Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter Makes a Huge Mistake

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Michael Koby

Okay Twitter, I’ll admit it, I’m totally hooked on you.  No really, it’s the constant stream of what’s going on in my neck of the woods (Houston, TX), combined with the constant stream of what’s going on in my areas … Continue reading →

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Twitter vs. FriendFeed vs. Jaiku

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Michael Koby

Lets start with the basics, because many people might now know what Jaiku is. Jaiku is a combination microblog and life streaming service that was purchased by Google and is currently invite only. The thing is, Jaiku’s lifestreaming feature was similar to FriendFeed but was around before FriendFeed. I will say that FriendFeed definitely implemented the lifestreaming idea better than Jaiku. Continue reading →

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Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks. Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday. Continue reading →

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The Scoble Approach to Social Media

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Michael Koby

This is a new approach to social media. Everyone is a friend (both onine and offline), and everyone has something interesting to say. This is a far cry from the tech/bloging elite that used to be in the game (and which many consider Scoble to be a part of). It is interesting that someone on Scoble’s level would take such a drastic step away from that blogging elite in search of the smaller voice. But he might be onto something. Continue reading →

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Twitter Breakage This Past Weekend

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Michael Koby

This weekend Twitter had an interesting kind of break this week. The below video contains my opinions on the breakage. I’m trying to integrate video commentary into this website and this is kind of an alpha video. I plan to work on the quality of the video. Anyone have any webcam recommendations? Continue reading →

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I Won This Week’s “Follow Me Friday”

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yep, that’s right.  Yours truly has won Chris Garrett’s "Follow Me Friday" contest today.  Every week Chris picks a random Twitter follower for a prize.  This weeks’ prize was three free months of training from SEOBook.com (a $300 value).  I’m … Continue reading →

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