Sprint Picks Twitter
Sunday, April 12, 2009
I saw this Sprint commercial tonight and thought it was interesting that they mention Twitter by name. Do any of the other similar (and arguably better) services even stand a chance anymore?
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Twitter's Got Taste
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
A totally tasteless account on Twitter has been disabled, and yet still has over 1000 followers. To me it shows that 'hate' is playing a large role in this election, and that's a shame.
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Twittering... cause Facebook's too hard
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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WWDC Coverage
Sunday, June 08, 2008
As pointed out on Twitter's site, Summize looks like a good way to grab a feed of WWDC coverage as it happens. I guess they are trying to deflect some of the traffic so they can stay up during the event ;)
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Social Networking meets Sim City
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Remember the original SimCity? I killed days building and managing my city. It's since spawned many variations, including a widely successful on-line version and a "classic" version that can now be played through your web browser.
Apparently MyMiniCity is trying to combine the classic with social networking. I guess because poking zombies is getting old. (c'mon, that never gets old.) The premise, as far as I can tell, is that your network translates into a city, such as the one set-up for Arstechnica.
Visits to your city - that's right, its page hits rather than members (no account necessary) - are then translated into a scrollable map and city statistics. The more people you can get to visit your city, the better it does compared to other cities. When you reach a certain level, you can then start developing industry, transportation systems, etc.
Sounds like fun, doesn't it? According to the rankings, there have been 1.45M cities created in the last 120 days. (There's even one ten for Twitter users...) I was going to hold out for the Facebook app, but I changed my mind.
Labels: myminicity, twitter, web 2.0
posted by Russell @ 10:43 PM,
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Twitter Explained
Monday, March 17, 2008
Thanks Mike. When you put it that way, it really does seem almost as stupid as my wife thinks it is.
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Super Tuesday Fun, Twitter Style
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Someone over at Twitter has created a Google Maps mashup to display "Super Tuesday" related messages on a map as they come in. A little like Twittervision, only filtered.Labels: twitter
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Offline Landing Pages
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Twitter is down. I get that. And I really don't care one way or the other. I just can't figure out this landing page. At least the cat kind of made sense.
posted by Russell @ 9:47 AM,
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m dot
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Lately I've been trying to use my Treo 700p less and work with the Samsung Upstage that I received through Sprint's Ambassador program. I started doing this in anticipation of writing a series of reviews on the phone. I quickly figured out though that the phone isn't that great. At first I thought that you would want to know this, but it soon became apparent that nobody needs me to tell you. I know it, Sprint knows it, and anyone that checks Best Buy and sees that this $379.00 phone comes with a $300.00 instant rebate knows it.
I've kept with it though, mainly as an experiment to see how the other half lives. By "other half" I mean people that aren't using "smart" phones like my Treo or my P6700 - phones on which you cannot install applications. Surprisingly, I found that some of the new mobile sites out there work really well. I'm not ready to give up my Treo just yet, but in a pinch I could certainly continue uninterrupted by using these services.
Here's a round up of my favorite mobile sites, some of which I use on my Treo as well.
gmail (gmail.com/m) Google does have a great application that can be installed right on these phones, but their mobile web site is actually pretty functional and easy to use. Its not something that I could live with for an extended solution (like a weekend out of town) but for the occasional email checking throughout the day its good.
google calendar (google.com/calendar/m) A good implementation of Google's calendar for the small screen. Its not full featured (I was looking tonight and didn't see where I could delete or edit an entry) but their "quick add" feature works very well. I just entered "haircut wed 8pm" and it added it. Then thanks to Plaxo (which I have listed a below as well) that one entry was synced to my Outlook at home and will eventually end up on my MacBook Pro and my Treo 700p.
google reader (google.com/reader/m/subscriptions) Another good implementation of one of Google services (in this case their RSS reader) to the small screen. When I first looked at this "m" site, I was impressed at all. I browsed over to http://google.com/reader/m and found all the articles from all my feeds simply listed. It was very hard to read and I really didn't like it at all. Then I found that if I add "subscriptions" to the end of that address it worked pretty much as I thought it should. Nice reader when I'm on the go...
grand central (m.grandcentral.com) I've written before about what a fan I am of Grand Central. I've even started giving out my GC number as my direct number and am having printed it on my business cards. At first I thought this would be the first non-Google mention on my list, but it seems that changed today as its now rumored that Google is buying them. Their mobile site if very handy though. The first thing I noticed was that in a pinch, I could look up a number from my phone book on their site, and their systems would call the person and my cell and connect us. Since I have no way of syncing my large phonebook with this Upstage, it was a good fall-back. Again though, Plaxo one-ups this in my opinion but its still great for retrieving the voice mails left on their system. You can very easily pay back the voice mails or (in the case of my Treo) download as a file and save/share/listen to them later.
twitter (m.twitter.com) I quit having Twitter send every message to me via SMS about an hour after I returned home from SXSW this year. I do though like to browse through them when I am out and about sometimes and their mobile site is very well designed for this. Minimal graphics make it quick and on small screens. You can post Twitter messages here (which I sometimes do from my N800) but on the phone SMS is still the easiest way to go.
facebook (m.facebook.com) I'm not a 'power user' of Facebook, and honestly (like Twitter) I find that for most things I want to do SMS is the way to go, but on occasion I do like to check it from my phone and their mobile site lays it out very nicely on the small screen and provides a consistent 'Facebook' experience - well done.
weather underground (m.wund.com) This is my favorite weather site for mobile devices. It formats perfectly for my Treo and the Upstage. Simply enter your zip code, then bookmark the resulting site; for some reason it doesn't seem to cache so the information is current ever time I access it. It even provides an animated GIF of the radar (in case you don't know which way the wind is blowing).
plaxo (m.plaxo.com) Plaxo's new service works very well on mobile devices. It gives me access to all of my sync'd data quickly and cleanly. The calendar access doesn't let you add an event as easily as Google's but it does let you edit and delete existing events. Contacts are easy to look up, and when selected it makes the phone (either my Treo or the Upstage) dial it directly. Very handy at times.Labels: facebook, google, grandcentral, mobile, plaxo, Sprint Ambassador Phase 3, twitter, upstage, wunderground
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Girls Gone Twittering
Thursday, May 24, 2007
"Girls Gone Wild" is Twittering. As near as I can tell, they started two days ago and they already have over 350 friends, although only 30 or so are actually following them (getting the updates on their cell phones as they happen). I wonder how long it will take for the account to top the charts?
Labels: twitter
posted by Russell @ 3:11 PM,
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Two New Twitter Related Sites Feed the Monkey
Monday, March 19, 2007
Twitterholic.com
A Twitter Leader Board, ranking the top 100 Twitter participants by number of followers, friends, posts, etc.
Twittervision.com
A Google maps mashup that shows Twitter messages "in real time" on a map of the world. Totally useless but oddly addictive - just like Twitter.
Quote of the day from Mr. Crap:
Watching Twittervision. It's like SETI@Home, but with absolutely no hope of finding signals of intelligent life anywhere.
Labels: twitter
posted by Russell @ 10:44 AM,
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Think Twitter's Stupid?
Saturday, March 17, 2007
How about Twitter on your iPod?
posted by Russell @ 7:05 AM,
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Second Life Voice
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Hat tip to The Diva - she twitted tonight about a video she saw demonstrating the Linden's implementation of voice in Second Life.
I don't know if its for real or not but the real thing couldn't be that different I would imagine. My question is, what are 80% of the female characters (the ones that are really men) going to do now?
Labels: Second Life, twitter
posted by Russell @ 9:49 PM,
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