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Guest post by Chris Abraham Abraham-Harrison Back in the earlier days of third-party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter […]
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A mobile database that brings it all together
Two years or so ago during my time at Stanford University, I was carrying out research on the impact of mobile phones around the world for a conference. I was after specific articles, reports and projects — but it was spread all over the place. I spent so much time I wondered why a ‘one-stop,’ […]
Good.ly: a tiny url service for charity
Good.ly: a url shortener to benefit charity from JD Lasica on Vimeo. During the Traveling Geeks‘ visit to London last week, I twice met Alicia Navarro, founder and CEO of Slimlinks, an automated affiliate marketing service for blogs and websites. During our talk she mentioned a little-known service that deserves wider visibility: good.ly. In this […]
Socialbrite developer releases CC plug-in
Last month, when Socialbrite launched, we announced that our developer — Buenos Aires tech guru Esteban Glas — had crafted a Creative Commons plug-in that woud allow users of WordPress blogs to use different CC licenses for each post on the site. On Wednesday Esteban released WP-License Plugin Reloaded to the WordPress community, and already […]
Building for mobile at the margins
Fortunately for us, many of the day-to-day technologies that drive large chunks of our online lives quietly tick away in the background, only reminding us of our total dependence on them when something breaks or goes wrong. We take the complex ecosystem which drives much of this for granted. A couple of months ago, I […]
