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Hack the Debate!

Current is doing something very cool with the upcoming presidential debates. Instead of the traditional stuffy political commentary that coincides with the impending boredom and scripted fluff answers that is presidential debates, Current will be broadcasting “Hack the Debate” - which will show the real-time twitter conversation in parallel.

Current & Twitter have teamed up for [...]

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Twittad Launched This Week - Monetizing Twitter

Earlier this week Twittad launched a new advertising platform for Twitter. It’s a very ingenious idea - one that Twitter itself should have thought of and probably should adopt to start making money… Basically it allows Twitter users to sell ad space on their profile page. I did a quick interview with James Eliason, the [...]

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Twitter Deleted My Account

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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Top 5 Social Media Applications

Mike Fruchter posted a question that spurred a nice discussion on FriendFeed - “What are the social media applications you use the most?”
Well, here is my top 5 (at the moment, not in order) that I use on an hourly basis…

Twitter
FriendFeed
Delicious
Google Reader
WordPress

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