Tag Archive | "twitter"

Is Twitter Killing Hollywood Movies? I Say No

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Over the summer we’ve seen a bunch of presumed blockbusters falter after their opening weekends. Brüno was no success (if you’ve seen Borat, you’ve seen Brüno), Duplicity with Julia Roberts cost $60 million to make, but made only $40 million in the US. Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell’s $100 million adventure-comedy, made $49 million [...]

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Twittermania 8 New Twitter Services

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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The twittermania continues. “Every time a bell rings, a new twitter service gets it’s wings” - You may use this quote freely. It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new twitter services that are constantly launched. I’ve created a list of the most recent services. The list goes from Tweetmarks and spamplets to Hiimok and [...]

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9 Reasons Why Blogging Is Just Like Playing World Of Warcraft

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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I’ve had this post in my head for quite some time. I’m not sure if it will work, but I have to get it out of my head. I tried stabbing my brain with Q-tips, but it doesn’t help anymore. Statement: Blogging is just like a massively multi player online game, it could be World of [...]

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Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce

Friday, June 6, 2008

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It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users. But what are the alternatives? There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]

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A Day In The Life Of Twitter

Friday, May 30, 2008

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This is only my second video, so please be gentle. Using summize.com I’ve gathered some of the tweets from desperate, disappointed or even angry twitterers after twitter.com’s nasty downtime last Wednesday. Which program and on which hardware I made the video is not important, at least not now, but it’s a part of my quest for the [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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It’s time for another batch of very useful links: Twitter.com is down a lot and the latest statistics from Pingdom confirms this. From January to April twitter has been down 37 hours and 16 minutes. That’s 18.5 minutes a day. Mahalo VLOG Idol continues and The Beta News favourite, Lisa Brewster is still going strong. All I [...]

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The Beta News Featured On Premium Startup Blogs

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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I was pleasantly surprised to see The Beta News mentioned on MoMB, Museum of Modern Betas a few days ago. I’ve always been a big fan of MoMB and the work Saurier Duval puts into it. If you are into twitter, you should check out MoMB’s top 100 popular twitter sites. Remember you can follow me [...]

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Guest Post On The Beta News

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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As some of you know (you will if you follow me on twitter), I’ve got a new job. This is my first week as team manager at Norriq.. I’m managing a team of consultants with expertise in Windows 2003, Symantec and Citrix products, Microsoft Exchange, firewall and various other infrastructure solutions. Unfortunately I had to return [...]

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Show Me Your Desktop Adam Ostrow

Friday, March 14, 2008

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Last week’s interview with the sword swinging and keyboard wearing Lisa Bettany was a huge success. Especially because of Lisa’s use of twitter, flickr and Pownce. This week it’s Editor-in-Chief of Mashable, MindSay co-founder and ReadBurner owner Adam Ostrow’s turn to show us his desktop. Many of you probably know Adam from Mashable and MindSay (one [...]

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The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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In the next two weeks I’ll host the biggest contest ever on The Beta News. Actually it’s the first contest ever here, but who’s counting?! Now the rules to participate are developed by my twisted brain, so hopefully this will be a contest unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. The rules are fairly simple.

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