Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I ran across a post by Macteens Editor in Chief Daniel Hollister that explains, quite well, what killer functionality Twitter is missing. He's right in in a lot of ways - Twitter is very bare bones and it doesn't provide even the kind of functionality you find in other microblogging ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I love how people keep coming up with ways to use Twitter's API to build really cool services based on the integration between the web and SMS.
Case in point: today I discovered that TrackThis lets people track their shipments via direct message on Twitter. The process is simple. You follow ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
About a month ago, I posted a strategy for conversation monitoring by following the attention streams of the influencers in your space. Facebook and Twitter are a couple of my favorite tools for doing this.
One of the downsides of Twitter is that its straightforwardness makes it difficult to see who ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Rodney Rumford's tweet this morning sent me over to an article at CIO magazine about the business value of Twitter.
I think the best takeaway is actually from a commenter:
The Business Value of Twitter said great things about Twitter but failed to point out that much functionality has been built ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Sebastien Provencher proclaimed last week that Twitter is the new Facebook. I can't say that I think he's that far off.
I've already explained how I think that Facebook is not going anywhere, especially for it's core user base. But the tech group needs something new to feed on. In ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I know many people who think that "what are you doing?" is the wrong question.
This CommonCraft video that I snagged from Rodney's post this morning seems to defend the phrasing.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
My boss likes to point out, whenever he looks at twitter, that it is filled with the most inane and pointless updates.
I don't necessarily agree with him, but he does have a point.
John Gruber pointed on Daring Fireball today to this post by Russell Beattie:
Think about any ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
In The Economist this week, Evan Williams is profiled as "The accidental innovator." The piece asserts that many of the best new ideas are right-brained in nature and the creation of "accidental stumbling." Twitter is described as an example of this type of innovation.
Another assertion is that minimalist thinking is ...
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