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Twitter

Like It or Tweet It?

For full disclosure, I am not a user of Twitter.  I have a Twitter account and dabbled in it a year or so ago, but haven't logged on in months.  I am, however, a daily user of Facebook. Eventbrite recently concluded a study of Tweets and facebook posts as connected to event sales showed that facebook "likes" resulted in higher

Follow The Cycling Season Online

If you are fan of Pro Bike Racing, specifically of the big stage of the European circuit, then there's a great resource to follow it live with both data and video.  You will want navigate your browser to ProCyclingLive and follow their Twitter feed and also their Live Stream. What you will get when you follow them?  Follow them on

Globaltel Media’s Cherple for SMS and Texting Chat

Tom and Todd get texting with Globaltel Media's free SMS chat platform, Cherple. Robert Sanchez, President & CEO, takes them through it. Cherple is a free web-based SMS texting client, which in itself is not unusual - there a plenty of sites which can send SMS messages. But what makes this a little bit different is that the recipient can

Lazyscope Review

This is a review of the application Lazyscope which was release as a beta recently. There are a couple of things that I hope they fix or add in the future. The first is they need to add Facebook any more that is a must for any social media application. Something tells me that this is in their future. It is an air application, which makes it a nonstarter for a lot of people and also limit it to the desktop. Finally my biggest complaint so far is that when you close and reopen the application the feeds you added are gone and you have to add them again. This is something they definitely have to fix before going publc. If you are not afraid to try a beta application and don't mind a few hiccups I would recommend trying this application. Below is some screen captures on how it works.

Is Twitter all That?

I use Twitter every day, but being I have about a million other things to do, like work! I do not have time to follow the ever updating stream of information. Sure I take a look 3 or 4 times a day but I do not live on Twitter. Some have made the argument that because of Twitter and Facebook,

Broken Twitter Clients

If you use a Twitter client (either on your desktop or phone) then you may have had a surprise on Tuesday.  A nasty surprise, actually.  That surprise was a broken app. You probably thought, as I did at first, that Twitter was down.  After all,  that is something we have become used to.  The "Fail Whale", as it is known,

Custom Apps

The smartphone’s in many consumer hands today are as powerful as the desktop computers we were using five years ago. They may be as powerful from a hardware standpoint, yet the smaller interface demands different methods of interaction. The smaller interface also places different demands on the software that runs on it. Smartphone software apps typically need to be smaller