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Either by accident, or by well crafted maneuver, Twitter changed their look today for only a couple minutes. Most of the tweets I saw were positive or neutral, although there were several naysayers. Personally I think the new design is cleaner, moving navigation to the right, away from the content area so that it’s easier [...]
While twitter is out repairing its architecture, they seem to have turned off the track feature. track used to be an incredibly useful feature that is very well hidden as a twitter command instead of a part of their UI (epic design fail, or maybe they want it this way). Here’s how to use a [...]
When I first got online in 1993, there wasn’t a whole lot to the web. In fact, I remember that year or shortly thereafter, buying a book called the Internet Yellow Pages. This book basically listed all the best sites on the web in something like 300 pages. Imagine how ridiculous this concept is today–yet [...]
There’s been some speculation on how twitter can make money and while there are detractors who still don’t understand why people would twitter, it’s becoming clear that twitter happens to have captured a unique segment of the population in a way that practically no other site has.
Twitter’s very nature attracts chatterboxes, connectors, social sneezers. [...]
TechCrunch is reporting on rumors that twitter is leaving Ruby on Rails. Of course the comment threads are covered by a heated debate by people either bashing RoR, suggesting their favorite language and platform as the ‘only possible solution’, or both. Nevermind that Friends For Sale, with 630k active daily users scales just fine on [...]
Here are some ideas for using twitter for work. We use this for Planypus since our team is highly distributed (both geographically and temporally). Sadly twitter doesn’t have true group support so what we’ve done is create private twitter accounts for our team and befriended each other. Those of us who have public twitter accounts [...]
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