Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

My Twitter Karma

March 1st, 2008 · 5 comments so far

Have you measured your Twitter Karma?
I found out about Twitter Karma from a blog post titled “Top 10 Twitter Hacks” from Strategic Public Relations. It’s a Twitter mashup that combines all of the people you’re following with all of the people following you, allowing you to see which relationships are mutual and which aren’t.
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links for 2008-02-24

February 24th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed
Facebook plans to allow users to add activities from FriendFeed directly into their Facebook news feed.
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Commuter Feed
Commuter Feed is a Twitter mashup that aggregates traffic reports. Users tweet traffic updates to a Twitter robot along with an airport code and then parses those [...]

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Twitter100

January 30th, 2008 · No comments yet

Much better implementation than Gridgit, but still not particularly useful.

My Twitter100
It’s impossible to follow conversations, only the latest tweet per person is displayed (up to 100) and worst of all — sovereign posture. Who wants to devote their entire screen to watch Twitter updates come in? Um, no one! That’s why people invented twitterific and [...]

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Another Twitter Link Roundup

January 29th, 2008 · No comments yet

Tweet what you eat
Maintain a food diary by sending direct messages on Twitter to TWYE. Assign calories to each food item or search the database to find them out.

Twitter Timer
Let Twitter be your alarm for things you need to remember. But keep in mind that Twitter or your carrier can always have delays.
Twitter Feed
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Gridjit

January 22nd, 2008 · 4 comments so far

“Gridjit is an easy way to turn your Twitter-verse into a grid view”
But why on earth would you want to? So far as I can tell, this serves absolutely no purpose. Just another example of “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.”
Can anyone figure out how this is useful?

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