Is Twitter Seeing a New Form of Spam Attack?
Please note this in no way is inferring @nycgrl88 is in any way behind these attacks – it is simply an attempt to figure out why these bots are targeting her. My friend Scott Lemon, who runs http://topfollowfriday.com pointed me to this. It would appear that someone or something has hacked the Twitter sign up […]
Read more...Mac Wins When it Comes to Twitter
With the launch of my new favorite Twitter app, Tweetie for the Mac yesterday, I wanted to see how successful it could be. Damon Cortesi, who runs TweetStats.com, stated he was seeing Tweetie (the number one iPhone app for Twitter) give TweetDeck, the current number one Twitter client, a run for its money. (Literally, considering […]
Read more...I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter
About a full year ago, I wrote of developers leaving the Twitter development platform due to Twitter consistently removing features, making changes without warning developers, and effectively putting developers out of business with just a single change of policy. I advised other developers to be careful building a business model around Twitter, adding that it […]
Read more...Automatic Data Compression With DBIx::Class::CompressColumns
UPDATE: You can now get the DBIx::Class::CompressColumns module on CPAN here or via CPAN command-line shell. I’m going to get geeky on you for a minute, but you should find this interesting. One of the challenges I’ve had with SocialToo recently has been the massive Social Graph data we’ve had to story and process and […]
Read more...Dooce Isn’t the Only One That Can Show Pretty Pictures of Utah
I stepped outside today (gasp!) to get some weeding done and prepare our Garden for the end of spring planting I’m going to be doing and just couldn’t resist finding my camera and taking pictures of the Flowers. This is from the Weeping Cherry tree in our front yard. And yes Dooce, the Mormons are […]
Read more...Goodbye RSS. Welcome Real-Time Web!
A few weeks back I mentioned here that I was giving myself a whole week without a single check of my Google Reader feeds in order to see how reliant I had become on RSS, and where I could shift my priorities in order to become more productive. It’s a technique I tried last year […]
Read more...You Don’t Own Your Data on Social Networks
I get asked often by clients, reporters and media folk and others about Facebook’s recent Terms of Service updates, essentially saying they own their users data and have a right to do as they wish with their data. They’ve turned around on that and will be releasing newly revised Terms soon, but at least they’re […]
Read more...Twitter, One Year Later and Nothing Has Changed
“Twitter’s all about the real time.” That’s what Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, said in this interview Scoble did with me sitting in the background almost 1 whole year ago. As I sit here, my Twitter is inconsistently providing updates, they have specifically told their users some updates will just be missing over the next […]
Read more...Picasso Potato Head
My 7-year old son comes to my wife, bringing this Mr. Potato Head doll, saying, “Look Mom – I made a Picasso!” I think I finally discovered the secret behind Picasso’s genius – he was just trying to invent Transformers and didn’t know how to do it right! Is it coincidence that Transformers came out […]
Read more...Get I’m on Facebook–Now What??? For Free (and a lot of other stuff)
My Publisher, Mitchell Levy, is doing a deal today where you can get $1,000 of items for free, which includes an $10 e-copy of the book I co-authored, I’m on Facebook–Now What??? Other items offered in the deal are my co-author, Jason’s I’m on LinkedIn–Now What???, along with Krishna Day’s Twitter for Business Audio Master […]
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