As Twitter continues its rise in popularity, there are a bunch of tips and books out (or coming out) on how to best use it. There’s The Twitter Book from Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein; the upcoming Twitterville from Shel Israel; the TwiTip blog from Darren Rowse; and I even chipped in with the Twitter… [Continue Reading]
From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. 5

Recently I wrote why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week. I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know. Community. Khayyam Wakil (@iamkhayyam). Khayyam is an outstanding person and one that just keeps on giving.… [Continue Reading]
The Ego Has Landed (Or Has It?)
Last night on Twitter, I saw a pretty high-profile user retweet a message he’d received from one of his connections. It was high praise about this person, and was retweeted verbatim with no changes to the text. My initial reaction to that was to ask the following question to the Twittersphere: The responses came in… [Continue Reading]
Seesmic Web Ups Ante for Twitter Management Tools
Seesmic have just released the preview version of Seesmic Web for Twitter. A web-based version of their hugely popular Seesmic Desktop desktop app, Seesmic Web also has some pretty cool new features not found on the desktop version. The first (and really useful) difference is the threaded conversation option for direct messages. Now you don’t… [Continue Reading]
Sponsored Tweets and IZEA – Is This Twitter’s Future?
I caught a tweet from Ted Murphy today, about how a celebrity was paid $2,500 to post a sponsored tweet. Ted is the founder and CEO of IZEA, the company that owns SocialSpark and PayPerPost. Both SocialSpark and PayPerPost offer bloggers the chance to earn money from paid product reviews. It’s a contentious topic that… [Continue Reading]
Branded Tweetdeck – Great Idea or Waste of Time?
While I don’t use third-party Twitter app Tweetdeck myself (I switched to Seesmic Desktop a while back), I noticed today that both Mashable and TechCrunch now have their own branded versions. It’s basically the same Tweetdeck application but now you can have a dedicated pre-set column for the latest news from both websites, as well… [Continue Reading]
From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. 4
Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week. I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know. Community. Seth Simonds (@SethSimonds). Seth’s an interesting guy. This is someone that shed 45,000 Twitter… [Continue Reading]



