March 13th, 2009 § § permalink
These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app. If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app. I would love it if this could happen. Twitter Features Following/Unfollowing Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature. Search Yep, I want to be able to search. Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed Yep, I would like to have multiple searches Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at… » Read More
February 22nd, 2009 § § permalink
I have been doing quite a bit of marketing via Twitter recently. During this effort, I have noticed a couple of trends in the automatic Direct Messages I am getting when I follow people. (I am assuming that most people have an automatic Direct Message). Some of them I don’t like, some I understand, and some I feel are inappropriate. You make the call, I just listed them in generic groups below. Excited You’re following me? FABULOUS! U Rock! Let the tweets begin. Thanks for the follow! You rock Please check out my Young Internet Entrepreneur blog ****** You totally ROCK, thanks for the follow! Please @me anytime. Seen ***** yet? How can I help U? FaceBook What I don’t… » Read More
February 4th, 2009 § § permalink
This post is a continuation of my post about managing my tasks, projects, and responsibilities. There are links to the other posts at the bottom of this post. Email I have clients that insist on using just email to communicate, which is fine with me because I use GMail, which lets me keep emails in threads instead of as individual emails. This makes keeping a conversation in control very easy. However, my inbox is constantly full. For the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that when I empty my inbox out before bed I have between 20 and 50 emails waiting for me in the morning. Most of them are status updates, automated messages, or twitter messages but it… » Read More
February 3rd, 2009 § § permalink
I really wish I had a video recorder on my iPhone # 48 emails and 92 twitter posts to start out my day… # @jhartikainen yeah, i know. It’s pretty lame that the iPhone cant/wont do it without jailbreak. # @ctshryock you gotta protect the baby!!! *hopefully getting it today, even though its scheduled for tomorrow. # The tubes provide Soma for the masses (social anesthesia) http://tr.im/ed2t # @ctshryock haha, yeah, but he must really LOVE his computer. Is it like putting a kid in a stroller? # @oudiantebi Thank GOD that IE6 is dying, I can only hope that people realize windows has updates available… # asking people to stop posting the same thing to twitter repeatedly. # I… » Read More
February 2nd, 2009 § § permalink
Sick of judgemental people. # Check out the unlimited online backup service chosen by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. http://tr.im/e3d1 # @chriseaster I just noticed that http://www.failedproposals.com has links to http://www.groomsadvice.com and http://www.themanregistry.com!! # Everyone’s site was marked as “This site may harm your computer” on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/dmn29v # How do you get a client to pay, when they don’t answer email or phone calls? *sent invoice weeks ago # I think I might write software that is so convoluted I make 10x what I sell it for, in support… # listening to Blues All Morning Long # Comcast gives 10 second porn preview during super bowl http://tr.im/e6v5 # @stevepowell I wish I hosted it, would be easy…. » Read More
February 1st, 2009 § § permalink
I forgot to listen when I was telling myself that an rss feed will not work as a sitemap for google. What was I doing? # Apparently Wendy’s employees get paid too much http://tinyurl.com/cuupq9 # My blog currently ranks on the second page for my name. There are people who have had websites longer, but I will be #1, oh yes I will. # you follow me, with 1 update in your account, you are following 90+ people and only 5 following you…uh, no I’m good. # Do I even want to know what happened to Dennis Rodman? I don’t think I do. He scares me # Do I accept the offer of $130 for a domain, ask for $150… » Read More
January 30th, 2009 § § permalink
@chriseaster you can learn it! There are 100 different books on any prog language.. # Making arnold palmer’s and cool hand lukes at home: Priceless # Just hand coded and added a google sitemap to mycityheadlines.com # @chriseaster haha, send me an email with what you want, and I will look into it. Learning a new prog language is like learning Spanish… # @chriseaster Arnold palmers are especially good when made with “Simply Lemonade” and homemade ice tea # It’s amazing. I go to bed with 1 unread message, get to work and there are 30 # I have seen 4 people this morning on twitter who follow no one, but have tons of followers…how does that work? # @hospadam… » Read More
January 29th, 2009 § § permalink
welcome to twitter @nakedguyinurpool # uhh…scratch that last tweet. Should be “welcome to twitter @nakedguynurpool” # trying out url highlighting in twitter mycityheadlines.com # one more: http://www.mycityheadlines.com # TinyURL has an API http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html # Pandora please keep your coldplay out of my playlists # altitude is a disgusting misspelling of latitude # @chriseaster The best part of the story was the last 4 lines: “Must have been a slow work day, huh?” # Thank you post office staff for being rude, and for making fun of me. I really appreciate it. # why is my first thought “fight” when my body is already in “flight”?? # @ctshryock @charlesmhudson For fear of repercussions of people literally going “postal” I am keeping… » Read More
January 29th, 2009 § § permalink
welcome to twitter @nakedguyinurpool # uhh…scratch that last tweet. Should be “welcome to twitter @nakedguynurpool” # trying out url highlighting in twitter mycityheadlines.com # one more: http://www.mycityheadlines.com # TinyURL has an API http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html # Pandora please keep your coldplay out of my playlists # altitude is a disgusting misspelling of latitude # @chriseaster The best part of the story was the last 4 lines: “Must have been a slow work day, huh?” # Thank you post office staff for being rude, and for making fun of me. I really appreciate it. # why is my first thought “fight” when my body is already in “flight”?? # @ctshryock @charlesmhudson For fear of repercussions of people literally going “postal” I am keeping… » Read More
January 28th, 2009 § § permalink
@chriseaster Yes, I created MyCityHeadlines.com this past weekend, I can add city feeds to the city pages, & make it easy 2 read their news # Why do some sites rank immediately on google, and some sites take forever? # my blog just gave a page on my blog a ping back…weird! http://www.mkbernier.com # Hey you with the fake twitter account, quit bothering me! # putting your twitter url as your contact url, lame. Use a real website # #just #saw #a #twitter #post #like #this. #wtf? #typing #in #tags #is #hard #to #read #and #annoying # @TechGlance We just posted a story about how android can lear from windows mobile here: http://tr.im/db2m # Coffee shop doubled their clientele through… » Read More