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Twitter Lists: A New Way to Follow

Nov. 9, 2009

I used to follow you.
If we met at a cocktail reception and I thought we clicked, I followed you. If we sat next to each other at a conference, or if you were a panelist on stage, I followed you. If someone I previously followed retweeted you a lot, I followed you. If I subscribed [...]

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Want to Meet My First 221 Twitter Friends?

Oct. 3, 2009

Short of sharing details of their lives, here’s the next best thing. Courtesy of the fine folks at Sxoop Technologies, I want to share with you the below Twitter Mosaic of the first 221 tweeps I am following, interacting with, and learning from.
Plus or minus a few additions and subtractions, these are educated and intellectual [...]

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Curious Why Twitter Rank is Meaningless?

Oct. 2, 2009

My last blog post summarized why I deleted my Twitter account and started fresh. To follow-up, here’s why Twitter ranking tools are meaningless–with a comparative focus on HubSpot’s Twitter Grader application.
According to HubSpot’s blog, the grade is algorithmically determined by six factors:
1. Number of Followers: More followers leads to a higher Twitter Grade [...]

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Why I Use 22 Wordpress Plugins Today

Sep. 18, 2009

Every couple of months, I update you with a list of plugins I use on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. (I profiled 15 plugins in December 2008 and 23 plugins in March 2009.) Looking back six months, many plugins remain the same but I deactivated some and installed some more.

Akismet protects my blog from spam. Pre-installed [...]

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How Readtwit Improves Twitter Productivity

Sep. 17, 2009

Because Twitter is analogous to a river’s flow that you are not expected to watch non-stop, it is presumptive you will miss tweets when you’re not looking. But what about links — those external blog posts, videos, and audio recordings that the people you follow are including in their 140-character updates?
It’s one thing to miss [...]

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Twitter Meets Your Phone with PocketsApp.com

Aug. 27, 2009

There are many reasons why Twitter is a powerful networking tool, but it lacks three-dimensionality. Twittering enables you to write what you need to write in 140 characters or less, but it restricts you from adding inflection and tone.
Enter Pockets.
Suppose you want to leave a voicemail message for marketing professional Stacy Crosby but don’t want [...]

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Join FeedBite.com and Receive Unwanted Spam

Aug. 26, 2009

Jack Humphrey at the Friday Traffic Report reviewed content aggregator FeedBite and compared it to FriendFeed, a tool I began using many months ago.
Think FriendFeed but with portable widgets.
Two cool uses for this free feed aggregation service are:
1. Public and private feed mashups you can collect and use for research privately or share with [...]

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