Category Archives: Tools

Twitter 210: Vanity URL Shortening

In Social Media 110, I highlighted 7 services for shrinking URLs as a way to pack more information into the 140 characters Twitter allows. After all, if you can compress a 90-character URL into 20 characters or fewer when sharing a link, that leaves you more space to provide information on what people will see [...]
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If Snow Blowers were like Hard Drives…

…I would have been able to get this one for about 23 cents. As it was, I picked it up at Sears on Black Friday for $419, or about 40 percent off. That 23 cents figure is just a guess, and is probably way high, in the snow blower/hard drive comparison of prices and capabilities [...]
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Breakfast with Evie

I had a delightful experience this morning before I left for work: having breakfast with my granddaughter, Evelyn. There was a time when this wouldn’t be such a remarkable event. For most of human history, families typically lived in close proximity across several generations. In many cases, extended families might live under the same roof. [...]
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Flip Video Camera vs. Kodak Video Camera

In many of my presentations this year I have used the video embedded immediately below to illustrate the quality available through consumer-grade video cameras, such as the Flip video camera. With my daughter Rachel’s permission, here’s an example of what you get from the Flip UltraHD, from my granddaughter Evelyn’s first birthday party in August: [...]
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RAQ: How can I update both Twitter and Facebook?

Here’s a question from yesterday (I’m paraphrasing): I don’t do a very good job of keeping either Twitter or my Facebook status updated. Is there a way I can do both at the same time, or use Twitter to update Facebook? Answer: Twitter 110, which was developed more than a year ago, lists some options [...]
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