Find Motive

I consider myself an early adopter when it comes to new web applications or online technologies. Once a new site of interest is launched I am usually quick to sign up and try it out. The majority of the time I’ll lose interest in the site and I’ll delete my account so I don’t have unused account information lingering around the net.

Enter the problem
When it comes time that I want to delete my account because of some reason that I don’t like the site or no longer find a use for it, it requires you to email them to delete your account. This is annoying. Is it really that hard to email the site? No, but its still annoying.

Why its bad for the user
Frankly I don’t trust emailing some unknown person who is supposedly “handling” all incoming email to delete my account when I request it. Has it worked for me before? Yes. Has it not worked for me before? Yes. Sometimes I never hear back from the site that they deleted my account and I can still login to my account and all my information is still there. When the functionality to delete your account from the site’s settings or account page it gives the user immediate gratification for their request. Even though your still losing the user, you made the ending experience for them easier and in their mind better. End it on a good note.

Why its good for the website
It requires more work for a website’s operator to read and process all requests for account removal. Work = Time = Money = Less time fragging people in Halo half-way across the world and that’s just not right. Just take the few more hours of programming to provide a delete option for users to remove their accounts. It will be worth it.

PayPal the company everyone seems to use, but also hates is getting a face lift soon. PayPal has been sporting its old design for quite some time now and I am curious what brought on the change of interface.

I personally don’t like the new design. The new nav buttons on the home page are ugly as sin, but thats just me.

New Interface Screenshot

Old Interface Screenshot

I am moving findmotive.com over to its new shiny server. The new server should be faster and hopefully everyone will notice quicker page loads. Depending on how quickly the DNS propagates, you may be hitting the old and new server for 24-48 hours. I have also disabled comments for now until the move is complete so I don’t have to import the DB more than once. Thank you for your patience and readership!

Nifty line of PHP code that will take multiple sequential spaces and convert into a single space. This is great for cleaning and sanitizing data before storing it.

You can find a flash video player on almost any website these days, the market is white hot for it. The past few months I have been porting my knowledge from Actionscript 2 to 3.

There are 2 ways to play an FLV file in flash either with a FLVPlayback component or VIA a Video object streamed and controlled with NetConnect and NetStream. I prefer the later because I like to have more "control" over things, but this is a personal preference.

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I searched for my name in google and found this article that I was interviewed for a couple months back, but it was just released about a week ago.

Check it out at: Tulsa World

The more clicks you get the higher you move up in rank. Its a time killer. Vote Findmotive.com up and you will meet the love of your life =b

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Indiefy was listed on KillerStartups.com today! Use the widget below to vote us up!

As I look over my blog today I notice that I haven't wrote much in the past few months. I have good reason for that...at least I think so.

I launched Indiefy in March and I am happy with its initial success. Its user base has grown over 1400% and we are still in beta! Version 2 has been cooking for a couple months now and will address many feature requests from users and some other features that I can't mention yet, but soon! A new hardware platform that will boost Indiefy's performance will also be rolled out in V2. Partnerships are in the works that will bring more exposure to artists and their music.

Thank you to everyone that helped get Indiefy off the ground and running. The future looks very exciting.

Google has announced today that they are building a new data center in Pryor, Oklahoma, which is only 15 minutes away from where I live. That makes me giddy as a school girl an hour before prom. Why? Because I can.

Google officials say the company is building a data center to help compute the massive amounts of information accessed on its website every day. The announcement also means 200 new jobs for Pryor. - KOTV News

The 800-acre Oklahoma property is located in the Mid-America Industrial Park. Local officials have informed the Grand River Dam Authority that the new tenant would require as much as 15 megawatts of power, and the authority would likely need to spend about $3.5 million for a new substation and other improvements. Google has pledged to supply $2 million towards the power infrastructure.

So instead of going cow tipping on a boring Friday night in Pryor, try getting inside the usually super secret data center. Time to break out the ninja gear.