Plugin Monday: Please Update Total Social Followers!
photo credit: billaday When I was building this site with Jerry Brito about a year ago, we were hoping to drop the total ReadyMadeWeb follower count from all platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner, and Mailchimp—into the little blurb you see at the top of the right sidebar. This can be done through a bit of PHP and ...
Read MoreAddThis Buttons Cost 15 Points in YSlow Score
photo credit: kyz Last night, after working for several hours to boost the load-time of pages on the popular economics blog MarginalRevolution, I was at a loss for what else I could do to boost the site’s performance as indicated by Google’s PageSpeed and Yahoo’s YSlow evaluation tools. I had only managed to boost its ...
Read MoreHow Facebook Treats Your Data
If you’ve been confused about the ever-changing privacy policy (or lack-of-privacy policy) on Facebook, Matt McKeon has a great graphic that explains the changes from 2005 to 2010. The graphic clearly shows how Facebook users have slowly had all of their information made increasingly public. The 2010 graphic shows all user data made completely available ...
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