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September 4, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Trying out TweetDeck for the first time.

August 17, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Linking Brightkite into my Twitter account in preparation for our London Summer of Love extravaganza.

August 12, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Thanks for all the Brightkite invites – Barry Hess to the rescue! I’m all setup now.

I must have been the last person on Twitter to get on Brightkite. 🙂

Grooving on Brightkite. It’s pretty cool.

July 30, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Seems like a lot of “spam friends” coming on Twitter lately. It needs to be easier to identify these and block them.

Your friends list on Twitter.com should show basic stats of friends and provide 1-click actions. That would help a lot.

Clearly Twitter is going to need to deal with a recent sharp increase in spam activity.

April 29, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

I wish that anyone that did anything with avatars would just get their act together around one source. They need to be universal.

April 29, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Something seems to be driving increased Twitter adoption. I’m getting a lot of people I know signing on and following me. Welcome!

April 23, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

For some reason I feel like I need to avoid Facebook chat as if it were some virulent strain of bird flu.

April 13, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

I sent this tweet four hours ago. Your getting it now, in the future, from me in the past.

One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.

March 31, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

Getting tired of the more and more elaborate April Fools things from various Internet sites. Perhaps I’m being lame.

March 25, 2008 Jamie Thingelstad

FriendFeed Duplication via Mashing

I’ve been working with financial news for years now and there is a really common problem in financial news, deduplication. The issue is when several news outlets will cover the same story or even redistribute another sources story, creating duplicates that readers find annoying. …

Keep reading · 1 minute: FriendFeed Duplication via Mashing
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