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Bookmarklet Fu

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

These little javascript programs can mean a lot to personal productivity and social media engagement. I came to this conclusion only recently, while I am using bookmarklets for years now. The oldest I can remember of is the delicious bookmarklet. Honestly, without it my delicious account would be empty.  There is also a firefox add-on [...]

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It’s retweeting that counts, stupid. Or not?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Conventional twitter wisdom has it that being retweeted is a measure of value. This sounds very reasonable as being mentioned (=retweeted)  is a form of recognition and entails visibility as it, usually, includes the twitter name of the originator retweeting distributes a piece of information virally and, therefore, retweeting  is used as a measure of one’s [...]

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A call for twitter clients interoperability

Posted in Ideas, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Image via Wikipedia A basic one at least. With the advent of the second gen twitter clients, which support, among other things, groups, users are confronted with higher barriers to entry and exit: In all clients, the painstakingly prepared groups are hardwired in the client. No easy way to get them out. When one desires  [...]

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The twitter follower fallacy

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , , on March 15, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr There’s been much a discussion lately about the value of having hordes of twitter followers, sparkled mainly by the Twitter‘s  Suggested Users List. Jason Calacanis came to the point to offer Twitter $250K to be  one of the top 20 Suggested Users for two years. The argument [...]

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Public timelines: do we need them?

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on February 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Do you ever give  even a single  glimpse to twitter public timeline? For jaiku I won’t ask. The map thing in the first page, with the updates popping from every part of the world, is kinda cool to watch for 10 secs, but no more. Identi.ca? Nah! So what is the use of the public [...]

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No place for twitter in Social Technographics?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , on January 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Cover via Amazon A few minutes ago I saw in a tweet of Steve Rubel that Charlene Li is going to deliver a webminar by the end of this month. Thinking of Charlene Li, my mind jumped to her book, Groundswell, and then to the Social Technographics methodology of classifying social media participants (for those [...]

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Get Things Done 2.0

Posted in Personal, tagged , , , , , on January 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I am sure David Allen did not include it in his initial version of  “Get Things Done“  but, as far as I am concerned, it must be included from now on. Ok, here is the new principle: Abstain from Twitter or Friendfeed or Google Reader for so long as needed to see your TODO list [...]

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Filter this!

Posted in Ideas, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2008 |

Image via Wikipedia Cesar Rocchi of Posty wrote, on a guest post to Luis Gray’s blog,  a simple “Guide to Unfollow Uninteresting Twitterers” In general, I agree with what he says but here I want to elaborate a bit on his first rule, because, although quite natural, it is a bit unfair. The rule goes [...]

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Who reads your tweets or why short is beatiful

Posted in HowTo, Social media, tagged , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Image via CrunchBase I own various blogs. Most of them I channel to twitterfeed to generate notifications on twitter about new posts. I prefer twitterfeed to blog  add ons as it is a generic solution independent of  blog platform. It can be slow sometimes, but, then, who is in a hurry? I do not run [...]

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Why I won’t quit Qwitter

Posted in Technology, tagged , , on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Image by ViaMoi via Flickr Qwitter, the recently launched service that notifies twitter users who is unfollowing them, has created tremors in the blogosphere. Most posts I have read consider qwitter an unnecessary nuisance or even plainly harmful (to the peace of mind at least). I beg to differ and I’ll try to explain why. [...]

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