That was my thought today as I was looking at the wonderfully developed, yet totally worthless, TweetDeck. Tweetdeck is so far my favorite, despite playing with Seesmic Desktop, and sobees bDule. It seems like everyone has their own Twitter client: there are Excel clients, shell script clients, Perl clients, and many online Twitter interfaces. What [...]
Archives for June 2009
The democratization of the news #cnnfail #IranElection
Social Media, especially Twitter, is so much faster than the traditional media channels at spreading the word about hot topics. I’ve been following @BreakingNews since they used @BreakingNewsOn, and found that I heard about news 1-2 hours before the “breaking news” placeholder showed up on major news sites. It looks like CNN has demonstrated this [...]
I can’t agree with / didn’t get the conclusions of this article
The title says, “Advertising Growth Spreads in All Mobile Formats” The stats: “38% of US mobile phone owners recall seeing advertising on their cell phones in the Q1 of 2009″ “…for Smartphone (such as iPhone) users, 59% recalled seeing mobile advertising” (From this point on, it looks like “iPhone” is used as a generic term [...]
Is the #Twitpocalypse overhyped?
Initially heard through Programmable Web: The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?, twitter is rapidly approaching the maximum for a 32-bit signed int. You can view the countdown here. This got a also mention at GigaOM: Today, We Think Think Twitter is Dead (for now). While the Twitpocalypse was not the primary topic [...]
Opera leaps past iPhone in the mobile-browser market
Saw this via the following article: “Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market“ What’s interesting is the trend graph itself: Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile Browser Market Share What about mobile operating systems, though? iPhoneOS and SymbianOS in a duel: Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile OS Market Share As far as mobile search [...]
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
The whole reason I don’t use Internet Explorer except on rare occasions is that I don’t want website add-ons to automatically install without a little bit of fuss. I would expect this “ClickOnce” support would make accidental installation of malware more likely. No, thanks. I disabled it until I absolutely see a reason that I [...]
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