We are in the process of rolling out our new platform, called ReachCast. We will be migrating all CloudProfile accounts soon, but given my role I’ve needed to get started using it in advance.
Come visit and engage with me there at http://www.alexhawkinson.com.
Thanks!
-Alex
Really enjoyed my first session playing Limbo from the Xbox Live Arcade Summer promotion for an hour or so last night. Incredible artistic style, engaging gameplay, and incredibly unique all around. What a win for independent game development. Check it out, if you haven’t already.
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Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul has some great sounding tracks and is a good collaborative effort. Sad back story. Haven’t seen much of it, but the photography book that accompanies the album seems to have some positive buzz.
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It’s been on my mind that I should go back to the Mustang Convertible of my youth. Maybe that’s mid-life kicking in. Of course I’d have to explain myself to my wife. Perhaps the funds would be better spent on college education.
I’ve used a few R/C helicopters, and even become pretty good at maneuvering them around some basic obstacles around the office and house, but this is some really good flying (and an incredible drone). I’d buy one! More from Gizmodo at the link below.
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With the first 90 degree day in the bag here in CT, it’s time to put the heat on getting the boat in. For those of you that remember, a few months ago the boat was under the shed (photo below). Not in a "we’ve put the boat in the shed to protect it" sense, but in a "the shed blew up on the boat and destroyed it" sense. Destroyed is a little bit of an over-statement, but it means there is more work than cleaning the battery hookup.
I have been playing around with different Google Alerts syntax and customization based on this quick tutorial from Alert Rank. Within CloudProfile, we use a subdomain structure for basic profiles. For instance you can see my profile is http://brooks.cloudprofile.com. But you can also use a primary domain like http://www.brooks-stone.com.
Therefore I’ve configured some Google Alerts using the link syntax as:
link:http://brooks.cloudprofile.com
and
link:www.brooks-stone.com
I have not used the "-site:" operator to eliminate links within a site, so if the subdomain is working the first alert should pick up on the link in this article. If it doesn’t, but the link to www.brooks-stone.com does get picked up, then I think the subdomain may be a problem.
I’ll report back on the results.
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With the popularity of social networks on the rise, it occurred to us: instead of building another standard company blog, why don't we embrace the current content we generate out on the web and pull it into our website? So we did.
One of Mural's SaaS ventures is CloudProfile, a great way for businesses to publish text, photos and updates in one place and have them pushed out to a number of social media accounts like Twitter & Facebook.
Everyone at Mural has a CloudProfile, and all of our updates are pulled into this page. It's a bit of a crazy idea, but we love it and hope you enjoy it as well!
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