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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Tweetvisor: Good but Splitweet’s Better
Has TechCrunch ever met a start-up it didn’t like? Case in point is Tweetvisor, which TechCrunch proclaimed to to be the “best browser based solution we’ve seen”. While Tweetvisor is promising, TechCrunch could be accused of getting ahead of itself. After taking Tweetvisor through its paces over the past couple of days, it has some [...]
Four Reasons Why Twitter is Better than Google Reader
It wasn’t that long ago that I was an enthusiastic Google Reader user with more than 300 feeds. Not that I read all of them all the time but it was a collection of blogs put together over time that struck me as interesting and/or necessary. Over the past month or so, however, my Google [...]
twtapps: Simple is Beautiful
Simplicity is beautiful. Far too many online applications have chock-a-block with cool features that overwhelm users rather than engaging them. The need to impress has caused simplicity to take a backseat to the wow factor. Given this reality, twtapps stands out from the crowd with a trio of applications that are simple, clean and useful. [...]
The Twitterrati Twitter Directory
In several posts, I’ve alluded to how difficult it can be finding the “good stuff” – aka the useful, interesting and valuable Twitter-related services. So, I’ve decided to take things into my hands by launching a “Cool Twitter Apps” directory as way to collect the “good stuff”. Each day, I’ll try to add one new [...]
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The Twitter Ecosystem is Being Neutered
Truth be told, I love the Twitter ecosystem almost as much as I love Twitter itself. I love how the community has embraced Twitter, and created new and innovative services while Twitter twiddles its collective thumbs. However, I’m concerned that the Twitter party may be coming to an abrupt end. How come? The biggest problem [...]
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