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Today on the show:
- Apple and Microsoft financials
- Twitter news abound
- Old web properties die
- YouTube RealTime
- Censorship in China: eh?
-and a whole lot more
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Today on the show:
- Amazon bullies a startup because of its name
- Oracle buys out Sun
- More Twitter news
-and a whole lot more
Live from the Social Media Club South Florida, I have a very insightful chat with Murray Izenwasser from Starmark. Murray made an outstanding presentation at the media club and has some interesting ideas in how to leverage the power of social media. Take note, folks – this is a no-BS approach to social media.
Also, I highly recommend you take a look at the slides from Murray’s presentation here: bit.ly/19v38h
As you may have already heard, we are (yet again) changing up the schedule of the TNR Podcast. Why the heck would we do such a thing? It’s simple, really. We couldn’t handle the workload of a daily show – and you have discovered our weakness! It was almost becoming a chore rather than something we looked forward to doing. Not that we don’t love doing it. It’s just that school work, our “daily” jobs, and all the other “stuff” made it really difficult to record at a convenient time for everyone. Not to be outdone by ourselves, we are changing the schedule! And it’s grrrrrrreat!
We are now recording on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 5:30pm EST. And – finally we’re doing it live!
The time that we “gained” from not doing a daily show means that we have finally gotten the time to sit down and figure out how to bring you a LIVE show – something we’ve been promising for a long time! Not only that, but we have also taken steps to improve our sound quality: Lizette and I (Alex) now have our own microphones, with Ben’s mic on his way to him as we speak. We also have figured out how to use the software that makes it all nice and smooth.
So without any further ado, please join us live every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 5:30pm. Click through for all the different ways in which you can participate: Read more »
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Today on the show:
- Apple netbook – we can see the future!
- Twitter connect and all the other “connect technologies”
- Hulu app on the iPhone
- Microsoft stores and the entire Microsoft experience
-and a whole lot more
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Today on the show:
- Skype to go IPO
- Digg gives in to DiggBar complains
- Mobile data card growth slows greatly in Q4 2008
-and a whole lot more
Now that we know what’s taken Apple so long to roll out its Push Notification Service (PNS), we can begin to look forward to all the new functionality it will bring to the iPhone. One of the most disruptive features that the PNS will enable is the ability to be notified of Twitter updates directly through iPhone’s standard notifications – all courtesy of iPhone Twitter apps such as Tweetie, TwitterFon, Twinkle, or all the other Twitter clients available in the App Store (iTunes links). What does this mean for iPhone-using Twitterrers? It means that Twitter updates delivered via SMS/text message are a thing of the past. It also means instant Twitter updates. And herein lies the rub.
Given that Twitter users follow more than a handful of other Twitter users, it would seem problematic to receive all the updates of different Twitterrers at the same time – especially if the Tweets are in the form of an iPhone notification – it would be like getting 20-30 text messages at the same time. In fact, it can very quickly lead to information overload – which in itself can cause headaches, screams for desperation, and the much-feared technology addiction so many of us try to avoid. In either case, instant push notifications to the iPhone will cause a big shift in Twitter usage – leading users to carefully select which Twitter users’ updates they would like to be notified of on their phone instantaneously. And from then on, the usage scenarios will get very interesting and – dare I say – new: whose Tweets will I pick as a Twitter user to be delivered to me at any time? Why will I pick that particualar Twitter user? What is that perfect Tweet-to-notification balance for a Twitter to be on my instant-notification list?
What’s so colossal here? It’s not immediately apparent – but its the fact that Twitter users will now carefully pick whose updates are actually important enough to interrupt them throughout the day via an iPhone pop-up notification. In that regard, I can see only a few Twitterrers per user being on this super-important “instant update” list and these users will have higher levels of interaction with those who get their updates. The opportunities for companies and organizations to market real-time (such as last-minute promotions) is greatly increased as well.
What do you think? Will the ability to get instant push notifications of Twitter updates to your iPhone change your following habits? Will you follow only certain people or will you allow only the updates of a few be pushed to you and thus give them the ability to interrupt you in whatever you’re doing? Talk to me in the comments.
PS: the ability to receive push notifications via the Apple Push Notification Service will save money for the user (no SMS charges to worry about) and Twitter (same here – only for outgoing). The carriers are the ones to suffer here. I know this last piece brings tons of joy to some.
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Today on the show:
- We’re playing with the schedule… again!
- Twitter gets a worm
- Tesla CEO speaks the truth
- Founders want Skype back from eBay
- Some great picks of the week!
-and a whole lot more
Yesterday I published a link to a tutorial by our talented and adorable Lizette Gagné – in which she outlined (in text and in video/audio forms) the steps to change the TweetDeck logo back to its original “sans-yellow” form. That tutorial was for the Mac and today we figured out how to change TweetDeck’s icons on the Windows platform. So as promised, head on over to this post on Lizette’s blog and get rid of that yellow background for yourself!
On a side note – I’m starting to actually like the yellow background of the new logo. On my Mac, I enabled the option to periodically change my desktop backgrounds; when the background is black, it makes the black bird icon difficult to see in the OS X Dock. The yellow border makes it stand out and visible if the desktop background is black/dark. Being visible… well, that’s always always a good thing, right?
On episode 23 of the (internationally-acclaimed) TechNest Report podcast, our lovely co-host Lizette Gagné vented, ranted, and otherwise expressed her frustration about the new TweetDeck icon in version 0.25 of the popular Twitter (and now Facebook) client. But she didn’t just stop there. Letting her actions speak louder than words, she created a video tutorial that guides Mac-using folk in getting the original icon back (Windows version coming soon)!
Lizette has 2 version of the tutorial: a written one and a video one – with the video posted after the break. Read more »
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