Twitter
is a website dedicated to sending short bursts of information. Founded in 2006
by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone,
the company has grown to $140 million. It’s famous line: "What are you doing in
140 characters" is a mainstay for years.
A little rough start as I started to use the uStream Producer for the video. Too many balls to juggle for now…Sat. Feb 20th @ 10:59 P.M. Paul Edward Powers entered the world. Congratulations to this weeks Winner of Diskeeper 2010 – LeonChan, we will give another away next week. FAWM coming to an end. […]
Last week when Google Buzz came out, all the Social Mediates jumped on board like the last boat of the day starting to leave the dock. Instantly, we saw everyone posting “I am Buzzing”, and others rebuilding their Social Media lists. The big names pretty much dominated the Buzz. But it did become an opportunity for a […]
Well the big news from Google today was Google Buzz. Not to be confused with Yahoo Buzz – which might cause some friction because they are both social networks. Some even say it’s trying to be Facebook. Google Buzz is GMail in real time. You can add to email in real time. Kinda like Wave […]
The BBC reports that a phishing scam involving torrents has been uncovered. Their headline implies that it targets Twitter. It doesn’t, not specifically. Twitter seems to have been responsible for revealing it. The way it worked was really quite clever. After a while, the malware would phone home with the list of usernames and passwords. […]
Reuters is reporting that a security flaw in Twitter exposes users’ login credentials. It’s related to a known vulnerability in the Adobe Flash programming language. From the article: Some of the comments I’ve seen are wondering why Twitter hasn’t fixed this. I was starting to wonder why the flaw still exists in the Flash programming […]
The CES Show is over and I was beat. Trip home was not that great. Videos are coming up, twice daily. Thanks to the crew and check out the awesome 2 day coverage at the NBC Universal stage. Our good friends let us borrow the stage to create that show. I give you my take […]
Geekazine is proud to present the Madison Tweetup – December 2nd at the Dry Bean. Festivities will start at 7 PM and will go until 10 PM or until we choose. Come on down and talk with other local social mediates. Frank Busch (MSB) will be providing the music for the evening. We will be […]
I started my career answering hate mail from customers in customer service. Statistics at that time, back when persons communicated by telephone, letter, or even occasionally face-to-face, showed that someone who got bad service would tell, on the average, 10 persons; someone who got good service–that is, someone who got what he or she paid […]
OK, so this show ran long and I was getting ready to say something about Hulu, but then BAM! totally forgot about it. That never happened before during a show. I was going to talk about my thoughts with Hulu and their pay service. But that will have to wait until next week. Windows 7 […]
Reteurs reports that both Twitter and Bing! plateaued in September. What growth Bing! has continues to be at the expense of Yahoo, rather than of Google. According to the Guardian, Twitter growth has stalled before, only to recover the next month. (See the second paragraph of this story, which also reports that Twitter has made […]
New Brakes on the Car – Day in Tech History work – Great Roundtable this last week – CES2010 prep. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. GoDaddy for $7.49 domains use podname150 – 10% off hosting use pod150 Click here for Free Industry Resources! All […]
“Tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet,” without paying royalties. The Guardian reports that Twitter’s attempt to trademark the word, tweet, has failed, not because the idea is silly, but because someone beat them to it with . Now, I can see that trademarking terms such as “TweetMarks,” “Cotweet,” and “Tweetphoto,” because they are made up words meant to […]
The New York Times reports that another DDOS attack took down Twitter yesterday evening. (Having no interest in Twitter, I wouldn’t know first hand.) The story is here. The article also considers why Twitter is so vulnerable. The expert* they interviewed theorizes that Twitter’s network infrastructure has not kept up with its popularity. Mr, Lyon […]
1 away from 100 – Madison Non Profit Day – Thanks to all on Summer of Podcasts. Winners will be contacted soon – Other giveaways – The Newest Podcast in Geekazine: the Day in Tech History – The New Computer is Ordered and Coming. It includes: ASUS M4A78t-e with Phenom II X4 – 945 Take […]
When I first saw reports–I think on Reuters–that the DDOS attack that brought Twitter down and Facebook to a crawl on Thursday was directed at knocking one blogger in Georgia (country, not state) off line, I was somewhat skeptical. But this morning it was in the New York Times, so It Must Be True ™ […]
New iPhone – Week 3 Summer of Podcasts – Should the bitrate be 64 or 96? – Should the podcast contain music? – Show Transcript? – My Interview Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones Save 15% on […]
Power dot com, an agregator for social networking sites, has sued Facebook over issues of access. The suit, however, is framed in terms of “Who owns users’ data?” The Reuters story (full story here) is short of details of what exactly Power dot com wants to do with the data, but I’m guessing it’s an […]
What a difference a day makes…. Apps Well, not really. I am still happy with my purchase. Last night I spent some time working out some of the settings. I also have been getting apps for the phone. The Bug Spray app was not that great. Was really razzing people with the iHandgun app. Drum […]
July 4th was a Blast – Summer of Podcasts Week 2 – Summer of Geekazine Winner – Michael – The Paypal issue – Studio almost done – The Green Screen Video – CES 2010 Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order […]
Day Off – Sort of A late Ramblings this week as I decided to stay offline last week. It was a long week and I was playing all weekend. It has been a while since I last took more than 24 hours off a computer, so that is a big feat for me. HP Tech […]
The new location is cool – Setup a temporary desk while figuring out office – SuperChirp – Heading back to Vegas for the HP Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones All Show Notes are also on Delicious […]
Shorter show because still at the old Place. I’ll tell you why – TVazine videos doing well – Weekend in Grand Rapids – Summer of Geekazine Contest going on. Win an Epson Artisan 700. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order […]
The New York Times warns of a rash of phishing attempts on Twitter. Read the full story here. An excerpt (emphasis added): In his podcast, Jeffrey routinely warns listeners to take care and pay attention if they check out a website he has not yet personally had a chance to vet (and to let him […]
Contest has closed. Thanks to all participants. This month we are giving away an Epson Artisan 700 printer. This is a wireless printer /scanner with CD/DVD printing capability. Here are all the options: There are three parts to this contest. On June 30th, we will draw a winner from all the names recieved (randomizer on […]
Last week in this place. I ate a lot of Brats this last weekend. Goodbye to friend ‘Supergirl’. Show Prep on Google Docs. Still need an iPhone App developer. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones All Show […]