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Life After Twitter

Photo by Troy Holden About a month ago, I was let go from Twitter. Everyone has their own view of what happened and why and I’d rather not add to the speculation. What I’ll talk about is my experience there, what I’ve been doing, and what I am working on.

From Dino to Bird: Moving from Raptr to Twitter

Update: Contrary to reporting, I’m not “overseeing Twitter’s products”. I’ll be a product manager. One of many people contributing to Twitter’s future. A couple of weeks ago, I announced that I had left Raptr to explore other options. Raptr was an incredible experience for me and I learned a lot there. I watched and helped [...]

The Fire Hose vs. The Stream

There are two recurring questions that I find myself answering. The two are different but related: “Why would I want to know every little detail about what my friends are doing from Twitter/Facebook/Friendfeed?” “How do you not get overwhelmed by all the people you follow/friend?” My short answer is I don’t treat it like a [...]

Twinkle Hijacks Twitter Usernames

When iPhone apps first came out, there were two iPhone apps people tended to go with for accessing and posting to the popular Twitter service: Twinkle and Twitterific. Since then, superior applications such as TwitterFon and Tweetie have hit the market but the first to market advantage has ensured some measure of popularity with the [...]

Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web

A friend of mine pestered me to join a new site about a month ago. I had heard of it. From what I had heard, it was a new dating site with the worst name: iminlikewithyou (iilwy). As in “I’m not in love with you but maybe I’m in like with you.” The name alone [...]