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Gutenberg was a blogger

by Tris Hussey on April 20, 2009 · 2 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging.
The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, printing up a broadsheet didn’t mean you and a bunch of folks hand copying your treatise, you wrote it, set the type (with the aid of your friendly neighbourhood printer), and just stay up running off [...]

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Mac Twitter Apps Showdown: TweetDeck, Nambu, Tweetie for Mac

by Tris Hussey on April 20, 2009 · 12 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media

Beyond the post Oprah-on-Twitter hype, the majority of folks I know and chat with on a regular basis are tweeting business as usual. So while Ashton, CNN, and Oprah were getting headlines and new Mac Twitter app was being chatted about in my Twitter stream.
Tweetie for Mac is a desktop app brought to you by the same folks who brought us Tweetie the iPhone app. The first public beta dropped today, and despite my attempts to get it early, I had to wait until today to give it a try. [...]

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Tweetdeck getting funding isn’t crazy, it’s the next move forward: stuff that works

by Tris Hussey on January 16, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, RSS, Web 2.0

Yeah I love TweetDeck , it’s open all the time and one of the first things I installed on my netbook. TweetDeck is the only way I’ve found I can get much out of Twitter at all. Iain is a very talented guy and eventhough I didn’t “get” TweetDeck at first, now I do.
Om Malik thinks Iain getting $500k in angel funding is a sing of Twitter insanity, I have to strongly disagree.

[From Tweetdeck Funding…a Sign of Twitter Insanity]

TweetDeck freakin’ works. Everyone who I’ve turned on to it [...]

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Could a Twitter app become a light RSS reader?

by Tris Hussey on November 18, 2008 · 9 comments

in RSS, Web 2.0

Since getting hooked on TweetDeck over the summer,it has become an indispensable part of my “infocentre”. In my TweetDeck setup I have a column just for these “news” tweets, just for info streams from posts as Mark describes:
The interesting thing is if you follow enough bloggers on Twitter using an auto-feed service, your Twitter stream starts to look lot like a streaming RSS reader with new posts popping up on a regular basis. Getting notifications about new blog posts is a useful alternative to your RSS reader because blog posts [...]

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TweetDeck hits 0.20, becomes more useful, and almost my dashboard

by Tris Hussey on November 17, 2008 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, RSS, Social Media, Web 2.0

Over the weekend we got word that version 0.20 of TweetDeck was nearly done and being sent to early testers (Iain, pls can I be an early tester for the next round) and planned for updating today (ish). True to form TweetDeck told me that an update was ready for me and I quickly said “Yes! Upgrade me!”. Here are the release notes for this new version:

Version 0.20 beta – 17/11/2008 (more info)
* – Added patches 0.19.1, 2 & 3 fixes
* – Added API rate limit info added [...]

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Lifestreaming to Infostreaming: The what’s next?

by Tris Hussey on October 20, 2008 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Mark Krynsky of the Lifestream Blog wrote a pretty damn intriguing guest post on Louis Gray’s blog postulating that lifestreaming is the next evolution of “what’s next” and I might be inclined to agree with him:
Companies are slowly starting to understand social media. They should also start thinking about how to improve communication internally for a well informed workforce. Creating rich workstreams by aggregating real-time data on an internal network can help achieve this. I see a resurgence of rich intranets like this starting to happen soon. [...]

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