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Twitter As Your Blog, Twitter As Your Newsfeed, Twitter This, And Twitter That

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles

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TwitterProbably one of the coolest things to hit the web in recent years is the sensationally huge network — Twitter. Everyone from little old ladies to full fledged pop artists [aka Britney Spears] give up their status via Twitter. From the President of the United States to Israeli Defense Forces pounding Gaza — all are Tweet’ing like mad.

First on the scene in spring 2006 via a small side project out of San Francisco, Twitter brought simple yet effective real-time communications to the web in the form of shouts (also affectionately known as Tweets). From this small side project [as Twitter puts it] developed a full fledged real-time short messaging service that interfaces globally across a mix of networks and devices.

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Social Network Mayhem

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles

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Scenario: You spin up your browser and search for someone on the Internet. Some of you load up Google – others choose Yahoo – and yet some of you surf to social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Tagged, Reunion, Classmates and (catch my breath), and so on. Irregardless of where you search, what happens next is the same: You get slammed with a deluge of results and then find yourself sifting through a lot of irrelevant clutter.

A closer peek at this social network mayhem and we notice all sites try very hard to do one thing — keep you social. ‘Try‘ being the keyword. With the advent of AJAX and site design improvements now happening everywhere — quite justifiably — social networking has become an awkward gob of repetitive bells and whistles (some cool and others weak) that make one social site [not so] different from the other.

What we need–

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