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TechCrunch August Capital 2008

July 26, 2008 – 11:12 am

It’s always an honor to be in the south bay. Last year’s TechCrunch party in Menlo Park was one of my first experiences being away from the city where I live and work. This year’s event was even better.
Special thanks for Michael Arrington for inviting us to his event and being a great host.
Julia Allison [...]

By me | Also posted in Community, Internet, New Media, Party, Technology | Tagged , , , Learning, Media, Menlo Park, Michael Arrington, , , | Comments (2)

HelloTxt has Ping.fm beat

July 18, 2008 – 5:03 pm

Ping.fm is a way you can update your status on multiple sites with one a few steps. But HelloTxt has a simpler interface, and interacts with mobile better.

I like it better because I can easily choose which services I want something to go to. Ping makes you goto another page, and make groups. Just make [...]

By me | Also posted in Productivity | Tagged brightkite, , hellotxt, linkedin, MySpace, ping.fm, Plurk, Pownce, tip, Twitter | Comments (15)

This is not what Twitter is for

June 13, 2008 – 1:59 pm

Twitter asks, “What are you doing?”, not “Please paste any thing under 140 here that you want.”

Josh Chandler is a smart guy that has a good blog and makes interesting videos, but he just lost a Twitter follower.
Josh, try Plurk or Pownce for sharing links and other media.
Also bad: retweeting
I blame Twhirl for this:

By me | Also posted in Internet, Spam, Twitter | Tagged Skitch | Comments (8)

Alpha-testing the new SocialThing

June 10, 2008 – 7:49 pm

I had a chat with Matt Galligan at the Web 2.0 Expo about the new version of his social network aggregator SocialThing. And now, just a few weeks later, the alpha is up for QA.
The new SocialThing looks much more advanced than it’s rival FriendFeed.

The next generation of the site now groups all of your [...]

By me | Also posted in Communication, Design, Information, Technology, Usability | Tagged aggregator, alpha, friendfeed, Skitch, socialthing | Comments (0)

Plurk has Twitter beat on interactivity

June 8, 2008 – 7:55 am

I logged into Plurk for the first time in a week yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that people had responded to my messages.
Once you get the hang of it, you can have a lot of fun with it.
I strongly recommend that you start Plurking!

By me | Also posted in Friends, Interactive, Internet | Tagged Plurk, Skitch | Comments (0)

John McCain is using Twitter!

June 3, 2008 – 5:42 pm

Look out LOL

By me | Also posted in America, Humor, Messaging, Politics, Technology, Twitter | Comments (1)