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Epeus' epigone: A load of Thunderer
Satire of twitter criticism
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Add Sticky Note“I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘publisher’ is someone who is old and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life,” he says.
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10 Open Source Twitter Clients - And Counting... : OpenSource Release Feed
Lots to try out - some platform specific - some browser specific - and some running on completely free stacks.
Understandably for such a broad survey, there isn't much detail on the usability or usefulness of each one.
SuperNews! Twouble with Twitters // Current
I love it: "None of you have any friends!"
4 minute cartoon preview.
A "Twitter Moment" - Matt Perez
Use case?
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Thanks to Twitter (OK, and email, too), my little microblogging community was able to make my "problem" go away in minutes and without leaving my seat at an event.
Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer
I love this!
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Can you talk about how you approach building “you” as a brand?
Lance Armstrong: Um, hell, I have no idea. Again, I think people are smart. They know when they see something real. I talk about what’s happening “now” and it’s always the real scoop. I’ve been around too long to BS people.
Strategies to combat online extremism are 'crude' - Telegraph
The bias in this article is shocking! It is a proposal for a clandestine Ministry of Truth, or even a Thought Police force, but readers are expected to read between the lines a little to see that.
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These efforts should be replaced by an independent fund to ensure that projects avoid being seen as controlled by government, it concludes.
Samuel Pepys blogs - Telegraph - March 2009
Interesting, but not news. Pepys diary was serialized on the web _years_ ago, in blog format if I recall.
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"It's a simple but brilliant idea. Rather than face down a discouraging brick of a book I read an entry from Pepys a day."
Facebook, Twitter and blogs more popular than email, report says - Telegraph - March 10, 2009
The headline is hugely overblown, but this is still a startling increase in popularity.
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in Britain, with 25.6 million visitors to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Blogger compared with 24.2 million users logging on to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail.
OpenID and OAuth: Why Should We Care?
Clearest explanation I have seen.
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OpenID solves the problem of having far too many usernames and passwords to remember. OAuth solves the problem of how to share information between sites without giving your password from one site to another.
Think Twitter’s the biggest microblogging service? Take a look at SMS GupShup » VentureBeat
Reputedly bigger than Twitter
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SMSgupshup is a pure group SMS Service - where a simple SMS Message is send to multiple people. This can be stock market alerts for example where a broker sends a tip to subscribers on whether to buy/hold/sell a particular stock.
I would strongly contest the statement that more of the posts are from Mobile.
Bike trade tweeps | Bicycle business | News by BikeBiz
OMG - 300 folks in the pro bike world on Twitter, many of them twittering quite seriously. !!! Links to each one - dare you to follow them all.
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Twitter article originally written Nov 08, but the list of bike folks on Twitter updated almost every single day.
Gift Guide for the Twitter addict
Round up of numerous applications - and some humour
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Twitterrific and TweetDeck are nice for the desktop,
Frequently Asked Questions | twhirl
Unfree but no charge microblogging client for Mac OS X and others. Multiple accounts.
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as well as following your twitter friends and read all their updates, replies anyone sends to you, and direct messages to your account. You can also answer to another user by replying or sending him/her a private direct message.
Yahoo Inbox Gets Social, Opens Up to Third-Party Apps - PC World
Interesting but weird.
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Another profile for yet another social media service to add to a growing list that already includes Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and on and on. Added to that is a growing list of cross-platform IDs. There's Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, MySpace's Data Availability, AOL's Beebo and now Yahoo.
Obama Phone! | FactoryCity
Can we do something like this for the next UK general election?
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the Obama campaign today released an iPhone app that, among other features, enables you to call your friends prioritized by their location in battleground states.
Special Report: About Face - Videos - WMAQ
The activities of entrepreneur Jeff Pulver, among other, on Twitter and Facebook got on the TV news in Chicago in June. Great 2 minute spot
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Social networking sites such as Facebook are no longer just for kids.
Wikipedia myths debunked | Webby's World
Popular myths about Wikipedia, and some useful tips for Wikipedia newbies.
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You can use the term editor and administrator synonymously.
False. I often hear people moaning about admins reverting their edits but on inspection they are just editors.
Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages
One of 2008's few decent articles on the law and social networking.
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He then threw his steaming hot triple soy latte espresso at me, which caused extensive second degree burns over the top half of my body. Later on, he also unfriended me.
The Art Of SEO For Wikipedia & 16 Tips To Gain Respect
This article makes constructive recommendations, but also recommends a few underhand tricks.
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Clearing the notability hurdle isn't always what it's cracked up to be. According to Hochman, "Having a Wikipedia page can be a double-edged sword. Noteworthy doesn't always mean good. It can also mean infamous. Getting into Wikipedia can be positive and it can be negative. When you step up on the public stage, people may throw tomatoes."
The Biographicon
This is an interesting new wiki. Unlike Wikipedia, it complements bios of notable people with vanity bios, and links them together in a network. However, if non-public personal info gets on there, users could run afoul of the EU's data protection laws.
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Photograph of Andrea Gianotti.
Andrea Gianotti
Internet addicted worker in Italy
Photograph of Khufu.
Khufu
Builder of the Great Pyramid
Photograph of Ethan Allen.
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