The Twitter team has been working overtime with fixes intended to resolve the growing pains associated with the microblogging service, with regular updates at the Twitter blog and the Twitter status blog.
I am a little surprised and disappointed that several core Twitter features have been disabled in the interim.
The loss of private messaging I can live without (for the short term), but what happens when you are handicapped in your ability to follow conversations?
Witness the page for Jeremy Palmer’s Black Ink Project:
The pages show the twits originating from Jeremy, but the “With others” tab which you could click on and see the 2-way conversation is now missing.
If you want to track the conversation, you’d have to hit the “in reply to” hyperlink.
[At least that’s how I remember how I used to track conversations…]
So if you’d like to follow an active Twitter user, you’d be hitting the “in reply to” link pretty often and opening up a bunch of windows and study the timestamps and figure out the chronological sequences.
I may be wrong, but I thought the purpose of these technologies was to make things easier, rather than give me some weird sudoku-like puzzle to figure out what goes where?
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Having installed the latest version of the Flock social web browser (based on the Mozilla code, which Firefox is based from), I noticed that there’s an integrated Twitter module.
Take a look at the left (more…)
If you’re using social networking/web 2.0 technologies to generate traffic and you aren’t using the Flock web browser in your efforts, you’re missing out in a big way.
The Flock development team has just launched a new version of their software, Flock 0.9.1.
Here’s a screenshot:
It now sports improved tabbed browsing features, together with integration into web services like the major blogging engines, as well as photo and video services.
Note: If you want to get the maximum benefit, you’d need to (more…)
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs threw down the gauntlet at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, announcing the launch of Apple’s Safari browser for Windows. The upcoming Apple vs Microsoft battle promises to be more exciting than Microsoft vs Netscape a couple of years ago. But what does it mean for Internet Marketers?
For starters, the Apple browser is pleasantly looking.
In my book, Microsoft Internet Explorer is probably the ugliest browser. Mozilla FireFox is pleasant to work with, although Flock the Social Browser (loaded with Web2.0 functions) remains my favorite (and I’m composing this entry within a Flock window now).
Safari shows promise.
Among it’s features:
- Tabbed browsing: (If you don’t have 30 open windows, you’re not a hardcore Internet Marketer…yet)
- Built-in RSS Support: To monitor late breaking developments and changing content on blogs and social sites
- Pop-up blocking (maybe not such a good idea, since you might want to view popups)
- Enhanced search features
Safari is positioned to be the Apple’s “killer app” with supposed close integration between it’s upcoming pda/phone iPhone, iTunes and Safari in the works. But does Safari really work for Internet Marketers?
Worryingly, Safari has “Private Browsing” which blocks all cookies from being lodged. This means analytics tracking might not be as effective.
Even worse, for affiliate marketers, (more…)
If you’ve been following this blog regularly, you’d know I’m a keen Mozilla FireFox user, judging by the posts in the category: Browsers.
And my copy of FireFox has probably seen it’s fair share of abuse.
- With about 10 plugins and 400 bookmarks, it’s now chugging along.
- Downloads take about 10 seconds to initiate.
- WordPress (especially PHP processing) is a little buggy. I’ve lost a number of good posts already…
So you might say things are a little….slow?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not soley dependent on Firefox.
By necessity, I use 3 browsers:
- Internet Explorer: because about 50% of blog visitors use that browser (and it displays differently from FireFox at times)
- FireFox: what I really like are the extensions available, especially this SEO plugin I recently installed.
- And now Flock!
How’s Flock (currently still in beta) different? (more…)
