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February 9, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Basic Currency of the Internet

Great quote from OkTrends, the OkCupid blog:

The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, and, frankly, our database holds a strong cash position!

Feels so true at times.

February 6, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

LinkedIn InMap

LinkedIn created this cool InMap visualization of your network.

Useless really, but it sure looks nifty. 😀

Network graph showing Jamie Thingelstad at center connected to hundreds of contacts grouped in colored clusters across blue green orange red and purple nodes.
January 24, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

I just posted a 7 character URL that Twitter “shortened” to 12 characters and obfuscated in the process. 🤷‍♂️

December 10, 2010 Jamie Thingelstad

Twitter Spam

It’s clear to me that spam on Twitter continues to be a growing problem. Tonight I posted a simple question about weather apps on the iPad. Within seconds I got these really helpful replies from four attractive women that supposedly follow my every message, including one that …

Keep reading · 1 minute: Twitter Spam
October 21, 2010 Jamie Thingelstad

Check out Eventburn. Built by my friend Dan Frankowski and Max Harper. Social media view of events. Cool!

October 1, 2010 Jamie Thingelstad

I finally spent some quality time on Quora. I like it. Here is my profile.

September 12, 2010 Jamie Thingelstad

The Lightroom 3.2 → Facebook workflow is very, very slick. Only problem is you cannot replace a photo. Republish deletes and uploads again. I expect that is a Facebook limit.

May 27, 2010 Jamie Thingelstad

Social Media iPhone Icons

Noticed this on my iPhone screen the other day.

What is it with the blue? These companies are supposed to be thought leaders but they can’t help but fall all over each other to have the most boring, bland and similar logos?

Where is the red? C’mon people. Make it at least seem interesting!

Three iOS app icons side by side: Facebook blue f logo, Twitter blue bird logo, LinkedIn blue in logo, all with rounded corners
November 11, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Twitter’s new Retweet mechanism needs a global setting to turn of ALL retweets, in addition to the per user capability.

November 10, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Just got the new retweet features turned on in my account. Looking forward to being able to disable nearly all retweets! :-)

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