Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• January 3rd, 2008

  Take your Facebook data with you

  Earlier today, I mentioned that it wouldn’t be out of the question to write a Firefox extension that would grab profile data about your Facebook friends as you view their profiles so that you could take that data to another service. Given that, allow me to introduce Facebook Scavenger. It’s a Firefox extension that saves [...]

• January 3rd, 2008

  Scoble stole my data…

  Had a great idea while watching ScobleShow. 5,000 of Scoble’s friends, at $10 a pop means $50,000 in revenue for me. Submit your orders in the comment section below.

• January 3rd, 2008

  Proposal for (legally) acquiring data from Facebook

  There’s a big debate going on today about Robert Scoble getting booted from Facebook for harvesting data about his friends with a bot. The relevant portion of the Facebook TOS that he violated is this: “You agree not to: [...] use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the [...]

• October 25th, 2007

  Techcrunch’s credible sources

  So Techcrunch used Fake Steve Jobs as their primary source for saying that PodTech is going out of business; do they realize how irresponsible that is? Robert Scoble does. Duncan Riley’s justification: “We didn’t run it first or second or even third, I sat on it for a couple of hours. Problem was (and is) [...]

• October 4th, 2007

  Dave Winer falls for it

  Dave Winer writes that Techmeme is “officially” a cesspool, now that bloggers will write linkbait just to get on the Techmeme leaderboard. (Little-known fact: all search engines are also cesspools by the same reasoning.) Specifically, he singles out Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble for writing attention-getting linkbait pieces (much like he himself is doing): “I’m [...]

• September 24th, 2007

  Scoble’s 10 “rules” of Twitter

  Robert Scoble’s 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one) reads more like “Let me talk about myself by making up ‘rules’ that I ‘break.’ I’m the bad boy of the Internet.”