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Tech, Life, & Stuff…

A Blog by Franklin Pettit

December 3, 2008

Introducing Product Recommendations from Kallow.com

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Kallow, Toluu

As an early adopter and tech enthusiast I am often questioned by friends, neighbors, and the occasional stranger at the big box store to recommend a product.  The choices in consumer electronics can be overwhelming. Kallow.com looks to make product recommendations pure and simple.  The site is co-founded by  Caleb Elston of Toluu.  This new [...]


July 16, 2008

Toluu Releases Feed Preview

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Enhancements, Toluu

Toluu updated again this morning releasing another great feature.  The latest feature is Feed preview functionality throughout the site.  When you mouseover a Feed title a window is revealed listing the last 5 blog posts contained in that feed. I spoke to Caleb Elston the Toluu founder about this feature.  He said, “We actually decided [...]


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 [...]


June 30, 2008

Toluu On The Move

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Enhancements, RSS, Toluu

Web 2.0 is about potential in my opinion.  Many of the Web 2.0 web applications usually only debut with a few good ideas.  They implement one or two features not much beyond proof of concept and subsequently go into a private alpha or beta holding pattern.  This wait and see mode is to determine interest [...]


June 21, 2008

My Toluu Wishlist

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Enhancements, RSS, Toluu, Web 2.0

What is the Goal of Toluu? I began writing this with a different perspective about Toluu. Where is Toluu heading? I previously wrote a post titled “My Problems With Toluu.” This was several months ago as Toluu was in it’s infancy. I considered titling this post “More Problems With Toluu” but thought better of it. [...]


June 11, 2008

Toluu Feed Page & Speed Enhancements

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : RSS, Toluu

Toluu continues to improve and today releases another set of enhancements to its already promising RSS recommendation site. The enhancements include additions to feeds and a speedier contact page. I have been very interested in Toluu since Louis Gray’s first post describing the RSS feed matching site. The site had already seen many enhancements already [...]


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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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