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 [...]
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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 [...]
The rampant dismissing of social media
(This was inspired by Jason Fall’s post on the Sustainability of Social Media) What’s lost in the dismissing of social media as a fad is the fact that social media is simply an extension, through technology, of what has been around for ages. Determined people have always found a way to connect with others with [...]
Death by statistics – Facebook could kill Google
FACEBOOK COULD KILL GOOGLE — Analyst (GOOG). Interesting statistical analysis, although I would equate it to technical trading without knowledge of the underlying stock’s business itself. Facebook has been suicidal lately. While one could argue that its redesigns have been for the better, the design churn has aggravated users who find it difficult to find [...]
So much for “25 random things” going away
For the curmudgeons among us, there’s bad news: 25 Random Things Meme Is a Boon for Facebook – ReadWriteWeb. One commenter put it bluntly: “I love how when you put a CHAIN LETTER on Facebook it becomes a MEME.” The 25 random things meme on Facebook has also a blogging and news media meme in [...]
TwitterThreads.com – what I’ve been looking for. Almost.
I just searched on “twitter” and “threads” in google. What I found was TwitterThreads.com. Simple, huh? It’s not 100% what I had envisioned: My vision was probably something more like expandable threading by author sorted by date of most recent update. The TwitterThreads version looks like it shows all posts that you’d normally see if [...]
Finding distances between two zip codes in PHP
I found this script to calculate distances between two zip codes from PHP (requires MySQL). According to this Idealog post, the calculation relies on a text file of Zip code lon/lats from CFDynamics, available on the downloads page. I have yet to try it; however, I have a specific implementation that I was needing it [...]
I suspect that the delicious bookmark plug-in for Firefox 3 is not keeping me logged for two weeks.
Not only that, but whenever I’m required to log-in to bookmark a page, the plug-in does not continue on to actually creating the bookmark. This morning I was forced to log in. I believe the loss of information is coinciding with Firefox updates. Anyone else have this experience? Home PC:2008.11.15, 9:15 AM2008.11.29, 2:29 PM2008.12.14. 6:16 [...]
Reading List by Amazon
It looks like LinkedIn has found a way to make itself relevant for day-to-day use… The Amazon Readling List provides a way for you to post what you’re currently reading, want to read, or have read. You can also see the contents of other people’s reading lists–in your network, in your industry, or all recent [...]
Remember the Milk is on Twitter!
This may be old news to many RTM/Twitter users, but it was a pleasant surprise to me today. As I was perusing the Remember the Milk keyboard shortcuts, I noticed that at the bottom, under “Services”, Twitter was listed. So I clicked on the link, and the “Services / Remember the Milk for Twitter page” [...]
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