Patrick Coombe
If you have ever tried to login to Facebook from a new device, Facebook might prompt you to prove that you are the account holder by identifying photos of your friends. Recently I needed to gain control of an account that was not mine (that I had full authorization to do so) and had to go through this task. [...]
I stumbled upon Conrad Hackett's nifty little Twitter trick tonight, which managed to put a smile on my face and scratch my head for a brief instant :) The tweet plays a bit of a mind trick by asking the user to double click the picture. Upon looking at the "first" photo, it appears to be a white and [...]
Just messing around with Ello tonight and thought I'd share my thoughts on this hip new social network. Note: I do have a few Ello invite codes left so hit me up if you are interested. The on-boarding process is unique with the fact that it is invite only. They are definitely going with the whole scarcity principle by [...]
Was passively poking around Hackernews this evening reading a really cool thread titled: "What projects are you working on?" when I stumbled upon an answer that piqued my interest. Apparently a Chilean programmer named Jose Luis Honorato took it upon himself to connect his hedgehog "Antu" to Twitter. photo credit: Jose Luis Honorato Basically the bot works like this: [...]
Facebook has a review system like many other modern web platforms: you can log in to your account, click on some stars, and post a custom written review for the world to see. But Facebook's review system is flawed. Using a very simple loophole, any competitor, angry customer, or coward can post a review and cause the review median [...]
LinkedIn is all sorts of messed up & backwards. Last week Darren Nix wrote about "the absurdity of LinkedIn" which basically pointed out how logged out users have more benefits than signed-in users. The thread got hundreds of comments on Hacker News from folks talking about how terrible it is as a platform and social network. Anyway, if you [...]
Oh man, one place you know you don't mess around on is Reddit. The place is full of insane crazy good hackers and programmers that investigate every single comment and upvote that was left. Anyhow, so this thread was created by someone affiliated with this site which is some kind of eCommerce platform. A self promoted post just wasn't [...]
I really love Google+, if even half of my non-techie friends were on G+, I'd delete my Facebook account forever. There are a few things on my wish list however that I feel needs to be improved before G+ is where it needs to be: 1. Speed - It is slow. I use a badass Intel i7 SSD/64G [...]
