This is a hard one for me… But I’ve stopped using Delicious as of yesterday. Delicious was, probably, the first Web 2.0 application that I started using it. I remember “back in the day” trying to explain its usefulness to TJ. I had high hopes for the service when Yahoo bought them three years ago. [...]

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Yesterday I posted about a Romanian company, TrustyPig, ripped off a local Des Moines web startup SmartyPig. After that, I made a call to action - for a Social Brand Hijack. It had ten steps - the first being to blog about it. In this post I’ll highlight how your blog post should be structured [...]

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Thursday, August 14, 2008
6:30 PM
Impromptu Studio
300 SW 5th Street Suite 220
Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Des Moines Web Geeks Kickoff event is planned for Thursday, August 14th.
We’ll kickoff presentations at 7, come around 6:30 to get a tour of the new coworking space. First up will be an overview and discussion of the Django framework followed by [...]

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Woke up today and went to check out how the #dmtweetup was last night to find that my Twitter account had been deleted. Not cool, right? Apparently I have violated the Terms of Service?
It appears I was not the only one…
We’ve found that around seven accounts were accidentally suspended. They were mistakenly identified as spam; [...]

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SocialMedian is confusing to start. At first it seems like they just crammed a bunch of functionality that many other services have and mashed them together into a big confusing pile. After playing with it for awhile I have learned that is not the case.
The “Getting Started” email I got when signing up for the [...]

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