The You, the Me, and the We – How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter
I accidentally unfollowed all my followers. I was testing out the unfollow all feature on my site, SocialToo.com, and just happened to hit the “delete all friends” button by mistake without realizing it. For that, I apologize. I learned something valuable from it though – out of the 23,000 people I unfollowed on accident, I […]
Read more...Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff Has 8,000 Twitter Followers. And?
Today Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, our favorite Twitter political celebrity and Senate candidate who DM Failed his Senate campaign announcement, made another announcement on Twitter (at the same time calling all of us “Twitophiles”) I just had to share with you – yes, (gasp!) he has more than 8,000 Twitter followers. That’s right my […]
Read more...The Open Web – Is it Really What We Think it is?
Yesterday was OneWebDay, a day to celebrate the open web and bring more awareness to technologies. I just wrote about one thing Google is doing to make the web more open, something I strongly support. I want to touch on something Facebook is doing which I don’t think is being fully appreciated. And it’s not what […]
Read more...Let’s Take This Just One Step Further Google
I think I speak for all developers when I say that having to develop for IE browsers sucks. Internet Explorer, unfortunately still the most widely used browser on the internet, has failed the development community and the web in general in keeping up with internet standards. While developers can do some really cool stuff with […]
Read more...This New Trend in Facebook Apps Looks Ugly
I was tipped today onto Hulu’s new Facebook app, which seems to be aiming to bring the Hulu website into Facebook by including videos and a stream in the app itself. The thing is, it’s hardly an app – it’s just the Hulu website in an HTML tag with an embeded stream widget inside. (Not […]
Read more..."Fish Where the Fish Are" No Longer Applies
My good friend, Jeremiah Owyang had a great quote he liked to share in his presentations, stating that the days of old-style marketing, forcing your customers to your site, no longer applied. He stated that we must “Fish Where the Fish Are“, and right he was. With the advent of Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, MySpace, […]
Read more...LazyFeed Becomes First Real-Time Web Aggregator for rssCloud
Today Lazyfeed announced they had officially launched rssCloud and Pub/sub Hubbub (PSHB) support into their real-time RSS aggregator, making them the first major aggregator for rssCloud outside of Dave Winer’s own River2 client, and the first client of its type for the Web (Dave Winer’s client is written for the desktop OS). What does this […]
Read more...The Sony Xplod MEX-BT5700U, a Radio That Complements the Web
Earlier this year one of my goals was to try and make a transition on this blog and start to review consumer electronics a little more. I’ve had a few posts in mind, but none of them seemed to make sense or fit with the flow of this blog. Recently I received an offer from […]
Read more...Facebook Photo Tagging Apps: Intelligent Design or Plain Old Spam?
The photo tagging apps in Facebook have taken over my stream! Check out the screen shot to the right. Out of the 12 highlights, only half are legitimate posts. The other 6 are apps that have seemingly figured out how to abuse the system and take over my highlights section (either intended or not), giving […]
Read more...Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines
On the Twitter development mailing list today Twitter began discussion on rules developers should abide by when writing applications for the Twitter API. Such terms come on the heels of a much broader Terms of Service launched for the general Twitter user today. I’ve long discussed the need for such guidelines, as many developers are […]
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