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Tech, Life, & Stuff…

A Blog by Franklin Pettit

July 15, 2008

Declaring Your Social Media Independence

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

The Evolution of Social Media
I read an article this morning titled “The Evolution Of Wordpress.”  Wordpress is the fabulous CMS software that powers this blog.  Hack wordpress a great blog that I read was commenting on the changes and improvements the Wordpress software has seen.
In the same way the advances in Social media are dramatic.  [...]


July 3, 2008

My Blog Has Been Louis Grayed!

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

Yes this is a good thing.  In fact it is a very good thing.   Louis Gray is one of the premier Tech bloggers writing today.  I visit his site daily and even have an email subscription to make sure I do not miss a post.
Louis has shown great interest and respect for the small unknown [...]


June 3, 2008

Better Google Reader

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

Better GReader is a Firefox extension by Gina Trapani of Lifehacker. This Firefox extension combines many Google Reader Greasemonkey extensions into one easy installable package.
I updated to the newest version 0.2.5 that includes a Greasemonkey script with enhancement to the feed icons.
The addon uses each sites favicon as the feed icon. Pretty cool. [...]


May 27, 2008

Is An IFrame Integration?

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

What constitutes real integration and what is just silly? Integration to provide additional functionality is great. But my question is that really being done. The following are 3 examples using 3 different methods of so called integration all using iframes.

Readburner recently released an update that combines Google Reader into the ReadBurner site. [...]


May 6, 2008

Google Reader Gets Notes

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Blogging, GoogleReader, RSS, Web 2.0

Image by VoIPman via Flickr
Google Reader gets notes. The ability to annotate a note to a post is very cool. The ability to share anything from the web feed or not is cool. But…
I typed a quick note as I shared a Louis Gray post. But I misspelled a word. [...]


April 5, 2008

Toluu Invites

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Feeds, GoogleReader, Invites, RSS, Toluu

Toluu the new beta RSS sharing site is currently in private beta. Never heard of it? Check out this ReadWriteWeb article. I have some invites if interested. Leave a comment with your email if you want one.
Update 06/13/2008: Toluu is gaining alot of momentum. The latest enhancements are great. [...]


About Franklin

I coined this blog "Tech, Life, & Stuff" for lack of a better description. This blog is primarily about my view on tech from South Carolina. I am a South Carolina software developer. More>

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