14 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Getting Started with TweetDeck for Android

Getting Started with TweetDeck for Android

TweetDeck for Android is awesome so far. Not only is it extremely nice to look at, but it carries much of the burden of your social media life. It covers Twitter (and multiple Twitter accounts), Facebook, Google Buzz, and Foursquare. It’s one thing to say that an application covers multiple services and completely another when [...]

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20 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Chum.ly Just Keeps Getting Better: Redesign and Feature Updates

Chum.ly Just Keeps Getting Better: Redesign and Feature Updates

The Chum.ly team is staying on the grind and actively responding to feedback from their growing community. This has resulted in a complete redesign of the user interface, implementation of OAuth, and an upcoming iPhone application. I have to say, the UI update is a big difference from what they were working with a couple [...]

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04 June 2010 ~ View Comments

WeReward Pays Your for Check Ins and Tasks

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. WeReward is the new location-based mobile application from IZEA. This is the company behind SocialSpark and Sponsored Tweets. The point is for you to earn points for check ins and tasks you complete in the real world. These [...]

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19 February 2010 ~ View Comments

How to Connect Google Reader Shares to Facebook via Hootsuite

How to Connect Google Reader Shares to Facebook via Hootsuite

I have a Facebook Fan page, but I rarely post there because they make it so difficult to do so. There is no bookmarklet that facilitates this action. I’m sure there is some obscure Facebook application that might help with this, but I haven’t found it yet. My only recourse has been to actually visit [...]

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29 January 2010 ~ View Comments

One-to-Many Posting Options Still Lacking

One-to-Many Posting Options Still Lacking

I just recently (today) started using a service called Amplify that I learned about on Twitter. It’s supposed to let you easily share things across your social networks and provides a central place for discussion. I won’t get into too much detail about the specifics, but there is one major thing that instantly bothered me. [...]

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17 September 2009 ~ View Comments

Are You The Crazy Person On The Train?

Are You The Crazy Person On The Train?

A little while ago, I had a job interview downtown and decided to take the train. As I sat there looking out the window and listening to Day 26 on my iPod, I caught some erratic movement from the corner of my eye. It was some poor soul who may have been begging for change, [...]

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02 April 2009 ~ View Comments

Chi.mp: It Only Sucks Because You Don’t Know What To Do With It

I previously talked about Chi.mp in regards to uniting your online identity. After getting a chance to speak directly to the Chi.mp team (Thanks guys and gals!), I gained new insight as to what the service is for. Chi.mp does have the ability to aggregate your data, but that’s not really what it’s for. It [...]

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26 March 2009 ~ View Comments

Disqus Dumps Voting and Implements Likes

Image by BenSpark via Flickr Just caught a Tweet from Daniel Ha mentioning a new Disqus upgrade. Looks like they’ve dumped their normal ratings system for something more like FriendFeed, allowing you to Like comments. This just goes to show that FriendFeed hit the nail on the head with that simple feature as Facebook and [...]

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19 December 2008 ~ View Comments

Automation Defeats the Purpose of Social Media

Image via Wikipedia The fact that Twitter is so simple and so revered makes it a perfect example to use when talking about social media in general. It provides the most basic framework for what more complicated networking sites like Facebook and Myspace are built upon. You find people and connect with them based on [...]

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30 November 2008 ~ View Comments

How I Keep Track of Facebook Without Visiting Facebook

I can’t stand Facebook. It’s not really anything they did. It’s nothing personal. I just don’t really like going there. It wasn’t as bad before the site redesign, but they managed to do exactly what was necessary to make the interface more annoying and confusing. The redesign does have some redeeming qualities, but mostly it [...]

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31 July 2008 ~ View Comments

Ping.fm: Updating Your Social Networks Without Spamming FriendFeed

Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send out updates of various types (status updates, blogs, micro-blogs) to multiple social networks. I have been using it for some time and my results have been mostly positive. This is not a tutorial on how to use it. After seeing the topic on numerous occasions (here, [...]

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