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It’s easy to be long-winded on the Internet. We’re pretty much encouraged to say whatever we want, write whatever we want, and do whatever we want. This can be great, but the attention span that a lot of people have isn’t necessarily going to enable them to stay focused on your content for hours or [...]

People love Twitter because of its simplicity. It forces you to succinctly communicate your thoughts, and this brief exchange of messages is a welcome diversion from the sometimes lengthy messages of e-mail and other communication methods. Twitter and many of the other microblogging solutions want you to tell others what you’re doing, but what about [...]

New services that use Twitter in interesting ways are constantly being built. Exchanging simple messages is great and all, but there’s more that can be done, and these services are proving that that’s true. Twitter users love to share links with one another, and Twitter does provide a great way to blast out a simple [...]

Many times URLs are easy to remember and simple to link to, but when you start linking to very specific content, the length of the URLs sometimes grows to ridiculous proportions. We’ve all seen URLs that seemed to go on forever, and that’s why it’s nice to have access to services that shorten complex Web [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about Twitter recently for many different reasons, but one of the reasons why we can’t seem to stop talking about it is because there are so many different ways to use the service. By all appearances, Twitter may be a simple tool on its own, but developers have been [...]

As useful as many Web services can be, they’re not worth very much if they can’t stay online. In a way that’s a good problem to have because it probably means that their servers are being overloaded with traffic and they just can’t handle the load. At least, sometimes that’s part of the problem. It’s [...]

Blogging has changed the Internet forever, but there are people who aren’t necessarily willing to jump on the blogging bandwagon. While they may enjoy reading blogs, the possibility of them creating their own is very slim. For many people, writing a blog is an intimidating venture. They may feel like their written thoughts have to [...]

For the past several months I have had the pleasure of improving my communication effectiveness while at the same time reducing my reliance and the massive amount of time I used to spend on email. Tools like Twitter, blogging, and - yes - actively making sure I am using the telephone (remember that thing?) have [...]

Typing is so last year, people. New voice technologies have enabled us to do a wide range of things with our voices, and before you know it, we probably won’t be using our keyboards nearly as much as we are right now. I’m not completely sold on the concept of using my voice to accomplish [...]

Many of us are having more and more of our conversations online, and tools such as Twitter are enabling us to do that. In just a few seconds, we can use Twitter to blast a message out to all of our friends and then receive their replies. This is streamlined communication at its finest, and [...]