Sol Young

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Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'

Roz Savage is rowing across the Pacific

June 28th, 2008 ·

Thanks to new Twitter user @waileacapital for posting about a British woman, Roz Savage attempting to row across the Pacific (she rowed across the Atlantic already). If she succeeds she will be the first woman to complete the journey.
Roz blogs on a daily basis during a trip at http://rozsavage.com/blog. Her main site is at http://rozsavage.com. [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Energy · Twitter · YouTube

Twitter’s one-to-many scaling impossible?

June 27th, 2008 ·

Twitter has been having all kinds of scaling challenges. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on the subject. Dave Winer pushed an idea for a decentralized Twitter (and has since admitted the power of Twitter is in its centrality). There is a single, simple, reason for Twitter’s challenges - Math is against [...]

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Tags: Architecture · Blogging · Flow · Math · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · XMPP

Scoble and Gary in DC

June 26th, 2008 ·

MCCXXIII
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Last night I headed down to MCCXXIII, a club at 1223 NW. Connecticut, for a DC Social Media meetup. The meetup featured Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) as guests.
I’ve been following Scoble more than usual this week, as he’s come to DC to interview politicians and government officials with Rocky (@RocmanUSA) and his [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Economics · Education · Energy · Social Networking · Twitter · Utterz

Where is Sol Young (on the tubes)?

June 22nd, 2008 ·

Was just updating the MyBlogLog services tab (not my most liked service, but it has a good listing)…
Here’s a breakdown of the sites and social networks I frequent. Numbers indicate my personal value (10 being daily use and highly valuable and 1 being a land-grabbed account and following the service’s popularity). Plus (+) indicates rising [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Web Services

Micro-blogging a 10-mile run - Broad Street Philadelphia, 2008 - Utterz

May 4th, 2008 ·

I ran Philadelphia’s Broad Street run, a 10-mile race today, while carrying an iPhone, making calls, checking Twitter, and taking and posting pics. I chronicled the day with Twitter, Utterz, Flickr, and TwitPic. I used Snapture, iFlickr, and SendPics iPhone apps.
Quick Links to the streams:

Flickr Photostream
Twitter
Utterz

My plan was to Twitter my progress and TwitPic/Flickr the [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Jaiku · Jailbreak · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nike+ · Pownce · Running · Social Networking · TwitPic · Twitter · Utterz · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone

The night before the Broad Street 10-miler - thumbs and feet ready

May 3rd, 2008 ·

After a few months of preparing for the Broad Street 10-miler, it’s now the night before and pre-race excitement is setting in. iofy’s new office in the Navy Yard of Philadelphia is a block away from the finish line, so this will be a pretty nice way to finish a race. There are showers and [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Geolocation · Nike+ · Running · Social Networking · TwitPic · Twitter · Wearing · iPhone · iofy

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