O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo is in New York this week at the Javits Center. This is the largest tech conference that NY has ever seen and those of us who live here are thrilled to finally get the attention that NY tech so greatly deserves.
There are eight tracks for four days of sessions, everything from [...]

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If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you probably realize I have a mild (okay, not so mild) obsession with Twitter. If you aren’t already following me, please rectify that now.
Because I enjoy nothing more than a good conversation over a good beer, I’ve organized some “Tweetups” (Twitter meetups) in the past, both at [...]

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Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week:

The new look of Facebook profiles
10 worthwhile Twitter bots
Thank you letters
Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking)

If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best [...]

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Sometimes Twitter comes up in conversation with my friends and family that don’t work in technology. I never actually bring it up because I know that it’ll require an hour plus of explanation or discussion, at the end of which they’ll think I’m crazy, nerdy or just plain bored. But every now and then someone [...]

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I’ve been wanting to write about Plurk for a while. Everyone seemed to be so enamored with it when it first launched, but maybe that was because Twitter was experiencing serious downtime and people were pissed off — not because it was anything actually worth being excited about.
The first time I logged on, I had [...]

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