The very first Ames Tweetup went down last night at Olde Main Brewing Co in Ames. Due credit is given to @mrdallasjmoore, @jkeyla and others who were involved with planning the event. It’s been a long time coming to have a tweetup in Ames. I haven’t seen an exact head count, but I estimate that [...]
Inaugural Ames Tweetup a Success
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Social Media
TweetDeck Continually Improves the Twitter Experience
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve used a lot of Twitter applications. I’ve reviewed at least four on this site. I generally don’t stick with a single application for more than a week or two. TweetDeck has become the only exception to that rule - it has changed the way I use Twitter. I started using it back when it [...]
Analysis of Twitter Client Statistics
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tracker has been running since August 6th (almost 3 months) so it’s time that I look at what it’s reporting to see how useful it can be. If you’re not familiar with the methodology that’s employed by Tracker, read the description before reading the analysis. Here are some stats related to traffic and tweet analyzing:
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MLB ScoreBot: End of Season 1
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments
So, the Phillies are the 2008 World Champions of baseball. My Cubs made it to the dance but turned out to be the dorky kid standing on the sidelines yet again. Looking back on ScoreBot’s run…
There were a couple hiccups along the way, but I’m pretty happy with the way ScoreBot performed. For its inaugural [...]
Follow NBA Scores on Twitter with NBA ScoreBot
October 27th, 2008 · No Comments
By now, you know the drill - another season, another ScoreBot. This one’s for the NBA. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of the ScoreBot, check out MLB ScoreBot and NFL ScoreBot. For now, NBA ScoreBot will be limited to Twitter. If there’s a good enough demand for it on other networks*, I’ll port it [...]
Tags: Social Media · Sports
Big Bang Theory Cast on Twitter
October 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My favorite show, The Big Bang Theory, just started its new season about a month ago. The second season is looking even better than the first, which is good news. It’s a really funny show - even more so if you’re into science and nerdy stuff like I am.
This isn’t the first case of a [...]
Tags: Twitter
ScoreBot RSS Feeds
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
It just dawned on me the other day that an inherent benefit to using Twitter is that it creates an RSS feed for each user. This means that even if you aren’t on Twitter, you can benefit from either the MLB or NFL ScoreBots.
Here’s the URLs for each Bot’s RSS feed:
MLB: RSS and ATOM
NFL: RSS [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous
New DS to Sport Camera, Music Playback
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The Nikkei - Japan’s version of the Wall Street Journal - is reporting that the next iteration of the Nintendo DS will have both a camera and music playback capability. Along with those two new features, it’s also reportedly getting a boost in wireless capability. Word is the camera will be used like the [...]
SmartyPig Contest Crushes Twitter
September 25th, 2008 · No Comments
OK, it was more like a coincidentally timed outage, but …
Today’s SmartyPig giveaway was held at 3:00 PM Central Time. At approximately 3:02, I noticed that I couldn’t hit Twitter’s web interface any longer - it was asking me to log in as an employee. Sadly, I don’t work for Twitter, so I couldn’t use [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Twitter
Under Review: gTwitter
September 17th, 2008 · No Comments
gTwitter is a Twitter client for Linux written in Mono/C# and uses GTK+ for the GUI, which was inspired by the Mac client Twitterific. The version being tested is 1.0 beta, released in June 2007. According to the project’s homepage, gTwitter is currently “under heavy development”.
I wrote a text review of the gTwitter application over [...]
Tags: Reviews · Video Reviews
