Mar
18
2009
Facebook is driving me crazy. Only a few days after I made a post talking about how Facebook differs from Twitter and why I was changing how I use the Facebook service that Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter.
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Mar
18
2009
Twitter is one unique web service which is facilitating different people to connect with each other.This article will focus on explaining the cool tools that litterally & awesomely extend features offered by Twitter.
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Mar
18
2009
Art, imagery, graphs, and maps help place context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and data. TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews, the ultimate collection of 140-character thoughts and data, does not come with image sharing, video embedding, or almost any other visual feature.
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Mar
17
2009
Now that a New Zealand judge has allowed court papers to be served via Facebook, the question on the nation’s lips must be: could you be served via a tweet? NBR put the prospect to Chapman Tripp senior solicitor Justin Graham.
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Mar
16
2009
People often ask, “How do I gain more Twitter followers?” Ars offers six Twitter etiquette tips to help you gain those followers without having resorting to dirty tactics or annoying habits.
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Mar
16
2009
nandemoari writes “Russell Wright and his construction company, Stoam Holdings, recently lost a million dollar lawsuit brought by investors. But lawyers for the firm have complained that juror Johnathan Powell’s Twitter comments broke rules when discussing the civil case with the public. The arguments in this dispute center on two points. Powell insists (and the evidence appears to back him up) that he did not make any pertinent updates until after the verdict was given; if that’s the case, the objection would presumably be thrown out. If Powell did post updates during the trial, the judge must decide whether he was actively discussing the case. Powell says he only posted messages and did not read any replies. Intriguingly, the lawyers for Stoam Holding are not arguing so much that other people directly influenced Powell’s judgment, rather that he might have felt a need to agree to a spectacular verdict to impress the people reading his posts.”

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Mar
15
2009
Tweet: @wefollow #yourtag #yourtag #yourtag (replace ‘#yourtag’ w/the tags you’d like to be listed under, example: #blogger – max 3 tags). Hope you enjoy!
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Mar
14
2009
It’s great to see twitter the way it is. Twitter is taking over the world.
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Mar
13
2009
A building materials company and its owner have appealed a .6 million verdict against them, alleging that a juror was posting related messages on Twitter.com while hearing the case.
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Mar
13
2009
The next time someone suggests that open source can’t innovate, is not user-friendly, etc., point them to Adium. It’s simply incredible. What Adium isn’t, however, is a good Twitter client. That’s about to change, starting with Adium’s next version (1.4), when sophisticated Twitter functionality will be integrated into Adium.
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