Social Media
ShadyURL: Make Your URLs Scary!
Feb 28th
Have you ever wanted ot scare your Twitter followers? ShadyURL.com is a service which lets you do exaztly that. ShadyURL takes your URLs, then turns them into something that will scare the people who look at them. It’s like a URL shortener like Bit.ly or TinyURL, except not at all. ShadyURL makes your links longer, but most importantly, makes them scary.
ShadyURL doesn’t really do anything useful, unless you think making people not want to click on certain links is useful. It is a fun service but is deferentially not a service that you would need to use daily.
My Thoughts On Google Buzz
Feb 10th
As you may already know, Google has recently launched something called Google Buzz. In this post I will be telling you more about Google Buzz and I will also be sharing my opinions on the service.
How is Google Buzz different?
In my opinion, Buzz is not a copy of Facebook, nor is it a copy of Twittr. Buzz is simply in-between. It is not as complicated as facebook, but is also not as simple as twitter. What makes it different than Twitter is the fact that Buzz lets you comment on other peoples updates and it also lets you upload photos. You man say that Twitter does let you upload photos, but it doesn’t. Twitter only lets you post links to photos and has no native way to attach photos. The only way to post a photo in Twitter is to use a service like Twitic or yfrog. Also, Twitter does not let you comment on other people’s updates. The closest thing to commenting on an update is @replying somebody. The bad thing about an @reply is that it is not connected to a specific tweet, so things can get a little confusing when you are receiving many @replies.
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What is Lockergnome.net?
Jan 13th
If you follow Chris Pirillo on Twitter or watch his live stream, you probably know about his new website, Lockergnome.net. Today I will be telling you what Lockergnome.net is and what I think about it.
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How to unmask A shortened URL
Dec 31st
Have you ever ran across a shortened URL on Twitter or any other social networking site and wanted to see what website it would lead you too if you clicked it? Realurl.org is a website that simply lets you take a short URL and see what website it would take you to if you clicked it. It is useful if you do not trust the person that is giving you a shortened link and want to see where the link is going to take you BEFORE you click it.
Review: Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone
Nov 30th
With yesterday’s release of Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone I decided to purchase Tweetie from the App Store. What do I think of Tweetie? I love it. In this post I am going to be giving you my thoughts on Tweetie (2.1) and telling you if you should buy it. However, I am not going to go in too deep on Tweetie 2.1 and all the new features.
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Project Retweet to ruin Retweets?
Nov 19th
Twitter has recently launched a new feature called Project Retweet. Project Retweet is Twitter’s way of doing Retweets and is different from the way most people know retweets. Their has been another way to Retweet and it has become both popular and useful. So basically what twitter is doing is stepping in and telling everybody to use their way of Retweeting and to ditch the old (and in my opinion, better) way of Retweeting.
I do not like Twitter’s new Project Retweet for two reasons: it is hard to tell who Retweeted the tweet and it is not yet supported by most 3rd party Twitter clients. It would be nice if twitter would just go with the flow and instead of coming out with a new way of Retweeting just use the old way and add it to Twitter.com
What you can do:
Use the Hashtag: #SaveReTweets to spread the word about this and if you too have a blog write about this on your blog like I just did. Also, Don’t use Twitter’s new Retweet feature.
To read more about Project Retweet, Click Here
To #SaveReTweets, Click Here
To follow me on Twitter, Click Here
What do you think? Do you like Twitter’s new way of Retweeting? Comments welcome…
New retweet feature on Twitter.com activated for a small percentage of users
Nov 5th
Twitter has just posted to its blog that they are beginning the rollout of a new feature called retweet. The new feature takes the retweet feature found in many 3rd party Twitter clients and adds it to Twitter.com. Currently, the retweet feature is only avaliable to a small group of Tweeters so that Twitter can, “see how it works in the wild”.
