If you’re looking for the virtual place to monitor and participate in election day 2008, The Blog Herald has a fantastic roundup of great destinations. My favorite is http://election.twitter.com as you can just passively sit back and soak up the activity as the site self-updates. Tomorrow will be a fantastic benchmark to see how far [...]
Twitter got a little face lift yesterday and its not that bad. I love the look of the larger type for your “following”, “followers”, “updates” count and that your latest tweet is place under the update field. They do use a lot of my design pet peeves… but that’s pretty much the extent of my [...]
I have previously written that I believed Twitter’s tipping point was coming on November 4, 2008 - the night of the Presidential election. In that post, I wrote about how Twitter would cross into mainstream media and we would be seeing Tweets being quoted by news anchors. But Hurricane Gustav has played in a role [...]
I can easily jump in and out without missing a beat
Of all the social networks I am a part of, Twitter is the one that is most compatible with my workflow. I’m a short attention span kind of guy and feel like participating with my friends on Facebook involves me dedicating an hour here and [...]
That person would be Yiying Lu - the illustrator of the infamous Fail Whale that shows up when Twitter gets moody. Like any good entrepreneur would, Yiying has developed a little cottage industry around the Fail Whale with official merchandise, even parties. With every Twitter failure, a little more exposure is sent Yiying’s way.
What’s happening [...]
What’s happening that night is that the U.S. will be electing Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Or at least that how I hope it plays out. But’s also the most united night the American people will have. Nothing unites EVERYONE like a presidential election. The Super Bowl comes close, but [...]
Data Portability…you are so needed. There’s simply no way I can comfortably manage to keep my network of online friends and colleagues sufficiently sync’d between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Brightkite, and Friendfeed. Let alone niche places like Mog and Upcoming.
But that’s what I want. It’s what most of us want. I want to add a [...]
