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Thomas’ links from May 28, 2008

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
Tool for validating RSS, ATOM and KML feeds with plenty of detailed information on fixing issues with your feed and optimizing it for interoperability.
(tags: rss validator atom XML validation feed tool kml code interoperability optimization)

How to install Wordpress on a USB stick
How to install a local version of your blog […]

Thomas’ links from May 27, 2008

ZuneTV - Watch. Share. Download. Straight to your Zune.
Video sharing site with WMV compressed videos for uploading to your Zune.
(tags: video zune sharing web2.0)

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Thomas’ links from May 26, 2008

Techdirt: ‘Give It Away And Pray’ Isn’t A Business Model… But It Doesn’t Mean That ‘Free’ Doesn’t Work
Folks are mishandling what they do with “free” and then going on to complain how “free” doesn’t work. The basic problem is this: they hear about the importance of “free” and so they give something away for free. […]

New Look

So I used the long weekend for a little upgrade to the Trumblog and swapped out the theme and cleaned up the blog a bit. It’s nicer than the old look that was looking a little generic and shows a bit more personality. Special thanks to Donna Megquier who had the inspiration […]

Thomas’ links from May 24, 2008

Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis - since 2006
Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online. It supports 180 social sites by default; however, you can add as many custom sites as you’d like.
(tags: aggregator blog blogging lifestream socialnetworking identity)

WP-Profilactic | Opindian
The WP-Profilactic […]

Ad Supported Music Downloads; What Took So Long?

MicroSoft announced on Wednesday that there are exploring options for ad supported music. The situation that they proposed and demoed at Advance ‘08 is that a company or brand sponsors a concert. The Zune Social profiles for the artists performing at that concert would then have an ad for that company or brand […]

Geeky Gift Ideas

In Spanish there’s a word “antojo” which means a little thing that you want, not because you need it, but because you just want it. I’ve got three. They are all around the $150 price point and perfect for Father’s day if you ask me.
1. The Netflix Player by Roko - the new […]

Thomas’ links from May 22, 2008

II. The Changing Online News Audience: News Audiences Increasingly Politicized
As the nation’s online population has grown so has the percentage of the public that regularly gets news from the Internet.
Includes hard to find data on internet adoption by education level.
(tags: Internet online adoption data education demographic)

Pharma Should Seize the Opportunity to Reach the Hispanic Market
Pharmaceutical […]

Thomas’ links from May 21, 2008

The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome
Using a copy editor can enhance website content and encourage clients to deliver content on time.
(tags: webdesign text copy content writing copywriting web management website)

A List Apart: Articles: Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?
Results of a study to see whether zebra striping in tables helps with usability.
(tags: design usability web webdesign […]

Thomas’ links from May 19, 2008

TweetWire.com Twitter News
TweetWire.com is a neo-newspaper that grabs the freshest links posted to Twitter. Get the most out of citizen journalism with Twitter and TweetWire.
(tags: twitter news aggregator feeds links mashup tool web2.0 Microblogging newspaper)

Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins June 2008 Update (Wave 1)
Wordpress Plugins: WP-Email, WP-PageNavi, WP-PluginsUsed, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings, WP-Print, WP-RelativeDate, WP-ServerInfo, WP-Sticky, WP-Stats, […]