December 2008
27 posts
YouTube, Twitter: Weapons in Israel's Info War |... →
“Days after sending aircraft to strike Hamas militants in Gaza, the Israeli government is launching a campaign to dominate the blogosphere.”
Twithority Search →
A new Twitter API based website created in under 12 hours to include tweeple authority with search results.
The Crunchies 2008 →
“Celebrating The Best Tech Accomplishments Of 2008”. Still time to vote.
F*** MY LIFE (beta) : Share your sad but true... →
A website providing a place to vent about the bad things in your life. Everyone has them, talk about them here (c/o Techcrunch).
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Funky Ways to Express Yourself | BeFunky →
“BeFunky is all about expressing and representing yourself by turning images and videos into cartoons.” (c/o NS)
Jonathan Ross turns to Twitter for radio advice |... →
“With lots of spare time on his hands, Jonathan Ross has been busying himself in the microblogging world of Twitter”
Open Web Awards » The Winners →
People’s and Blogger’s choice winners for the Open Web Awards run by Mashable. Twitter won blogger’s choice for large social network.
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20 signs you don’t want that social media project... →
A humorous list of utterances (some fictional) by organisations trying to “get” social media.
Want more twitter followers? Fuhgetaboutit. | new... →
A lovely post about Twitter etiquette by New Media Lisa (although a little more space in the body text wouldn’t go amiss).
Pew Internet: Future of the Internet →
“A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. “
The iPod? It's bound to fail (and other terrible... →
“iPod-doubting Amstrad boss Sir Alan Sugar is not alone. Many of technology’s greatest minds have been proved spectacularly wrong, as a new anthology of flawed futurology shows.”
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Social networking picked as cybercrime threat |... →
Security researcher Peter Gutman discusses security threats of online social networking.
Google says it still stands by Net neutrality | NZ... →
“Google denied that it had reversed its stance on the issue of “Net neutrality” and dismissed a story in The Wall Street Journal on the subject as ‘confused’.”
TwitSaver →
Downloadable Windows screensaver that sources its images from Twitpic (automatically).
Tweetlet - Microblogging for expectant moms and... →
Get private Twitter messages from your unborn child to tell you what they are up to during pregnancy.
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Links is all broken
It seems my RSS feed from Ma.gnolia is broken. This means my links (which have been amazing and essential over the past couple of days) are not appearing on the Station.
Stay tuned while I find out why.
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Twitter for health and healthcare
Here is an interesting slide show looking how Twitter and healthcare can combine. The presentation is by Patricia F. Anderson and I grabbed the code from Chris at the Health Informatics Blog.
Google releases its top NZ search terms for 2008 |... →
This list proves how dull most people are I suppose.
Tweetworks →
“With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter.”
quillpill - Tell a little story →
Bringing microblogging to storytelling. (c/o Tchcrunch)
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Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart | The Pownce Blog →
Pownce is shutting down and soon. Key people are joining the Six Apart team (behind Moveabletype). Elegant implementation but not as useful as Twitter.
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“I think Leah said it best “we’re bittersweet about shutting...”
– Kevin Rose on the imminent closure of Pownce (c/o Twitter)
Google launches Street View in New Zealand |... →
Google has finally released Streetview in New Zealand. I saw two Google cars at different times taking shots.
November 2008
46 posts
Koornk Blatantly Rips Off Twitter | Techcrunch →
Here’s a piece at Techcrunch discussing a new Twitter clone “Koornk”. It seems this one is more explicit than most in its emulation.
State of the Twitterverse Survey →
Take a quick survey about your usage of Twitter. Some good questions in there and I’m looking forward to the results.
Why I Love Twitter | O'Reilly Radar →
“If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I’m paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O’Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and…