Tag Archives: twitter

Pownce Is Dead

December 2, 2008 – 11:21 am

Well. Got an e-mail today telling me that Pownce had been bought by Six-Apart, the guys that bring us MovableType and a competetor to Pownce, Vox. Six-Apart is killing off Pownce in favor of Vox. I am assuming that they bought Pownce in part to get a new infusion of people into Vox and get [...]

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Laconica – OpenSource microBlogging

August 27, 2008 – 5:49 pm

I had fun today adding a microBlog to this site at /laconica/. It is called Laconica and is the basis for identi.ca which is an alternative to Twitter which I have mentioned in earlier posts.

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Trying Out FriendFeed Seriously

July 4, 2008 – 11:56 am

Just a quick note that, although I have had a FriendFeed account for a while, I finally decided to get a bit serious regarding using it. I am using the wereveal user name, no surprise. Since it is both a micro-blog and an aggregator of other feeds it really does have some benefits over services [...]

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Twitter, a Second Look

April 29, 2008 – 11:34 am

I have been pondering some more after my first post. People like John Dvorak jumping on the bandwagon got me to relook at the issue. I also received an e-mail from someone who suggested that I needed to follow a lot more people to get a better picture of Twitter. And so, I have started [...]

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Twitter out, Pownce in

April 10, 2008 – 2:50 pm

I have to admit, I still don’t really get Twitter. It seems like it is 99% garbage. Twitter is based on the question, “What are you doing?” and in most cases, people are doing rather nothing interesting. I know I certainly am not. Others use it almost as a web based IM client, which I [...]

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