Cool to see so many grown ups (aka old people > 40 and > 50) at #sethgodin's @SethNYCMay16 event #pickyourself
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One minute after stepping into the Austin Convention Center last Friday I bumped into Pete Cashmore, the hunky young rockstar CEO of Mashable. I know Pete as we’ve worked on a little project together. He’s a lovely guy - very polite and enthusiastic (he just turned 24). So he instantly agreed to a snap of the two of us.
3 mins into #SXSW and I run into my fave Pete Cashmore aka @mashable. Sigh. If only I were a bit younger.
Last night I was watching the Academy Awards along with 40 million other people and who knows how many Twitterers. In the midst of critiquing the dresses and hairstyles of the actresses (yes, that is what women do - I couldn’t decide if I liked Sandra Bullock’s long, straight hair) I realized I needed an eye-popping 125 X 125 animated GIF for an ad to appear on Mashable’s home page. And I had less than an hour until the midnight
So how do you discuss that which cannot be discussed in polite conversation? Namely, obesity. Southwest Air even uses the words "delicate policy" to describe how employees should handle a supersize passenger who requires two seats. The incident this week with director Kevin Smith (whom I’ve never heard of but who has 1.6 million Twitter followers) raises two difficult questions:
1. Does having 1.6 million followers entitle you to
I was added to a couple more Twitter Lists today. My total is now 190 200. Small potatoes compared with the likes of Robert Scoble (4,297) or Guy Kawasaki (5,743). But it’s a fascinating new metric. It’s the new measure of cool. How many people are really listening to your tweets? How useful or interesting are you? Do you add any value? All those questions are answered, in a way, by the number of Twitter lists you’re on. And by the
With the announcement yesterday that LinkedIn and Twitter have inked a deal, the gradual meshing of your digital footprints continues. 140-character tweets can now appear as status updates on both LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Impressively, an @TwitterName in your tweet is also an active link on LinkedIn, meaning that you can click and go directly to that Twitter page. That’s a bit of technology that’s ever so clever, as it makes the
No need for me to wax expert on Twitter's new List feature as Mashable, TechCrunch and others are doing that. Frankly nobody is an expert yet. We're all curating (creating lists, culling them, joining others) and figuring out ways the List feature can be useful. Here's my round-up of Washington DC tweeps whose 140-character musings I follow. And a screen grab of the Twitter List Widget showing this group. I love all the Lists
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