Archive for the 'twitter' Category
Live Twitting
May 8th, 2008Live Twitting - “LiveTwitting is a new and easy way to cover conference sessions! Now your blog readers can follow your session coverages in real time, and its easy to format and republish.
Tweet What You Read
May 4th, 2008bkkeepr - “Want to remember what you read? Want to share your dog-eared pages, and see what everyone else dog-eared? Love LibraryThing, but are always forgetting to add your books? bkkeepr helps you do it, wherever you are.” (via)
Oh, this is such a cool idea! Now, if only I had more time [...]
Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
May 3rd, 2008New York Times: “Search engines like Google, so effective for general information hunting, do a poor job of cutting through these thickets of user-generated material. For the Internet-addicted, the problem is further intensified by “lifecasting” services like Twitter and the Google-owned Jaiku, which let people use their cellphones to fire off Haiku-length text notices, both [...]
Twitter Thoughts
April 21st, 2008While Greg Schwartz re-examines his Twitterness, I’m finding that my Twitter groove is starting to flow again (maybe all of this stuff comes and goes in cycles). I’m figuring out the whole timing thing by not logging onto Twitter while researching. When I’m doing mindless tasks (like approving invoices, data entry), I’ll jump [...]
Alpha Twitter
April 16th, 2008Alpha Twitter - shows the top links pasted into Twitter. RSS Feed me please.
Twitter Ads
April 16th, 2008PDA: The Digital Content Blog - “So Twitter denied that there are ads on the system.”
How Egypt, U.S. got all a-Twitter over Cal student
April 16th, 2008San Jose Mercury News - “When Egyptian police scooped up University of California, Berkeley, graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn’t count on Twitter.”
How some bloggers feel about IM and Twitter
April 6th, 2008clusterflock - “When people first started going on about Twitter, I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. And then . . . I joined Facebook and learned just how hot and smokily the stupid could burn.”
The Twitter Review
April 3rd, 2008Megan McArdle - “I wonder if the rise of twittering as perhaps the briefest form of literature known to man could lead to a new kind of book review. Rather than have a book reviewed by a single person in 1000 words or less, what would it look like if 40 different reviews offered 25 [...]
The Pleasure of Permissions
April 2nd, 2008Susan Mernit - “So, when I set up Twitter in earnest a few months ago, I originally wanted to use it only for good friends, people whom I cared “if they brushed their teeth” as I put it to myself. To that end, I made it permissions-based; you have to ask to follow me. I [...]
The Business Value of Twitter
April 2nd, 2008Abbie Lumberg - “If Twitter were just a pastime, I’d have abandoned it by now.”
4 Startups that Take the Pulse of the Twittersphere
April 1st, 2008ReadWriteWeb has a recap. Twitter Answers looks interesting for library folk.
ilist
April 1st, 2008ilist - “ili.st are lists, twitter style.”
Forget Facebook, everyone’s a-Twitter
March 29th, 2008TheStar.com - “Merlene Paynter is never out of touch unless she wants to be.”
Is there such as thing as being fired for Twittering?
March 26th, 2008CNET - “It’s well known that bloggers can be fired for writing the wrong things about their jobs. Is this going to be a phenomenon for Twitter users as well?”
Probably, although if I haven’t been fired yet, then nobody will. Apparently I offend everybody!
On that note, I do not miss Twitter as [...]
TweetBurner
March 26th, 2008KillerStartUps - “TweetBurner lets you know what’s happening with all those links that are shared in tweets on Twitter.”
Taking a Twitter Break
March 24th, 2008It’s been an emotional few days for me. On Thursday and Friday, I was on Twitter quite a lot and, as is the norm for me., I was joking around with my fellow twits. Unfortunately, someone (and maybe more - although I can’t confirm) took offense to a few of my messages. [...]
True Story of a Twitter Marriage Proposal
March 23rd, 2008It’s easy to say ‘I do’ in 140 characters or less
Go Twitter
March 20th, 2008Chad Heafele - “In addition to just being plain old fun, twitter has been more useful than I expected.”
I’m trying to get on Twitter at least once a day for an hour or so. It’s been a riot in there lately.
Twitter etiquette
March 16th, 2008The Ed Techie - “My general practice in twitter is to follow someone if they follow me, although not if they appear to be a bot, spammer, non-poster or nutter.”
I’m the same way.
Why Did You De-Friend Me?
March 8th, 2008LibraryCrunch - “[S]ince starting to use Twitter last year I have found that my need for Facebook fell to just about zero.”
The Tweet heard round the world
March 2nd, 2008Cindi Trainor - “Imagine: librarians all over the world answering questions via Twitter.”
New Information Order
March 2nd, 2008Marydee Ojala - “If you think the people you’re following are saying trivial things, stop following them.”
Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter
March 1st, 2008Chronicle - “Anyone who feels overloaded with information from e-mail, blogs, and Web sites probably won’t want to read this. But some professors, librarians, and administrators have begun using Twitter, a service that can blast very short notes (up to 140 characters) to select users’ cellphones or computer screens.” (via)
Make plants talk!
February 26th, 2008MAKE: Blog - “They’ll Twitter you when they need to be watered.” (via)
twit+
February 25th, 2008twit+ - “Exchange files, video and pictures with your twitter friends”
Pretty cool. I just tried it out and it worked perfectly (via)
Twitter Karma
February 24th, 2008Twitter Karma is a slick way to see who follows you, who you follow, and do bulk actions (such as follow everyone that follows you but who you don’t follow - you follow?)
Here’s what mine looks like. (via)
My Tweet Map
February 23rd, 2008My Tweet Map, shows where your friends are Tweeting from. (via)
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February 23rd, 2008t|w|i|t|t|e|r|m|e|t|e|r - “Twitter meter let’s you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter’s public timeline since I started gathering them on 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.” (via)
Twitter Lights
February 23rd, 2008Twitter Lights looks really suweeeeeet.