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Use Yahoo Pipes to workaround Facebook’s One Feed Limit

Here’s what to do to work around the Facebook one RSS feed limitation: Make a pipe with Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo Pipes lets you plug multiple rss feeds into one feed. My facebook profile now receives information from this site, Brightkite, Jott, and whatever else I think of to add later through the pipe that I created. You can use a pipe for other purposes as well.

Flash Banners in Facebook for Free

I wanted to add a little flair (no not that dumb FB application) to the page, and I remembered that when I was creating my NACCAP presentations, Keynote gave me tons of saving options. It turns out that you can turn your Keynote slideshows into flash banners or quicktime movies. Here are a couple of pointers when trying this out:

Give Your Bloggers an Inbox

If you’re into the whole GTD phenomenon, you know the importance of inboxes. I’ve developed my own system based on GTD and the Action Method by Behance (they all have similar elements) that incorporates multiple inboxes into my daily routine. I’ve found that logging my ideas, actions, reminders and events in a consistent place and [...]

CommonCraft How To Videos

If you’re too ashamed to admit that you don’t know what people are talking about when podcasting is mentioned, you should check out CommonCraft videos. They will inform your pants off and allow you to grasp concepts that you should own already.

Creating a Professional Facebook Account

I like to keep things separated in my life. Work and personal items have their own places in my apartment as well as online. If I needed a facebook presence using something other than a page, I would create a professional account so as to not muddy up my personal account with privacy settings etc. So to create a professional facebook account, you’ll need to do a couple of things.