Url shortening services like Tinyurl have seen an influx since the release of web services like Twitter. Twitter is a prime example as the services limits the amount of characters per message to 160 much like SMS on cell phones. Yes, you can write / send multiple messages but that’s not really the same, is [...]
ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once
Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their preferred one. It is obviously quite a chore to have to update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce etc separately.
Commenter reactive pointed out ping.fm, a website which in fact I use. [...]
Social Network Status Generator
Have we come this far already? Desperate times require desperate measures it seems. To impress, one has to be witty. This is especially hard on social networks with millions of other users who want to impress as well.
According to the developers of Generatus their product is ideal for the imaginatively challenged. Generatus is a social [...]
Joe Anderson: A belated introduction
As Martin briefly mentioned in ‘Publish RSS News Feeds on Twitter’, I have recently started writing a few posts here.
I’m Joe Anderson and I maintain another Grand Effect blog, Webby’s World, which has been a partner blog of gHacks for several years. My blog, Webby’s World, has been a member of 9rules, a network of [...]
Publish RSS News Feeds On Twitter
Joe Anderson who recently began writing articles for Ghacks send me a message two days ago asking what I thought about Twitterfeed and I had to admit that I never heard of that service before. He let me know that webmasters could use Twitterfeed to publish RSS News Feeds on Twitter. What it does is [...]
Twitter Monitor Monitter
Am I the only one who is getting enough of those third party Twitter Api services that all use (i)tter in their domain name? Despite it’s pretty silly name Monitter, which apparently stands for Monitor Twitter, offers an interesting service.
Users can enter up to three terms in the three columned main interface which from then [...]
Cloud Computing Totally Failed us
Just a word of warning, this is very likely going to turn into a rant. (But not the rant you may have expected)
If you follow tech blogs then you could hardly fail to have noticed the reaction the other day when Gmail went down for the total time period of about 1-2 hours.
The screenshot below [...]
