Sol Young

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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Steven Hodson, in a post over on Mashable, describes security risks and the waste of information that mobile phone GPS use brings (when pinpointing and announcing our locations). He poses some extremely valid points in regards to announcing one’s geolocation via Twitter, Brightkite, or FriendFeed being useless noise.
Telling people via a highly conversational medium such [...]

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Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]

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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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I’ve been using FriendFeed and del.icio.us more and more lately. Viigo (one of the best mobile RSS experiences available) has direct push to del.icio.us. It’s far superior to the iPhone’s mobile Google Reader sharing experience, so I’ve been happily consuming and sharing.
But FriendFeed isn’t updating these del.icio.us posts. It would be understandable if everything [...]

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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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