3 days ago

In the Mind of Damond Nollan What is the cost of growing up? What do we sacrifice in our attempts to be a successful and mature adult? This article takes a personal look at some of my observations and seeks to establish a connection with my childhood friends.Setting the StageIn 1993, I graduated from Lincoln High School, which is located in Tacoma, Was (Read More)

5 days ago

The Official Posterous Posterous We've just introduced a new retweet button that makes it super easy to share interesting stuff with your Twitter followers without ever leaving Posterous. To disable or enable retweeting, visit your manage page at http://posterous.com/manage and click the "Settings Tab". Under the "Look and Feel" section, click "More Theme (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Damondnollan from Google Reader: It happens to me almost every morning: I wake up, say a NSFW version of “oh gosh golly!” because I have 4 minutes to get to class, and start getting ready. And, ready for this? I make it to class. Almost on time.I’m not going to tell you this is the best way to get out of bed in the morning and start your day, but I’ve figu (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Rick Mahn's shared items in Google Reader After years of waiting, FeedBurner users can finally see their stats in Google Analytics. Google acquired FeedBurner in 2007. Since then, there has been a lot of grumbling about how Google handled the transition and the lack of innovation in FeedBurner since the acquisition. The integration with Google Analytics is still hi (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

mashable Twitter’s spree of partnerships isn’t stopping anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter struck a search deal to integrate Twitter within Bing. Mere hours later, Google struck back with its own search deal with Twitter. Now there’s a new Twitter partnership launching tonight. This one is between Twitter and Li (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Lifehacker When we taught you the first Google Wave search you should know (with:public), Wave automatically added public waves you read to your inbox, and an empty inbox quickly became hard to come by. Today, Wave fixes that with a handy Follow/Unfollow button. Now, rather than automatically adding a public wave to your inbox as soon (Read More)

7 days ago

TechCrunch Perhaps the top reason to use Bit.ly (beyond obviously shortening links) is for its analytics. The service makes it easy to see all sorts of data about your short URL links going out to services like Twitter. But sometimes looking at the bigger picture is more interesting than individual data. Now you can see that too.Today (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Lars' shared items in Google Reader Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored experiences depending on their interests and friend network. So how has Friend Connect done since its launch last year? It’s on nine million (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

In the Mind of Damond Nollan Are you a people collector or people connector? That is the question. Over the past few weeks, I have taken a serious look at how some people use social media. Since the release of Twitter lists, the emphasis on follower and friend numbers seems to be an issue.There are some that discourage large followings, while others se (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

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Nov 06, 2009

In the Mind of Damond Nollan In the last entry, I talked about the value of engaging with readers and friends to become smarter. During its release, I watched how people shared the link on Twitter. My observation revealed the first generation of readers simply retweeted the title of the entry as it was written.Surprisingly, at some point, the tweet mes (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

VentureBeat Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored experiences depending on their interests and friend network. So how has Friend Connect done since its launch last year? It’s on nine million (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

louisgray-com TweetMeme has rapidly become the most popular and practical default engine for content authors to enable their Web sites and blogs to be forwarded on to Twitter (in the form of a Retweet). The company is now serving more than 100 million Retweet buttons across the Web each day, and is aggregating the statistics of most popu (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

readwriteweb Google just announced a number of major updates to Google Friend Connect (GFC), the company's set of tools that can bring social networking tools and widgets to any site. Today, Google is extending this functionality with a new 'Interests' section that will help a site's visitors to get to know each other, a newsletter tool (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Mashable! Students at Purdue University are experimenting with a new application developed at the school called Hotseat that integrates Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging to help students “backchannel” during class.People who have attended technology conferences in the past several years are already familiar with this phenomenon, (Read More)

Damond Nollan

Web Manager @NCCU.edu, Scrum Master, DBA Student @ UOP, KAPSI Board of Director (MEP), father, son, and friend to all.