How to See People’s Other Social Profiles on Twitter

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I found this cool “Greasemonkey script that adds icons to tweets showing the Twitter users’ profiles on other social networks.” It uses Google’s Social Graph API. Chrome already supports Greasemonkey scripts, so all you have to do is download and install this script. (If you use Firefox, you have to install Greasemonkey.) Here’s what my [...]

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How to Learn More About Members of Your WordPress Blog

Install the Export Users to CSV plugin Export your users to a CSV, then save it as an Excel spreadsheet or text file. Head on over to RapLeaf. Provide your email, upload your file, review their API Terms and Conditions, and hit the “Get InstantData” button. You’ll get data—when available—on your users’ age range, gender, [...]

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What info does the Google Social Graph have on your email address? If your email is publicly associated with various social networking sites, you can easily tell by entering the following into your browser’s address bar: http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/otherme?pretty=1&q=[your email address] For example, as of this writing, a search on my email lists my profiles for Facebook, [...]

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I’m looking forward to Facebook’s “subscribe” button. One thing I don’t like about my News Feed is that I am overwhelmed with astrology posts. I happen to be “friends” with lots of astrologers because that’s what I’m known for, but that doesn’t mean I want to hear what everyone has to say about some transit.

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MOG is now offering a free version of their music service. Listeners can fill up their “tank” of free music by participating in various “games” to build virality. I have never used Spotify so I can’t say much about it, but compared to Rhapsody, MOG has a much better user interface. I subscribe to the [...]

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On Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum discuss taking a vacation as a web designer, and how to handle a client who wants changes on their Web site. The interesting thing Mike says is that just because a client asks for a change, doesn’t mean you have to make it, especially if it [...]

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