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Gutenberg was a blogger

April 20, 2009 By 2 Comments

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, [...]

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

April 20, 2009 By 23 Comments

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 [...]

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

January 16, 2009 By 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Could a Twitter app become a light RSS reader?

November 18, 2008 By 18 Comments
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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 [...]

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

November 17, 2008 By 1 Comment

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 [...]

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