Category Web

OpenAppMkt

A marketplace where you can easily discover and install mobile apps on the web.

The Jsure Javascript checker

Jsure is a "lint" for Javascript. It checks syntax and a little bit of semantics.

TinEye Reverse Image Search

Find where images are used online.

TweetDeck makes managing Twitter Lists a breeze

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was [...]

Focus On Photographic Backgrounds In Web Design

A few years ago, using photographs as a background was the reserve of the daring and those who didn’t worry too much about making their visitors wait while the site loaded. Now with broadband and a good understanding of how to compress image file siz…

I’m in good company with Austin Social Media’s Top 100

I’m flattered to be included in @LaniAR‘s list of Austin’s top social media innovators. You’ll find me under Marketing & PR with my coworker Aaron Strout representing social media at Powered, though I probably blather about technology, politics, and the economy more than anything else.  Regardless, I’m proud to help make Austin “the Live Social [...]

Using social media in real-time during times of war

Israel is making full use of social media to sway public opinion and convince the world at large that their offensive in Gaza is a justifiable response to the constant missiles being rained upon them from Hamas-controlled territories. (I’m not going to debate whether they’re correct or not. I’m just listing the social media tools [...]

Google indexes Twitter search queries

  I did a Google search on the #tcot Twitter hashtag to determine what it stood for (Top Conversatives on Twitter as far as I can tell). I was pleasantly surprised to see the search.twitter.com service featured in it’s #1 spot.

What information consumes…

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon, American Psychologist

RyanJoy.com

As I’ve written in the past, I’ve worked to cultivate a personal brand and personal name recognition. Well, I’m very happy to say that I’ve aquired ryanjoy.com! For the foreseeable future it will simply remain a mirror of this site, atxryan.com. However, I may either start to promote this domain more as my personal homepage [...]