Archive for Twitter

It is so obvious when I’m in a writing mood, the tweets comes in flows. Follow @tdh for bite-sized madness.

Want to know how I display my latest tweet in the top right, and cache it on top of that? My buddy @dmrsweden made an awesome library, available on GitHub.

I’ve got a pretty full plate right now and hopefully I can get back to you guys with some news soonish. Meanwhile, I’m tweeting more, so be sure to follow @tdh for some commentary, regular nonsense, and good ol’ chitchatting in 140 characters or less.

I’m happy to tell you all that I’m now tweeting under @tdh, rather than the somewhat cumbersome @tdhedengren. If you already follow me you won’t have to do anything, the @tdhedengren account just changed its handle. However, if you don’t then you should know that @tdh is for communicating with me, and @tdhedengren features links to all things TDH across the webosphere.

I had to take down the Stream page, which featured posts from across various social networks, because the WP-Lifestream plugin started to act up. Again. That one can never stay working for more than a couple of weeks, it seems. Will look into it later, for now just follow me on Twitter and fan me on Facebook, will you?

Twitter is crowdsourcing translation to other languages than English. I like.

Delicious, another casualty of search

I used to love Delicious, I really did. It was the bookmarking tool, one of many, that made sense to me back in the day. But things change, or in the case of Delicious, they don’t and that was the problem. Today’s Delicious isn’t far from the service I used on a daily basis years ago. And now it is shutting down, as widely reported.

Maybe that’s the reason why I’ve added a mere handful of bookmarks to my account this year, and not even once looked anything up. I used to do that you know, but no more.

Why? Well, there just isn’t any need for bookmarks in that sense anymore, search is that good.

There might have been a place for Delicious in today’s social web. After all, it could be a bookmark/link discovery engine and I’d like to think that could’ve complemented Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader in some way. That is, if Yahoo and Delicious had been on the ball earlier in the game.

That ship have sailed. So long Delicious, and thanks for the early years at least. You used to matter, there’s always that.

In case you’re not following @tdhedengren on Twitter, I’d like to let you know that I’ll be tweeting daily productivity tips for a while. In fact, I have already started.

Don’t ask me to retweet (the wrong way)

Twitter (I’m @tdhedengren there in case you didn’t know) is a great service, I like it a lot and although I must say that it works better as a conversational tool in the tight-knit group of new media-ish people in Sweden than it does on an international scale, I still find it more living and exciting than, say, Facebook. Which could change, and sometimes isn’t true, but I digress.

One of the problems with Twitter is all the retweeting. I’m utterly fed up with all these links being pushed out, almost always automatically, from accounts not really interested in a conversation. Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely OK to feed your Twitter account links to your latest blog post (I’m doing it), but if that is the sole purpose of the account’s existence then make sure that people know that. If they want to subscribe to your online activities that way they will, and everything’s good. Continued →

You might remember my post on rebooting RSS, syncing it with the steady stream of news hitting Twitter. It is going great, but the experiment needs more time. I’ll get back to it in a week’s time or so.

Rebooting RSS in the time of Twitter

I have this theory. There should be a golden balance between RSS subscriptions and Twitter (you should follow me). I haven’t opened my RSS reader in months, and when I did it was obviously quite full. Why haven’t I touched it? Because of Twitter and the fact that everything important ends up there, and gets ReTweeted to oblivion.

Franky said it best: “If it ain’t on Twitter it ain’t important enought”. Or something like that. Continued →

9 ways to get me to follow you on Twitter

I love Twitter. In Sweden Jaiku used to be king, but these days there is no stopping the juggernaut and I not only have interesting conversations with followers and friends on Twitter, I also negotiate deals (or start to at least), sell the occasional gadget lying around, and make valuable connections.

In short, Twitter is a powerful tool for me. You should follow me, obviously. Continued →

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