Twitter’s great and all, but it does have its problems. One issue I’ve always had is that there’s really no way to schedule your tweets. If you want to post an interesting story about something, you’re posting it now, or you’re going to have to come back later. What if you want to spread your tweets out over the course of the day,...

If you hang out on the ‘net at all, you’ve probably heard of this weird little website (well, maybe not so little- it’s got over one hundred seventy-five million users at the time of writing this) called Twitter, represented by a tiny bluebird. You’re not quite sure what to make of it. What’s it about? Why do people use it? And...

In an effort to try to get/understand social networking I created a Twitter account a couple of months ago. While I post several times a week, I was more interested in the ability to follow others to see how it works. What I found is that I was very quickly overwhelmed after following a several people who are very active on the site. When I would log in to look...

Not sure if you’ve heard the news. Blogging is dead. Social media is dead. Oh, and the whole damn world wide web is dead. Oh, and I heard about it on blogs, social media and the world wide web. Ironic, I know. The truth, though, is that… Creativity Is Dead When you have nothing else to say as a tech blogger, just declare something dead. People will...

From the “it was just a matter of time” category, Twitter will soon be pushing out ads through user message streams as well as through a trends campaign: Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users’ streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some...

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?  Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. These are the opening lines from a Library of Congress Blog post. We have all heard stories of how people doing not so smart things and sharing them with the world have had repercussions,...

In all the years I’ve been using the internet, there is always some boob out there who utters something so unbelievably ridiculous that it just boggles the mind. At least one to two major flub-ups happen once per year. Well, we’ve got our first for 2010. Such an event happened very recently. It involved a Twitter post where somebody that had a...

This is a response article to Jessica E. Vascellaro’s article, Why Email No Longer Rules. For years I have been hearing over and over, "Email is dead." This is absolutely not true and probably never will be. The reason is because there has been absolutely nothing introduced to messaging which works better than email. Jessica cites Twitter and...

Some people may be under the impression that if a web site loads slowly and/or causes your browser to crash that it might be your computer’s fault it happened. Not necessarily. There are several things that people interpret as a fault with their computer when in fact it isn’t. Things that are not your fault when problems happen loading web sites Web...

Here is an interesting and clever use of Twitter: remotely controlling your computer. In a couple of articles recently posted on Lifehacker, you can use TweetMyPC and TweetMyMac (respectively) to send commands to your computer from anywhere you have Internet access. The commands are limited (obviously) but you are able to do useful things like send a shutdown...

Twitter, the service you either love or hate, will be offering a geo-location service soon. This is something other web sites like BrightKite have tried to get other people to start using. You go somewhere then announce where you are by means of GPS coordinates. Consumer location-aware tech is still something that’s relatively new. There are certain things...

There have been more than a few that have likened Twitter as to being a "slow instant messenger." Yes, the term is an oxymoron, but it fits in this context. Some liken it as turn based messaging of sorts. See, the deal is that Twitter doesn’t act like IM, nor does it act like email. It’s somewhere in between. The best way to use Twitter as...

A universal truth about the internet is that if there’s anything, and I mean anything, that gains popularity as a communications medium, it will be spammed mercilessly. Such is the case with Twitter. Currently it’s being bombarded with spam. And it’s set to get worse. I have to admit that I’ve been drawing away from the service for that...

If you are a Twitter user and are looking to gather some metrics regarding your “relevance”  on the micro-blog site, take a look at Twitalyzer. Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social...

Ask anyone who invests in tech stocks for a description of what they’re like and the answer you’ll most likely receive is that they’re volatile, meaning to vary often or widely. One of Yahoo’s oldest web sites, Yahoo! Finance (YHOO), is a good place to check on how tech stocks are doing. You can also perform quick stock searches by...

When someone posts on Twitter, the popular microblogging service, they are said to be "tweeting". Possibly the best tweet to date is one that came across that said, I wasbjust in a plane crash!Typo aside, yes, that really happened. I mean, seriously, how can you top that. Not possible. The rest of the story is nothing short of pure awesome. Internets...

Most of you have probably heard the term ‘domain squatter’ which is someone who registers a domain with the sole intent of selling to someone else who has a legitimate need for it (at a substantially increased price). Well, domain names are not the only thing being targeted by squatters as social networking names are being quickly gobbled up. This...

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Remember the days when the the Internet was new and when we were all spellbound at the idea of having our own desktop computer? Learning the workings of the computer was of prime importance. You had this piece of powerful equipment on your desk and you wanted to explore all the possibilities it presented. Fast forward to today. Things have most certainly...

Twitter has been the subject of a LOT of tech talk. It results in three different camps of people: (1) people who get it and participate, (2) people who tried it and found it stupid, (3) people who don’t even try it. In our recent reader survey here at PCMech, we had some interesting results…54% of our readers find Twitter to be a boring...