Photo courtesy of the The International Business Times When all of Iran seemed to be exploding in the wake of “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s “victory” in the 2009 election, the news was noteworthy not just because a country struggling against authoritarian rule was trying to free itself, but also because of how the news got out: [...]
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Tweets Are Ephemeral? Not With Tweet-Rings!
Okay, now look: usually when I read a product description that folks send in, I have something to say about it. ”Cool!” ”Not my thing, but definitely useful.” ”Hey, I had a product like that once!” ”Huh; seems like a logical extension of [insert trend here].” (Or often, “Of course someone made that into an [...]
How the iPad and Twitter Have Changed My News Consumption
Image courtesy of CleanSlate and Better Homes and Gardens I’m 47 years old–the “wedge” generation just after the Baby Boom, and just before Generation X. I’m old enough to have owned a black-and-white TV (13″; it was my high school graduation gift!), had rotary dial phones (Michael just talked about these the other day!), one [...]
Get Added to Orange UK’s Secret Portrait Twitter Gallery
I’ve always loved watching caricature artists quickly plot out their exaggerated perception of their subjects, but this new offering from Orange UK’s The Feed takes the art to a whole new level. They are offering “secret portraits” of twitter users based on a tweeted self-description. I am about to enter mine, and I thought you [...]
Apple Plans to Give Away 100 64GB iPads on Twitter
This is one of those interesting bits of information that has been floating around for months and yet no one noticed – even though it is from Apple and involves FREE STUFF! Then suddenly someone picks it up and it spreads like wildfire! In this case it is a good thing – because Apple is [...]
New iPad App Helps You Manage Both Twitter and Facebook
If you’re a big social media maven, always checking your Twitter and Facebook accounts, chances are you’ve thought to yourself, “MAN, can’t someone consolidate some of this stuff? I’m going nuts trying to keep up!” Well, sobees is here to offer some relief. Their just-released iPad app Social Media allows you to aggregate both your [...]
Papa John’s Holds Twitter-only Father’s Day Promotion
Pizza, the food of college students and single guys everywhere. Twitter, the 140 character-limited TMI platform for people everywhere. Two great tastes that taste great together? Well heck, Papa John’s thinks so! Papa John’s is teaming up with an outfit called All Pro Dad to bring you a Father’s Day Contest. The grand prize is [...]
No Tweet For You!!!!!!
It seems Twittering might have put Chicago chef Rick Bayless in trouble with the White House. Bayless, who is the Chef at Chicago’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo, is in Washington, D.C. to prepare Wednesday night’s State Dinner to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Chef Bayless was so excited about the trip he started tweeting about it Monday. But the chef’s tweets abruptly [...]
Tweetie 2 Gone From App Store
One of the most popular Twitter clients for the iPhone, Tweetie 2, seems to have mysteriously disappeared from the iTunes App Store. We don’t believe for a second that it was pulled for some sort of violation though. Twitter recently purchased the application and promised they’d be releasing it as “Twitter for iPhone.” Perhaps it’s [...]
Kigo Footwear Takes Customer Service To Web 2.0
Every job I’ve had has been sales or customer oriented in some capacity, so I always geek out a bit at innovative ways to improve customer service. Today I came across a company that used Twitter very effectively to reach out and interact with me as a customer, and I wanted to share that story. [...]
Does Your App Use Twitter? Better Get Apigee
[image courtesy of legacy leavers ] It’s no secret this Twitter thing has done a bit more than just ‘caught on’. If the Libary of Congress is archiving tweets then, yeah, that’s kind of a good indication that this is a big deal. A technological, cultural and communicative big deal. The kind of thing that [...]
Tweet, Tweet, Tea Time
I’m about ready to say I’ve seen it all. Designers Ben Perman and Murat Multu have created a Teapot that Tweets. Embedded into the teapot is WiFi hardware that actually connects to the internet and more importantly Twitter, and then sends you a Tweet when it begins to boil. Imagine you put the teapot on [...]
Complete a Survey on Your Twitter Usage; Help a Grad Student
Cindy Kelly is conducting a Twitter Research Survey for her grad school project, and she could use your help. If you are over the age of 18, and you don’t mind answering simple questions about your motivations and expectations from Twitter usage, you’d be doing your good deed for the day if you clicked the [...]
Please Rob Me; the Perfect Compliment to Foursquare and Twitter
If you’re a burglar, and you are tired of staking out homes only to be stymied as you break in because the owner is still there, have I got an application for you! Stop staking out houses and start staking out the new site, Please Rob Me. Instead of watching to see if there is [...]
Chef’s Turning To Twitter to Battle Critics and more…
There’s a saying in the restaurant business that goes something like, “if you lose one customer you’ve actually lost ten.” You see, if just one of your guests has a bad experience at your establishment chances are they’re going straight home to tell ten of their friends about their experience and the result being the [...]
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