If you know anything about me, you know I’m lazy. L-a-a-a-a-z-y. Brush my teeth while standing at the urinal watching SportsCenter lazy. I prefer to call myself a multi-tasker.

So I was impressed when I found out from the good people at www.tekzen.net that they’ve come up with another alternative for people like myself who don’t want to go to the trouble of typing in long url’s into their blog posts and Twitter Tweets. The product was developed by a friend of mine, Jackson Miller. True to his mission, Jackson has shortened his professional name to “Jaxn.” You gotta like his consistency of message.

So what makes urlzen.com better than the leader in the concatenation space, tinyurl.com? Find out after the jump:

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I wanted to get this out before the keynote, otherwise, its meaningless. I’ve been stalking, uh, I mean following, yeah…following… a number of people on Twitter that are “in the biz.”  Leo LaPorte, John Devorak, and Molly Wood of C-Net’s Buzz Out Loud Podcast, are but a few of the people that I follow on a daily basis. (Molly, BTW, is an absolute HOOT!  LOVE the podcast!)

Anyway, I’m at my computer last night, writing a few columns (check back in a few days for the first to post), and I got a TWEET from Molly Wood on the new 3G iPhone.  According to some of her sources, the 3G iPhone WILL have the following features:

• GPS
• 3G (obviously)
• 32GB of Storage
• A $300 price tag

 

According to her sources, it should hit general availability in 2 weeks.  I know that I will be sitting ont he giddy-up waiting for all of the news, as well as the ability to buy one of these guys as soon as they are available. I wonder how long I will actually have to wait; or if Apple is going to insure that there’s enough of these puppies available that anyone that wants one is going to be able to get one?

I wonder if I should get in line now..?

I’ll admit to being a little intrigued by the whole Twitter thing. I’ve concluded that Twitter, as it stands, is primarily a year 2008 version of CB Radio for Bloggers and their cult followings. That doesn’t keep me from trying to understand and use it. I’ve been having a lot of fun finding local users with twitterlocal.net This evening however I received an email that “Gingivitis” is now following me on Twitter. When will Twitter get a real time Black Hole for spammy accounts like my friend Gingivitis and Managementsyste who both tried to follow me. When I reviewed their Twitter page - it was all links to spam sites. I’m unaware of any system for determining which Twitter accounts are spam. Who will be the first to implement this?

Link: Twitter.com

The Twitter service has been behaving strangely all weekend. Many updates have only partially been arriving, with most never appearing. In actuality it turns out the feeds are all there, there’s just something screwy with the cache. I just spotted this fix at Mashable.com - to resolve Twitter constipation, follow and then immediately un-follow a new Twitter user. Feel free to use me - http://www.twitter.com/mas90guru - my feelings won’t be hurt. Doing this will restore your Twitter feed to normal operations. Update: This seems to be a temporary fix that catches you up to all your missed “tweets” to the point that you follow/unfollow. After that the problem seems to continue.

Via: Mashable.com

Twittergram.com is not a new service. It seems to have been around since late last year. Today was the first time I noticed someone using it. The concept is simple - send voice messages from your Twitter account via mp3 or even by using the phone. Listen here for a live demo of how this works.

Link: Twittergram via Phone