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Since GoDaddy phased out support for it’s native language, I was forced to move MakeMeTheKing.com to a new hosting provider and server… and boy is the difference night and day!

You’ll find that the makemetheking.com service is faster and more reliable than ever! Please let me know if you have any problems, and thanks to everyone for their recent support, and the donation or two. The donations actually made this switch possible, I was considering shutting down the project all together due to lack of funds.

Thanks again and enjoy!

If you’ve used and enjoyed the service, you might consider donating… it helps me keep the service up and running. Of course, no obligation necessary.

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With all of the controversy regarding Facebook, one thing that bothers me more than anything is it’s seemingly endless disregard for privacy. While I admit it has gotten better in recent times, it’s still very easy to create an account that, by default, reveals everything to everyone.

Enter www.reasonstohate.com. A horrific domain name, purchased for a different purpose many moons ago but never put into production. I’ve recently converted it to a hotspot for Facebook public data. I apologize for the poor domain name. I don’t like it. I don’t think it represents me well.. but it’s available and dangit, I don’t want to register yet another domain.

It’s amazing what people will put in a Status Update. People are funny, sad, depressing, open and in many cases, just plain weird. Using Reasons To hate.com is an amazing view into the mind of the average, public Facebook user, the kind of language they use, and the kinds of things they say. Quite honestly it’s been a really eye opening experience into the minds of the average Joe that exists outside of my own little circle.

Reasons To Hate.com uses the Facebook Public API (graph.facebook.com) and jQuery to search public Facebook Status updates and display them for you. Facebook updates are displayed live, in real-time! I’ve picked out some of my favorite gems (that lead to the most interesting comments) as well as left you a search box, so you can search for a phrase yourself.

Profile names and pictures will click through to real Facebook photos.

What’s the goal?

1. Raise awareness regarding the dangers of Facebook, and public online identities

2. Entertain myself and others

How does it work?

Facebook makes public information available via it’s API. I use jQuery and JSONP to make AJAX requests on your behalf to get the latest data on whatever search term you’re looking for. There is no back-end code. Your query doesn’t go through me, and I don’t give you any data.. it’s all done through Facebook through the miracle of Javascript. When a custom search (using the search box) is submitted, I log the query in a flat file (and only the query. No time stamps, no IPs) so I can look for ‘popular’ searches later on.

What about Privacy?

I’m not exposing anything that isn’t already public, searchable, and index elsewhere… I just put a different User interface on it and made it a little more search-friendly for the previously stated purposes.

These days, everyone’s a pro at Google Search. I mean, even my mother-in-law uses Google on a daily basis!

And while many (most?) people know about basic Google operators like + and -, there’s a whole list of operators to refine your Google searches.

These are what I believe to be the most useful and relevant Google operators. While not all-inclusive, there’s virtually nothing in the Google machine that isn’t within your immediate reach with these operators.

Sure, many of these attributes are available under Googles “Advanced search” menu item… but who uses that thing? Keep in mind that many, if not most of these Google operators work in other Google searches, such as Google Image search. Also remember that most of these operators can be combined with each-other for some serious precision.

What’s your favorite Google trick?

As usual, my GoDaddy account required some configuration for what should have been some menial task.

I wanted to start sending e-mail using a Godaddy SMTP account, via Gmail to get rid of that annoying “On behalf of” tag line that was giving away my super-secret gmail account name (or something like that).

I went into GoDaddy and created a brand new SMTP mail account, then went to Gmail and tried to add it as a valid SMTP account to send from. I kept getting messages like:

Your other email provider is responding too slowly. Please try again later, or contact the administrator of your other domain for further information

I was using smtpout.secureserver.net like GoDaddy told me to, but it turns out, it was a GoDaddy configuration issue. To resolve this, log into GoDaddy’s creepy web interface then:

• Click on the Settings tab
  • Click on Display Settings menu item
• Click on the Other tab
• Check the Use Full-Time SSL Mode checkbox
• Click the OK button

When configuring the account in Gmail, make sure to check “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when sending mail” and use Port 465.

I actually found most of this information by putting together a bunch of forum posts, but it was misplaced enough I thought consolidating it into one “typical GoDaddy…” post would be appropriate.