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Four types of tweets

June 21, 2007 – 12:12 am

Twitter is still new, but I have started to notice that tweets come in four general flavors.
The clicker:
These are usually messages that contain a tinyURL. This type of user is either trying to promote his or her blog, or just sharing a funny link.

I would include corporations that use a PHP script to aggregate [...]

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Happy Graduation Class of 2007

May 11, 2007 – 3:56 pm

This is the day that you put in the back of your mind, and hope that you arrive to it in one piece. It’s a day where everything comes together. The realization that you never have to sit in a classroom again. Just when you thought that your scholastic adventures were over, they were just [...]

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Justin.tv is on right now.

March 23, 2007 – 4:57 pm

Let me clarify; this guy is wearing a camera on his head, and it’s streaming live… right here:

As I am watching at 5:38 p.m. EST, Justin seems to be in an office building, and everybody is looking at the camera. People have their camera phones out, and telling from Justin’s head movements, he is enjoying [...]

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The Phone Experiment

February 10, 2007 – 3:07 pm

Luke Johnson put his phone number on YouTube, and invited anyone to call him.

He has heard from over 55,000 people in a month! In an interview with CNN, he said the weirdest call so far was from an older guy who asked him if he was ticklish.

He also said that his favorite salutations are from [...]

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Semantics Are The Best

January 22, 2007 – 10:26 am

The world wide web’s architecture has dramatically changed in the past few years. Browsers wars have been fought and won, and startups have been run into the ground.
With all this shifting and manipulating of technologies, there must be some importance placed on semantics. That is, seperating markup (XHTML) from design (CSS), and even seperating behavior [...]

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Expand Your Vocabulary

December 18, 2006 – 10:25 am

User-generated content rules the web. Just read Time Magazine’s new Person of the Year issue.
Enter Wordie, a utility that allows you to conveniently save a list of words. At first, I wasn’t sure about it, but now I find myself adding words every day. Wordie also appeals to me because I have an affliction for [...]

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