As an avid Twitter user I was extremely thankful to see the release of Twhirl the application that let me post to Twitter without being logged into the website, then I found TweetDeck, to which I am addicted, mainly because it allows me to create interest groups in columns and read the Tweets I want [...]
October 27, 2008 By
Phones, Phones everywhere
Which smartphone is for you? I am trying to decide which smart phone is right for me, it occurred to me there are probably quite a few other people trying to make the same decision, so I have pulled together the features and information that I felt were important and put them in one place [...]
October 24, 2008 By
Plaxo Reaches Out
Plaxo taking the Pulse I recently got the chance to talk with John McCrea, VP Marketing at Plaxo. This came about as the result of a series of Twitter exchanges. John was obviously watching the Twitter stream and saw my exchanges with another Twitter user regarding Plaxo. He then reached out [...]
October 23, 2008 By
Keep Blogging Weird: Not Wired
In a recent article for Wired Magazine Paul Boutin declared the Blog dead. His argument is that blogs were good while they were being written by the little guy but now that the blogosphere is dominated by the likes of the Huffington Post and other magazine style writings, the little guy should move over to [...]
October 22, 2008 By
Don’t You Want Me, Business ?
Please Call Us I have been trying to find a web hosting company to move this blog to. You would think that would be fairly straightforward. I have certain criteria, like a wordpress install included in the webspace, reasonably priced etc. but nothing too difficult or demanding. In the past two weeks I have visited [...]
October 21, 2008 By
Don’t Cage Twitter
Talking Web 2.0 There are endless posts that cover the taxonomy of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Most of these are technical or at least technology based. They describe the use of API’s, codesets, javascript, browser apps, cloud computing, user generated content and on and on. About halfway through that last sentence your average marketer had [...]
October 20, 2008 By
How May I Help You?
Following on from my post on Friday – How to Improve your Twitter gradings and why you should – if you have decided to follow those steps you are probably already seeing results, growing your network, so what is the next step? This coming Friday, October 24th I have decided its time to put online [...]
October 17, 2008 By
Twitter Gradings: How to improve them and why you should
There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks about two twitter ranking tools – Twitter Grader and Twinfluence. Twitter grader is provided by Hubspot a Cambridge, Mass based Internet Marketing company founded by two MIT grads. Twinfluence is the tool of Innovation Insight a Florida based technology development and research consulting [...]
October 16, 2008 By
What 3 things are you trying to control?
According to the United States Marine Corps, 3 is the magic number. The Marine corps operates on the rule of three’s. Each leader is only responsible for three units at any one time. This got me thinking, how many things are you trying to control at once. Do you ever manage to control more than [...]
