Archive For July, 2011

What can you challenge yourself to do for 30 days?

By | July 25, 2011

I watched Matt Cutts do an amazing TEDx presentation recently, which was inspired by Morgan Spurlock’s TV series, 30 Days. The idea is to try something new for thirty days. While the concept is pretty simple, the real challenge is finding things that you will try that may be past your comfort level. On August [...]

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I have your house keys

By | July 22, 2011

Would you hand over your house keys to a stranger if they promised to leave you something fun or useful? No, right? The following is one thing you need to know to stop Twitter spam and phishing schemes. Every time you authorize a third party service to access your Twitter account (or Facebook, or Gmail, [...]

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How to create a crowdsourced Twitter traffic report

By | July 19, 2011

This morning’s commute to work sucked. Traffic was at a standstill for much of my drive to the office. It was stop and go, stop and go… very annoying. Had I known about the jam, I would have selected an alternative route. This won’t happen again. Here’s an easy way to create a crowdsourced Twitter [...]

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Nashville tweets and photos are pretty!

By | July 17, 2011

I was awestruck when I came across Sam Biddle’s Gizmodo post which shares visualizations of geo-tagged Flickr photos and Twitter tweets across the world. He wrote that ‘the data from North America is pretty surprising! Twitter use is heaviest on in the Southeast and Eastern Seaboard, with much less action on the typically tech-heavy west coast. [...]

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