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Welcome to netsperience 2.x

This is the personal web site of Randall Goya aka decibel.places dba netsperience

I develop community, social publishing, semantic publishing, ecommerce and rich media Web 2.x web sites (beyond "Web 2.0"). I also optimize web sites for SEO and SMO. I build most of my projects with Drupal and Acquia Drupal.

Here you can view my professional portfolio, read my blog, listen to some tunes by me, or on the Jango Juke Box, purchase reliable and inexpensive web hosting, or IM me directly from the ...meebo me... widget. I'm also on Facebook & twitter & LinkedIn - View the netsperience company profile on LinkedIn.

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In My Email Today: Cell Phone Do Not Call List Rumor

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:19am — decibel.places

The rumor, circulating since about 2004:

REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.

REMINDER..... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

.... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON ... It takes about 20 seconds.

The truth :

888-382-1222 is actually the National Do Not Call Registry phone number. You may add your cell phone to the Do Not Call list, but you will not be bombarded with telemarketing calls if you don't. Perhaps this is an attempt to flood the government with calls, or just plain paranoia.

From Snopes.com:

Claim: Cell phone users must register their numbers with the national "Do Not Call" directory by a given deadline to prevent their cell phone numbers from being released to telemarketers.

FALSE

From UrbanLegends.com:

Forwarded email warns that a directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published and urges users to dial 888-382-1222 and enter their cell phone numbers on the federal Do Not Call Registry to prevent unsolicited calls from telemarketers.

Description: Email rumor
Circulating since: Sep. 2004
Status: Mostly false

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Drupal vs Joomla at Top Notch Themes

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 4:18pm — decibel.places

from Top Notch Themes

I received an email ... [from] a consultant from IBM ... with a fascinating and detailed comparison of these early experiences with Drupal and Joomla.

I was allowed to post this (anonymously) here to our blog so the community(ies) at large can benefit from this great write-up.

Summary to Date

- Use Joomla if you want to get nice looking site up quickly and can deal with a slower system, rigid content categorization and limited design/configuration options.

- Use Drupal if you want high performance, scalability, good content management and significant design flexibility. But, be prepared to spend a lot of time/money to get the site to look professional.

Errors and Inconsistencies on LinkedIn

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 9:37pm — decibel.places

I have great respect for the zeitgeist represented by the pool of experts and talent who are members of LinkedIn.

However, I find the LinkedIn interface clumsy, cumbersome, and often, wrong.

Here is a collection of errors and inconsistencies collected from Linked In.

Hey where did my tweet go?

I tried updating my status from Twitter using the #in hashtag - #fail! Tried Tweetdeck and the Twitter web site. Finally I updated on LinkedIn and the #in posted to Twitter. One way traffic!

tweet lost on LinkedIn

Hey where did my name go?

LinkedIn added a Twitter API to update the LI status. First of all, the default setting resets the status for EVERY tweet - a stupid setting IMO. The tweet created in LinkedIn with the #in hashtag does not transfer the username: