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Entries from March 2008

I got my Twitter t-shirt today…

March 31st, 2008 ·

After doing my flow entries on Twitter I decided to take it to the people on the street…

A lot of people asked how to order their own… You can get one for $20.00 at reactee.com. They ship pretty fast. I ordered on a Friday and received it on Monday (today).
UPDATE: I signed up for an [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Flow · Social Networking · Twitter · Wearing

‘Flow’ - day 7 - My Twitter thousands

March 30th, 2008 ·

Day 7 - The flow rises, but as it gets faster I just want more… I wonder what Scoble’s flow is like…
Here are my previous flow entries so you’re up to speed:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 (no post)

I’m visiting my in-laws this weekend so haven’t been spending much time in the flow this [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services · XMPP · iofy

Salaries way up in Asian IT, articles pointing to brain drain

March 30th, 2008 ·

Something that has piqued my interest in the last year are trends for technology professionals overseas, especially Asia. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I believe it’s important to have an understanding of where the worlds employment markets are…
ZDNet Asia is more frequently featuring stories of significant salary hikes and movement. Local [...]

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Tags: Asia · Hiring · Prediction

Image of CNN covering politics at the Philadelphia Art Museum

March 28th, 2008 ·

 
Took this quick snap of CNN’s bus in front of the Philadelphia Art Musuem. With Obama and Clinton bringing attention to our state we’re seeing more and more news organizations around.
That’s all boring stuff… What is funny is there is a huge, stinking, pile of manure right at the rear end of the bus. It [...]

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Tags: Flickr · Photography · Politics

This morning’s bugs with getting in to the ‘flow’ - starting day 5

March 28th, 2008 ·

Day 5 - 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…
Links: Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - http://twitter.com/sol - http://solyoung.com

This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t go through my email for add announcements… Doing that [...]

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Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · QA · Social Networking · Twitter · XMPP

Twitter ‘Flow’ - Day 4 - Application Ideas and Metrics

March 27th, 2008 ·

Day 4 brings inspiration - this type of stream is like the Internet before Google…

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

It’s been 4 days with a flow approach to receiving data. I skipped adding more people today and focused on getting used to the incoming content. It’s become easy to follow along, so I’ll be adding again. [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · Prediction · Twitter · XMPP · eBooks

‘Flow’ - day 3 - the volume is up

March 26th, 2008 ·

The flow is going and it’s time for plumbing improvements and deeper details on this process…

Day 1
Day 2 

Image courtesy of Komax Systems
Day 3
The question most people have been asking is, “What is the flow like?” Many have described this amount of flow as unmanageable and anti-social. Here’s what I’ve learned first-hand by Day 3…
After wrapping [...]

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Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · Swarmtracking · Twitter · Web Services · iPhone