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

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 … Continue reading

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Twitter Worms are 1990s HTML email all over again

All that is old is new again, or so we’ve been told. This weekend the Twitterverse has been slammed with a couple of bothersome worms that propagate rapidly using basic social engineering: we like to click links from friends. Mashable … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Okay we need to swiften up with passwords

Okay folks we really blew it this week. How many times have we been told not to give out our passwords? How many times have you refused to give a tech support person your password? Yeah lots, but this week … Continue reading

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Are we asking too much to get it all for free?

Over the weekend I was thinking about how much we expect to get for free online. When I started out online everything was free. At least to the end user it was. That was the boon of the academic internet. … Continue reading

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