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Jon Gatrell

2 Cool Twitter tools to simplify your Twitter-verse

have you ever just wanted a snapshot at what’s going on in your twitter-verse? Not my, phrase – the marketing team at Gridjit, not just known for centering on such a simple name, but also for thier key differentiation message:

Gridjit Features:

  • Visualize your conversations in a clean layout
  • Drill through other people’s view on the Twitter-verse by clicking on their profile names and the people they “@” tag
  • Regular updates with more goodies to come!

I use it only for the quick view. ThinCloud has a great iPhone web application for Twitter, much nicer posting.

HINT TO BLOGGERS

Nothing good can ever come from a cron job during a maintenance window. Complex autoposting anyone? Not a good idea.

January 21, 2008 by
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Relevant Links for January 17th through January 20th

Relevant links for January 17th through January 20th:

January 20, 2008 by
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From the stream: Transactional Identity and Communal Data

So I got to thinking about a link from Chris Brogan via Twitter. The link had a very interesting post on communal data and trust. Which got me to thinking about ownership, the right to assign and what owning an identity meant and what attributes are portable. Is identity essentially a concept/social construct, where a “user” is an identity instance or sliver effectively shared within the constructs of the service and within a service’s capabilities. As a user, we overtly agree to acceptably use the service with certain constraints. Can trust be a function of shared identity transactions?

Identity management seems more like a strategy than a portable data set. Is your virtual identity a branded repository or a repository of brands? Does user registration represent the transaction which established a shared transactional identity?

What a terrifically conceptual afternoon today has been thanks to Twitter.

January 20, 2008 by
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When I get old I shall use a mac

Not much you say about [tag]MacBook Air[/tag] that everyone else hasn’t already.  Going bedouin never looked so appealing.

Who really needs an optical drive when you have this other crazy device – Time capsule – a 1TB wireless external drive. Great product marketing and positioning.

Without wires, you’re free to go anywhere.

MacBook Air is the notebook that allows for a fully wireless lifestyle. It all starts with the fastest-available, next-generation 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR built in. And that’s just the beginning of the unprecedented wireless capabilities of MacBook Air.

Ahead of the curve.

In redefining thin, MacBook Air has shed something you no longer need: the optical drive. That’s because MacBook Air is built for the wireless world. So instead of watching DVDs, you can rent movies wirelessly from the iTunes Store. And instead of backing up files to a stack of discs, you can back up files wirelessly using Apple’s new Time Capsule.

January 19, 2008 by
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