Tech Week In Review: Mentions, Search, Chat, Social Media Comments
Twitter Mentions Twitter has finally fixed their replies feature. Up until now, you could only receive a reply from someone if they started off their tweet with your name. I would get “@rahsheen you so totally rock!”, but if someone said “@abenton @markusrobinson Blackweb 2.0 is awesome, especially @rahsheen” I would never know. Now, Twitter [...]
Read MoreMonetizing your Twitter Feed
So many people have been trying to figure out how Twitter as a platform is going to monetize its’ service. Not long to follow is how individuals can monetize their Twitter feeds. I’ve spoken with a few people (I won’t name any names) and they are monetizing Twitter the good ole fashioned way, not with [...]
Read MoreCan Freeconomics Work in African Markets? [Part 2]
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Giving away saddles to sell horses. This is the basic concept behind the ‘free’ business models that I discussed in Part 1. You give away something (time, product, resources) with the intentions of selling something else to make up for it. From my vantage point, the African market is starting to adopt some of these [...]
Read MoreS1 Mini: The Little Hard Drive that Could
Tired of bulky external hard drives? Samsung’s got you covered. The electronics giant has recently released the sleek and attractive S1 Mini. At an impressive 1.8 inches is definitely easy on the eyes. The top of the drive is covered in a highly polished plastic available in piano black, snow white, wine red, or chocolate [...]
Read MoreTiseme.com is like Twitter 2 years ago
While I love Twitter and Facebook lately I have been getting a bit bored and overwhelmed by them. It seems as if many of my friends on MySpace from years ago have now discovered Facebook and more recently Twitter. I was quite comfortable on those platforms with just us techies and early adopters on it [...]
Read MoreTired of Answering Email? Put your Inbox on Autopilot
If you’re like me, you get bombarded with hundreds of emails on a daily basis. Though I try my best to answer each one, I quite often come up short. Now thanks to Gmail, all of my emails can now be answered automatically. Today Gmail launched Autopilot, a service when enabled will automatically read through [...]
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