Tech Blog Buffet!

I just added a new link to my personal "useful links" list: Step Three Profit, a blog kept by my good friend and inspirational developer dude Brandon Wiley.

If anyone wants to recommend any more cool tech blogs, let me know. Here are some others I have been reading recently:

• Steven Hazel's Hackerdashery
• Horse.Pig.Cow
• Web Strategist
• Marketing Pilgrim

Portfolio Site

I've just started work on an updated portfolio site at ZaraSteadman.com.

It's been awhile since I sat down and coded a site from start to finish like the old days, so it's taking a while to get cross-browser fluency. Any feedback is appreciated!

New Discoveries

Here are some pretty cool sites I learned about this weekend at SXSW Interactive and thought I might share:

http://www.socialthing.com - Aggregate your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other social networking accounts into one... social... thing! It let's you keep up on what's going on with your friends in all creative spaces on the web at once. Currently in beta.

http://www.pmog.com - A game you can play, just by surfing the web in your FF browser. just install, register, and you're playing. Users set mines, leave gifts, messages, and more on pages across the web, which you (as a player) run into while randomly browsing. In retaliation or reciprocation you can set up your own surprises for other players. You gain "data points" for the length of time you spend on the web, and can even choose to play certain missions you run into and earn "badges". For example, to earn the "Indie badge," you must REFRAIN FROM USING Google FOR 24 HOURS while surfing on the web. Can you do it? In beta.

http://www.ihasahotdog.com/ - Just as charming and addictive as Icanhascheezburger.com. I think you can guess what this is about.

http://safaribooks.com/ - A great resource for tech-heads and web creatives. This is a growing modern archive of tech and development related books published by O'Reilly press that you can access from your computer, online. Check out 10 books at a time for $23 a month, or have your pick from 1000s of titles at any time for $43/month (cheaper than the YMCA!). This site has apparently been around a while.

http://www.Utterz.com - I think the concept is the same as SocialThing but from your cell phone, for people who prefer to text their updates. Or something.

http://www.bitstrips.com - Make a comic! It's fun! It's in beta though so it's kinda buggy. look: