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A Twitter book!

January 24, 2008 – 12:24 pm

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood, Jason Howell, and Leo Laporte are collaborating on Twitter.

I haven’t listened to today’s Buzz Out Loud, but I bet that’s where it started. I think this is a brilliant idea, and I will definitely follow it. As of 12:20 PST today, @140novel already has 38 followers.

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Macworld 2008

January 19, 2008 – 11:48 am

Macworld is a big deal in the bay area. This past week, the streets of SOMA were packed every day.
One day 1, I attend visited with exhibit hall. I had to find Terry Chay:

His phone was dying, so Brian Caldwell let him borrow a solar-powered iPhone charger.

The big news was Apple’s thinnovation. Honestly, the MacBook [...]

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“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

January 1, 2008 – 11:20 am

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

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Memorable Demos from TechCrunch 9

July 28, 2007 – 6:26 pm

I say memorable because they fed us drinks.
As the sun set on Menlo Park Friday night, hundreds of interactive web heads gathered on the patio to test and show off their projects.

It reminded me of a high school science fair, but with margaritas and pretty girls.

There were a handful of gracious sponsors, impressive product launches, [...]

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Highlights from WordCamp 2007

July 23, 2007 – 2:07 am

Unconferencing is one of the reasons I moved to San Francisco. They are free, geek-infested, and very enlightening. The open source software community is probably my favorite group of folks to hang out with here.
I spent my whole day at WordCamp 2007, hosted at the Swedish American Hall in downtown SF.

The event was [...]

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Easily follow your Facebook friends on Twitter.

July 19, 2007 – 2:22 am

I am always trying to move my friends over to use Twitter to update their status. I love Facebook’s status feature, but I don’t have time to log into Facebook 10 times a day.
I created a Twitter bot to syndicate my friend’s Facebook status RSS feed.
I also really like using Twitterrific, and I already [...]

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