Did you notice a bit of free time in your schedule this evening? Were you online? Did you even realize what was missing? Don’t tell me you didn’t hear that sucking sound of the void left in the web space with all those tweets going silent!

Twitter was down this evening between 8pm-9:30pm PST. What did you do to fill your time without twitter? How did you let people know what was going on with you in your life? I ended up using Facebook to change my status a bit more than normal. But I also sat down and watched TV …read more

I’ve spent quite a bit of time lately trying to get rid of all the quizzes that have been hitting my Facebook pages from people. I’ve blogged about one way to get rid of them, which has been working well for me, but today I got another suggestion on how to ban them from even displaying on my page in the first place.

You can follow the instructions below that were given to me by Papa Roux on Facebook. He operates a cajun restaurant here in Indianapolis, but he’s serving up more than great food with this tip.
If it’s not enough …read more

I’ve been playing around with the Destroy Twitter client today and overall have been enjoying the experience. I had looked at it before but decided against it because they couldn’t do multiple account names like I have in twhirl.  The interface change to Destroy Twitter to get me to really try it again was the addition of groups management.
The interface changes and user-interface is really slick. It’s developed on the Adobe Air platform, like twhirl, so it’s a very light installation package. Destroy Twitter still doesn’t have multi-account ability and the interface for adding individuals to groups could be improved …read more

There’s an area of Facebook that I believe really needs to be addressed for a variety of reasons. As you begin finding old friends from high school, connecting with extended family members as they begin using Facebook, and maybe even start connecting with clients and co-workers, there’s an issue of who gets notified of your updates when you have them.
If you imagine all the different groups of your contacts as an extending circle of influence similar to what would be shown in the image below.
Let’s think about your closest friends or family being the center circle, and extend from there …read more