Category Archives: Social Networking

Articles here relate to using or being used by social networks.

Ten Tips for Corporate Tweeting

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Simon

Corporate twitter accounts need to be run with the same level of professionalism and understanding as any public relations activity (PR) but there are some special considerations for the medium and the audience.  In this post I’m outlining my 10 … Continue reading →

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HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Simon

For the past week I’ve been toiling away on integrating Summize into HelloTwitFace.  Summize replaces TweetScan as HelloTwitFace’s replies and search tabs.  This was a challenge as I’d already built in RSS reading capabilities to read the TweetScan results, but … Continue reading →

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Facebook chat is coming to a jabber client near you soon

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Simon

[EDIT: Linked it up ] A few sources are today talking about facebook opening up their chat application to jabber capable clients. I’ve talked about this before and I can see this being the killer thing for the fb chat … Continue reading →

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hellotwitface minor update

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Simon

Ok. That caught me out. I think twitter updated their xml format on Tuesday. On Wednesday hellotwitface stopped working, it wasn’t immediately obvious but they added an extra tag inbefore the user tags on the friends timeline. It’s now fixed … Continue reading →

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HelloTwitFace 2.0 Available

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Simon

It’s taken me a couple of weeks but here is version 2.0 of HelloTwitFace! This was quite a major update, the main portion of which was moving away from using m.twitter.com to using the API and the great new tweets … Continue reading →

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next hellotwitface update

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Simon

Another hard night of geeking out and I’m almost there. There are a few ui changes to make and I still have to work out how to create a cab that doesn’t overwrite all files but its getting there. The … Continue reading →

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Coding horror

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Simon

This weekend was purposed to see the launch of some additional features in hellotwitface , unfortunately that wasn’t to be. The reason, the resulting 37mb cab file! It was that big because I used an API I found on the … Continue reading →

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HelloTwitFace update

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Simon

I’m planning on updating HelloTwitFace at the weekend, probably late on Saturday with new feature I’ve been working on.  I’m going to move the twitter tab away from simply using http://m.twitter.com to using the twitteroo 1.4 API to build my … Continue reading →

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HelloTwitFace launch

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Simon

I’ve just spent this evening on a bit of a GeekOut quest.  I’ve just put the finishing touches on HelloTwitFace.  It’s a really simple app that combines three of my favourite mobile sites, hellotxt, twitter and facebook. I think this … Continue reading →

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Scoble gets in on the FriendFeed action

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Simon

Technorati Tags: scoble,scobelizer,friendfeed,web2.0,technology,geekout If you don’t know who Robert Scoble is then you really aren’t listening are you?  Robert Scoble, or the Scobleizer, gets involved in all that’s new and cool on the Web.  Today he’s been over to see … Continue reading →

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