Lara Nieberding

The Purple Lara

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Cafe.com

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I was reading techcrunch for a client of mine.  I saw a post for how online games are updating themselves.  The post mentioned Cafe.com.  Considering I sit smack dab in the middle of their demographics I was beside myself eager to give it a try.

Only it is still in beta. Thanks to techcruch I was able to use an invitation. Only Cafe.com didn’t like my browser.  I have about three browsers I use so switching didn’t bother me. Only the AutoUpdater didn’t like my operating system. Well phooey. I only run one operating system.  I consider myself somewhat technically savvy but I do have my limitations.

I am not dismayed. I have submitted my support ticket.  I am waiting for a reply or update or os compatibility or whatever game developers do to make the world right. I have that feeling I get when it is December 1.  You can see the presents in the window but you know you can’t have them until (insert December holiday of  your choice)  🙂woman-comp-game.jpg

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March 7, 2008 at 12:09 AM

Link Relationships

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Google’s new Social Graph API means it’s time to start using XFN

by Jason Preston | February 1st, 2008
The news is out today that Google has launched a Social Graph API – basically an open tool for charting social connections on the open web.
What this means, in short, is that XFN matters now. Google launched with some example tools that let you map out what link relationships they’ve found with your blog and other web sites.
This type of link data has existed for a while, and if you’re using WordPress, you may have already put it in. The big holdup has really been that until now there hasn’t been much use for that metadata—if you bothered to fill in all the information about how you’re connected to the people you link to, nobody cared. So why bother?
Well now Google is trying to pull the kind of relationship superdata that people are generating in Social Networks like Facebook (which, incidentally, Google can’t crawl like it can crawl the open web) out into blogs and web sites.
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February 4, 2008 at 4:41 PM