Social Media

TweetDeck is a Twitter client that runs on your computer using Adobe AIR.  It seems to be taking off in popularity and while they are designing it and taking input, I thought I'd write about a few things I would like to see and introduce you to TweetDeck as well. Here are some TweetDeck features: Is an Adobe Air application in public beta Evolve the existing Continue Reading

Here's another 140-character social media site to hang out at called Plurk. Plurk is like Twitter in that you have 140-characters to write a message. With Plurk however, you have a timeline that scrolls from left to right, most recent Plurks on the left and historical plurks on the right. So when you hold your mouse down on the timeline, you can scroll to the right through Continue Reading

Just like displaying your Feedburner subscribers on your blog, here's a great way to show your twitter and Plurk followers as well. For Twitter: Browse to www.twittercounter.com. Plug in your twitter username and click Show stats. Copy and paste the generated code into your website or blog. That's it.  Don't forget to check out the other buttons Continue Reading

Summize is a very cool way to search Twitter conversations, it's a search engine for Twitter. In their own words: Summize's mission is to search & discover the topics and attitudes expressed within online conversations. Here are some of the ways you can search those Twitter tweets for the gold you might be looking for: 1. Summize Your Handle Search your Twitter Continue Reading

There’s Gold In Them There Tweets!! Here are twenty-one tweets in twelve hours from some terrific twitterers. :) These are links to good stuff from some of the twitterers I follow. I picked out some tweets that provided good information during a 12 hour time period. I hope you enjoy!! 1 - tweetshots Turns your Tweet into an embeddable screenshot. Don’t know why I’d Continue Reading