Social Media, Tech Opinion

App Development Request: The Web’s Opinion About One Topic

I want to see every conversation happening around the world right now about one specific topic. ANY topic. Notice I said conversation.  Twitter search nor the many other search tools accomplishes this for me. They’re just real-time people search engines. FriendFeed comes close. For short conversations, it’s great. However, their way of threading conversations makes […]

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Social Media, Tech Opinion

5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Buy Followers Or Friends

It seems as if you just can’t get any social media mojo without followers anymore. I don’t mean 20-50 followers either. People are anxious to hit 1k followers or Oprah numbers like 1 million on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It’s not impossible either. There are tons of recommendation, auto-follow, and spam tools that […]

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Social Media, Tech Opinion, Twitter

5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

Are you familiar with the Twitter client TweetDeck? If not, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. With the release of Tweetdeck’s iPhone application, I’ve noticed something that every Twitter developer needs to pay attention to: Tweetdeck is locking users in for a very long time. How so you ask? Tweetdeck for the iPhone […]

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Social Media

Is Your RSS Reader Starting To Bore You? Switch To Feedly

  I’m guilty of cheating on Google Reader with Feedly. I can’t help it. Feedly is practically everything I could want in a feed reader (waiting on Google Chrome support and/or a Feedly Adobe Air app). From the team behind it to the application itself, Feedly is an amazing web-based RSS Reader! What separates it […]

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