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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,
I took the time to download iTunes 10 over the weekend. With it, the new service - Ping. A social network within a walled garden of iTunes. But not really that much of a social network The service is simple to activate. Apple - just like Google did with Buzz - placed an icon on the sidebar of iTunes. You
One of the coolest ways to use Paper.li is too use it along with Listerous. Listerous is a Twitter list directory, where you can find a list on almost any subject you can think of. You can take any one of those list and create a newspaper out of it in Paper.li For example I love Science, so I went to Listerous and found a list under the keyword Science that looked interesting to me. I created a newspaper out of that list. Now once a day I have a newspaper with all news about from that list about Science. The paper shows text, pictures and you can play video within it. It even has a live feed of tweets that are coming in realtime from that list. They appear to be working on a way to tweet directly from the paper, but I don't think it is working yet.
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,
The recent privacy flap surrounding Facebook got me thinking. Exactly how much are we all sharing? What can be learned from it? And how much of any of this does the average person know or understand? I decided to take myself as a case study. I may not be the average user - and most of you who read this
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 at this point. There are always winners and losers. Winners can win big, and losers at worst fail to make
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 and, when I did, there were too many posts to read back through. After a while, I discovered Twitter desktop