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MacDavid Pro blog is geared towards the web, tech, and Apple. I also lifecast portions of my life from time-to-time.
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Defriending/Unfollowing: Emotional Nonsense
What strikes me is that this is a potentially emotional exchange to what should be a simple choice of data management. Think about it. If you remove someone as a friend, it says something more than just a line of data, doesn’t it? There’s an emot...
Vlog: 140 Characters Conference
I was invited to go but can’t. That’s the long and short of this video. Wish I could go, but I am glorying in the fact that I have a small victory of being recognized and at least invited to attend. I think it says a lot. ...
On Transparency with “Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook”
I’m currently in a mad rush to finish reading an advance copy of a book due out in November 2009 by Darren Barefoot Julie Szabo. This book is a phenomenal read and is titled “Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook̶...
Facebook Initiates Camp Hackathona
First, before I get to the main reason for this post, look up at the video player. Can you believe it? Facebook at long last, or at least to my knowledge, allows video embeds. Oh my gosh, I’m totally gushing right now! On second, thought I ...
SQ2: No texting at the movies?
Facebook Readers: Videos unfortunately do not appear in Facebook “notes” so click the following to view the video for this note: sq2: no texting at the movies? Have you noticed lately the newly revised sermon that comes on prior to the...
Paidcontent.org: What are a million follower, subscribers, friends worth?
Upon learning of Ashton Kutcher’s competition with CNN to reach a million followers on Twitter, the one nagging question that has been hanging in my mind ever since I joined any social network has been summed up in Tameka Kee’s article at...
SimplyTweet
Hey guys, one more Twitter app for you called SimplyTweet, developed by Hwee-Boon, @hboon on Twitter. Here are two specific features that I like in this app. Delete Tweets You can view an entire conversation [Ultra awesome feature!!] Example of ...
TweetStack: TweetDeck for the iPhone
I may be a little late learning about this but I decided to share it anyway because this app looks pretty awesome. Basically TweetStack is the iPhone app version of TweetDeck, a mac app that I have grown to use a lot more than Twhirl. The main reas...
Social Question: Facebook Purgatory
This is a question that I adapted from a quiz that caught my attention on gizmodo.com. I found it quite hilarious, but the way the original question is phrased is far to accusatory, so I changed it to the following. Here is this week’s social ...
TweetDeck’s Facebook Status Update Option
TweetDeck has a feature that allows you to update your Facebook status if you so choose. And it was apparently in response to Seesmic’s Desktop application. Read about it here. Just thought I’d share....
The Fail Homer Whale
I spotted this on gizmodo.com. Failiciously and cleverly funny! Loves it!! It was created by Ed Wheeler. Check him out at edwheeler.deviantart.com. It’s great work! -M...
Blog Link: A Worthy Cause - Peru Trip
Here is a worthy cause by iAlbert aka “the Eat. Sleep. Tweet. guy” who is heading to Peru to help build wells for drinking water and more. But you know what, I think it’s best if I just let him explain, so here it is. I hope you...
From the Archives: Twittership Tips
Here is a post from March 2008 back when I was still hosting my blog on blogger.com. At any rate, here are some tips that I Tweet by to this day. Happy reading! David P.S. This isn’t a direct re-post because I’ve spruced it up a bit fo...
Social Question: Twitter (Implicit) Social Contract
I recently asked via a tweet on Twitter.com the following: This is my implicit social contract: If you follow me, I try to greet you. If you say nothing I probably unfollow you. What would you do? This is the social question for this week. Leave ...
Pownce is shutting down!
For the most part this is a re-post of a recent announcement from Six Apart. Basically, Pownce.com has been acquired by Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox. It's sad to hear of another social media site shutting down in these ...
Nominate Qik.com for the Crunchies!
I love using qik.com for live streaming video directly from my iPhone, as do many other people. Some of my viddler.com pals have even pwned their iPhones to use Qik as well (Brandice and Edwinv just to name a few). So if you are a current Qik use...
Eye-popping quote: "A Whale of an Opportunity"
...Twitter is in the unique position to define the platform [micromessaging] on its own terms. If Twitter provides tools that allow users to integrate their messages, social graph, and discovery mechanism with all other systems, Twitter in effect be...
