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Twitter and 280 characters

A few thoughts about Twitter and its 280 character limit which slowly devolves into a semi-rant.

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Here's to #London2012

I’m not much of a sports nut. In fact, in order to be able to write this entry, I had to go and look up the exact dates for the Olympic Games 2012. You’ll be relieved to find out that they start in pretty much exactly 64 days.

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Why Twitter makes smart people say dumb things

Slate’s Jack Shafer on if and why Twitter makes smart people say dumb things. It’s an interesting read, not least because everyone who uses Twitter probably reads a whole bunch of stupid stuff in the course of a day. Shafer doesn’t believe that all those people simply

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Formspring.me - Yet another something

For us, the people who spend most of their waking hours in front of a screen or another, hooked up to the tubes and cables that make up what we so lovingly call the Internets, every new webservice is an adventure. A faraway country that’s suddenly appeared on our

I Want Sandy

All is not well - but it isn't real bad either

For someone who’s been signing up for web-services for the last couple of years, it’s nothing new to receive notice that one of those services has gone, as Google would put it, the way of the dinosaur. And most of the time, it’s a natural thing. If

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What I eat

Two reasons to write the following posting. First one is to tell you of that little service that’s tied to Twitter, FoodFeed. It lets you send messages to Twitter, detailing what you’re having. The result then looks like this. It’s fun while it lasts (which was about

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Twitter Friend Requests or The Pitfalls of Viral Marketing

Twitter, the reinvention of the wheel (if a wheel was in fact something people use but don’t actually know if they actually need it), lets people follow other people’s activity stream. So far so good. The fact that Twitter is by now more popular than the Ribwich has

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Jaiku - not Twitter, obviously

Today I received one of the coveted invites to Jaiku*, the micro-blogging service that’s been likened to Twitter a lot (even though it has been around longer). While Jaiku used to be open for registrations, it closed them down when they were bought by Google. Now, what is it

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Twitter limits

Being one of the first people to have blogged about Twitter, I’m not at all uncomfortable with the role of the Nr.1 specialist on the topic. Sure, there are people like Robert Scoble who send Twitter messages before brushing their teeth, but you know, quantity just doesn’t

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Twitbin - and yet another way to twitter

Ah, I just can’t stop writing about Twitter. Somehow there’s just a lot more fun in writing about things that serve no real purpose. Well, here’s another installment in that saga. Twitbin is a Firefox plugin that adds a sidebar to your browser, letting you monitor Twitter

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On distractions

The more avid readers of this website may have noticed a scandalous lack of postings lately. And if there were postings, they were uninspired regurgitations of images, links or, well, nothing much at all. This has to change. But in order to change it, I first have to find out

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Twitter - Chirp your life away

Ever thought that blogs are way too much effort just to relay your day to day activities to a couple of strangers? Well, Twitter’s your answer. Equipped with a mobile and a sense for slicing up your life into little pieces, you are all set to use Twitter. Sign