TweetDeck - Manage Social Media Accounts in One Place

02/07/10 | service, application, web, business | Permalink
TweetDeck lets you manage your Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace accounts from one application. Some of you may already know about it but I just started using it for my Twitter and LinkedIn accounts and am finding it very useful to manage them from one place.

The application works on any platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a very clean and nice looking interface. You can change the colors of the entire app and set up columns to organize things. TweetDeck provides automatic backups for your account and will synch between multiple computers.

In addition, TweetDeck works with the most popular Twitter services like TweetPhoto, TwitPic, and YFrog for photos as well as bit.ly, is.gd, Tinyurl, and Twurl for url shortening. And as you might expect, there is an iPhone version as well.

TweetDeck has been developed using Adobe Air so it requires downloading and installing that first if you do not already have it. They make it automatic and a seamless part of the download/install though so no worries.
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New Computer GUI Idea

10/14/09 | video, multimedia, creative | Permalink

This is a very interesting idea for a multi-touch graphic user interface for a desktop computer. Neat stuff. I would love to be able to use a prototype for a while to see how it feels. Nice job 10/GUI!

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Why Everyone Needs A Google Account

11/12/08 | service, web, business | Permalink
I have been recommending Google accounts for my clients for about a year and a half now for a variety of reasons such as:
  1. GMail - the best webmail service I have encountered
  2. Google Talk - built right into GMail and compatible with most IM formats
  3. Blogger - a comprehensive and easy to use system for weblogs
  4. Google Docs - online word processing, spreadsheets and presentations that covers 80% or more of the functions found in software packages like MS Office.
  5. Google Calendar - an excellent way of keeping a professional or personal schedule and sharing it with others
And there are many other satellite services that are part of the package as well. But now they have upped the ante with voice and video chat.

With Google voice and video chat, live face to face online communication is available to everyone. Start by chatting with someone through Google Talk and then "call" them to connect with voice and video. You can choose "pop-out" to open the chat/video in its own window and resize it. There is even a full-screen feature to get a lifelike feel to your "chatting".

I added this feature to my account here at North Street Productions and look forward to communicating with my clients face to face without having to spend the extra time and money driving.

I now am even more convinced that Google accounts are one of the most useful and beneficial services available to any business or organization.
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Mind42 - Free Web Based Mind Mapping

11/08/08 | service, creative, web, business | Permalink


I have been putting together a plan for creating an online presence for one of my clients and came across Mind42. They provide a free, web based mind mapping application that is very easy to use and share with others. Mind mapping is a way to visually organize a plan or set of related ideas using "nodes" for each facet and linking them to a central idea or starting point. Check it out here.
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Sprout Builder

07/12/08 | service, multimedia, creative, web | Permalink
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Sprout Builder is an extremely useful web service that allows you to create static and interactive widgets for your web page or weblog. You can use it for slideshows, videos, music players, display RSS feeds, calendars, charts, maps and more. And, you can let visitors embed your Sprout in there web page which becomes a great tool for promotion of products or services.

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