Apps & Tools, Social Media

Sobees Widgets Are Cool

This is just a quick update, but you must do your best to get a Sobees invite to try out their beta desktop widgets (if this is your thing). I recently received an invite and I must say that I’m impressed. So far, I’ve only been able to try out their Twitter and RSS widgets. […]

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Social Media

Get Better Responses To Twitter Polls

Microblogging phenomenon Twitter has quite a few people skipping their search engines these days. Instead, some are opting to simply ask a question on Twitter and hope for responses. Lets call these Twitter polls. Twitter polls are great for numerous reasons (e.g. fun, research, shopping, prolong laziness). However, no matter how many people you’re following, […]

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Apps & Tools, Twitter

Twhirl Integrates TwitPic and TweetScan

Twhirl, a popular Twitter client, has released a small update with some big changes today. After I updated my client, I noticed right away that the people who I was following that had protected updates now had a lock icon over their avatar. A great reminder for those of us who are following too many […]

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Apps & Tools, Social Media

Filter Your FriendFeed Services Via Greasemonkey

Eric (engtech) of Internet Duct Tape has released a great FriendFeed hack that any user of the social aggregator FriendFeed has been dying to see! All you need is Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension installed. Essentially, the script will install a bar at the top of FriendFeed so that you can filter items based on […]

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Social Media

Boredom Strikes On Twitter With Color!

Tech news today has been relatively slow for me. More articles about FriendFeed and the many purchases that are being made today. Nothing all that new and exciting to really blog about or message on Twitter. So, it seems that Ze Frank (Thanks to Armando Alves for notifying me) and a few others have decided […]

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Social Media

Enough With The Social Networks!

I’ve seen at least 10 articles today about some company adding social aspects to their service or product. How many have you seen today? The urge to make services and products into social networks must stop before it gets out of hand, and believe me, it will! Social networking has become the thing to do. […]

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