version or the lite one. There are even a number of add-ons to enhance the functionality of the email marketing software.
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