This week I finally get to work for money instead of my own Web sites. Also have Actionscript 3 Flash/Multimedia Design II class with a great teacher – Matthew Leach. Lots to learn. In a transition to get back to sales leads, e-mails, and social media. Over years I’ve shunned going crazy about social media, but now it’s almost inevitable (! my favorite word) with programs like Twitter and Facebook dominating the Web.

My Pain = Updating all the status updates

My Solution = Ping.fm
Can set what networks you want it to update, including ones like AIM status. I already have Facebook pull my Twitter feeds thus I set it up for everything else. Also cool is that I can update my status from Skype or AIM message.

The Web now has to deal with this problem of short paragraphs of duplicated text of the same status dozens of times. Sort of spammy if you ask me. Search engines won’t usually detect such short duplicate content thus it all looks unique and thus these social media sites are almost uncontrolable with unique fresh content.