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Archive for June, 2009

Twitter, What is it Good For?

Remember that crazy red headed guy from Mythbusters, Adam Savage? Yeah, the guy with the goatee and thick black frame glasses. Well, he made the news recently and not because of some crazy debunked myth. Adam racked up an $11,000 cell phone bill while in Canada.
Apparently the problem was with the USB modem plugged into [...]

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Using the System to Your Advantage

For those of you have HAVEN’T noticed, #squarespace has been a trending topic on Twitter for quite some time.
For those of you who don’t know, Squarespace is, as noted straight from their website, “A fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining a website, blog or portfolio.” So then, what’s the problem?
They’ve generated quite [...]

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Silent Twitterers

Recently, Twitter’s been getting some negative press – horrible retention rates this and slow growth rate that. I also read a blog post singling out Twitters inability to get it’s users to actually Tweet. However, if you’d look past the surface, there’s definitely more to this story than, shall I say, “meets the eye.”
I was [...]

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Double U Tee Eff

So I’m kind of frustrated right now.
Correction, I’m super frustrated right now. I went on to register my Facebook username to only find the two names I wanted, jasonfleck and jason.fleck, were both taken by the same douche bag!
WHAT THE FUCK?!
Is it really possible to get multiple usernames and link them to the same profile? [...]

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Face.com Alpha YO!

A few weeks ago, I applied for the Face.com alpha and last night, finally got accepted.
First impression: Holy shit this cool.
For starters, the Face.com application is a facial recognition program that scans through all your Facebook pictures and figures out who everyone is. Better yet, it will even tag your pictures automatically! Yup, no more [...]

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Show the Twitter Karma Love

Let me get right out there and say it, “Twitter Karma Rocks!”
No I’m not talking about some Hindu belief  - I don’t believe in that stuff. Rather, I’m talking about an extremely useful, third party Twitter app.

Ultimately, Twitter Karma scans everyone linked to your Twitter account then displays everyone in an easy to view grid. [...]

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