Twitter tools including TweeTip

Published in July 8th, 2008
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Two of my favorite tools together in one. Tumblr and Twitter used as a datamining tool. I am having a tough time figuring out how to play with this, but I am totally intrigued.
http://www.tweetip.com/
http://tweetip.tumblr.com/post/27780274/tweetipfh-a-twitter-tumblr-client-designed-for
http://twitter.com/tweetip

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Business Week Outs Twitter as Important

Published in May 15th, 2008
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Business Week publishes an article today on Why Twitter Matters.
Some of the best comments from the article run to why we hang on to the mundane comments about what someone is eating, to what they found under the couch. The author points out these are often the same comments we make on the phone and […]

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Portable Applications - small and powerful apps on the go

Published in May 12th, 2008
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I spend less and less time actually toting around my laptop these days and more often taking advantage of computers located wherever I am working. One of the tools I am going to integrate into this is Portable Apps. These are tiny open source versions of applications that can run from a small thumb drive, […]

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Seesmic snags Twhirl for desktop application of video chat

Published in April 3rd, 2008
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Seesmic is a rapidly growing website building on the video/chat network. I have recently seen traffic and mention of Twhirl among other Twitter friends and followers as a great desktop application for Twitter. Now that didn’t take long did it? Today, Seesmic announces the acquisition of Twhirl. Looks like good times ahead.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/03/seesmic-aquires-popular-twitter-air-client-twhirl/

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Narcissistic Goodness - or valuable Twitter tool?

Published in March 26th, 2008
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Check out the tool Tweetscan and see how many ways to think of using it. It will scan the recent database of tweets and preview all tweets with your name in it for example.
See who is talking about you or about what.  Did I check out my name? Of course, silly bunny?!

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Twitter wins over the skeptics at SXSWi

Published in March 25th, 2008
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Shel wrote a great analysis of Twitter and it’s community uses at this years SXSW 2008. More importantly, he discussed the idea of using it as a community building both before and after an event. There were some obvious limitations, but the overall popularity is undeniable.
Twitter was used to meet several long-time friends for […]

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