Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Easy Code to Show Your Most Recent Tweets in WordPress
Saturday, March 13th, 2010I’ve been reworking my website today and decided it was time to add a recent Twitter tweet to the front page. I checked out the Twitter widget and several (of the many) WordPress plugins that display your most recent tweets, but decided that they had a few issues. Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, Twitter, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »
Nosquare and Nowalla: Polluting the Stream
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Location-based services are great. But please stop sending updates (check ins) to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is the perfect example of social-networking tie-in gone wrong.
Why do I say this? It’s simple. For those of us that are hundreds or thousands of miles away–which could be many of your followers–tweeting your current location provides zero value. Read more »
Tags: Foursquare, Gowalla, location-based services, microblogging, rant, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue:
…as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all?
This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is as follows: Read more »
Tags: data silos, foaf, foaf+ssl, identiy 2.0, microblogging, privacy 2.0, sioc, Twitter, WebID, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 24 Comments »
Flocking To the Stream
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I recently began to go through some article backlogs on the websites of various people whose thoughts and perspectives I want to understand better. One such person with whom I’m trying to play catch up is Nova Spivack. If you don’t follow Nova then I suggest taking the time to remedy that Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
Introducing Twitter-disclosure Slashtags
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010It’s official. On December 1, 2009, the FTC’s new disclosure guidelines went into effect. So what does this mean for Twitter users?
It means that you must disclose any financial relationship that you have with a product, service, company, or industry that you tweet about.
To make disclosure easy on Twitter, I’m proposing a set of Twitter-disclosure slashtags. Read more »
Tags: slashtags, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
