On Thursday, I was invited by Brian Solis to attend a dinner briefing in San Francisco with one of his clients. Shortly after arrival, other invitees began to dribble in through the door - a venerable who's who in the tech blogging space, including Jeremiah Owyang, Harry McCracken, Robert Scoble and...

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Beta Beat Since it's turned into Twitter Thursday around here... In a moment of sheer frustration with Twitterrific, I sent out a call on my Twitter feed for recommendations of a desktop Twitter client. Several folks replied with a nod to TweetDeck, an Adobe AI...

Prologue: There are a lot of explanations of Twitter on the Web. What follows is not intended to be exhaustive. But I encounter this question so frequently -- What is Twitter? I don't "get" Twitter -- that I would like to collect my thoughts on the subject, cohesively, in one place. I hope for this ...

Prologue: There are a lot of explanations of Twitter on the Web. What follows is not intended to be exhaustive. But I encounter this question so frequently -- What is Twitter? I don't "get" Twitter -- that I would like to collect my thoughts on the subject, cohesively, in one place. I hope for this ...

“Orbiting swarms of junk careen into each other like billiard balls, creating unpredictable sprays of debris, which in turn meld with other space garbage to weave a moving net around the atmosphere.� The Wall Street Journal’s Robert Lee Hotz, on the debris of space junk caused by colliding sat...

Twitter has been on steroids over the past few weeks. Interesting enough, it was about 2 years ago right before SXSW that twitter fully took off. I hadn’t even signed up for an account until right about the time before SXSW 2 years ago. Interestingly enough, as seen by the below tweets by @mar...

A friend of mine has just set up a Twitter account so I wrote him an email with some instructions on how to get the most from it. Thinking some of the advice might prove useful to others, I genericised it and re-posted it here. Dunno how well you know Twitter - if I’m teaching Granny to suck e...

Written by Dawn Foster. I’ve been on a time management kick lately with posts about reducing my side project overload, managing my time through better prioritization of activities and using Harvest to track my time. One of the things I learned from tracking my time more closely is that I spend...

Everyone’s talking about it. No, not Eastenders. Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Twitter. I’ve been asked several times recently “What is it, exactly?�, and I can only say the usual: it’s a bit like texting, but imagine your text going onto the web, and if people find your texts int...

The battle between desktop notification tools continues. AlertThingy, one such tool with a knack for aggregating a handful of social networks, has released a third version that takes direct aim at competitor TweetDeck. Just this past month we heralded TweetDeck as an innovator in the space for split...