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April 14, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Okay. So I just had to try out Birdhouse. It’s actually pretty fun and it is very fast since it’s not pulling in Twitter info, just pushing.

April 2, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Mentioned my Twitter info at the end of a talk I gave today. Looks like some picked up my Tweets. :-)

Line graph showing Twitter follower count for thingles rising from 476 to 481 between 3:42pm and 8:23pm on April 2 2009.
April 2, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Friendly Social URLs Using Redirects

Have you ever thought it would be nice to be able to easily give someone the URL to your Facebook profile? It’s not easy with the id number URL that Facebook uses. Just try saying “go to facebook dot com slash profile dot php question mark id equals six hundred and five million …

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March 30, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Tracking Twitter Followers with Cacti

Two weeks ago I was one of the guests on Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio for a show about Twitter. The result has been a lot of conversations lately about Twitter. I was intrigued to see how many people had started following me from the show and before you knew it I felt the …

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March 29, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Twouble with Twitters

Current just posted a video mocking the “twittersphere”. Well done, and pretty funny too. :-)

Of course I saw this via mkortekaas on Twitter. Hmmm…

March 28, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Twitter and Onions

garrickvanburen: Cullect has shown me that indexing, archiving, and ranking tweets has much in common with peeling an onion.
thingles: does that mean it makes you cry? :-)
garrickvanburen: more often than I’d like :)

March 22, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

I’m already exhausted and bewildered considering all the iPhone Twitter clients getting push notification. Please make sure it’s optional.

March 16, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Guest On Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning Today

This morning I got the opportunity to be a guest on Midmorning at Minnesota Public Radio. The topic was Twitter! We were on the 2nd hour of the Midmorning program. We were hosted by John Moe and I was joined by Julio Ojeda-Zapata and there was even a call-in from the awesome John …

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March 11, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

P2: The New Prologue

I was a fan of the original Prologue, and this new iteration of it looks even better.

I’m struck by how easy it would be to setup a private Twitter-like service for just the people you want to hang with. That could be fun, particularly as Twitter becomes less and less interesting and more and more overcrowded.

February 19, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Enough Twitter already!

Printed sign for students announcing kiln class updates are available at twitter.com/NCCkilnupdates on Twitter.
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