Storm in the Cloud
Storm in the Cloud I must confess I’d pretty much forgotten about the T-Mobile Sidekick. Some time ago, it seemed to be popular with the younger set as a texting and communication toy – I vaguely recollect my daughter telling me she wanted one, but iPhones and other cool devices consigned the Sidekick lust to history. A while ago, the maker of the SideKick, Danger Technologies, was purchased by Microsoft and that’s the last I heard of it. Until... [Read More...]
HootSuite – in-browser Twitter client
Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting frustrated with the various Twitter clients that use Adobe Air. These include Seesmic, Tweetdeck and Mixero. All have a lot of really nice features, but I’m finding that they just want too big a share of my system resources and when I want to close them I have to often go into into Windows Task Manager to get them to go away. Clearly an alternative approach would be well worth testing. I tried... [Read More...]
Why I’m Liking Posterous
When I heard about Posterous, I wondered if we really needed another social media platform. We already have Twitter for small posts and there are a ton of blogging and social bookmarking platforms out there for everything else. Being curious, I signed up for an account and checked it out. At that stage, this was pretty much all I did, I couldn’t see where Posterous would help me and with 3 blogs, 2 Twitter accounts and a Facebook account, I... [Read More...]
Tweetboard – Twitter conversations
If you use Twitter, you might have noticed that Tweetboard Alpha has been a (possibly rather annoying) trending topic of late. The developer has been using Twitter to get peopel to sign up for the alpha testing program. I’m not sure I like that kind of marketing, but it does seem to have worked – the developer 140ware has been overwelmed with requests try out the application. Tweetboard is actually a pretty clever idea, one I was tempted... [Read More...]
Mixero – another Twitter desktop app
Wow, there are starting to get to be a lot of desktop applications for Twitter. I’ve already written about two of the ones I use, Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop. Recently the Mashable guys compared 19 different apps – all designed be an improvement on using the actual Twitter website. I had never imagined there were so many of these. Anyway, the other day I noticed a suggestion from David Teicher in a blog comment to try out an application... [Read More...]
Tweetdeck – iPhone Twitter App
Tweetdeck Screenshot Unlike Danny Brown, I use my mobile Twitter apps alot – at least as much if not more than my desktop ones. For a while now, my mobile application of choice has been Tweetie which I wrote about here. I was therefore very interested when I discovered that a Tweetdeck application was going to be released and I downloaded from the Apple App Store as soon as I could. I’ve been using Tweetdeck for iPhone for a few days now... [Read More...]
Twitter Desktop Apps
If you use Twitter to any extent you will have noticed that the Twitter website is not really that good at managing your activities. This is especially true if you follow a lot of people or want to get involved in any of the #chats. Fortunately, when there is a problem a solution is often forthcoming and this is no exception. There are several desktop application designed to help improve the Twitter experience and the two most popular are Tweetdeck... [Read More...]
Social Media & the IT Guy
Social Media and the IT Guy People who market to businesses, (I really don’t like the expression B2B but I guess that’s what it is) often seem to complain that social media marketing techniques are not as successful as they are when marketing to consumers. I’m not sure this is totally true, especially if you include blogs as being part of social media, but it is a fact that there are not too many people in manufacturing spending a lot of time... [Read More...]
Audio and Video Comments
One thing I like about the WordPress platform is that it is easy to use various types of media. I already have video and audio on the Totally Incorrect site and I plan on using more of each. Thanks to the nice guys at riffly.com, I can now include a new level of interactivity. Riffly allows me to include the ability for you to leave audio or webcam comments on the stories – you are not just limited to text any longer. I think this is a really... [Read More...]
Heading for disaster? Back up!
The Totally Incorrect blog is only a few months old, but I’ve already built up quite a lot of posts and done a fair bit of customization on the template itself. I’d be very upset if I were to lose all of this and the other evening I was narrowly saved from the disaster of having just that happen. I’d been to the Mass Innovation Nights event and had some video and pics that I wanted to post. Slight problem – I wasn’t able... [Read More...]
