Tag: Tweet
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And we have a winner…
This weekend was a busy one with the regular life stuff, as well as drawing a winner for the Palm Pre 2 giveaway contest. Through a rigirous and exacting process of filtering new followers reviewing tweets, and generating a random number a random number of times — the winner of the Palm Pre 2, Touchstone…
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5 days left to win a webOS 2.0 powered Palm Pre 2 phone!
Well then, think there’s enough relevant keywords in that post title? 😀 Good, because I really do want to make sure this little phone goes to a good home. WebOS2 is a funky little OS, and hardware running it is very slick. So why not take a chance and enter the contest — who knows, you could soon…
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I’m giving away a Palm Pre 2
Time for another Lifestyle Technology giveaway contest — and this time the prize is one very cool Palm Pre 2 and a few accessories, worth around $500.00. 😀 Over the last few weeks I’ve had a chance to put the Palm Pre 2 through it’s paces and found it to be a solid smartphone. And…
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Emotionally gaming your Twitter stream?
I’ve been watching the development of Littlecosm, a new Twitter client with excitement as it’s one of a new breed that is applying sentiment analysis to derive a result — in this case your disposition in a game. Emotion plays a huge part in Littlecosm. Littlecosm analyzes your tweets and figures out if you’re in a…
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It’s a Book [video]
I’ll let the video do the talking. Hat tip to my friend Tim for posting this on Facebook 🙂
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How to find good music online with social media
In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techblog I started talking about various Internet Radio ‘stations’. Today I realized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm It’s not your average music service. Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music discovery service, focused around the concept of…
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Want to get more ReTweets (RT)?
I just had a quick conversation with a friend about ReTweets. Not enough for a full blog post, but an idea I didn’t want to not write about. The concept is to leave enough room so that anyone who wants to retweet you doesn’t have to work to do it. Here’s a simple formula I use: 140 -…
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Reasons why I unfollow someone on Twitter
Recently I had a great discussion on Twitter about Unfollowing…a much discussed topic of etiquette amongst the Twitterati. One school of thought is that when someone follows you on Twitter, it’s proper for you to follow them back. That’s not my belief though. If that were the case, then it would be impossible for me to…
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A few Twitter tips for TV media
Recently I had the opportunity to help introduce a local TV news anchor to the rather convoluted world of Twitter, via Twitter. That session gave me pause to think about what the TV news media really knows about this new media and its denizens. So, to save repeating myself, and perhaps help a few other…