Tag Archive: beta

Habit Builders – A month to build a new habit


Habit Builders was a beta project run by Rachel Z Cornell, aka @ProNagger. During November, Rachel invited 11 of us to build a new habit. She facilitated with the base of a secret Facebook group. Combined with daily calls, emails, and an accountability system, this worked well.  Below I’ve captured my final thoughts as I…

Storify Beta Preview – Viewer Count


Storify is another blogging platform. If you use Zemanta, a WordPress plug-in, you’ve seen context sensitive articles and photos displayed to click and add to your posts. Storify takes it up a notch by providing a blogging platform where everything is added by search. Storify describes its self as follows: Storify is a way to…

Disqus Comment System Beta 2.2


Disqus is currently installed here on The Broad Brush and other blogs I run. I settled on it a good while back and it’s generally been good to the blog and the commenters. Their team has released a new version in beta. I’m a fool, so I’ve installed it in place of the current release….

More Mafia Wars Cuban Style


So you’ve read that you can enjoy Mafia Wars missions and more in Cuba. But you might not have known that properties is a whole new ball game. Gone is Mafia Mike’s place; now we have plantations, factories, and fields. The Zynga team has this to say: Each Cuban business can be purchased once and…

Mafia Wars Goes To Cuba


Zynga opens up Cuba and the hunt is on. Cuba is open for beta today. It’s only available to a portion of the regular players, but now you can turn your muscle South and enjoy a hand rolled cigar along the way. Cuba opens today with a new set of jobs, and a new set…

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