What Makes A Tech Success?
It seems in the world of computers and the Internet there is always a steady stream of new things on the horizon, as well as a steady stream of new products and services. It’s been this way for many years…
The Impact of Twitter
I was pretty early in signing up for Twitter. I don’t remember exactly when, but early. I followed a few people, mostly ones in the tech world such as Leo Laporte, etc. I didn’t check my account all that often…
Better Apps and Better Data Needed
When it comes to certain types of software or social networking sites, I have tended to hold back and let others to be the first to jump on the bandwagon. For example, Twitter was around a year or two before…
The Death of Feed Readers
Socialite lets me follow both Twitter and Facebook , while I use Seesmic to follow Google Buzz , which was recently added with the release of the API. ... If there is a link that I am interested in I can either click on it to open it immediately or I can send it to Instapaper to read later.
Twitter and Tweetie
It has been a busy week for Twitter, not to mention a controversial one. First on Wednesday of last week Evan Williams, the chairman of Twitter announced that they had purchased Albeit the company that owns Tweetie. Tweetie is one…
185 Twitter Posts A Day: The Social Experiment
185 what? A few months back I looked at some hard data on my Twitter usage. Actually, it was more usage across the board between Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Buzz and others. I did a rudimentary count of…
Lisa Tickled Pink Hates Technology: The Social Experiment
If you by chanced checked out “This Week in Tech”, you watched as Leo Laporte talked with Kevin Rose, John Dvorak and Clayton Morris talk about events in tech. I had the show on live as I was working on…