Social Media

Twitter Replies to Your Phone

April 9, 2010

Introducing, MyMentions. MyMentions is a service that will search your twitter feed and send you a text message (SMS message) each time you are mentioned in a tweet. You don’t have to be the direct subject of the reply either. Pretty simple right? That’s not all though. MyMentions has a few other features under the hood that make it pretty cool (and not overwhelming).

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I Took a Buzz Off Tumblr, Threw My Twitter Feed All Over My Facebook and Plurked My Posterous – So Tweet Me.

March 7, 2010

The topic of this post is to kind of explain some of the social networks out there. What they do, how they’re most commonly used and hopefully, shed a small amount of light in case you’re curious.

Take the headline for a second: I Took a Buzz Off Tumblr, Threw My Twitter Feed All Over My Facebook and Plurked My Posterous – So Tweet Me.

A few years ago that would have been complete gibberish (as opposed to partial gibberish today). We are still in the beginning to middle phases of the Social Media boom. So for those that haven’t had the opportunity to check them out or if you’ve seen these words and aren’t sure what they even are, here ya go.

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New Facebook iPhone App Finally Hits the App Store

August 27, 2009

Something that I’ve personally been waiting for has finally arrived. The Facebook 3.0 iPhone app is now available in the app store. I like being able to access Facebook on the go using my phone, but the 2.0 software was lacking a lot of features.

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In Life Timing Is Everything, On Twitter It’s More Important Than That

August 24, 2009

Twitter is a very simple tool…it’s probably the most complex simple tool you’ll ever use. It’s Twitter’s simplicity that makes it so dynamic. Everyone is free to use Twitter however they want (to a certain extent).

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Twitter Is Down

August 6, 2009

Tweet For the first time in a long time, Twitter is down. No Fail Whale, no slowness with the site barely loading and the css all messed up…nothing. Zip. Nada. On their status blog (powered by Tumblr) they note: Site is down We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly. While it’s [...]

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Twitter is Unclean Now

July 6, 2009

Tweet Face it, Twitter is mainstream…and just because you have friends that are not on it doesn’t make it any less mainstream. I have friends that refuse to get on Facebook because they think it’s for “kiddies” or “geek’s” or “people who spend 18 hours a day in front of their computer” and don’t try [...]

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