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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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Twitter hits the mainstream and a crossroads: Time for an open server

by Tris Hussey on April 17, 2009 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

So an actor named Ashton gets a million followers and a talk show host named Oprah joins Twitter and the world rejoices. Twitter has hit that magic point of becoming mainstream.
Of course, there isn’t universal cheering, but that is to be expected. I’m sure the academic community was aghast when AOL users could send and receive email from the Internet proper.
The questions on my mind were echoed by Fredric on RWW:

Can the Mainstream Handle Twitter?
On its own site, Twitter will also have to explain its utility better if it wants [...]

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Where does Twitter fit into your communication stream?

by Tris Hussey on December 8, 2008 · 4 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Hi, I’m Tris and I’m addicted to Twitter…
I think it’s the fact that the messages are short and the flow of information is so fast that I just enjoy it. Rapid-fire, simultaneous discussions with tons of people at once (yeah “tons” isn’t terribly exact, I know). Twitter fills a niche between email and IM. Listservs and forums.
I’m certainly not going to be on the “Twitter solves all the world’s problems” bandwagon, but I do see it as something that works really well right now.
For example, as news of the F-18 [...]

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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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I would have sent a tweet, but didn’t have time so I blogged

by Tris Hussey on November 2, 2008 · 1 comment

in Blogging, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Always a nice start to a post when you can start off with a homage to Mark Twain. His quote (roughly) “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have time” is exactly how I feel about Twitter vs. Blogging. I don’t think Mark Evans would agree with me though:
Blog posts are easy to write and publish. To pump out a 500-word post – or a series of 500-word posts – does not take a lot of time or effort. What’s difficult is writing a 500-word post [...]

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