Renaissance 2.0
When did the social media age begin officially? It’s a trick question because there isn’t an official start date, much like there isn’t a clear deliniation between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 (whatever that really meant). However, I find it fun to think about when the online age shifted into the social network and mobile app…
Twinbox is the new name for Outlook plug-in formerly known as OutTwit while in beta. It’s the tool that allows you to work with twitter from within your Microsoft Outlook email client. Obviously, this can never replace Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop when it comes to full-powered twitter clients but it can be the perfect solution…
Yes, I know how to spell! I was just trying to be cute with the title of this post. Hindsight is indeed 20/20, especially when it comes to web 2.0 startups. There’s no better example than with Twitter, the ultra hot buzzword these days. Let’s take a look back at some reviews of Twitter to…
TwitterMASS is an interesting service that can help you build your Twitter network by automatically following everyone that uses a particular hashtag. For example, let’s say you want to follow everyone interested in South by SouthWest so you setup TwitterMASS to auto follow anyone that uses the #SXSW hashtag. The same is true with any…
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There are new apps for Twitter every day but this new one called Shouttr certainly is different. Yes, it’s a Twitter desktop client but with a twist. It doesn’t just display your tweets but it’ll actually read them to you! One of the nice things is the fact that you can assign different voices for…
TweetChat has released a new beta version of their chat room environment for Twitter. This one allows you to login without entering your Twitter username and password each and every time as before. Here’s what you’ll see when you access the new TweetChat: Once you allow TweetChat access to your tweet account (one time deal)…
Here are several different ways that tweets with links to videos are handled. The experience will be vastly different depending on which method you use to access twitter. I will use the same tweet involving a link to the song “Pure Imagination” from the movie “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (one of my faves…
Sometimes big news comes in tiny little tweets. Twitter founder and CEO, Evan Williams (@ev ) casually referred to a personal bombshell here in his twitter stream Yes, that’s right. Twitter’s pregnant and his Sara is on the nest. Apparently she broke the news with this tweet yesterday. Hey wait a minute, diapers cost money….
I just updated the map of Web 2.0 services and aggregators that most of us use on a regular basis to manage our lives online and offline. Which of these do you use? Which others do you use instead that don’t appear on here? Please share them in the comments. Note: Click the map and…
Everyone seems to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days. The news is full of celebrities talking about their peeps and their tweets. This includes politicians who continue to use the micro-blogging platform to express themselves and inform the people. Some are concerned about security risks or whether or not their congressman should be…