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I Won This Week's "Follow Me Friday"
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
Third Party Desktop Applications in a Web 2.0 World
Why build desktop applications when web applications are getting more complex and essentially becoming full-featured applications in their own right? Are desktop applications important in a Web 2.0, software as a service world? I want to look at that a little bit today. Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Technology
Tagged api, desktop applications, Google, programming, Twitter
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What’s the Point of Protecting Twitter Updates?
I was randomly searching for people to follow on Twitter. Decided I would type in “Houston, TX” since I live in the Houston area so I could follow some local folks. Start looking through the 21 pages of results and … Continue reading
What's the Point of Protecting Twitter Updates?
I was randomly searching for people to follow on Twitter. Decided I would type in “Houston, TX” since I live in the Houston area so I could follow some local folks. Start looking through the 21 pages of results and … Continue reading
Thrifty Domestica Thinks “Micro-blogging is for Nerds”
My good friend Rachel over at the website, Thrifty Domestica got into a discussion about micro-blogging today. When I asked her if she was going to start micro-blogging, she told me that she was going to write a post about … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Friends
Tagged blogging, Friends, micro-blogging, thrifty domestica, Twitter
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How Much? 140 Characters Worth
Yesterday, I listened to the latest episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), episode 134 to be exact. In this episode, the question was asked, is there value in these 140 character message conversations being had on the likes of Twitter, Jaiku, & Pownce? One would think that 140 characters is not a lot of space to say anything in but if you really sit and think about it, you do it everytime you send a text message. Can you same something worth while in a text message? Most of you will answer “Yes” to that question. So it stands to reason that valuable conversations can be had in short, 140 character messages. Continue reading →