Tuesday, 13 January 2009

  • how to post twitter to xanga

    Here's the deal. Xanga has a premium level of service, for pay. If you want to connect with the insulated Xanga community, then you have to blog here, upload audios and videos here, use pulse, and as many of the modules and stuff that's here.

    For those of you who connect with people in the open world wide web, through social networks like twitter, blogs on WordPress and/or Blogger, and so on, it takes more effort to connect into the "walled garden" social networks.

    One of the ways to get content into Xanga (and many other web apps and social networks) is through email. And that's the opportunity to get Twitter tweets into Xanga.

    From the Xanga help section, it says:

    To email a post straight to your Xanga site, first find your unique Email Posting address by visiting this link:

        * http://edit.xanga.com/emailposting.aspx

    But, when you click on that link, it will tell you to upgrade to premium. If you're already premium, good for you. If you have money to use for Xanga, then it's  $4  for 1 Month, or $25 for 12 Month, of premium service. And that'll let you email to Xanga as a blog post.

    And then, you have to find something that will take your tweets and send them into an email. And that email destination would be the unique Xanga Email Posting address.

Friday, 12 December 2008

Thursday, 11 December 2008

  • Obama deserves mobile web access

    While interaction is what makes the web more webby, I’d like to think there are more ways to use the web/ internet.

    What I’m thinking of is inbound web content. That is, one-directional internet; you could even call it mobile broadcast.

    For years, the President of the United States can freely turn on cable tv to watch CNN or Fox News, so why couldn’t the POTUS pull out a modified blackberry device or gphone or iPhone and get mobile web content?

    Having worked at a telecomm company in the past, I’ve heard colleagues say that the said company provided customized telephony to the White House. So, it’s already been a business and government precedence set for custom services to be developed. And, there are cell phones now that get their built-in cameras turned off, right?

    It’s reported that Obama will be the first president with a computer on his presidential desk [mobile ver] in that Oval Office. That computer is most likely going to be a MAC. Will Obama using a Mac accelerate its adoption into mainstream? This month was the first time that Windows dropped below 90% market share. [aside: this blog post was composed on 2 Apple products, iPhone and MacBook Pro]

    I think he oughta have a unidirectional mobile smartphone to receive near instant inbound web stuff. That’ll keep the questions about the Presidential Records Act moot, and we can keep technological progress progressing. I’m with Bill Brenner, that Obama’s BlackBerry is no security threat: Taking it away could isolate him from the real world.

    NOTE: I confess that I haven’t kept up with the news on developments with this issue, so I don’t know if it’s already been resolved. Someone can quickly fact-check and inform me in the comment section.

    Yeah, there are possibly many more ramifications and implications that I haven’t considered. Want to voice how frustrating it is for me to see how the laws of the land isn’t able to keep up with the ever-changing ever-developing digital technologies. We’re in an increasingly paperless society.

    Leave / read comments

About Me

  • I believe in being honest + transparency + vulnerability, definitely not into that save-face got-it-together false confidence stuff :) so here's a sneak peek to my life and thoughts and feelings. This xanga blog is mirrored from the original blog at www.djchuang.com, bookmark it there, and visit often