Twitter has made headlines for some amazingly powerful stuff lately; breaking the news of recent China’s earthquake; partnering with MySpace for it’s “data availability” project; even helping ...
Everyone has a little online jackass in them; some of us add people on Facebook too soon, some of us beg for votes on Digg, some make white whines on Twitter. But these behaviors can lead to more... ...
A while ago I began keeping track of Twitter quirks, and the idea originally began with the strange ‘replies’ behaviour. Here’s an explanation straight from the horses mouth. ...
Another day, another tech blog eruption featuring Michael "The Volcano" Arrington of TechCrunch and, this time, Wired's Betsy "Ain't-Backing-Down" Schiffman. When last we checked in with Arrington, h ...
Written by Larry Chiang, founder of duck9.com, which helps college students improve their credit ratings. He is also a frequent contributor to Found|READ. Networking has always been a high art in ...
I'm fast approaching having 3000 followers on Twitter. Though my followers on Twitter don't match the readership of this blog, it's a fairly substantial audience and I've found Twitter to be incredibl ...
Can the fledgling microblogging service become a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook—or will it be gobbled up? ...
I guess we should just stop whining, since the service is up most of the time, even when it doesn’t seem like it. The fact remains is that Twitter, the service that has time and time again ple ...
We love Twitter just as much as any tech bloggers -- that should be clear to anyone who has read this blog over the past six months. But stories like this one from the AFP are a bit rankling. Writin ...
It wasn't long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly. The rise of social media was an astonishing and nov ...
This guest post was contributed by Bernard Moon, who authors the blog Silicon Moon. When the sitcom “30 Rock” began its run, some of my friends weren’t wild about Tina Fey, the show& ...
The Day TV Died On the 18th of October in 2004, a UK cable channel, SkyOne, broadcast the premiere episode of Battlestar Galactica, writer-producer Ron Moore’s inspired revisioning of the decidedly ...
FriendFeed takes up the slack, the rest of us go back to work and say “meh.” Twitter sure knows how to grab defeat out of the jaws of success. Twitter was featured on BusinessWeek today. W ...
Peter D. Marshall, a veteran filmmaker, asked on Twitter whether anyone had links for social media tips for a talk he's preparing. The talk is aimed at theater people and how to promote themselves usi ...
Over the last few days the Web has been abuzz with discussion about how users on Twitter, the online social messaging system, beat the mainstream media with news of the devastating earthquake in China ...
Dear Twitter: Since Brian is in Spain, I thought I’d write you the latest letter. We really do love you, and because of that, we’re sad when you’re down. Really down apparently. Per ...
Yesterday, I took the day off from Twitter. I’ve been using it fairly solidly since the early days, and wanted to get a feel for what I was counting on Twitter to do for me. The results were int ...
Yeah, that’s right, a deadbeat dad. Sometimes it’s there for you. Sometimes it’s not. And mostly, you just can’t count on it. This week in particular Twitter was spectacu ...
AideRSS is a new service that has created a new way to rank stories that are in RSS feeds. Their new way is called PostRank and combines many of the social services together to form a score for each p ...
Six weeks ago, ReadWriteWeb published their definitive list of the top Twitter clients. The methodology for that list was watching the Twitter public feed and logging tweet sources. However, how doe ...
When talking about the micro-messaging service Twitter, a lot of people recently have gotten hung up on its mainstream appeal — or lack thereof. I’ve argued that if current trends continue ...
Networking has always been a high art in business. Just ask Susan Roane, my mentor and author of the seminal tome, “How to Work a Room.” (I know a handful of VCs and startup kings on Sand ...
Maybe you didn't like the list of powerful people you're supposed to follow on Twitter. Neither did I! Because powerful people don't Twitter. But witty people do! Such as the man who wrote, "How much ...
Just after Pat Phelan launched TwitterFone to rave reviews Twitter started to have growing pains, at no fault of Pat's. Now Alec Saunders blasts the notification/microblog service calling it a "deadbe ...
This morning we wrapped up some of the big stories of the week. We talked about traffic shaping, as new data has emerged showing that Comcast has lied to the US FCC. We also talked about Jerry Yan ...
If you're among the social media initiated, chances are you are Googling yourself more than once a day. In fact, you probably have Google alerts set up with your own name to notify you (and your ego) ...
If you like Twitter so much, how about paying $5 a month for the privilege, with a guarantee of service. It's less than a day's worth of coffee, a gallon of gas or a lowly beer. ...
by: David ArmanoI'm fast approaching having 3000 followers on Twitter. Though my followers on Twitter don't match the readership of this blog, it's a fairly substantial audience and I've found Twitter ...
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