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Category Archives: Twitter

Useful links: Facebook app, Mac malware, iOS 5 rumors, Wells Fargo settlement

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Turn your Facebook profile into a virtual museum. Might be a good way to take a look at what you’re sharing and whether it’s really what you want to be sharing. Mac OS update against Mac Defender. Twitter Getting Photos in Order Ahead of iOS 5 Integration. Just a few days until Apple announces what’s [...]

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Useful links: Twitter for .edu, public learning

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Is Your School Missing Opportunities to Leverage Twitter? Examples and links to a white paper that describes what top schools are doing. What is the scaffolding for learning in public? contains a ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ for public learning and wealth of resource links. Pew Report: Search Still Drives News Traffic But Sharing is Important. Are you [...]

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Yahoo research on Twitter: Who’s Talking, Who’s Listening?

Monday, March 28, 2011

Yahoo! Research just published a lengthy study about Who Says What to Whom on Twitter. They used Twitter Lists to find what they called elite users, and based their conclusions on that data set. The results of the research are available in a hard-to-read PDF file with some interesting charts and graphs. Here’s the summary [...]

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Useful links: Interactions, Mary Sue, Steampunk, Biz Stone

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW from Pleasure and Pain is another of those charts of hubs, connections, and connectors that is so fascinating. This time it uses contacts made via Hashable. The Mary Sue is a new blog devoted to female geek culture. I’ve been watching them a couple of weeks and have seen several [...]

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Useful links: Mobile market, Academy Awards, The Mary Sue

Monday, February 28, 2011

The mobile landscape: 10 things media pros should know at contentious is a good look at the current mobile situation for marketers. Were you watching the Oscars and tweeting along? I was and it made the experience more fun (and funny). I wasn’t the only one: And the Winner of the Academy Award Goes to [...]

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Useful links: HTML5 questions, Smashing newsletter, WP plugins, teens

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

A few HTML5 questions that need answering is from Christian Heilmann. Did you know Smashing Magazine has a newsletter? I just learned about it and think it might be pretty good. You might want to check it out, too. A nice new WordPress plugin from doodlebee, aka @brassblogs, for those of you who set up [...]

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Useful links: @acarvin, programmatic, HTML5 accessibility

Monday, February 7, 2011

If you’ve been watching events unfolding in Egypt on Twitter you are aware of what Andy Carvin from NPR has been doing in terms of collecting and broadcasting tweets. Here’s a good interview with him from My Heart’s in Accra: Interview with Andy Carvin on curating Twitter to watch Tunisia, Egypt. “The phrase “programmatically determined” [...]

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You don’t get it until you get it

Friday, February 4, 2011

One of my favorite responses when asked about Twitter is, “You don’t get it until you get it.” What I mean is that hearing about Twitter makes people scoff and dismiss it. Seeing the public timeline makes people say things about wasting time and having better things to do. I was one of the scoffers [...]

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Quora’s growing pains are like Twitter all over again

Monday, January 24, 2011

Here’s what you see in an email when someone follows you on Quora. Remember when Twitter used to send useless emails like this – you had to click through to find out more about the person following you? A name and nothing from the profile or anything to indicate interests? Well, Twitter made progress. A [...]

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Useful links: Classes?, Virtual Classrooms, Twitter, CSS Reset

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Why Use Classes or IDs on the HTML Element is an excellent post by Chris Coyler. The Case for the Virtual Classroom is must reading for educators. Twitter Birds are Liars is an interesting discussion about Twitter by Antonio Lupetti. Eric Meyer spent the holidays rethinking his CSS Reset. If you use it regularly, go [...]

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