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@vark (Aardvark): Q & A 2.0 http://bit.ly/TX10D

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A new phenomenon in Social Networking I discovered today, is Aardvark.

Aardvark is a network that allows you to ask questions or to answer them. You can link your Twitter account to, for instance, your Windows Live Messenger account, which Aardvark will then use to ask people’s questions (if they match your expertise or interests).
There’s nothing to it! No software to download or install. Just click the link and get your free account.

In your Aardvark profile you can indicate your areas of expertise and off you go!
I subscribed earlier today and I already helped people get answers to their questions. Whenever you help somebody, Aardvark tweets that you did on your behalf.

Are you offline? Don’t worry. Aardvark will email you the answer to your question. Does Aardvark send you a question that you can’t answer? Reply lmk (let me know) to Aardvark and it will ask the user to share the answer they got with you eventually. It’s great!

Try it yourself and maybe we’ll be in touch soon. Who knows! 🙂

Follow @vark on Twitter

2009-07-15. Example: Writer @VeronicavS was looking for a logo for her books on profiler Althea Sang Min Molin. I didn’t know that, until I checked out the facts afterwards… Yesterday I got a question through Aardvark from somebody in Sweden, who wanted to know how Althea is written in korean. I explained him how it’s done and click this link to see what happened. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of Aardvark & Social Networking. Great!

2009-09-18. There’s an Aardvark App for your iPhone!

Test post with @WordPress for #BlackBerry 0.9.0.119 http://blackberry.wordpress.org

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(well, actually this is a manually translated post, not posted by WordPress for BlackBerry, since it won’t let me post a translated version of the original post I wrote in Dutch. This is just to keep you English readers up to date)

This is a test post. I noticed that I can add Tags to this post, but no Categories. Of course, I wonder if and how it shows up on my blog.

Let’s not put in a picture just yet, although it is supported…

I can’t tell the app which Language my post is in, so I can only write this in my blog’s native language, which is Dutch… I wonder if the authors of this application will contact the guys from WPML, or maybe they can make it even smarter, by supporting Plugin driven posts…

EDIT: Of course it is possible to indicate a Category. You just have to press the BlackBerry Option button.

#WordPress 2.9 Nightly Builds

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The current stable version of WordPress is 2.8

Do you have a weblog that you don’t want to break, but don’t mind if it did? Maybe you like to check out the latest experimental version 2.9, that is being programmed during daytime and which can be downloaded at night. The updates go by the romantic name of “Nightly Builds”, which is exactly what they are… Be careful not to set fire to your blog! We’re talking pre-alpha code here! 🙂

WordPress – Download – Nightly Builds

At last: @gdgt (gadget)

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At last there’s a website dedicated to gadgets! It’s called gdgt, which is pronounced as: gadget.

It allows you to make three kinds of lists:

  1. Have. This is the list of gadgets you currently have
  2. Want. This is what you’d like to have
  3. Had. These are the gadgets you had

The cool thing about it is, that you can write reviews about the gadgets you (used to) own, exchange ideas, buy the gadgets you want (smart!) and… If you put a BlackBerry Storm or Bold on your wishlist, you might get one from gdgt, according to this tweet.

Of course it features followers (like Twitter); people keeping up with your gadgets (Facebook is currently transforming itself to the Twitter model). gdgt is a social network of people who care about gadgets. I wonder what the future of social networking has planned for us… Beware: The first gdgt burglary hasn’t been reported yet, but do not fear: I’ll be watching its development closely for you! I can imagine that somebody knowing your gadget list, might increase the chances of theft. Your insurance company may even give you a nice discount if you choose not to join gdgt…

In the meantime you can go to gdgt.com and create your own account free of charge or check out my gadgets at: http://user.gdgt.com/daepunt

It goes without saying, that gdgt can be followed on Twitter: @gdgt

http://user.gdgt.com/daepunt