May 7th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Twitter, social media
I never thought Twitter spammers were that big of a deal. Unlike with spam in your inbox, you can just "unfollow" and "block" spammers, you know. However, it looks like Twitter won’t be letting spammers muck up the community they’ve built. I saw the news over on Stay N’ Alive, where Jesse Stay wrote:
Today, […]
May 6th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Facebook, social media
This is a guest article from Robin Cannon, who blogs regularly on web design, social networking and accessibility at his site Fog of Eternity.
I’ve had a Facebook account for a while, I have well over 100 friends, and yet I still can’t see any real point to it. Barring an occasional visit to clear out […]
May 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, Web Apps, social media
Oh dear lord. As if we didn’t already have enough with the war between Twhirl and Alert Thingy (and Feedalizer and bTittleTattle!), here comes yet another AIR app for Twitter/FriendFeed users. This one is from the makers of the Firefox extension, MySocial 24×7, and, like the extension, the app focuses on consolidating your social […]
April 28th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Twitter, social media
Recently, blogger Michael Klier came introduced a Greasemonkey script for identifying Twitter spammers based on the recommendations of a site called "The Twitter Blacklist." The site, which determines who is a Twitter spammer based on a "follow factor" ratio, has blocked 164 spammers to date. Michael’s script looks up the username of the visited Twitter […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Well, it’s back to Twhirl. In my excitement to finally have my Twitter stream and FriendFeed stream all in one window, (and de-duped!) I temporarily forgot my obsession with having Twhirl pinned on top of my other windows, something which is especially important when I’m on my laptop. So, it’s back to Twhirl for […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Here we go again -the battle of the AIR apps continues. This time, it’s AlertThingy in the lead. They’ve just released version 1.3 of their popular FriendFeed AIR app, which you can download from their new and improved web site.
The new version of AlertThingy is an answer to my prayers: Twitter and FriendFeed […]
April 21st, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in FriendFeed, social media
Despite it being a Monday, I was happy to discover not one, but two great posts about FriendFeed today.
One comes from Internet Duct Tape - "How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to FriendFeed." This post features a program that uses Google’s social graph to find links between your Twitter friends and FriendFeed users. […]
April 21st, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Google, social media
Today, Google announced a new site for developers which will help them build gadgets for the iGoogle, the customized Google homepage. In addition to info about the site, available here, the announcement also mentioned some of iGoogle’s new features, including left navigation, a maximized or "canvas view" option for gadgets, and social features for […]
April 18th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Email, Personal, RSS, Twitter, social media
Despite Louis’s attempt to start this weekend’s bitchmeme on the topic of blogs and advertising - damn, Louis, you’re getting good at this! - I’m going to refrain from that discussion (as long as I can resist, that is) and write about something else instead.
…And we thought Techmeme was the echo-chamber!….OK, just kidding, […]
April 18th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in FriendFeed, social media
Something I never really paid much attention to in my emails from FriendFeed was the link to the FriendFeed discussion group, but today I clicked on it by accident. There are 886 messages in there! I saw topics like “add Twine to list of bookmarking services,” “Desktop application for FriendFeed,” and “Way to turn […]
