Apture is a free* plugin for your blog or site that lets you build links to external sources with one click. More importantly, it allows visitors to view the content of those links without leaving your page, increasing reader time-on-site and enhancing visitor experience. To see Apture in action, hover your mouse over the icons that [...]
Category Archives: twitter
Twylah Turns Your Twitter into a Blog
August 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Twylah may be the best yet online upgrade to the default twitter.com interface, particularly if you’re desiring to build interactivity with your account and the brand it represents. Twylah automatically collects all your tweets on a nicely-branded, blog-like page. When you send out a tweet via Twylah, the program automatically appends a bit.ly link to [...]
Two Sites Turn Facebook and Twitter Into Personalized News Clippers
May 10, 2010 – 1:28 pm
Social web services like Facebook and Twitter present us with a daily avalanche of information, much of it in the form of links to outside sources. While much of it may be trash (as far as any individual reader might be concerned) there are often many jewels among the garbage. Jewels that can be easily [...]
New from Twitter: Embed Tweets in Your Web Page
May 4, 2010 – 12:34 pm
HOW TO: Embed a Tweet – http://bit.ly/bhXAlWless than a minute ago via bit.lyPete Cashmore mashable The above tweet was embedded directly into this blog post (look, Ma, no screen capture!) using Twitter’s new Blackbird Pie app.
How to Archive Conference Tweets Using Google Reader
March 8, 2010 – 9:17 am
Since its inception people have found many creative uses for Twitter, but to my mind one of the most useful has been as the collective, real-time public notebook for conferences and special events. Smart conference organizers establish and publicize a hash tag for conference tweets, enabling participants to converse about what’s happening and for non-attenders [...]
My New Social Web Flow: Buzz to Twitter to Facebook
February 22, 2010 – 2:18 pm
I’ve been an enthusiastic early adopter of Google Buzz since it appeared in my Gmail inbox the day after its unveiling. As a one time huge fan of Friendfeed, the interface was immediately familiar (though lacking in some of Friendfeeds best features). I’d often been frustrated by how awful Twitter is for carrying on any [...]
TwitBlock: Best Tool Yet for Fighting Twitter Spam
August 26, 2009 – 7:52 am
It was inevitable: as fast as Twitter became the fastest-growing social media outlet, it also became a primo target for Internet spammers. Most people I know on Twitter who use it regularly have said that they’ve noticed a sharp uptick in the amount, persistence, and outright obnoxious-ness of Twitter-spam in the past couple of months. [...]
The SEC Makes One Hell of a Bad Call
August 19, 2009 – 6:05 am
College sports’ Southeastern Conference (SEC) has probably had to overrule a few bad calls by umpires in its day. This week it was forced to overrule one of its own calls. The conference had actually proclaimed a ban on any and all social media postings about its games by fans at the games. This meant [...]
When Auto-Tweeting Fails
July 6, 2009 – 6:18 am
I’m a huge fan of the Tour de France; love to know what’s happening over there as it’s happening. Downside of “over there” though is that most of the happening happens while I’m at work “over here.” So I was looking forward to this year’s race, sure that Twitter would come to my rescue. And [...]
Twitter "Improves" Following/Follower UI by Making It Worse
July 1, 2009 – 6:30 am
When it comes to user interfaces (UI), the “U” should also stand for “useful.” Flashy is no substitute. When I heard yesterday that Twitter had “upgraded” the UI for both “Following” and “Follow” pages for users logged in at twitter.com, I assumed this would mean an improvement in usability and usefulness. At first glance, the [...]
