The blog of Abraham Williams

Update: Support for the Digg button has been added but is not reflected in the images. Just above this text you will see three buttons. One each for @ Digg , Google Buzz , @ Facebook , and @ Twitter . The following instructions detail how to add the same buttons to your Blogger blog. 1) From your Blogger dashboard click on Design. 2) After which select the Edit HTML tab. 3) Now you can see the HTML that makes the guts of your blog but not all of it. Expand the Widget Templates and to see the rest. 4) Scroll down or control/command-f to do a search for the following line of code. 5) Just above that line insert the following code. This will put all three share button under neath the title on each single post page. Fill in the data-via value with your Twitter screen_name. If you wish you can remove the data-related value. 6) Save the template. If you visit a blog post you should now see the three buttons but alas something is amiss. The three buttons are not ali...

An Eventr prototype was built at Chicago Startup Weekend but has since been taken down while I concentrate on other tasks. http://chicago.startupweekend.org

@StarCraft 2 beta keys are hard to come by but I managed to snag one from an unlikely source: @Twitter. I happened to do a search for #sc2 and found a key a few hours old. Of course the key didn't work but I repeated my search the next day and snagged a working key from a status that was just a few minutes old. #sc2 JZNHJT-WWBT-DKDY64-6BBD-7E4VRJ less than a minute ago via web Alf Jonsson _Unstable Or you can just drop $20 on @Ebay.

" Storytlr  is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform. You can use it for a single user or it can act as a host for many people all from the same installation." I've been looking for something like Storytlr for a few months now or at least trying to do it with Drupal . While I love Drupal and FeedAPI  I did not want to spend all that time building a lifestream website. So I've been playing around with Storytlr instead and found it very easy. Here is how I got it up and running on a Ubuntu EC2 server. You can also check out the official Storytlr install instructions . Assumptions: LAMP stack installed and running. Domain setup for a directory. MySQL database and user ready to go. Lets get started! Get the code : wget http://storytlr.googlecode.com/files/storytlr-0.9.2.tgz tar -xvzf storytlr-0.9.2.tgz You can find out the  latest stable release  on Storytlr's downloads page. Import the database : Within protected/install is database.sq...