Before I begin, I just want to say that I decided to get away from my usual tech announcement or review and focus on some general tech news. I can almost guarantee that anyone who has a Twitter account is following multiple celebrities. The problem with this is some people who have absolutely nothing better [...]
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Twitter Faces Lawsuits, Releases Verfied Accounts
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The polls are in; 94% of Facebook users hate change
I didn’t know what to expect in terms of backlash to the recent “Twitter-like” updates to the Facebook homepage, but obviously people are not pleased. A unofficial poll (not conducted by Facebook) asks users to vote yay or nay for the new changes, and only around 5% of 800,000 voters are enjoying their experiences. [...]
WeFollow By Kevin Rose
Just about every person who uses the Internet regularly to find information has either heard of or used Digg.com. Digg is a website created by Kevin Rose (@KevinRose on Twitter) which allows users to supply the website content from across the web. This creation has been a huge success since its launch. Just a few [...]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins Twitter; planning to learn from the greats?
It’s no question that Facebook wants to borrow a little something from Twitter; with ‘real time’ updates being the thing with the new changes to the Home page, it seems Facebook likes what Twitter provides. Interestingly enough, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has seem to come out of the wood works with a public Twitter account, [...]
DestroyTwitter? Why Would You Do Such a Thing?
No, no one is actually destroying Twitter. But DestroyTwitter may be destroying the Twitter client competition. Destroy Twitter is an Adobe Air application that can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. In my opinion it is the little brother of TweetDeck, another Twitter client designed for easy organization and “power tweeting”. DestroyTwitter sports many of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Opinion, Quick Look, Reviews Also tagged client, destroytwitter, tweetdeck, twhirl 1 Comment
Ubiquity: Firefox Powerhouse
Before I begin, I know that many of you are not going to understand why I am doing a full-blown review on a Firefox add-on. This isn’t just any add-on, rather a mini operating system within an Internet browser. Ubiquity is the all-in-one, feature-packed, eye-catching, Web 2.0 POWERHOUSE. For all of you mac users out [...]
Posted in Opinion, Quick Look, Reviews, Uncategorized, social networking Also tagged add-on, firefox, Firefox add-on, google, social networking, tinyurl, Ubiquity 2 Comments
ReadWriteWeb: 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
Read Write Web recently published an article describing the 10 ways in which social media will change in 2009. 2008 was truly the year of social media, with social services such as Twitter becoming a key tool for business marketing and development. How will things change in this new year?
1. It’s About People
We’re moving away [...]
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Kevin Rose’s 10 Ways To Increase Twitter Followers
Kevin Rose chimed in on Tech Crunch as a “guest poster”, in which he talked about 10 ways to get more followers on Twitter. The free service has it’s celebrities, with Rose being the second most followed user, after President Obama. Check out these great tips!
Ten Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers:
1. Explain to your [...]
Commercial Tweeters Beware; Your Free Advertising May Not Last
When it comes to Twitter (a free service with millions of users), you may ask, how do these guys make a dime? Well, they don’t. Currently the Twitter team has no methods of making money and really has no business model or plan. Of course they have goals, but at some point they must be [...]
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