instant-messaging
Social Media Questions and Answers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Social Media is a huge word in my community. It can be defined in a variety of ways. It’s a way for you to be yourself on the Web, using Websites that are available to upload pictures, text and more. I’ve [...]
Twitter Hacks
This one’s for Steve and Scoble. From fellow twitterite, Martin Broerse, comes this Twitter trick. The hack still in “alpha” stages, but essentially you can store and retreive data twittered to/from designated Twitter friends. First, you’ll need to add two new friends to your list: qr and rq. Now, send a Direct Message to qr. [...]
Top 10 Things that Twitter Can Do
According to nobody, here are the top ten things that Twitter can do: Balance the national budget Detect the presence of anthrax Bullseye womprats Lower your mortgage payment Find lost pets Forge a parent’s signature Slice bread (NOTE: rye only) Debbie Set us up the bomb Cure cancer Okay, so maybe some items are a [...]
Instant SMS Friend Updates via Twitter.com
I did something I haven’t done in a while – opened up the toll-free line (1-888-PIRILLO) to enable you to record your thoughts on the latest Internet addiction, Twitter. According to the unofficial wiki: Twitter is a way of life. It’s living with a publicity policy. It’s friends, Romans and country people the world over [...]
Twitter: It’s pissing me off!
Okay, yeah – so I’m kinda getting twitterpissed. There are a few people in twitterland who I thought were real-life friends, and even though my twitterings are at a minimum, and even though I had already added them as friends, they aren’t reciprocating. WTF is up with that? http://twitter.com/chrispirillo isn’t that difficult to find. Not [...]
Miranda vs. Trillian
As reported tonight, I’ve switched from Trillian to Miranda (for several reasons). It’s been a pretty good experience so far, save a couple of random crashes. Here’s what I love about Miranda: Active development community cranking out updates frequently Slick interaction with popular and minor IM protocols Polished skins are readily available through the directory [...]
Google to Google, Dust to Dust
Does anybody out there use Google’s Hello? Hello!? Yeah, Hello – the photo-sharing IM service that integrates seamlessly with Picasa and Google’s Blogger service. Here’s the problem I have with Hello: none of my friends use it. My real question is: why isn’t Picasa pushing people to use Google Talk, instead – and why isn’t [...]
Is Windows Live Messenger Your Friend?
Sean Carver is a rock star. No, seriously – he’s one of the guys at Microsoft who has always listened to my feedback. Not sure he’s always able to push my suggestions through the pipeline, but he really does listen (and I wish I could say that about more people I kenw). Microsoft just launched [...]
