Archive for the 'twitter' Category
We have a handful of the elusive and in demand TwitterFone.com invites. Twitterfone lets you speak your tweets and it transcribes and sends a tweet for you along with a link to the audio message. Nice!
We are holding a twitter 6 word contest over the next few days. Here are the rules:
1. Include @rumford #twitterfonecontest […]
Unfollow Rumford on Twitter… Um Not What I Meant
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 9th, 2008 in twitter.I just received an facebook mail from a friend of mine David Hinson about a blog post that he did on authenticity not being the same as transparency. The story starts when I saw a twitter post from him that said “unfollow rumford”… I paused and thought if there might have been some valid reason […]
Myspace & Twitter… Oh My!
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 8th, 2008 in MySpace, social networks, twitter.TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace “Data Availability” and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of […]
TwitterFone Translates to Broadcast Happiness
7 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 7th, 2008 in twitter.TwitterFone
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We are testing a new apha version of a service called TwitterFone and this is exactly the service I had told someone 3 months ago that I wanted to see built off of the Twitter API. (I am still waiting for video: anyone at Seesmic or kyte.tv listening?)
TwitterFone allows you to easily […]
Twitter from Your Google Homepage: BeTwittered Rating:
While doing some research we came across a lightweight widget that will easily allow you to drop a widget onto your iGoogle homepage and send and receive twitter updates easily.
BeTwittered is simple, easy to use and self explanatory. They could improve this tool by adding more robust […]
Twitter Adds Location and More to API
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in twitter.Twitter updates the location attribute of the authenticating user, as displayed on the side of their profile and returned in various API methods. This is good news as now you can do quite a few additional things around city locations.
It is not geobased but rather city based. This is not normalized, geocoded, or translated […]
Twitter Ready To Tip?
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 29th, 2008 in social networks, twitter.Twitter is continuing to experience rapid growth in the last quarter. According to web analytics company hitwise twitter Internet visits are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.
The challenge with metrics services like hitwise, alexa and compete providing […]
How Do You Update Your Twitter Status
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 29th, 2008 in twitter.There are many ways that the millions of users of twitter update and publish content to the service. Some use the web, some use a desktop app, some SMS, some use their iPhone, etc.
We would like to know how you update your status on Twitter. Thanks for taking this poll.
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The bright guys behind twitter discuss quite a bit about twitter. They share some great info about how users engage with the service and some of the different use cases. I love twitter and their smarts in opening up the API to allow people do other interesting things with the service.
This video interview is […]
What Don’t You Like About Twitter?
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 16th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, twitter.The world is abuzz about twitter. Twitter is a quick 140 character micro-blogging status platform/communication tool. there are millions of users of this service and it is growing like crazy.
We are doing some research and want to see what you think about Twitter.
We could really use your input by taking this 10 second poll: “What […]
