Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter Recommends I Follow Me

I had never given it much thought, but Twitter recommends I should follow myself. I guess it makes sense. I have similar tastes as me I follow the same type people as me People who follow me, might also be following me. (will this cause paranoia) I should keep up with what I am doing [...]

Static HTML to WordPress Conversion Case Study

Converting older static html sites to WordPress is one of the most popular things for me to work on. Seems there are still a lot of older sites that have no CMS system and when people decide to finally convert these sites WordPress is one of the most popular options. I used my holiday time [...]

New Namecheap Twitter Contest

Namecheap is at it again. Hosting a new Twitter Contest called Namecheap Bored at Work and Back to School Riddle Me This Contest!. Namecheap is giving away 3 MacBook Pro, 1 Apple iPad, or 1 Amazon Kindle. The contest is very similar to their past contests. This time the contest is made of riddles instead [...]

Did Twitter Really Switch to OAuth?

I am still seeing Tweets being posted “from API” and I can not see how this is possible using OAuth on Twitter. Basic authentication was to be turned off and only applications using OAuth should be working as of August 31, 2010. A Twitter Application using OAuth has to have a name, and this name [...]

Social Media…The Other Word of Mouth

While watching movie trailers at the theater I was amazed at how many large companies put their Facebook and Twitter addresses ahead of their own website. And some of these websites are amazing works of art. These businesses realize that social media is as close to word of mouth advertising as it gets. And pretty [...]