Tech Opinion, Twitter

Twitter’s Downtime Isn’t The Problem

There are numerous complaints about Twitter’s downtime, but that isn’t essentially why we complain. Yesterday, Pingdom released a survey of social networks and their corresponding downtime and uptime percentages from January -April 08. Twitter led the pack in terms of downtime. However, Twitter also had 98.72% uptime, which Mashable told us is reason enough to […]

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Tech Opinion

Grand Effect: New Members To The Family

  Grand Effect has more great news for you! Recently we announced the redesign and launch of the Grand Effect homepage along with a note for those who may be interested in sponsoring us. Today, we bring you three new members to the awesomesauce Grand Effect network. We now have: WinExtra – Subscribe Here Mark […]

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Twitter

4 Useful Twitter Tools You Shouldn’t Twitter Without

A new Twitter tool pops up everyday. However, not all of them are necessary and don’t always provide a useful purpose. Here’s a short list of Twitter tools that you could use to better enhance your Twitter experience.       Summize   Summize is one of the greatest realtime Twitter search engines. Summize’s site is optimized […]

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Twitter

TwitSay: Leave A Message On Twitter

"Hey, I can’t Twitter right now. So, just leave a message after this tweet….TWEET!"       TwitSay is one of the latest Twitter tools to hit the web that has a unique twist. If you’ve ever wanted to leave a voice message on your Twitter account, now you can with TwitSay. To leave a message: Login […]

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Apps & Tools, Social Media

Addict-O-Matic Search For The Egotistical

There are plenty of ways to get a healthy (or obsessive) dose of finding out what’s being said about you on the web. There are numerous search engines out there where you can grab an RSS feed and keep up-to-date about when your name or brand has been mentioned. However, none come close to the […]

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Social Media

4 Great Sites For Finding Popular Content

Community recommendations are becoming all the rage these days. While, Twitter and FriendFeed are popular ways to get recommendations within your personal networks and within a community, they don’t specifically cater to finding the most popular content within. Here are four great sites that give great recommendations of popular content within your own personal community […]

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