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January 14, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

Stopping Twitter Updates on Facebook

If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you are going to see a lot fewer updates from me going forward. I’ve decided to no longer send Twitter updates to my Facebook profile. I was having a great lunch with my friend Jim Bernard and he had mentioned that he had severed the …

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January 5, 2009 Jamie Thingelstad

How to Remove Your Facebook Wall

I’ve become more of a fan of Facebook over recent months (see my profile). They have made a number of improvements that I really like, and the number of people joining the service seems to just increase more and more over time. I’m really amazed at home many people you can find …

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November 4, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Facebook Election Widget

This election year is the first with a very well established social networking world. I thought this real-time counter that Facebook put up today was really cool. You can watch the number go up and up in as people report in. This was a screen shot at 9:44 am central time. I love …

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October 31, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Stop Twitter Direct Messages

My relationship with Twitter ebbs and flows. Sometimes I find it very enjoyable, and at other times it seems like a worthless distraction. However, there is one part of Twitter that I have never liked, direct messages. Why not like direct messages? I’m not a fan of anything that …

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October 1, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Looking to extend my AIM network via Twitter. Use AIM, @ me your username. You can find me on AIM under “jthingelstad”.

September 26, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Which is it?

This was from a couple of weeks ago when iPhone OS 2.1 came out. It’s so common on the web to research a product and find completely contradictory opinions. One person will say it’s horrible, doesn’t even work. Another says it’s amazing. Rarely do you see those differences right next to each other in Twitter though.

Two Twitter posts side by side showing contradictory opinions on iPhone 2.1 battery life, one calling it worse, one calling it much improved.
September 21, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Trying Twittelator on iPhone. Like the more advanced features.

September 19, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Facebook should make an IMAP interface to their messaging system. Growing annoyed that I have to check it. 😕

September 19, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Like much of the new Twitter layout, but not a big fan of these super big tabs on the right.

September 4, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Playing with Twhirl for the first time in a while. Really nice.

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