According to The New York Times, Michelle Slatalla wanted to keep in touch with her kids via Twitter. But the kids resisted. They said it was spam, pointless and creepy in a surveillance kind of way. Walter J. Carl, an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University notes: “The people who I see using it are an older demographic, people in marketing or P.R. or advertising, who use it for work, …
Today In Twitterverse: MySpace on the Chumby
Eric Rice is a Silicon Valley based artist and designer. The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web using your wireless internet connection. …
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Today In Twitterverse: Crackberry Behavior
Fred Wilson is a VC. …
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Today In Twitterverse: Guess Before You Buy
Even though it's been around for a while, I just found my way to TwitterLit, a site that offers the first sentence from an unidentified book. Provided that the sentence is less than 140 characters, which is Twitter's size limit for text. This offering capitalizes on the widespread like of word games and puzzles. Presently, TwitterLit has 2420 followers on Twitter and offers 541 updates, or posts, each one linked to …
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Today In Twitterverse: Challenges In Wireless Connectivity
Scott Karp writes Publishing 2.0, a blog about how technology is transforming media. …
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See My South Savannah Tweets
I'm using Twitter today (when it's up) for note-sharing on the panels I'm attending at BlogSavannah Unconference 2008. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about unconferences: An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants (generally day-by-day during the course of the event) rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event. The term is primarily …
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Evan "Ev" Williams is a native Nebraskan who went on to help create Blogger, which he and his partners then sold to Google. Now, he and Biz Stone have Twitter and whatever else becomes Obvious. …
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David Weinberger is author of Everything Is Miscellaneous. …