February 2009
52 posts
TweetWhatYouEat.com →
Keep a food diary using Twitter.
Tags: twitter diet food health news
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140 Health Care Uses for Twitter →
A list of 140 things to use Twitter for with healthcare. Note that they are very brief (c/o CP)
Tags: twitter healthcare informatics list news
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How To Make Twitter Sound Like Music To Your Ears... →
Techcrunch provides a list of music related Twitter services.
Tags: twitter music news services
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Get yer avatars out | Public Address →
Russell Brown (@PublicAddress) looks at the aftermath of the section 92a copyright law inspired blackout over the internet.
Tags: news public address copyright blackout
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Twitter vs. Facebook - Battle of the Social... →
Comparison between Facebook and Twitter as attention driven relationship facilitating services.
Tags: facebook twitter news
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Another Way To Look At Terms Of Service... →
Techcrunch throws a number of TOS agreements (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, …) throught the Wordle cloud generator.
Tags: wordle news techcrunch tos cloud
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Jack Dorsey on the Twitter ecosystem, journalism... →
Part 2 of a recent interview with Jack Dorsey of Twitter.
Tags: twitter dorsey latimes interview news
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Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's... →
Part 1 of a recent interview with Jack Dorsey from Twitter.
Tags: news twitter dorsey laTimes
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WatchMa.gnolia guy Larry Haff explains to Chris Messina about the failure and subsequent loss of user data (c/o Citizen Garden). More information about the aftermath can be found here.
How Facebook Should Address User Rights | Unit... →
Fred Stutzman weighs in with a clear, analytical and helpful discussion of the Facebook TOS controversy.
Tags: news facebook tos stuzman
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The Signtific Lab →
Public lab or sandbox for creating and sharing novel ideas about the future of science and technology.
Tags: MMORPG games technology signtific lab
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Total domain name registrations declining (c/o...
This chart reflects the total domain name registrations for 2007-2008 as released by Verisign and commented on by Techcrunch.
Points to note:
Total base: 177 million registrations across all TLDs
10.1 million domain names were registered in the last quarter of 2008
Largest TLDs (overall size): .com, .cn, .de, .net, and .org
Registrations declined slightly in 2008
Twitter Finally Integrates Its Real-Time Search... →
Twitter is pulling Twitter search (ex. Summize) more closely into the fold (c/o getshust)
Tags: twitter rww search integration news
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TinyChat Makes Creating Disposable Chat Rooms A... →
A light-weight interaction space based around the room metaphor and chat.
Tags: chat techcrunch tiny news
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Tweet Congress →
Find those congress folks that also tweet.
Tags: news twitter congress US politics
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Blog Index - 25 Best Blogs 2009 | TIME →
The top 25 blogs for 2009 as listed by Time Magazine (c/o mashable)
Tags: news blogs top 25 time mashable
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Social networking job trends (c/o Indeed)
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Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do... →
Indepth revealing of the new and controversial terms of service (TOS) at Facebook,
Tags: news facebook tos content
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Can all that Twitters turn to gold? | NZ Herald... →
Another example of mainstream media joining the Twitter promotion bandwagon. Clearly the journalist does not understand the concept fully.
Tags: news twitter nzherald general
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Fans use Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to protest... →
Coverage of the New Zealand blackout campaign has reached all the way UK music media (c/o JS).
Tags: news twitter blackout copyright uk
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The Public Bad | Public Address →
Russell Brown at Public Address unpacks the proposed section 92a copyright changes (a little) and discusses reaction to it. This includes the Twitter, Facebook, etc. blackout campaign.
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The Fry effect: 'blackout' protest goes viral |... →
The Twitter blackout proposed by New Zealander Juha Saarinen was picked up and mainstreamed by Stephen Fry resulting in global support for the initiative.
Tags: news twitter stephen fry
Do We Need a New Internet? | NYTimes.com →
Discussion of present issues with the Internet (as it operates now) and what can be done about it (if anything).
Tags: news internet nytimes
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Pew: Twitter a Status Symbol on the Web |... →
Pew Internet surveys Twitter and microblog usage.
Tags: twitter news pew research
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Twitter Blog: Opportunity Knocks →
Mo’ money for Twitter.
Tags: twitter news money vc
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Twitter festival set to go | TVNZ →
TVNZ acknowledges existence of a Twestival (Twitter driven charitable event) hosted last night at the three main centres of New Zealand. (c/o SY)
Tags: twitter twestival new zealand …
Transcription of ‘Phish My Phail Whale’ | Ratafia... →
A patient transcription of a podcast between Citizen Group and Twitter API guy Alex Payne. Skip the intro nonsense and jump to the good bits.
Tags: news twitter api security podcast
National Post reporter has total Twitter melt down... →
Whoa, an interesting interaction between a reported and a publicist documented on Twitter. One of them comes out okay (c/o Twitterati).
Tags: twitter news public spat
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Google's PowerMeter Project: For When The Web's... →
Techcrunch looks at a new green initiative by Google to bring electricity meter data to the Web.
Tags: google techcrunch news green electricity
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Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last... →
Twitter, the last “dreamworld of infinite possibilities”? (c/o FW)
Tags: twitter news dotcom
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Should Twitter Verify Celebrity Accounts? |... →
Mashable looks at recent case where the Dalai Lama was impersonated on Twitter.
Tags: news twitter mashable celebrity impersonation
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Social media lights up as bushfires rage |... →
Coverage of social media in action during the disastrous fires in Victoria, Australia (c/o AH)
Tags: news fires australia social media twitter
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LastFM Love/Twitter mashup →
A mashup of Twitter and LastFM. This service automatically tweets any scrobbled tunes that you “love” on LastFM.
Tags: last.fm twitter web2.0 news
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Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired.com →
A look at attention and loss thanks to the disruptive nature of new technologies.
Highlights and Sticky Notes:
While there is still debate among attention scientists, most now conclude that…
Four reasons why public Facebook status updates... →
A short piece by Mike Butcher on why he thinks Facebook’s new ability to share status updates will not affect Twitter.
Tags: news techcrunch twitter facebook status
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Facebook opens up status updates | Facebook... →
Facebook announces a selection of changes to their API, including opening up status updates. This maybe a response to Twitter’s popularity but you know they are not the same things.
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Congressman Twitters secret trip to Iraq | Webware... →
“Rep. Peter Hoekstra tweets upon landing in Baghdad with a congressional delegation, and we wonder: is somebody available to revoke his BlackBerry privileges ? Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman…
Turn Your Tumblr into a T-Shirt Store | Mashable →
A service covered by Mashable that takes images from your (tumblr) tumblelog to print on t-shirts.
Tags: tumblr t-shirts business mashable news
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Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere,... →
Whose going to win the war of status updates and the interactions that happen around them? It seems Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed might al be winners.
Tags: news twitter facebook …
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The move to Diigo
The other day I documented the sad and significant data loss at the social bookmarking service I used called Ma.gnolia. It seems recovering this data has proved difficult and it’s still broken (see their Twitter feed for the latest). Now while I am sad about this, I need to move on as those bookmarks won’t save or share themselves!
Ma.gnolia rather magnanimously suggested another...
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Stephen Fry tweets his way out of elevator prison... →
Stephen Fry tweeted his recent misfortune at being stuck in a lift - while still in it. Here’s the tweet sequence (most recent at the top):
So many marvellous tweets from you sympathetic (and notably less so) peeps. Much appreciated. N-night xx 1:42 PM yesterday from Tweetie
#frylift We’re free! Nice men from Thyssen freed us. Paramount Club had champagne for us at the bottom....
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Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found... →
“MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.”
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should... →
An essential discussion for those starting to worry about privacy on Facebook (and perhaps you should be).
New Illness: Facebook Depression? | ReadWriteWeb →
Apparently new research suggests that too much time on Facebook can cause a form of depression. More at RWW.
Ma.gnolia is down :(
Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking service, and a good one and one I use(d) daily - that is until the service crashed recently. In fact, it is still offline for the time being.
Here is a message from the opening page describing the present situation:
“Dear Ma.gnolia Community Member or Visitor,
Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced every web...