Trick or Tweet?

October 30, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Nutrition 2.0, Search Engine, Twitter 

A couple of updates heading into the weekend.

Wolframalpha posted another nutrition (and Halloween) related blog entry about using the engine to compare and/or total brand name candy nutritional information.  The data they use is from the latest USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.  A neat trick to quickly make comparisons without manually finding the data.

Twitter released its own official Lists feature to all users this week, enabling anyone to create a list of recommended members to share or keep private.  It is also useful to separate those you follow into groups to track by topic.  It should make it much easier to find people and tweets of interest to follow.  There are a number already created for food and health.

Happy Halloween!

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Brizzly – what Twitter should be

September 9, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Mircoblogging, Twitter 

For heavy Twitter users, it can be frustrating if you don’t use a 3rd party application like Tweetdeck or Seesmic because the web interface lacks features of these applications.  Still, many people seem content with the simple web interface and have no need for feature heavy applications.

Recently I received access to Brizzly, a Twitter web interface still in private beta.  It has a similar layout to the Twitter website but adds the following things that Twitter should have but doesn’t (yet):

- inline display of video and images
- trending topics with context
- groups
- multiple account support
- multiple drafts
- muting
- bolded @ and DM notifications
- refresh link appears when new tweets arrive

So if you like the simplicity of the Twitter website but want a few extra conveniences, it is worth checking out.

brizzly

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Tutorial: basics of Twitter

August 19, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Microblogging, Mircoblogging, Tutorials, Twitter 

Here is a short tutorial on using Twitter.

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVUNcREVIR1xfQ19bWVlfXlRX/tutorial_the_basics_of_twitter

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Cotweet for businesses

July 14, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Twitter 

If you own a health related business, especially if it is based primarily on the web, cotweet is a perfect solution to ensure (potential) customers remain engaged.

Instead of each employee creating a separate twitter account, cotweet lets multiple users tweet from one account, each with an identifier called a cotag.  Multiple accounts can also be mananged, if needed.  @replies on twitter are sent to whoever is set to “on duty,” so replying is never accidentally duplicated.

Email notifications are an option when @replies are sent to your account, and replies may be assigned to different users for followup.

These are just a few of the many features cotweet offers.

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Seesmic – a desktop and now web based twitter browser

July 13, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Twitter 

A heads up on a major update from seesmic’s twitter browser, with an upgrade to their desktop version and a great new web version: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/07/seesmics-web-offering-is-best-twitter.html

Check it out at http://www.seesmic.com

Heavy competition for tweetdeck (which I use), but this web version could come in very handy.

For those who are new to twitter and these browsers, they are a great way to organize tweets into groups.  After you follow a large number of people, following from the web interface becomes difficult; some tweet often, some not so much.  With Seesmic and Tweetdeck (and a couple others), you can create groups to ensure you see the important ones.

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