In the previous post, I started things by adding some basic monitoring feeds from Google Blog Search, Twitter, and Technorati to the NetVibes intelligence dashboard I’m building to monitor Tesla Motors around the web. The result looked like this. Before I forget, I should mention that you can see the work in progress by [...]
Author Archives: J.J.
Adding YouTube and Flickr content to your NetVibes intelligence dashboard
November 11, 2008 – 10:38 pm
Building an Intelligence Dashboard: Add some RSS Feeds to Netvibes
November 10, 2008 – 12:53 pm
This is part 1 in a series of building an intelligence dashboard using NetVibes. What’s an intelligence dashboard? An intelligence dashboard helps you keep your pulse on…well, there’s a lot of things you can keep your pulse on. In this series, we’re going to build an intelligence dashboard to assist with monitoring Tesla Motors [...]
WordPress 2.7 and the New Dashboard
November 7, 2008 – 1:51 pm
WordPress 2.7 is slated to be released very soon and I’ve started playing around with the beta release. And I’ve begun producing some updated videos for wpscreencasts.com The video below provides a quick intro to the new dashboard coming in WordPress 2.7. The changes to the dashboard are dramatic and will require adjustments from even [...]
My election day dashboard
November 4, 2008 – 11:35 am
I came into work this morning, trying to figure out the best way for me to monitor election day happenings. So many choices online these days. Video, twitter, blogs, etc. So after opening up about 8 different tabs in my browser, I realized I needed a single interface if I was planning on soaking it [...]
Tomorrow is the day
November 3, 2008 – 2:42 pm
If you’re looking for the virtual place to monitor and participate in election day 2008, The Blog Herald has a fantastic roundup of great destinations. My favorite is http://election.twitter.com as you can just passively sit back and soak up the activity as the site self-updates. Tomorrow will be a fantastic benchmark to see how far [...]
Adding an intelligence dashboard to your online toolkit
October 31, 2008 – 9:48 am
I’ve been at the Social Media Strategies Conference in San Francisco the last 2 days, meeting great people, and learning plenty. Yesterday I was recruited by Colin Browning to lead a breakout session that was tasked with thinking about how to approach the development of social media strategy for a non-profit organization. During the session, [...]
CSS Housekeeping
October 28, 2008 – 9:45 am
Even the most accomplished web builders are guilty of bloated CSS files. Any developer or designer that tells you that their CSS file is 100% streamlined is probably fibbing. Especially if you’re discussing a CSS file for a site that recently launched. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is for a CSS file end up [...]
Saul Bass
October 21, 2008 – 9:29 am
We recently started working on a new Web site for a client. The client provided some initial design direction by letting us know of their interest to have a site design that blends a modern web feel with the tone of Old Hollywood. So we started brainstorming what this actually meant…what it such a blend [...]
Five days, five new features: Using blogroll lists in different ways on day 5
October 17, 2008 – 4:54 pm
It’s the last day of this series and since it’s Friday, I’m going to add a relatively simple feature to Red Pill. After all, the weekend is looming large. I thought that I would add a blogroll to Red Pill, but I decided to use the blogroll feature of WordPress in a non-traditional way. Most [...]
Five days, five new features: Populating the superfooter columns on day 4
October 16, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Yesterday, I added the superfooter to Red Pill. And truth be told the new blog features I’m going to talk about today were actually added yesterday (after all, it would be hard to have a viewable superfooter unless something was in it), but now I’m going to describe exactly what code I used to make [...]