I feel like I have been gone a long time.
Most of you know that I have four blogs:
All that bugs blog
Blog and Cookies
Cooking With Jack
Need Prayer NowI have been so distracted by my other jobs that I haven't kept up on the blogs too much. I have just finished producing a movie, filming cooking videos, trying to set up my church to broadcast live on the internet, and been on Twitter like a crazy man.
BTW, my twitter id is jakatak4 if you want to follow me. I will in turn follow you, too.
I have also had time to re-evaluate my blogs and decide if they are all needed. I have decided to keep them all. YEAH!!!!
Okay now let me bring you up to date on what I plan to do with each one.
All that bugs blog: not a healthy blog since I am trying to stop complaining as much. I will still keep it up there so I can inform people about things that bug me. I will just be more selective, like for example, did you know if you have a mattress from Sit n' Sleep here in LA and you somehow (don't ask me how) get a stain on the mattress, your warranty is no longer good. These are the type of complaints I want to do. Not as often, but much healthier complaining.
Blog and Cookies: This blog is about info that you need to know about that is positive. Like Pownce getting taken over by Six Apart. I am not complaining, but it's a hot topic.Cooking with Jack: This blog will have more cooking tips. I will be producing a cooking video each week and posting it up there. I will give great tip like: before refrigerating your package of bacon, be sure to roll it up and put a rubber band around it. This way when you unroll it to cook it, each slice will be separate from the rest. It helps separate the bacon so you don't tear each piece.
Need Prayer Now: This blog is going to stay up for anyone who needs a pray. I also will be giving some insight to my thoughts about my faith and things I learn during my spiritual growth. Things like: did you know that "knowledge" is what you know and "wisdom" is how you use how you use what you know.
All my blogs will be shorter and to the point. Sometimes I ramble on and on and on and ..... well, you get it.
I am glad to be back. It's hard keeping up with your family life, work life, Twitter, facebook, emails, texts, etc. Feel free to subscribe to my newsletter in the upper right corner of this page.
Take care and we will be taking soon.
There isn't anything you can't do from a Facebook page. For those of you unfamiliar with Facebook, it's a social network place. Kind of like MySpace.com. It's a place to build your online profile. You can tell the whole world your likes and dislikes from books, to movies, to who you would like to meet someday. Once you have build your profile you can then set privacy settings that only your friends can see your profile, or anyone in the world.After that you can customize your Facebook page with applications (apps) that allow you to do things from within your Facebook page.Here are just some of the things I do through my Facebook profile.1. I maintain my online profile. (tons of information about me)2. I keep in touch with friends.3. I can check on my Netflix movie queue and see what is new in the DVD rental world.4. I can follow my favorite baseball team the Los Angeles Angels.5. I can listen to my Pandora radio stations.6. I can get all my birthday reminders for all my family.7. I can play games like Chess or Scrabble with other people around the world.8. I can even keep updated on my MySpace.com profile from within Facebook.9. I am even typing this blog through my Facebook app called Ping.fm.10. I can even Twitter my friends.11. I can even update my physical location and what I am doing through Loopt on Facebook.12. They even have multi-player online games that can be played by thousands.If you don't know any of what I am discussing above, don't worry. You will. Some of these applications are very new and some just aren't in the public eye, yet.I have to go on the record and say that Facebook has nailed the all in one place to do things.
If you are keeping up with all the crazy websites popping up (Twitter, Friendfeed, Mixx, etc.) then you will know why I am going on record as saying that Facebook is on it's way out.Here is why:1. Facebook said they would share their members information with Google in an open source format so Google could develop new concepts. Google built Google Friends Connect with this understanding. Then Facebook changed it's mind and got greedy and locked Google out.2. Facebook is getting really protective of it's information and is now messing with one of the top social media design companies called Slide. Most of you know their Top Friends app. Slide is the developer of that app. Well, Facebook has now locked them out.Facebook has not been playing well with others. With so many social networking sites available like Myspace.com and new ones launching daily, you have to play nice with others. It just takes one bad headline on TechCrunch to destroy your rep. If you don't believe me ask Twitter.How can Facebook be saved:1. apologize to Google publically and open up your code.2. Work with Slide to redesign any apps your not happy with. Don't shut them out completely.3. Redesign the Homepage. They have a the worst layout ever. My Facebook homepage is a headache. I can't stand looking at it. It's not organized. Fix it before Myspace fixes theirs.There. I said it.
