TwitterPeek Brings You Social Media Uni-Tasking
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Call it an anti-convergence device. Last year, the original Peek device debuted, giving people who wanted a hand-held device that did email (and nothing else) the answer to their minimalist prayers. Now we have the TwitterPeek, a dedicated carry-anywhere Twitter device. It doesn’t do email, and it sure doesn’t browse the web, but if you [...]
Surveying the Fallout of the Twitter Reply Furor
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009It’s been a wild day and half over on Twitter. Yesterday, through the Twitter blog, co-founder Biz Stone announced a “small settings update” that seemed pretty large to a lot of users. The decision was made to turn off the function that makes replies sent to someone you don’t follow visible to you. Let me [...]
Managing Too Many Tweets with TweetDeck
Saturday, February 14th, 2009When someone first starts with Twitter, the web interface is usually enough. They’re following a few people and the single column classic layout is completely adequate. Then they follow a few more and a few more, a snowball effect begins to occur, and they realize something. There are some people they are more passionate about [...]
War of the Worlds 2.0
Thursday, October 30th, 2008In 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on the Air troop staged a Martian invasion the night before Halloween, nearly destroying civilization with their voices and sound effects in a period of about an hour. For the still relatively new medium of radio, the panic that spread across the country was a sobering expression [...]
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