Posts with keyword: microblogging

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Tweetdeck Rocks

Tue Nov 11 10:00:00 2008

Yesterday I found out about Tweetdeck, an Adobe Air application for managing twitter. Tweetdeck is much more than a way for watching your tweet stream and posting tweets. Tweetdeck is a dashboard for Twitter. You can create separate panels, for example, to follow searches. Yesterday I was using it to follow three different searches related to Internet Identity Workshop and seeing tweets from all kinds of people who I don't normally follow. Of course, I found more people to follow! Related articles via ZemantaLooking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on TwitterTweetDeck Offers Features Twitter Lacks [Featured
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Yammering Away About Work

Thu Sep 25 10:12:00 2008

A few weeks ago Yammer walked away with top honors at TechCrunch 50. I'd been hearing about it, so last week I went over and signed up. I'm really liking it. Yammer is Twitter for work. The first person to sign up using an email from a particular domain establishes a sandbox for yammers from people in that domain. Since I signed up using my kynetx.com email, Yammer automatically created a domain for Kynetx and made me an administrator. Very low friction. I sent out invites and soon had the whole Kynetx gang yammering away about work. Only people
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Namespaces, Twitter, Identi.ca, and Federation

Thu Aug 14 13:26:00 2008

A few days ago I wrote about federating with Identi.ca. Yesterday I had a great chat with Craig Burton about that whole idea. He's not buying. I asked him to respond on his blog so we could move the discussion online. My argument was essentially that moving Twitter-like functionality onto a distributed platform was a good thing and likely to make more people comfortable with the idea of building out additional functionality in the micro-blogging space (what people have started to call the space that Twitter is in). The fly in the ointment, from my perspective, is the additional
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