OK, so, what is the tool I was using earlier in the evening to get lots of responses from my Twitter followers and copy and paste them into my blog? Chris Pirillo’s Twickie.
How does it work?
I ask a question on Twitter.
People respond.
I log into Twickie. It lets me see the tweets I’ve posted. I [...] |
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Is it just me or is Facebook’s growth speeding up?
Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, tonight announced on Twitter/friendfeed that Facebook had passed 175 million users.
Congrats. I told a few people at Davos that Facebook would be THE story of the year in Silicon Valley. Twitter is trying to make it interesting, but [...] |
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Here’s another Twitter test. I just asked my Twitter followers this question: What is the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in the past year?
Within a couple of minutes TONS of answers came in. Here’s the results:
terrysimpson: Filofax
about 15 minutes ago
Sat Feb 14 03:47:10 +0000 2009
angellr: iPhone
about 15 minutes ago
Sat Feb 14 03:47:16 +0000 2009
photar: [...] |
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Have you ever wanted to ask your Twitter followers a question, like what Twitter tool do they use on the iPhone, but wanted to aggregate all their answers into a single post? I did too. Here’s my first test. Literally four minutes ago I asked that question of my followers and here’s all the replies [...] |
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Twitter and friendfeed, about 50 minutes ago, erupted with info about a plane crash in NYC.
One of the first photos (as reported on Silicon Alley Insider) was made by Janis Krums on his iPhone and posted to Twitter. He was on one of the first ferries to get to the scene, just minutes after the [...] |
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UPDATE: yes, I’m insensitive, but this post isn’t an editorial opinion about Steve Jobs, just a note about how his news spread and how his announcement brought into focus the real-time web. Tragedies and bad news tend to focus our attention and bring into relief how our world has changed. I remember how 9/11 did [...] |
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It’s too late to sell your Apple stock. If you sold it today, you are a genius. But tomorrow? You’ll be the biggest loser.
Why? Apple has the best team, the best distribution, the best supply chain, the best management in the business.
Everyone, from Palm to Microsoft to Google wants to be like Apple.
Hint: they can’t.
Hint: [...] |
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Thomas Hawk (his day job is as a financial planner and stock broker) just posted this to friendfeed:
CNBC says Apple’s stock has been halted pending news.
Twitter is going nuts.
CNBC just reported that Steve Jobs is out until at least June due to medical reasons. More over on this thread on friendfeed.
Here’s the email that Steve [...] |
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First, a disclaimer. Seagate is the sponsor of my video show at FastCompanyTV. It has been my biggest partner in the journey I’ve been on for the past three years and it’s been very tough watching my friends there deal with some very tough business issues which ended this week in the ousting of Bill [...] |
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Ever wonder about the business of being on the radio or on TV? Leo Laporte is one guy who has done it all. On the way to this interview we were listening to him in the car on KGO Radio. He was one of the key people who started ZDTV/TechTV, which now is mostly gone. [...] |
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Stick this in your iPod and smoke it!
Famous rock and roll star Neil Young protests the quality of your iPhone (among other things) in a unique way.
Now try to replace THIS with a text blog. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Thanks to Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff for sending this to me.
Tagged: music, Neil Young, Rock [...] |
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Steve Rubel postulates that text is a lot better than video on the web.
Oh, really? Well, explain this graph from Compete.com that compares fastcompany.tv (my video blog) to techmeme (which only displays text and penalizes videos).
Truth is that if you want to build an audience on the web you must use EVERY tool available.
And I’m [...] |
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