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In the Cloud

Can Shortened URLs be Trusted?

July 7, 2009

MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days and now appears in more than two percent of all spam.

Matt Sergeant, anti-spam technologist at Message Labs: “The entire trust model of clicking on the URL is completely broken.  You can’t trust any URL [...]

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Flickr Announces Twitter Integration

June 30, 2009

Twitter your Flickr
Also available in: Português, Deutsch,

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! We’ve launched our Flickr2Twitter integration.
Share your Flickr content either via “upload by email” or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream.
If you’d like to Twitter your Flickr then check out the following three FAQs for easy setup and use:
How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
Can [...]

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A Quick and Easy Way to Back Up Posterous with Automator

June 29, 2009

One of the concerns I had with using Posterous for my blog was ensuring I had my own backup of my posts given the company is still in start-up mode and the content is hosted on their servers.  Luckily, they have an API, and if you are a Mac user it is very easy to [...]

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Applescript: Count Characters in Clipboard for Twitter

June 29, 2009

Every now and then I need to copy text into my Twitter client app and need to know if I am bumping against the 140 character limit.  I wrote this quick applescript to simplify my life.  It counts the number of characters in the clipboard and subtracts that number from 140, so you know if [...]

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Giving Posterous a Test Drive…

June 27, 2009

I am the process of testing out Posterous as my primary blogging platform. You probably won’t see much here as I give Posterous a test run. Please visit me on Posterous at http://kenclark.me or subscribe to my Posterous RSS feed: http://kenclark.me/rss.xml. Thanks!

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The Demographics of FriendFeed

May 18, 2009

I’ve been playing around with FriendFeed over the last couple days, and as much as I want to like it and really admire some of its features, I will admit it has been hard for me to get my mind around how to manage the volume of data that flows through it without getting totally overwhelmed.

That said, I am not giving up on it, but I was curious to see how bleeding edge the adoption was outside of the regulars on TWIT and the general technorati, so tonight I tried a simple test.

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11 Ways to Use Delicious for Getting Things Done (GTD)

January 4, 2009

Yahoo’s Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a great tool to have in your arsenal to supplement how you implement Getting Things Done (GTD). In particular, I use Delicious to manage many of my Someday / Maybe and reference lists. Here is a quick overview of how it works.

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A Delicious 2009?

December 20, 2008

Over the last two weeks, I have been pretty excited to see a flurry of activity from the folks at Delicious after what has been a rather quiet second half of the year. Does this indicate that we may be in for more active and frequent updates to the core Delicious functionality over the next year? I hope so.

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Why Google Reader and GTD Don’t Mix

November 16, 2008

Google Reader has been my feed reader of choice for awhile now, but it has never achieved the status of a must-have application that I cannot live without. It was only recently that I recognized the reason I have never wholeheartedly embraced it is because I believe it is designed in a way that creates a drag on my personal Getting Things Done (GTD) system; which for me lessens my desire both consciously and subconsciously to make it part of my daily routine.

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Delicious Turns 5

November 12, 2008

On Thursday, Delicious celebrated its 5th birthday. Delicious is one of my favorite web applications and is a major part of how I discover, manage, and organize web-based information both for my work and at home. My personal experience with Delicious is relatively new given its age — I only started using it over the last few months, however it has rapidly become a permanent fixture on my desktop.

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