Andrew Mager

Category Archives: Social Media

HelloTxt has Ping.fm beat

Ping.fm is a way you can update your status on multiple sites with one a few steps. But HelloTxt has a simpler interface, and interacts with mobile better.

I like it better because I can easily choose which services I want something to go to. Ping makes you goto another page, and make groups. Just make […]

This is not what Twitter is for

Twitter asks, “What are you doing?”, not “Please paste any thing under 140 here that you want.”

Josh Chandler is a smart guy that has a good blog and makes interesting videos, but he just lost a Twitter follower.
Josh, try Plurk or Pownce for sharing links and other media.
Also bad: retweeting
I blame Twhirl for this:

Alpha-testing the new SocialThing

I had a chat with Matt Galligan at the Web 2.0 Expo about the new version of his social network aggregator SocialThing. And now, just a few weeks later, the alpha is up for QA.
The new SocialThing looks much more advanced than it’s rival FriendFeed.

The next generation of the site now groups all of your […]

Plurk has Twitter beat on interactivity

I logged into Plurk for the first time in a week yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that people had responded to my messages.
Once you get the hang of it, you can have a lot of fun with it.
I strongly recommend that you start Plurking!

John McCain is using Twitter!

Look out @barackobama. LOL

A first look at Plurk

If you want an invite, click here.
Leo Laporte sent an invite to his Twitter audience to try a new service called Plurk.

It’s a lot better looking than Twitter, and it hasn’t gone down yet. Maybe because they are filtering their users from the start instead of launching for the world when you are not […]