Mashable ran a blog post today called Followformation: Quickly Follow Dozens of Categorized Twitter Users. The problem with the story in my opinion is it looks like someone at Mashable or someone with close ties to Mashable created this BS service. I mean when you goto the twitter site http://twitter.com/followformation it shows only 130 friends, [...]
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Mashable Tweets a Story that will Gain Traction but looks like Paid Ad to ME
July 14th, 2009
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Bing, doing well because of one reason
July 9th, 2009
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I ran across a story just a while ago from Mashable: Bing Now Bigger Than Digg, Twitter and CNN. People seem to wanna give Bing.com it’s props for being a initial success. Well from the statistics it seems that’s true, but tell me what is the major reason they are getting all this traction? I [...]
WordPress 2.8 has been released, but I would caution you from upgrading right away.
June 11th, 2009
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WordPress hands down might be the best blogging platform around, but with so many changes so quickly do you really need to upgrade today? I always say when it comes to upgrades on blogs or on standard Operating systems, unless the update is a critical patch don’t upgrade immediately. Most of the time you find [...]
Spammers taking twitter newbies to the junk mail folder.
May 14th, 2009
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Looking over my friendfeed today I came across a post from Lockergnome that simply said “Spammers Harvesting Sorrow From Twitter“. The post talks about how spammers could be harvesting email addresses directly from your own steam on twitter. Lockergnome referenced the article from ZDNet “Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter – in real time” And while [...]
Posted in blogging, Social Networking, twitter, Web 2.0 | Tags: email address extraction, harvest email, spammers, twitter extraction
Worm hits twitter again, smallaa tries to help you out, and dasher project is a win win.
April 13th, 2009
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((Video attached)) Over the weekend twitter was exposed to what they dubbed the “Stalkdaily worm.” I got wind of this worm as a tweet from one of my followers on twitter then I followed up and found the techcrunch.com article also twitter talked about it on their blog http://blog.twitter.com/ this weekend. Next I talked about [...]
Posted in blogging, General, Social Networking, twitter, vlogging, Web 2.0 | Tags: dasher project, smallaa, twitter, twitter API
