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New feature: Choose your autopost sites through bookmarklet - http://blog.posterous.com/new-fea...
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Managing your Posterous just got easier, and your posts are now even more realtime - http://blog.posterous.com/managin...
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10 Great Ways to Use Evernote - http://www.lostintechnology.com/softwar...
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Best Free Website Analytics Tools | Web Design Ledger - http://webdesignledger.com/tools...
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"Web designers are often website owners. If you fall into this category, you have probably already realized the importance of knowing and understanding who is coming to your site and what they are doing while they’re there. Whether you are running a blog or an e-commerce site, this information is vital. That’s why it’s key to have a good set of tools providing you with website analytics. There are lots of tools out there, all with different features and different prices. In this post, I’m showing you the best free analytics tools available."
- Oğuz Serdar
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Social Media Tip: Have you noticed Twitter's search archive doesn't go back far in time? Use Friendfeed.com instead.
Nicholas James, Ruchira S. Datta, jcunwired and 49 other people liked this
It comes in handy to for accounts that are not indexed publicly due to a Twitter bug (like mine)
- Walt Ruppar
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Great tip, Jeremy. Thanks!
- Eric Schwartzman
Yes, which is why I said it was "very, very broken".
- Louis Gray
Yeah, FF is my default search engine for all previous social media activity across all accounts
- Mike Bracco
I've started using it with blog posts to show in real time the buzz around a specific post.
- Jesse Stay
I've taken to using FF to archive all my social media doings – it's great when I can remember reading/watching something but can't remember where it was. Best part? It doesn't matter if I digg, delicious, tumblr, whatever – it's always on friendfeed.
- Joey Baker
that's a great find, Jeremiah, thanks!
- tony felice
FriendFeed, again superior in many ways :-)
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
FF rocks!
- volkan ekiz
4 New Gadgets from Blogger Buster - http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2009...
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Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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"A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of network theory about nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. The resulting graph-based structures are often very complex. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals."
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
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WordPress.tv – “How To” Video Collection - http://www.bloggingpro.com/archive...
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WordPress.tv is growing like mad lately, especially the “how to” section. They’ve got video explanations of all sorts of stuff from getting started with Google Analytics, to rearranging the post editor to suit your liking, to adding paypal buttons to your blog, and, of course, a pile of other stuff. Just today they added a video about adding twitter updates to your sidebar, which is an insanely popular thing to do these days. Check it out below, and go to WordPress.tv for more.
- Shevonne
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Has anyone seen this?
- Shevonne
Posterous Now Supports Drupal Blogs - http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
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Any chance we'll ever see the same thing with Joomla? I would love to have my Posterous integrated with my blog posts!
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Glass Menagerie Icon Set 1 - by ArtWave Design | Design Marketing Advertising Free Tips - http://www.designmarketingadve...
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WPBeginner - Beginner's Guide for Wordpress - http://www.wpbeginner.com/
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HOT! Google Voice BlackBerry App Download Link! | BerryReview.com » - http://www.berryreview.com/2009...
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Features: Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, and lots of cool calling features like voicemail transcripts, call screening and blocking, conference calling and more. The Google Voice dialer is an application that allows you to use Google Voice on your phone. * Send and receive SMS messages from your Google Voice number * Save money with low...
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- zsafwan
desktop link: www.google.com/mobile/products/voice.html#p=blackberry
- zsafwan
Google Voice huge feature list: http://bit.ly/17Rn3T
- zsafwan
This is awesome.
- Aaron Crews
yes it is amazing and very easy to use and gives you more control over your phone calls.
- zsafwan
Google Voice Goes Mobile - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/1346cR
- zsafwan
Ya its a great one, Thanks zsafwan
- Amol Wagh
Unfortunately, our Enterprise policy forbids third-party installs on the Blackberry
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Looks like a great app. Unfortunately, you still need an invite to access it, correct? If so, anyone happen to have an extra? :)
- Matt Thompson
If you don't have an Android powered device or a Blackberry you can use Google Voice on your phone by visiting www.google.com/voice/m
- zsafwan
You'll need a Google Voice account to use the mobile application. Currently, Google Voice is only available in the U.S. If you'd like to check it out, request an invite http://bit.ly/teOoL
- zsafwan
Downloading, even though I STILL haven't gotten my Google Voice invite. Thanks!
- Shevonne
Only downside is that while you can initiate calls and SMS from the Google Voice app, you still are using the Blackberry phone module to receive calls. Also need to keep your Google voice forwarding to your mobile phone, though not sure you need to keep forwarding SMS messages to that same device anymore.
- Lyndon Washington
@Lyndon - agreed. Very cool and definitely useful. Will be an absolute killer w/ VOIP.
- Aaron Crews
Cool, I so need a BlackBerry or a new phone though, I am stuck with the LG Neon for now.
- Zachary TG
the blackberry app is a bit lacking. I actually had to read the help page to figure out how to send a text message using it. I was happy with the mobile web interface, but this app is definitely a must have if you have a bb and a google voice account!
- acedanger
Zoey Update - Her adoption profile online. I wish they could put some of the information we as foster parents can put into her paperwork online, but the website service doesn't support it. #zoeyfosterkitten
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best of luck for Zoey. I hope she will be happy :')
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Fingers crossed for a great adoption!
- Anne Bouey
A++++ Would foster again!
- Kevin Fox
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Let's all give our personal perspectives on why Twitter is AWFUL
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1. It's substanceless. It's impossible to say anything of real value within 140 characters. Why do you think so many people are using it to share links instead of their own personal insight? Because no one can make a substantial point using three word sentences!
- Brad Williamson
2. It's turning into MySpace. Ya know how back in the day so many people wanted to inflate the amount of friends they have so they could be PERCEIVED as being popular? Well that's happening on Twitter right now. Unless you or your entity is a public figure, there's no way all those followers are listening to you. As a regular Twitter user who isn't any type of well-known thought leader,...
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- Brad Williamson
3. Here's how a Twitter conversation unfolds: 1. I write a Tweet (I hate saying that word). 2. Moments later, a person replies to that Tweet as best they can in 140 characters. 3. Because I haven't been on Twitter in a couple hours, I finally see their response and do my best to reply to them in 140 characters. 4. Hours later, my response is seen and replied to. ...This delayed...
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- Brad Williamson
4. All the hype is causing mainstream news organizations to OVERUSE the platform. Valuable on-air time is being used to either see what Twitterers are saying (in 140 characters, NOT MUCH) about an issue, or they're asking us to follow them during time on segments when they're supposed to be reporting news.
- Brad Williamson
5. Public figures are starting to believe that all it takes to be considered someone who is "fan friendly" is to write, or for their assistants to write, quick little tweets. As a fan of certain celebrity Twitterers, I find it to be insulting that they think they can satisfy my hunger to gain deeper insight into their lives with this lazy approach to fan "engagement."
- Brad Williamson
I use twitter primarily to converse on hot trending topics :)
- Swaroop
I'll post more of my beef with with Twitter in a bit. In the meantime, let's hear some well thought out reasons why Twitter is awful so that those who love the platform can feel a frenzy to argue back ;-)
- Brad Williamson
@Swaroop Do you feel like you can express comprehensive thoughts on trending topics within your limited character space?
- Brad Williamson
Twitter is/was/will be a big success owing to fact that people don't have time to blog (I know some ppl still manage to pull this off), but most of them would just like to dump their quick thoughts onto a platform easily reachable.
- Swaroop
@Brad: Agree to the fact that expressing a huge belief couldn't be done in 140 chars, but that's where we have conversations (Reply to a tweet) right ? For scattered conversations - I am still able to successfully stay in loop/touch with the trends & friends
- Swaroop
@Swaroop Why wouldn't you use Facebook, or any other social media platform that allows you to breath a little, to share yourself with friends and family?
- Brad Williamson
It is changing as do all children as they grow up. So far, I still like it. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I don't feel like I can have a conversation on twitter without threads
- Ryan
@Brad: I'm using Facebook - But it's too personal for scattered thoughts. Sometimes strangers are better judges for random crazy ideas/or when some work related help (some technical prob). Plus I do have the twitter app repeating the tweets back in Facebook for those one or two friends who don't tweet.
- Swaroop
@Brad: Like your image on Blue "ugly" duckling *ahem* bird
- Swaroop
@Matthew Besides the Trending Topics (which has just tuned into a "FOLLOW ME!!" soapbox) and a few other little improvements, I personally don't think it's evolved that much. To me, it's still a constrained conversation prison (I wonder if that made any sense ;-)
- Brad Williamson
@Swaroop HAHA! Yeah, when I saw that pic, I knew it would be perfect for this conversation ;-)
- Brad Williamson
I like it for what it is and if Twitter expands options that will be a good thing. This site 'Friendfeed' offers more options for expression--I like that feature also, even better, I like the cc feature to Twitter. All social sites will eventually, I think, become an octopus like entity with many arms linked to one another in clouds.
- Johnice Reid
Full of 'celebs'
- Kevin J Hatton
@Johnice I think we all can agree that FriendFeed is the king of of the real-time ring.
- Brad Williamson
6. Using Twitter often forces you to have to say out loud the word "Tweet." I swear, if that word is ever included in the dictionary in the coming years, I'm gonna lose all respect for the English language.
- Brad Williamson
7. The suggested users list represents a desperate attempt to encourage people to become engaged in the site. Not only will those suggested users never reply to anything you say to them, but it's likely that you won't be a fan of any of them in the first place.
- Brad Williamson
8. The Trending Topics feature has already become a spam machine. Sure, some people leave relevant comments within these topics, but, for the most part, it's just used as a place to get new people to follow them.
- Brad Williamson
It is Schrodinger's birdy I think of it as a quantum communication. I am speaking to everyone and no one at the same time.
- Robert Higgins
9. It's hogging all the hype that FriendFeed deserves.
- Brad Williamson
@LLL Your experience of FriendFeed would be much more enjoyable if you wouldn't privatize your feed. I'm just sayin' ;-)
- Brad Williamson
10. It's sad how many people say that traditional blogging is dead and Twitter is the future. How can constrained commentary and conversation trump a platform that is limitless in function? With such a philosophy it would seem like our culture is doing everything it can to embrace a dumbed-down appreciation of ideas and information. Twitter's current popularity gives it the influence to...
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- Brad Williamson
Twitter sucks because it won't auto-refresh on the Nokia N800 :) (via http://ff.im/53bCT)
- George Dearing
Twitter is on the bottom of a very large trend, it will be as ubiquitous as email. But yeah Brad they will have to replace wikipedia with twikipedia. Explain the 10th Convention of the Parties on Biodiversity in 140 characters.
- Robert Higgins
Brad -- permit me to voice a contrarian opinion on Twitter. :) I think it is currently the world's premier news distribution system. I used to share your views on Twitter until I realized that tweets can point to documents of any type or size, including long articles, books, dissertations, movies, etc. -- one click and you are on the full document. Now I use Twitter to track the latest news from dozens of high-quality news sources. For discussions, I use Friendfeed mostly.
- Sean McBride
An appalling lack of features and reliability
- LANjackal
Spam.
- Will Higgins™
Good article Brad. I think you make some very good points.
- Kevin J Hatton
The lack of features is really the only thing that bugs me. I can't believe a company with as much venture capital as they have and as huge of a userbase hasn't managed to innovate.... at all. I still use Twitter religiously, as that's where the majority of my friends and connections are, but I really wish they'd fix some things.
- mike fabio
Peoplebrowsr is overflowing with features for managing Twitter.
- Sean McBride
I agree with Sean. I use it to track news from various sources as well as the thoughts of others. I post quick links to things from the web that I want to share, but if I have an opinion to share in the form of a longer-form response to something, I'll blog that, then usually post a link to it on Twitter. I'm new to FriendFeed and still trying to figure out how to fit it into my flow, but i like its ability to do much of what Twitter does without the 140char limit.
- Kevin Arth
It's easier to just crosspost tweets to something with more features like Facebook. That way if someone has a follow up they can put it there instead. Other than that it's mostly a glorified mailing list, though I think Dane Cook proved to us that even that has some use.
- Ben Blackford
Twitter will peak in 2009.
- Patrick Breitenbach
Who wants to read about what strangers are eating for dinner without at least seeing pictures of the food?
- Amy℠
Twitter may be awful but guess what? I tried to get people to come to Friendfeed and they didn't. So it's what we live with.
- Morton Fox
I love twitter because it allows me to use it exactly how I want to. Follow and unfollow and block allow spam to effect me very little. IF you are autofollowing and auto dming then spam will ruin it for you and in fact... you are spam. Its only awful if you let it be awful. it is awful as a ongoing conversation tool, but not what it was built to be I dont think. A baseball bat is a...
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- Cody Heitschmidt
One of the ways in which it is awful is that you cannot have a discussion like this. When public search worked properly you could follow conversations there but that part of the Twitter experience is broken for me and many others; which leads me to a second way it is awful - the apparent unresponsiveness of Twitter in addressing the search problem, but I am going to comment on that in tollie williams' Twitter search question.
- Phil Harrison
What about ways in which it is not crappy. For me It has been an excellent introduction to new people (globally) and mediums (such as friendfeed). I have made new friends and acquaintances that I enjoy communicating with and yes a few of them are famous people who really do try to communicate and they have my admiration for that. Now that I have been introduced to friendfeed, however, Twitters' flaws are more and more apparent.
- Phil Harrison
discussion on Twitter is strongly constricted by the (in)famous 140 char limits. I tends to look with interest to new experiments like Qaiku, where there is a true conversation model, where replies are not conditioned by length...
- Marco Castellani
i like twitter
- Bill Rawlinson
I like Twitter, but the Visigoths have definitely stormed the gates with spam posts, links to their own blogs, zero conversation, and WAY too many hashtags. In short, it isn't Twitter that sucks - it's we users who suck.
- Ciaoenrico
1. Spam followers! 2. updates that are not relevant to me at all.
- Rohit
Twitter sucks but thanks to FriendFeed we can discuss why.
- Sivan Mozes
RT Let's all give our personal perspectives on why Twitter is AWFUL
- elefantastico
When you get dropped off the Twitter search, your Twitter life is effectively over. I have been dropped off the Twitter search since June 10, and I have a broken heart that shall never mend. I loved #Journchat with all my heart. I was never in my entire life as happy as I was in Journchat on Twitter. Now, I will never again be able to participate in Journchat. When you get dropped off...
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- J. D. Ebberly
Great points 1-10 Brad! I would only add that twitter search sux (for more than this dropping issue that JD and LANj are talking about) because it only goes back in time a short period of time. I do find twitter useful but wish everyone was on ff instead... that would be more useful. :-)
- Chris Heath
Twitter is like a food you really don't like, so you just don't eat it. 140 characters limits creativity but if you can't get a point across within those limits your language skills are lacking or you are using the wrong medium to make your point. Plenty of people do get Twitter and use it creatively. If it's not for you, stay away. No-one is insisting you use it.
- Gilbert Harding
I don't really think the spam criticism is fair. If FriendFeed had the same amount of users as Twitter then there would be the same amount of spam. Also, if people are spamming you just unfollow them. The only real problem is the spam in the trending topics. Personally, I love Twitter and FriendFeed. I don't mind using both.
- Shawn Hickman
Why I find Twitter to be valuable (a few feeds I follow): Antiwarcom, alleyinsider, amnesty, atul, bbcpolitics, bbcscitech, BreakingNews, CBSNews, CFR_org, cnnbrk, cqpolitics, dailydish, DavidCornDC, DemocracyNow, dorait, EFF, foxnew_pol, FP_Passport, Gizmodo, glenngreenwald, guardiannews, guardiantech, haaretzonline, harpers, huffingtonpost, HuffPolitics, infowarsstories,...
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- Sean McBride
WOW. Thanks for the list of Twitterers who are worth following. But I gotta strike back with a counter point... Instead of Twitter, why not use an RSS reader to filter through their latest content, where you can read the entire headline as well as the article's by-line?
- Brad Williamson
Brad -- actually, I am experimenting on a regular basis with using Google Reader, Feedly, Friendfeed and Peoplebrowsr as front ends for browsing and managing Twitter feeds. I haven't yet settled on any one interface as the best (my opinion keeps changing from day to day and with experience). Also, I have noticed that as a rule 140 characters provide more than enough space for the artful...
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- Sean McBride
Twitter = Divas, Wanabe Divas, People on Prozak and Spammers! There are a few nice people there, but it is really hard to have a conversation! So unless you have a large following, the best way to use Twitter is to follow the peeps you are interested in, and then go to their blogs, FaceBook, etc, to talk with!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Twitter = some of the best news sources and minds on the planet. Twitter is only as good as the feeds you choose to follow.
- Sean McBride
You people have an awful lot to say about something you dislike. No one is forcing you to use Twitter. No one will resent you if you leave.
- Tal Shafik
@Sean, so Twitter is for broadcasting, if you have a following. Twitter is not for dialogue!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Actually it's far more useful to me the more people that are on it. But is least interesting in feeds from self appointed A listers. I avoid those and all is good.
- Cole Jolley
Igor -- yes: Twitter is primarily a *broadcasting* medium, and nearly useless as a discussion medium. Friendfeed is probably the world's premier discussion medium. Friendfeed could easily match Twitter as a broadcasting medium simply by providing the option to hide all comments under a list view interface (with one click to open the discussions).
- Sean McBride
Sivan Mozes hahahah... that is so true. It's like Friendfeed users need to constantly remind and assure themselves they did the right thing leaving Twitter
- Andre P. Siregar
we didn't leave twitter.. twitter left us. - joking aside though i don't think there's many ff users who don't have a twitter account maybe 10%... maybe (if i had to guess)
- Chris Heath
Already said my piece, in long form, here: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009...
- Uche Ogbuji
Nice article, Uche!
- Brad Williamson
I think the market is big enough for facebook, twitter and friendfeed. Google wave will only strengthen twitter further with its extension Twave. Twitter has all the high profile people in it.. celebs, technologists, u name it.Twitter has its identity as a microblogging social network, Friendfeed has its identity as an aggregator with microbloggin features.Both hav their place. I think most will shift their base to facebook from twitter once facebook unveals the "everyone button"...
- Gtp19
there is not many desktop and phone clients for friendfeed.. any social network is nothing without its users.. i think more the people get to know about and use twitter, there is much of a chance for them to use friendfeed.
- Gtp19
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