You may have noticed that we’re starting to use the Tell.im service in some of our links, including in this post. What is Tell.im? It is a URL shortening service, similar to many of the others floating around that help to take a very long URL and dramatically chop-it-down-to-a-shorter-length (hopefully). This will make some of our [...]
Just when you thought you’d be able to keep your fictitious game characters separate from your, ahem, characters, there’s a bit of bleedthrough, as reported at Destructoid, about General Knoxx and his newly discovered Twitter account. It looks like he’ll be taking a bit of a tweeting breather for an unspecified bit. It’s likely that [...]
You may have seen the TV commercial for this thing by now. It starts out interestingly enough, with talk about how it is time to get liberated, with imagery of people doing different things, and what appears to be vacation spots that you may like to try and venues that you would like to see.
First, it was an inkling of an idea… Then, it was a lil’ Web app that the techies lurked on… Then, it was experiencing some early growing pains as more mainstream Web users landed on it… Then, it became notorious during the 2008 election year and has continued to even earlier this year, as various [...]
These days, a lot of people are raving (and sometimes even ranting) about Twitter. But several years ago, after E-mail was “acknowledged” as the Web’s super-app, AOL’s [TWX] instant messenger service was the new front-runner for super-app status. Sure, there was that massive dilution/fragmentation of IM users between AIM and all of the the rest. But [...]
Well, some of you actually thought I was playfully joking. Well, I wasn’t joking, although there was definitely a playful ‘tude to the statement. In light of the weblog’s momentary outage, we’ve had a Twitter account established to manage the ins-and-outs of Javamancy, Twitter-wise. You can now keep track of Javamancy at http://twitter.com/javamancy. So, follow the tweets [...]
Twitter as a viable source for jobs and job-hunting advice? Sure, why not? That’s the premise behind the JobAngels bunch and its Twitter account. People helping people during these scary economic times, especially with the looming fear of losing one’s job or actually having suffered the sad fate, is both encouraging and adventurous. Using the [...]
A Little Bit: Mentioned on Mashable yesterday, Six Apart bought up Pownce, but announced yesterday that the service is being shut down and the staff sucked into the rest of Six Apart to work on other projects. If you’ve been using Pownce, you may be considering Twitter more than ever… In their company blog post [...]
