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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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Pownce on this

June 29, 2007 – 2:06 am

Digg’s Kevin Rose has finally unveiled his secret project, and as you’d expect, it’s spelled wrong.
Pownce offers users the ability to share notes, events, and other media with friends in their network. This is not your typical social networking site though.
The moment you sign up, you are automatically friends with the person who invited you, [...]

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Why I love Twitter

June 13, 2007 – 2:04 am

It’s passive interpersonal communication. You can know what your friends are doing, without even trying.

When I try to explain the logic behind Twitter, most people respond, "Why do you care?"
Because a simple text message or an IM notification is convenient. Sometimes I don’t really care what people are doing, but it only takes 5 [...]

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Tumblelogs are easy

May 19, 2007 – 11:05 am

To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.

That’s the first line in Tumblr’s FAQ section, but I like Wikipedia’s definition better:
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, [...]

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Take the AListApart Survey

May 3, 2007 – 9:35 pm

If you consider yourself a webaholic, and you love to manipulate hypertext, you should take this survey:

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Tweets, Ideas, Codes, and Verses

April 9, 2007 – 7:48 am

The always impressive tag team from Ideacodes, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, just released their new mashup called Twitterverse.

The application builds a cloud of the most commonly used words on the Twitter public timeline. Way to make an already addicting product even more interesting
This is the first Twitter mashup that really collects [...]