Recently I’ve been asking a number of questions. Here are 10 of them.
1. Why does my neighbor say he has a Hummer because of his job? He’s a cop.
2. Why for every misspelled word in Tweetdeck, the program suggests mucus and raucous?
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(Anti) Social-Lists 3/15/09
Today is March 15 or the Ides of March – beware! I am not superstitious but I’ve had server problems on March 15th on more that one occasion where it took the entire day to resolve the problem. Fortunately, this year it falls on a Sunday so most of us won’t be working.
Last Sunday was International Women’s Day, which I didn’t realize until after the fact but I do have a link about women’s issues this week. I also have tweetdeck tips, operating systems over the years, creating a large website background in CSS, the Hawaiian Chair, USB drives, and a year in 2 minutes.
Tweetdeck Article at TwiTip
My regular ‘Stuff This in Your RSS’ article has been preempted by my guest post about Tweetdeck at Darren Rowse’s new site about Twitter, TwiTip.
I wrote an article about Tweetdeck, when it was first released last July, called All Hands on Tweetdeck. I had been thinking about updating the article because many of my cons of using it had been corrected. When Darren asked for contributors for his new site, I emailed him and offered to write a review of Tweetdeck and he graciously accepted my offer.
(Anti) Social-Lists 11/2/08
Happy November! Hope you’re not too full of Halloween Candy. And to my fellow Philly friends I hope you’ve started to come down from your World Series high.
This week we have information about Tweetdeck, a Train for Humanity article, memories of a grandmother, making your website recession-proof, some thoughts on Doctor Who, two of my new articles at Environmental Graffiti and Halloween photos.
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All Hands on Tweetdeck
TweetDeck is a new Adobe Air twitter application that includes an integrated summize search and a grouping feature. It is currently in beta but the developer is very responsive and is answering inquiries on twitter and is currently adding suggested improvements and fixing noted bugs. A TweetDeck forum has been setup at UserVoice for this purpose.
I first heard of Tweetdeck from Louis Gray’s article posted on July 4th. Since I mostly like Air apps, I installed it, tried it out and went back to using twhirl. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, but I am loyal to applications that I like and I have been happy with twhirl since I started using it 3 or 4 months ago. On Saturday night, however, Graham English was talking about Tweetdeck on twitter and answered a couple of questions that I had so I have been trying it out since that conversation.
And a lot of twitter users have been trying it out over the holiday weekend. Summize shows it as one of the top 10 trending topics along with Wimbledon (it has been the week for Spain), John McCain, Hancock, and for some reason, Philly (I haven’t been able to figure that one out unless everyone in Philly is tweeting about the crazy rain we are having this afternoon). It was refreshing to see people excited about a new twitter application rather than the usual “fail whale” and “twitter sucks” discussions.
Here is my list of pros and cons. Please keep in mind that the app is in beta and the developer is working on the issues so the cons may be resolved quickly.
Pros:
- Groups – I love the group feature. I follow soccer news and other soccer fans on twitter so I have made a soccer group. Many people have noted that not all of the people you are following show up in the list when you want to add them to groups. Last night Graham English told me that it took a full day for TweetDeck to scan and all of the users. I have since discovered, however, that a user has to be actively using twitter since you start using TweetDeck to show up in that list. If they don’t tweet, they won’t populate the list.
