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Tags to Hashtags

August 21, 2009

I’ve written a new plugin for wordpress entitled “AHP Tags to Hashtags” for use with WordPress and WordPress MU. The plugin can be found for now at pastebin here, I will update when it’s been added to the official wordpress plugin repository. The plugin appends the tags for each post to the post title in [...]

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true blue: facebook friends friendfeed, whales on twitter

August 10, 2009

This is potentially huge – Facebook has acquired Friendfeed: Obviously Facebook has already built out some of FriendFeed’s functionality so there is some overlap, but there are still numerous ways FriendFeed beats out Facebook’s News Feed setup. One of these is the way stories are ‘floated’ to the top as new users comment on them. [...]

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One Million Strong for @aplusk

April 17, 2009

Ashton Kutcher has done it – he has amassed one million followers. He’s using this publicity to donate mosquito nets to African children, but that’s just scratching the surface of what is possible. Use your imagination.. what could he do, with his combination of celebrity and follower clout? – he could raise money for a [...]

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The End of Twitter: You can stop tweeting now

March 20, 2009

This is the Final Tweet to End All Tweets. Twitter is Over. This is Twitter’s End. There are No More Tweets. (inspired by the eoti)

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George W. Bush coming soon to Twitter and Facebook?

February 12, 2009

The Politico interviewed former chief of staff for President Bush (43), Andy Card, and he mentioned this surprising tidbit: The nation has been so focused on the 44th president that we’ve nearly forgotten about the 43rd. What exactly has George W. Bush been up to since he left office on January 20? Is he just [...]

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whither NewsJunk?

November 17, 2008

One of my mantras is to rely on others to filter my data in the social web, because the key to improving your signal to noise ratio is not to try and filter the noise, but actually to reduce your signal. That’s a lot harder than it sounds to do. But it’s made a lot [...]

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Backing up your tweets

November 12, 2008

Twitter: over one billion tweets served. Actually, it’s probably more than that, since the count is from GigaTweet, an external service and not an official count. If we do the math, that comes out to: 140 chars per tweet x 1 byte per char x 10^9 tweets = 140 billion bytes = 130.4 GB worth [...]

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TwiTip

November 3, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger fame has launched a new blog, TwiTip, aimed at introducing Twitter to new users. Darren always has an interesting and insightful take on blogging and so I think his insights will be worth reading even if you’re a veteran twitter user. Given how much I blog about twitter I can fully [...]

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A revenue model for Twitter

October 15, 2008

At RWW, Bernard Lunn asks readers to suggest a revenue model for Twitter, that satisfies two criteria: 1. Do not irritate/interrupt the user and even occasionally add value to the user. 2. Provide a value proposition that is so compelling that even conservative buyers give it a try. There’s actually a fairly simple solution that [...]

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Who do you follow on twitter?

September 9, 2008

Are you on Twitter? Share some cool people to follow. I like Musab (@musabb) – he twitters exclusively in haiku If you’re really into haiku on twitter, you’ll need to follow Haiku Twaiku (@haikutwaiku), but they updated a bit too often for me, I just use #haiku to get my fix as needed instead. There’s [...]

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