Technically Speaking

I was filling a request for the Lending Club blog this morning, and I remembered I had messed around with the blog to PDF options. I had a few plugins that I downloaded some time back. Now you can save my literary masterpieces (master-fiascos?) as a PDF if you like.

At the bottom of the post, you can PDF the latest post if you like; just enter in your e-mail address and it sends you the PDF. To the right in the sidebar above my sponsors and below the Jambaz widget/Google AdSense stuff you will see “Send posts as PDF to” - same deal - enter in your e-mail address there, and you are set. It will send the 5 posts on the page you are on as a PDF. If your blog has more posts (or less) per page, that is what it sends.

I know it does pictures, and not sure how it will handle the SplashCast posts I have. No clue, but I thought I would share this cool plugin if you are interested.

Oh - Video people or people who do videos - don’t forget there is money sitting on the table for you! Lending Club announced the $5,000 Video Contest some time ago. I just want to make sure that every video maker out there has the chance to do one, enter the contest and take that money! Seriously - $5,000 is pretty easy money for creating a video. It doesn’t have to be high tech, just go view the linked post and read the rules, etc.

Technically Speaking, have fun with it. It’s better than buying silk trees.

Episode 27 notes:

Facebook-Parakey

Facebook has acquired Parakey, a Mountain View, Calif., startup that had been working on a new way for people to work seamlessly on applications while online and offline.

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Google officer in a bit of a jam

Google’s chief legal officer and Ernst & Young’s Irish branch have settled claims that they let the executive’s former employer, SkillSoft, overstate profits, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.

David C. Drummond, who until 2002 was chief financial officer at SkillSoft, when it was called SmartForce, agreed to forfeit $574,000 and pay a $125,000 fine to settle accusations that he had let the software company incorrectly book revenue, the S.E.C. said. Three other former SkillSoft executives also agreed to forfeit profits and pay penalties, the agency said. The defendants did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

Google 2nd Qtr earnings down

Google made no apologies on July 19 for missing analysts’ earnings expectations in the second quarter. Simply put, Google executives said they overspent on luring quality people in the period—though they will keep closer tabs on staff spending in the future. “The kind of people that we brought in are so good that we are happy we did this,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on a conference call discussing the results.

More Revlayer coverage

Revlayer is a New York company that just launched a controversial new video advertising technology that publishers will love, but video creators might hate.

Revlayer - Give it a try! I also blogged about it right here.

CenterNetworks bonus

Allen’s note: The absolute best part of working on CN has been all of the great people I have met. Patricia Handschiegel is one of those people as she understands the business from every angle. She has become a close friend and also acted as a mentor for me as I grow CN. She was unable to participate during Startup Tips month, but when she asked to still submit tips, I said yes immediately. I hope you find value in her tips below.

Ask.com ask eraser

OAKLAND, Calif., July 19 — Ask.com(R), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced it will soon be implementing a new product called AskEraser that will offer its searchers unmatched control over their privacy when searching for information on the Web.

With AskEraser, people can ensure that their search history will not be retained by Ask.com. Searchers will have easy access to AskEraser and can change their privacy preference at any time. Once selected, searchers’ privacy settings will be clearly indicated on search results pages so they always know the privacy status of their searches.

“AskEraser is a great solution for those looking for an additional level of privacy when they search online,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com. “Anonymous user data can be very useful to enhance search products for all users, and we’re committed to being open and transparent about how such information is used. But we also understand that there are some who are interested in new tools that will help protect their privacy further, and we will give them that control on Ask.com.”

Ooma

For 40 minutes last night I had Ooma CEO and Founder Andrew Frame on the phone. I didn’t get to talk with Ashton Kutcher, like Mike did, but that was okay. Ashton wasn’t going to add anything to this conversation.

WP Plugins

The WordPress blog platform has thousands of plugins, and many of them now use ajax to improve usability. Here’s our pick of more than 30 goods ones: don’t install them all at once.

More time to look under the hoodia.

Read - Lending Club blog
Follow - LendingClubber
See - Lending Club on MBL
Load - Criteo Autoroll on your blog

Follow - Rex Dixon
Enjoy - GMAFB and Sign Up/Register
My Company - Nuclear Inbox, LLC
My UStream.tv - RexTV URL and on Nuclear Inbox, LLC site
Feed yourself - This blogs Feed URL.
Read - Link Blog

I’m also located on social networks such as - Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ojeez, Vertagio, and the new Mashable one.

I wish I had Pete/Kristen’s tip box! Not their “tip box” as in money, but all the tips they receive on new sites or cool sites. Two out of the four are all credited back to their work. The other two are from two of my favorite bloggers. We shall play leap frog:

Weblo - Sounds like another million dollar idea to me.

GoRunEasy - A new social network, explained well by Kristen.

Blogger’s Choice Awards - I vote Ali as one of the top writers out there!

ThinkFree - New Wordpress bloggers plugin where you can embed Word and Excel spreadsheets into your blog. Another great post by Kristen.

Technically Speaking, it’s been quite a busy Thursday. Has my chair moved? Has anyone stopped by to say “hello”?

Yahoo on mobile - Looks like Yahoo will be running on everyone’s phone soon. Not mine, I don’t have a smart phone at this time. Mine does text, pictures, and makes phone calls.

WordPress and OpenID - It’s now there. OpenID on WordPress.

Friendster and Google - Apparently Friendster is still alive and kicking. I keep figuring they are dead, but then just when I think they are done, they go and make this exclusive deal with Google.

Looking for Videos? - According to the NewTeeVee site, or the video part of Om’s Network of blogs; GigaNET, this is the place to find them.

Technically Speaking, it’s Link Blog Lock N’ Load time. Oh, there may be an interesting tidbit of information being released later today. Look for it.

Well next up will be a “real” blog by the special guest blogger. But for now, check the Link Blog and here are some items of interest I found.

Facebook - They are figuring it out. Psst.. It starts with buying some shoes.

OpenID - Allen goes into details on OpenID. Jake goes into details about OpenID. I apologize to both Allen and Jake for not seeing this. In a related side note — Allen — YOU are the digg monster in the past couple of days! 648 diggs!! Wow!
France - Do you hear the dot boom calling in Europe?

Pirates of Hollywood - I have already talked about these Pirates in the past, and yes, Hollywood is teaming up with them. It’s a head scratcher, that is for sure.

Top 10 Domain names - Well the top ten stupid ones. It is Saturday, right?

Google Reader and WP - This looks like a great idea for the Link Blog.

Netvibes2go - A nice write up about Netvibes2go.

MyBlogLog apology - Nice job Eric. It had to be a hard decision to make. The first one, as well as knowing when to say you are sorry. MBL is really a great service, and hopefully in the future things won’t all be on Eric’s shoulders.

Mashable roundup - Mashables round up for the day.

SV Republicans - Interesting contributing article about the GOP and SV and IPO’s.

Technically Speaking, I have the special guest post coming up, and then I will be dumping items into the Link Blog.

The previews or reviews are online. WordPress 2.1 is on the way very soon. That should be good news for all of us who are blogging on their own domain and server. Technically Speaking, it’s a Sunday so things are kind of slow, until later I’m sure!

People are rushing to upgrade to that WP v2.0.6. The ONLY thing I read about the upgrade was there was some issue about causing your feed to stop working properly. This morning, I scanned across the net with my feed reader as usual. There are a lot of invalid feeds. I hope what ever it is you need to do to fix that, will be done shortly.

Technically Speaking, I’ll wait.