I’m pretty opinionated when it comes to Twitter. I use it a lot, and I’m often annoyed by it almost as much as I’m delighted by it. Because of that, I’ve built up a list of etiquette rules in my head over time, and I’d like to share those rules with you now. I’d love to hear yours in the comments.
Recently on Twitter, I wrote a very confusingly-worded feature request. I later realized the idea made no sense after being compressed into 140 characters, and I figured I should probably just write about it here. I think it would be really useful, and I hope they implement it. When a person follows you on Twitter, [...]
I recently stumbled upon an amazing new artist called Pogo, and I want to share a couple samples of his work with you. His mood and insight take my breath away. Pogo makes music by reusing pre-existing material. He samples and loops and clips and layers. Sometimes he adds his own drums or an original [...]
I just had a really odd idea for a fun social web application, and in classic form, I’m just going to hand it out rather than make it myself. Call me lazy. No, go ahead. Call me lazy. I’ll wait. OK, my idea: you may have seen things called “soundboards” before. Arnold Schwarzenegger has quite [...]
Occasionally, I’ll see a price on Amazon and wonder whether it’s really a fair price or not. Did Amazon recently hike it up? What about the 3rd-party vendor prices for new and used versions of that product? It’s hard to tell. I found a site today called CamelCamelCamel that does exactly that, and it really [...]
I just noticed this recently, and I thought I’d shoot a little movie about it. Enjoy! Can’t see the movie above? Watch it here.
The topic of how Twitter might make money is so popular these days that people are writing Onion-like parodies of news stories announcing Twitter’s plans. That particular story was a really popular link on Twitter today. But the question remains: how will Twitter make money? I think I know at least one of the ways [...]
