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My online “test community” is now up!

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:57:50 +0000

Hey everybody! My “Web 2.0 style” online test community is now up. Please feel free to check it out & share any feedback you may have. Thanks a bunch!

Modified a couple of Twitter list titles I follow

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:34:50 +0000

Changed the titles of a couple of Twitter lists I follow:

Changed “Web Designers” to Web/Graphic Designers; changed “Social Media” to Social Media/Tech News.

Expanded incorporation of Facebook Connect

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:13:33 +0000

ON THE DOCKET: Expanded incorporation of Facebook Connect via external sites to boost online community involvement and social media marketing exposure (oh, and perhaps even MORE importantly, to play around with the back-end code with apps baby! :p)

DailyWebGeek.com!

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:04:29 +0000

Hey everybody, I have a project I’d like to mention that perhaps you might be interested in. I plan on expanding a great deal over the next 1-2 months development of my website/company DailyWebGeek.com ( http://www.dailywebgeek.com/ ). It will be the “Web reference and meeting place for next-generation Web publishers/bloggers, designers/developers, web job-seekers, and digital entrepreneurs!” I am still in the early stages of getting everything developed for the site and company, but one of the primary things I would like to do is find quality people who work in the fields of Web Development/graphic design, Internet social media marketing/biz, tech/programming, employment, or other related fields who might be interested in joining in some capacity, either as a “member” on the upcoming WordPress blog-format site (allowing them to make posts and publish articles to the site), employer,job-seeker, advertiser, or some other form of partner.

Please let me know if you’d be interested, or have any questions or other ideas!

Thanks, and have a great day,

Kevin Pajak – Interactive Web Developer/Designer

http://www.kevinpajak.com/

kevin@kevinpajak.com

Live chat client showing list of current users online

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:48:20 +0000

OK, so I’ve nearly got this puppy complete. It’s a live-chat client that will allow logged-on users (and only logged-on users, although I also have a version that guests can use) to make “posts” (just like to a “wall” on Facebook or Twitter), with the chat/comments page automatically refreshing every 500 milliseconds to show latest posts that other users have just made, in real-time. (one tentative name I have for it is a “living wall”). Last night, I added the ability to show a list of all users who are currently logged on, and hope to have this out of beta soon

These are just some of the advantages of this application:

- All posts can be saved into a database (into any table you so choose. You could, for example, insert the posts on tables related to individual topics or categories, current news items, a photo, or basically anything else you can put on an individual web page. [so to use this interactive chat client on a different page, just insert the posts into a different database table]).

- This can provide your web site users with a cross-functional, enhanced web user experience, allowing them to see who else in your online community or company is currently logged on, chat with them, comment on various pages across the site, view/update profile information, other content etc [sounds a little like Facebook, MySpace, or similar online communities doesn’t it, only think of the advantages of having this on your own site ‘).

- Flexibility. If you like, you can either destroy or save records of “chat sessions” (or series of wallposts too, if you’d like to use the app in that way).

More soon! .

“Twitter emulator” progress

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:12:54 +0000

OK, so now I’ve got my “Twitter emulator” working (complete post-to-wall, saving all posts into a database), now with post authors listed according to logged-on username [i.e. wall posting for logged on users only]. Almost out of beta, few final tests to go .

Future Twitter app ideas

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:48:18 +0000

1) Those offering expanded search/grouping/collaborative (or other interactive) functionality.

2) “Pre-tweeting” capabilities .

3) Apps allowing for greater capabilities as far as posting from sources other than via a user’s own Twitter page (see: @woork’s AWESOME post “Twitter: send message from a PHP page using Twitter API” for one example ….)

4) Alternative/even user-customizable display methods for Tweets (check out ExecTweets for one example of a really cool, animated tweet display method [looks like uses jQuery/Ajax]….). I plan on adding an app like this one, but one that will allow for the scrolling of tweets to stop upon the user’s placing the mouse over a given tweet that interests him/her, a la the Twitter custom Search Widget, which reminds me of a whole other area I plan on playing on with at some point in the future .

OK, enough Twittering around, back to business (and remember my fellow tweeples to focus on end goals/results first, and then on developing the best methods toward reaching those goals!) Stay cool everybody, and please feel free to contact me for ideas, collaborations, feedback, etc.

Customized Tweet Feed Display Twitter app

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:59:51 +0000

Completed the first phase of my “Customized Tweet Feed Display” Twitter app. What it does is: first, allow you to define 1-3 customized “tweet feed groups” (such as, for example “Social Media News,” “Travel Alerts,” etc) Then, you specify the Twitter username(s) for each custom tweet feed group, along with the number of tweets to see from each respective Twitter user. Following that, a combined group of tweets is displayed for you, clustered within each individual “tweet group”.

See it in action here!:
http://www.kevinpajak.com/apps/twitter-custom-feeds/

Quote Tweet Test

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:15:42 +0000

This rockin’ new WordPress plugin from @TCorp allows you to add Twitter-style, bubble-enclosed quotes of favorite tweets from any Twitter user (grabbed from the Twitter XML timeline file) to your WordPress blog. Check it out!

TCorp

(Tanin Ehrami)

WP Quote Tweets is available for download NOW! (Allows you to quote tweets using a shortcode) http://tanin.nl/CfZP #wordpress #wp

On 18-6-2009 10:24:23 from web

kevinpajak

(Kevin Pajak)

"Best ways to display twitter updates" (from @gopalraju): http://bit.ly/o1WCn ;)

On 3-9-2009 02:41:51 from web

Twitter search widget

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:26:43 +0000

Today I added the Twitter Custom Search Widget to my Japanese pop site, Jpopexpress.com. This widget looks really cool, quite customizable, with obviously multiple potential uses. (Only thing I worry about though, from a development/design standpoint – especially on busy sites like Jpopexpress.com – is that it could get pretty distracting. Would be nice if there was a way to pause it and keep it it paused, or a pair of step up and down arrows). Still, looks like some potentially great stuff from Twitter.