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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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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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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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The problem with Web2.0

July 25, 2008

I intended to write a blog post on this topic, but ended up using Powerpoint oto t organize my thoughts, and then realized that the resulting slideshow mace the post somewhat superfluous. It is a rumination on the problem with web2.0 today (information overload), some solutions, and speculation about where we go from here: The [...]

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BlogIt doesn’t cut it

April 16, 2008

BlogIt is a new application by SixApart for Facebook – the idea is to let you post to your blogs hosted at various services (WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad, Twitter, etc) from within a single interface integrated into your FB account. The idea is a good one but there are serious flaws in the implementation. For one [...]

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The Twittering of the President

April 1, 2008

Joe Trippi recently observed on Twitter that both Obama and Clinton have fairly lame presences there. Both seem to be recycling standard issue campaign schedule material, example from @barackobama: Holding a rally at Penn State University and a Town Hall in Harrisburg, PA today Learn more at http://PA.BarackObama.com. 02:46 PM March 30, 2008 Just spoke [...]

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declaration of email independence

March 23, 2008

Michael Arrington laments the state of his inbox, and calls for someone to solve the problem of email gone wild. The problem with email is that it doesn’t scale. The solution of creating complex rules, filters, and forwards only serves to move email around but doesn’t solve the problem that it will always take a [...]

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the social horizon

February 27, 2008

Does the inherent limit on human interaction group size apply to online social networks?. That limit is called “Dunbar’s Number” and is estimated to be ~150, based on observations of social networks among primates and then extrapolating to humans taking increased brainpower into consideration. An intriguing piece in the WSJ asks whether online social networks [...]

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social search skepticism

February 20, 2008

Last summer, there was a dust-up between several high-profile “web 2.0″ personalities that made for interesting reading. It started with Robert Scoble, who created a three-part video essay provacatively titled “Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years“. Scoble is obsessed with the idea that search engine optimization (SEO) [...]

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