Tag Archives: Twitter

The Future of Social Networking: Fixing low SNR

By madhan | September 13, 2009

One of the things I ponder about is how the world of social networking is going to evolve and change in the future. It is clear that current modes of communication and interaction are going to change to something else. That will be the next Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/Flickr/Ning.
Obviously, it is hard to imagine what those modes of [...]

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SenseCam: Is it sensible?

By Ethan Hall | September 7, 2009

Recently, I came across the SenseCam Research Project by Microsoft. Although it looks cool, it surely looks like another way to invade your privacy.
Microsoft defines SenseCam as a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn.
The next logical question is where to store these photographs [...]

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Does free mean you cannot complain?

By madhan | May 4, 2009

A recent blog post about Twitter losing tweets drew a lot of ire and flak from various people around the ‘net.
Here’s a typical reaction:

whaa whaa whaaa!
it’s a free service. stop complaining about a freakin’ free service.
There were even wilder reactions. The post + comments disappeared from public view in Hacker News. Did someone think [...]

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Did you lose your tweets recently?

By codemechanic | April 10, 2009

We have lost all our tweets that we have written between  (March 17 - April 4, 2009 )  from our twitter account. We again lost some tweets after April 4th.
Did it happen to any of your tweets? or  Is it just a random occurrence?
One billion dollar valuation is all fine and dandy. But first [...]

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Tonido Thots - Your personal Wordpress

By madhan | April 7, 2009

In our continuing roundup of Tonido applications, we covered Tonido Jukebox, Tonido Webshare, Tonido Photos and Tonido Workspace.
The newest application that is part of the 0.2 release available now is Tonido Thots.
As a long time Wordpress user, I love how Wordpress works. The ability to post interesting things to your blog and share them with [...]

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Web 2.0 Heroes: Some Comments

By madhan | November 21, 2008

 
I recently read the book “Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers“ and it was interesting from several perspectives. The book’s format was Q&A with several luminaries who are shaping the user experiences in the internet today. From behemoths like Ebay, Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, IBM, Sun to startups like Ning, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Twitter, [...]

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