Exploring the Uncharted Lands of Plurk
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Sunday morning Leo Laporte started sending out messages on Twitter about a new social media micro-blogging site called Plurk.com. Leo is currently the most-followed person on Twitter, so as many, many people went to check the site out, Plurk got a serious trial by fire, and on the same day that they were […]
Twitter: The First One’s Free…
Saturday, May 24th, 2008It’s Saturday morning and Twitter is down HARD. Not even a “Something is technically wrong” page or other notice of that ilk. Even Down For Everyone or Just Me (great service if you’ve never used it) is unable to even render a decision. It just returns a 502 error. For those of us who’ve become […]
Using Flock to Tame Wild Twitter Storms
Friday, April 11th, 2008There’s increasing discussion about the social networking site Twitter going around the net. Some love it (I’d be in that group), some are confused by it, and some can’t understand why otherwise reasonable people spend so much time exchanging fairly mundane (or personal) details of their lives in what can be an extremely public […]
Show and Tell on Twitxr
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Here’s an interesting combination of two popular social networking sites: Twitxr, now in a public beta, combines the short text posting (and much of the interface style) of Twitter with the photo sharing of sites like Flickr. If you’ve ever used Twitter, posting photos on Twitxr will be pretty easy. Actually, if you’ve got minor […]