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 [...]
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Twitter hits the mainstream and a crossroads: Time for an open server
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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 [mikeyy: Second Twitter Worm on the Loose] and ReadWriteWeb [Twitter Worm Could Take Over Your [...]
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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 very talented guy and eventhough I didn’t “get” TweetDeck at first, now I do. Om [...]
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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 form TweetDeck told me that an update was ready for me and I quickly said [...]
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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 I think we collectively blew it. Not just once, but twice! First was SocialMinder then [...]
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