Archive for posts tagged with 'twitter'
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Mastodon
I've signed up to Mastodon. You can find me here: @leekelleher@mastodon.social. I've known about Mastodon for a long time, I really like the distributed concept. I hadn't signed-up before as most of my friends were very active on Twitter. It's the "Social Networks are like Pubs" analogy again. I guess the reason for signing up to Mastodon now is an attempt to step outside of the (perceived) echo chamber and my comfort zone. I remember…
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Open Graph: Facebook and Twitter Cards metadata
One of the motivators for going "back to basics" on my blog was to focus on the markup semantics and laying a solid foundation. Given one of the main powers of the Open Web is the ability to link and share content, I wanted to get my metadata in a workable state. I've known about Open Graph for a few years, professionally I make sure that my client's websites leverage it - but the funny…
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How to follow conversations on Twitter
After reading Dave’s post about Twitter being the new Facebook yesterday, I decided to give Digsby a go. (I’d heard of it previously, but I was semi-scared off by all the twittermania – it’s a bit like marmite). Since I was only following a few tweeters there wasn’t of a flow – so I added a couple more higher profile tweeters, like Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror. This morning Jeff tweeted: I hate #region so much.…
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Traffic Updates: RSS -> SMS
Since moving down to Bristol, I have been subscribing to the Underscore mailing list – of which I’m guilty of non-participation. One of the threads today made me realise the potential of user empowerment using “Web 2.0” services and technologies. The thread was called “RSS -> SMS“, Andy wrote: After my wife took three hours to get to work this morning due to the M5 being shut, I’ve built a Yahoo pipe that takes the…
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Social Networks are like Pubs
I received an email from Pownce this morning, letting me know that they’ve opened the doors to all! Yah! (oh, the irony) I signed up for Pownce a couple of months ago… configured my profile, looked for a few friends … didn’t find any … now what? At this point I’m reminded of Rob Manuel’s comment about social networks: Social networks are pubs. There’s little reason to like Facebook if your friends aren’t there. Anyway,…
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Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar!
Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar! It uses the OpenSearch protocol too!
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Twittering along!
I’ve just signed up to Twitter – I have no idea why, you can view my “tweets” here. I’m using Twitteroo as my interface.