Which raises an interesting question. What would happen if everyone stopped tweeting at the exact same moment on Twitter for an entire day? Would there be a huge dip in all the analytical tools that analyze what the trending topics are on Twitter? And how much of the Twitter traffic is just automated responses being fired up on a scheduled basis?

I find myself waiting every so often for my computer to process a video or compile a program. And then I think back to my first computer which was a 486 DX2 and think about what it would be like to even watch a video on there and I quickly forget about the wait.

Open a command prompt as the domain administrator that the remote machine is set to

net use /user:[username] \\servername\share

Next query the current sessions for the remote machine.

query session /server:servername

Now with the information, you can use the reset command to log off that user with the command below.

reset session [ID] /server:servername

This will reset the session and now you can log in again.

The user interface is clean and well organized. The features work seamlessly and don’t even get me started on the number of themes and plugins that are out there to play with. I just installed Picturesurf today and had to test it out as well. What a great way to show a series of images without having to go through the work yourself. I’m definitely a fan of WordPress and look foward to each release.[PSGallery=1mlhqdafh]

• Google Reader – I’ve been a fan since the start and their on-going improvements never dissappoint me. Along with Google Chrome, Google Reader can’t be beat.
• Twitter - At first I was a little apprehensive about this tool but I’ve recently become hooked. TwitterBerry adds to the addiction by making it possible to follow my fellow Twitters and tweet when I’m on the road.
• Facebook – At one point I was on at least a dozen social networking sites (Friendster, Bebo, MySpace, etc…) but in the end Facebook won. Primarily because it’s what all my friends use and has the mose user friendly interface (to some).
• FriendFeed - I don’t think this tool has caught on yet in the mainstream yet partly because it tends to be information overload. But once you figure out how to manage the people that you follow and setup your lists correctly, it’s great.
• Hulu.com – Four shows make this a product that I can’t live without: The Simpsons, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Family Guy
• Mint.com – Mint is what I consider my FriendFeed to my finances. Since they added the ability to track investments this year, Mint has replaced Quicken as my tool of choice to analyze my financial data.
• TripIt.com – I’ve used this site since it’s inception and it’s never failed me once. It makes organizing all my trips a piece of cake.
• WordPress.com – The latest release of 2.8 makes WordPress the blogging tool of choice.
• Blackberry Pearl – Though I’d love to upgrade to the latest Storm or Bold, the form factor of the 8100 can’t be beat. It’s nice not to have that cell-phone bulge in your coat or pants pocket.
• Google Chrome / FireFox – It’s a toss up between these two right now because I’ve grown so accustomed to the FireFox extensions that make my web-browsing experience so easy and comfortable. But Chrome is fast, and with so many AJAX intensive sites out there today, once they add plugins to the mix, I’ll probably make the switch.
• Gmail – I agree that Yahoo! Mail has the best UI experience but Gmail provides so much more functionality (Search, POP/IMAP, Chat, Tasks, etc…) making it the product of choice.
• LinkedIn - The career networking site of choice, there’s really no other site out there that can match the number of users that are on LinkedIn.

Simply having the ‘uid’ of a user, along with the ‘Users.getInfo‘ function, gives you a ton of information about that user and the only limitation is the user themselves. Unless a Facebook user realizes the security concerns of the data that they’re sharing, their information is free for anyone to see and extract.

PHP is the language of choice for most Facebook developers I think (myself included) but I decided to take the ASP.NET / C# route to see how I could integrate it with Consona CRM. The Facebook Developer Toolkit, which just released a new version (lucky for me) is fairly comprehensive but because it’s so new, the documentation needs some polishing up and there’s not many code samples out there yet around it. I created a quick and dirty solution that takes the customer information and passes it to Facebook to either pull up the customer Facebook profile information or run a search and see if that customer is a Facebook user. One issue that I’ve run into so far is the around the session data. If a parent frame has a different domain than the child page in IE, the session data (stored in the Session object) is not preserved as a security precaution. So unless I preserve the initial session that is created, the user currently needs to login each time a new customer record is pulled up.

Functionally, Ribbit easily replaces the Consona CRM CTI toolbar. What I need to figure out is how to integrate a user logging into to Ribbit as a user of the Consona system and then be able to track incoming and outcoming phone calls to the customer records in CEDB. Unfortunately I’ve been sidetracked with some other issues the past couple days so I haven’t been able to give my full attention to this side project but I’ll post updates in the future.

What has suprised me is the lack of attention that Ribbit has received in the marketplace. It was acquired by BT a little while ago and they’ve been quietly been release newer versions but the potential of this API is great.