Janet Fouts

Thesis Just Gets Better and Better

I am so stoked about the new version of the Thesis theme for Wordpress. I’ve been hand coding or tweaking other themes for years and Thesis made that a whole lot easier when it came out, but this new version just rocks.
Sure, you might want to do some advanced tweaking using hooks or bring in [...]

LifestreamBackup is now Backupify?

Of all the silly “we still don’t get it” moments.
I recently wrote about LifestreamBackup.com, a very nifty way to keep your lifestream accounts backed up. I love the service. It’s easy to use and I can back up onto my Amazon S3 account so the storage cost is tiny but I have 100% control over [...]

News River – real-time updates for your favorite feeds

I’ve been using Lazyfeed and My6Sense a lot of late to find topics on blogs and authors that I may not have found any other way, and that’s very cool, but I still want to archive a list of the best blogs I want to go back to. The problem is I’ve totally swamped my [...]

BrightTalk for Webinars

I finished my first BrightTalk webcast today, and I thought I’d give you a little insight into how this works from the presenter’s side in case you’re looking for a reliable host for your own webcasts.
I’ve used quite a few of these services and tested several more and I have to say the BrightTalk user [...]

Is Your Lifestream Backed Up?

Yesterday’s big noise was all about the Denial of Service attack on Twitter and several other social media networks, and it’s likely not over yet. Cnet reported that the attack was probably targeted at one blogger, and the story is a good read if you’re interested in the details of how these kinds of attacks [...]

Real-time feed search with Lazyfeed

I love reading RSS feeds and I hate it at the same time. You see, some of my favorite bloggers don’t post very often, so I end up scanning the same feeds over and over searching for new content. When you’ve got a lot of feeds this can be painful, and I’ve got a lot [...]

Supr shorten those URLs

Su.pr is fresh out of beta and if you’re a fan of Stumbleupon you’re going to love it. Like most URL shorteners it’s got a bookmarklet to add to your browser so you can quickly shorten a url and send it to Twitter.There’s also a Wordpress plugin and you can access the API to work [...]

New features in Twitter user pages

If you’re like me you may use applications to post to Twitter most of the time, and go to the Twitter web site mainly to manage your followers. That’s how I saw the new changes in the Twitter follower and following pages.

Now you can view your followers in a list form or opt for [...]

Do you need Kwout?

Because of the way I work, I’m forever looking for more efficient ways to take clippings from the web and share them with my networks. I recently wrote about Evernote, which really has made it easy to save information on multiple devices. I use Skitch to annotate screen shots, and Amplify to quickly clip [...]

What do your Tweets say about you?

Leave it to Dan Zarella to come up with a new way to analyze your Twitter stream. His research reports on social media and viral content are enlightening, and the tools he’s produced for Twitter and link attraction are just awesome.
TweetPsych uses two different analysis algorithms–Regressive Imagery Dictionary and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) [...]