One of the strengths of this system is that it ties a comment to a person. For large blogs, it prevents anonymous users from posting spam or other non constructive content. In addition, by linking blog comments to your Facebook profile, it offers the possibility of bringing new visitors to a site through a user’s friend network.

Several downsides include not being in control the content of comments, because they are stored by Facebook, and requiring users to be on Facebook (or Yahoo) in order to comment.

It will be interesting to see if Facebook comments become the default standard for comments on the web or just a side venture that never pans out. With plug-ins, like the one I’m using, to integrate Facebook comments into WordPress – I would be hard pressed to bet against at least moderate success.

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HTML5 Training Notes

Here are a few resources that I recommend:

• Dive into HTML5 – This is one of the best resources I could find. It walks you through HTML5 with an easy to follow narrative and excellent code examples.
• HTML5 Quick Reference Guide – This is a cheat sheet for coding in HTML5

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Posterous is a service that should appeal to people who want to post things online but don’t want to deal with the technical details. It works by simply emailing what you want to post to post@posterous.com. You don’t even need to create an account to get started, just email them. The contents of your email whether text, pictures,  or a video are automatically uploaded to a page that is created for you. After your first email, you have the option to visit the site and customizing address and settings for your content. If your looking for an incredibly simple way to post content or blog on the web try Posterous.

My Posterous page: jamesvandyke.posterous.com

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Twitter is a mixture between ADD blogging and Instant messaging. You send “tweets” or messages of less than 140 characters via the website, IM client or third-party application. These tweets are logged on the twitter website.

The social aspect of Twitter is what makes it appealing though. You can choose to follow other Twitterers and receive all of the tweets they post. This allows you to keep up with the latest from your contacts without having to actively engage them in conversation. You can directly reply to other’s tweets which allows for conversations to take place.

While I’m not sure I truly understand the complete utility of Twitter yet, it’s interesting enough to try it for a few more days.

The site is designed to let you schedule a wake up call. However, it works for prank calls as well. Unlike some other call-back services, you’re not required to register the phone you want to contact. Plus, you can type in text that the site converts to a voice message for the call.

The site is free and doesn’t require you to sign but don’t expect it to be around for long.