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So true.

 

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Loopty-Loop

Herein is a cautionary tale about automated cross-posting between different social networking web services.

Earlier this morning, I was checking Facebook from my phone, and saw a notification of someone Liking one of my entries. I clicked through to see what it was, and it was a link to a post here on this blog. Facebook didn’t have an excerpt, just a link, so I followed the link to my blog to see what it was. It turned out to just contain another link, which was a shortened URL, so I clicked through to see where it led. It turned out that it linked to another entry here on my blog. And that entry contained another link. Which led to another entry on my blog, again, with a link. A couple more levels deep, I eventually got to an entry that was an automated cross-post to my blog, generated by a checkin on Foursquare.

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SnowPlow Analytics – your web analytics data in your hands – SnowPlow Analytics

SnowPlow is an open source tool to give you large-scale analytics in the cloud.

SnowPlow Analytics – your web analytics data in your hands – SnowPlow Analytics

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Instagram: We call this “sausage bread”. A layer of crescent roll dough, sausage with cream cheese melted in, cheddar cheese, and a top crust of more crescents. It’s the yummeh.

We call this

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userfox, better welcome emails

What a great idea for a service. Userfox makes it easy to use friendly reminder emails to increase conversions of trial users to full product. Kind of like an extremely targeted, niche MailChimp service.

userfox, better welcome emails

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xycss

Motherfuton brings us more CSS goodies. The xycss framework supports horizontal grids, vertical rhythm, liquid, responsive, web fonts, etc.

xycss

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