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A few Wordpress highlights from my Twitter surfing over the past week. FYI: I used the Dashter Premium Wordpress Plugin to help me curate the tweets and add my commentary as I stumble on them.

In 2011, I led a Core Conversation to a standing-room only crowd about how to hire and manage a web developer. During that session, we discussed the client’s responsibility when managing a developer. For 2012, I will focus on the responsibilities of the developer. That’s right, developers! It’s time to grow up and start owning [...]

I’ve been using various tools as part of my listening strategy on Twitter for a long time now. Few tools have impressed me as much as inboxQ.

We are happy to announce a new member is joining our team – Kelley Koehler, aka @housechick.

I did a quick screencast of our attempt to add a third party, Hector Diaz, to a video chat on SocialEyes.com. As you’ll see in the video, we didn’t do very well.

On December 1, a slew of celebrities “died” online. Their digital identities at Twitter and Facebook were killed off in an attempt to raise $1 Million for Alicia Key’s BuyLife.org. The success of this charity endeavor would seem to fall on whether their fans were truly engaged.

“Fourtrace is a research project in “Advanced topics in Computer Networking” at University of California, Santa Barbara. Our goal is to find out if it’s possible to predict where a user is at a given time.”

Twitter launched SMS notification for mentions today. Since this is essentially why we created Twext.me for Ben Martin, we will be evaluating what to do with Twext.me in the next 24 hours.

Using the “Library HDR” option from the main menu of the Pro HDR app, you can force it to process any two photos of the same size. In this example, I use two photos from Infinicam, but I have used this technique starting with Plastic Bullet and PictureShow exports as the starting point as well.

I’ve used Blip.fm in the past as a “Be Your Own DJ” type of service. Lately, however, Blip.fm just isn’t cutting it. Grooveshark is everything Blip.fm should have been and more.