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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 11

Kwippy Invites

While I do have Twitter, Facebook and several other accounts I barely use them and cannot see a real gain for using them extensively. Quite the opposite. Still, I was invited by Joe from Webby’s World to Kwippy which from first looks seems to be some sort of Twitter clone. It is currently in private [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jul 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Do you like the idea of Identi.ca?

As I’ve said before, I’m not a big twitterer…
I would say I average maybe 1 Twit every 2 days, in fact I don’t know why I even still use the service. I was never turned off the service from down-time or anything like that, Twitter could go down a whole day or two and I [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Show Your Popularity With Twitter Counter

I recently visited the size of Sarah Perez who is running the excellent Sarah in Tampa blog where a Twitter Follower counter caught my attention. The counter looks very similar to the Feedburner counter that I have added to my blog to display the number of users who are reading my RSS Feed each day.
The [...]

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Categories: The Web

Fun and cool way to manage multiple twitter accounts

I stumbled on to a service for managing multiple twitter accounts and at first I thought it was going to be one of those second rate sites, I was put off a bit by the 16×16 logo I saw on the referring page. However when I got to Matt I was instantly pulled in.This is [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Paste Text As An URL

With the rise of Instant Messengers and their web counterparts like Twitter came the problem that users who wanted to post text paragraphs had to divide them up because of the text size limitations of the clients. To be honest I’m not sure why there is such a limitation in first place but maybe I’m [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jun 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Return to Plurk

It’s been about a month now since I introduced Plurk here at gHacks and now that I have had a chance to properly test it, here is an update on the developments over the last few weeks.
The first thing I began to realize was that although Plurk has a great way of managing threaded conversations [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Jun 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 9

Don’t Fancy Twitter? Try Jaiku

I’m not a big user of social networking sites for a very simple reason: I simply don’t have the time. The little time I spend at home can definitely be better utilized than hanging out on Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, etc. Having said that, I know plenty of people who just can’t do without their social [...]

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Categories: Mobiles, Online Services, The Web

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