Twitter

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on the Today Show Tuesday morning that Twitter is launching a new look that allows users to highlight photos and media. The new design is reminiscent of Facebook’s Timeline, and provides users with a more personal and visual feel. The most conspicuous feature is a dominant photo in the upper Continue Reading →

A day after it was reported that it would launch the successor to its popular Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next year, Samsung has taken to its official Twitter account to put an end to rumors of a Galaxy S4 unveiling early next year.The tweet, which was posted to the company’s Continue Reading →

Dropbox has given its iOS offering a little more social spice after it quietly updated the app with options to share content to Facebook and Twitter, while there is now support for AirPrint. Sharing support was initially limited to ‘email’ and ‘copy to clipboard’ only but, with the update, content can also be posted to Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120914_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] When Kansas City Chiefs fan Travis Wright Tweeted about his disappointment with the NFL team, he probably didn’t expect a response. He got one all right, and a nasty one at that. Whoever was manning the team’s Twitter account at the time sent Wright a very unprofessional Continue Reading →

The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t know who they were messing with when a team staffer sent a brusque Twitter message to a disgruntled fan who had vented about the team’s ownership on the social network this week. It all started on Monday, when decades-long Chiefs supporter Travis Wright, who uses the Twitter handle @teedubya, was Continue Reading →

Web hosting giant GoDaddy has completed its investigation of the outage on Monday that crippled its site as well as hundreds of thousands that it hosts, and the company has concluded it was not the result of an external attack. This after a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed responsibility on Twitter yesterday, saying Continue Reading →

App.net, the subscription-based, ad-free Twitter alternative that is now fully funded and ready for extensive testing (you can find TNW’s profile here), is off to a relatively sluggish start. Diego Basch, currently ‘in between jobs’ after selling his company IndexTank to LinkedIn and briefly serving as the company’s engineering director, has compiled some initial stats, Continue Reading →

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records (for politics) while he was at it, according to the company. Extra points to Twitter, the site didn’t go down or falter once during the entire speech. “A new record political moment on Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://shellypalmer.com/images/podcasts/NovaSpivackPodcast.mp3″ text=”Click to play episode #20″] What’s going on with Twitter? Shelly talks with Nova Spivack, the CEO of Bottlenose, a tool helps you track news and trends across social networks. Twitter recently announced a change in their API, which limits the way third-party apps can interact with Twitter. Nova helps break that down Continue Reading →

While he was in Paris in March of 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Francis Hopkinson that scholars have aptly named, "Neither Federalist Nor Antifederalist." In it, Jefferson writes, "I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Continue Reading →