Ted Taco was there the first time you knew Google Buzz was already live. He was in our Gmail inbox and since then we have seen him many times around the web, becoming familiar with his all too awesome stare. He is the face of Google Buzz, booyah.
But who is Ted Taco. Does he work for Google? Is he in marketing? What does he think of his surname? Many questions got me curious, so I did a little background check and based on his Google Profile, (please do click the link), here is what I’ve uncovered.
1. He has lived on the Moon
2. He writes like a 5th grader — or.. he really intends to say “Help Make Gmail Awesome” at Google Mountain View as an invite to professionals to come work for Google, and not “Helping Make Gmail Awesome” as his actual job description. Poor sentence construction either way.
3. Ted now only follows 13 people, dropping 6 as seen on the picture above meaning — he’s quite the snob?
4. He isn’t on Facebook. Not really that social I guess.
Well that is all I have for now but I will be investigating this further. Do you have any info on the guy? If so, here is my profile on Google Buzz and let me know. Let us honor the first person on Google Buzz before it becomes the next social media revolution with a gazillion users. Ted, wherever you are.. I hope you follow me too.
I like Google Buzz. It gives me something to do while on Gmail waiting for emails from clients of mine such as Mr. “my timezone is in wonderland and I swallowed that pill that made me small now I can’t reach my computer to send you that email”. Google Buzz does make waiting a bit tolerable.
Anyway, the only thing I don’t like about it is that I’m assumed to follow the people from my Google Contacts. That actually doesn’t sit well with me. Most people I talk to are clients, and I would like to keep it that way. And perhaps, they are not that social.
Yes there is a profile search function to help find people. But I say please include an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button; press hit and a 26 year old Marketing chic profile comes up. Now that’s a real buzz.
The only problem I have with this rip-off is that Google is a free Search Engine service. Come on, no one is getting anything here. Here’s an idea though. How about ripping-off Shopzilla and call it Yangtze-zilla – comparison shopping half the regular prize, and half the regular quality.
Great news from Google today. Even without feeds, Google Reader users can now add pages by simply adding the URL and letting Google do the rest. Good news for lazy webmasters, bad news for RSS Feed providers. Anyway I immediately tried it out and added the webpage of a comic that was really cranking me up about a week ago. Pat Robertson of the 700 Club.
Of course he doesn’t provide a feed. It’s the work of the devil!
Basically, Google will track changes made on the page and sends it out to your reader as a new item. But as Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land puts it, adding a robots.txt file or by using the noarchive tag (<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noarchive”>), blocks Googlebot from crawling a page. Nice tip right there.
I’m such a CSS god that I love toying around Wordpress themes, especially if there’s someone around who actually knows CSS since I practically know nothing of editing themes and only pretend to know so. Oh yes. It’s terrible I know. And now I’d like to take this chance to thank my awesome friends, and to them I say: “please stay online I’m not done editing yet”.
Anywho, I think it’s a great theme. It’s bold and suggestive, it’s clean yet intense. Words I never thought I’d use aside from describing the feel of my undergarments. And widgets! I love widgets. Paste some HTML and boom, you have a 2.0-ish blog. Totally convenient me.
Now have you been wanting to change themes but can’t seem to find a good one? Well good luck turd, it’s your problem. However let me direct you to Smashing Magazine’s 100 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes wherein I’m sure you can find the theme that suits to your personality. Head’s up though, all of them are free but some themes do not work properly. I found that out the hard way and there is no easy way to go about that. Not so excellent but hey they’re free so stop being choosy alright?
Ted Taco was there the first time you knew Google Buzz was already live. He was in our Gmail inbox and since then we have seen him many times around the web, becoming familiar with his all too awesome stare. He is the face of Google Buzz, booyah.
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