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Why Do So Many Still Fail To Understand Twitter?

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I use to consider myself a computer enthusiast. I don’t any more, nowadays I like to think of myself as a tech junkie. I love my gadgets… my TiVo, my iPhone, my Garmin, and my game consoles. I enjoy reading about new technology and gadgets, and the latest trends on the social networks. I really don’t care what video card or processor I have in my system, and I can swap any component out without much of a thought. It’s pretty strange, considering I’m an administrator for OverclockersClub.com, a large computer enthusiast community.

Today is Monday, and like always I created a new “weekly poll” in the OCC forums. This week’s poll came by request from Dave, the owner and operator of OCC. He wanted to know how many people on OCC used Twitter. I knew this was going to be a one way street, but I went ahead and posted it. Continue reading →

Changes At Google

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Once upon a time everyone thought that Google was unstoppable. However, the worsening economy is taking its tole on search giant. The company has issued a number of official blog posts over the last week or so detailing the changes.

Google Video will no longer be accepting uploads shortly. No surprise there, actually, I’ve been wondering why this didn’t happen a long time ago. Google Video, IMO, should have been one thing… search for (and in) videos.

Google Notebook, a service that I actually love, will be stopping development. However the service will continue to work, for now. I guess with this service shutting down, I’ll have a reason to switch over to Evernote.

A number of services that Google picked up, but never really did anything with will also be getting the axe. Jaiku, Google’s service similar to Twitter and Plurk will be shutting down, and the code released as an open source Jaiku Engine under the Apache license.

Other fatalities include:
- Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service.
- Google Mashup Editor will quit working in about 6 months. Everything should be moved over to the App Engine.

That’s not all of the Google news. Google is also making changes to recruting and engineering. About 100 positions in the recruiting section are being eliminated, and 40 satellite engineering offices in 20 countries are being closed. No word on how many engineers that will impact.

As long as Google doesn’t mess with my Picasa, GMail, GDocs, GCal, or Grand Central I’ll be happy. Though I will miss Google Notebook.

Redesign Week

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Looks like the last week (or whenever) was “redesign week”. Both Twitter and FriendFeed made major changes to their sites. Not eactly sure when either of these happened, considering I haven’t really used these services that much in the past.

While the Twitter redesign is nice, it’s still very uninviting. However the FriendFeed update kicks ass. In fact, I’ve probably spent more time on Friendfeed this past week then I’ve spent since I first created my account. Major props to them!

View me on Twitter | FriendFeed | Plurk

Jaiku Now On Google Servers

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Jaiku, the micro-blogging service similar to Twitter, Plurk, and the many other services out there, was purchased by Google a while back. Just got an email stating that Jaiku has now been moved and is running on the Google servers.

This should give Jaiku a major advantage over Twitter, Plurk, and the others… stability. Will it be enough? We’ll see.

If you are a Jaiku member, feel free to add me. If you aren’t on there and would like an invitation, drop me a line and I’ll throw one to ya when I get home from work this evening.

How Many Plurks Can A Plurk Plurk?

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There is no doubt that I’m a fan of Plurk. I use it far more than Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, or even MySpace. It’s a great service, and I’ve met some really cool people on there. But this post isn about that kind of stuff…

Today one of my Plurk buddies posted a simple request. Can a single Plurk get more than 300 replies? Sure it can… and it did. Now the question is just how far can it go? 1000? Been there. 2000? Getting close. 3000? Maybe.

We’d really like to see just how far this can go. So feel free to jump into the thread and reply. If you don’t have an account, you can sign up for free right here.