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When Twitterrific was released on the App Store for iPhone, I was excited that photo upload client TwitPic was included for easy mobile photo sharing. One thing I quickly noticed, however, was that everything worked great, but any photo I snapped from within Twitterrific would not make its way into my iPhone’s Camera Roll. This [...]
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I’m originally from down the street in San Antonio and have had a 210 mobile phone number for eight years now. I’ve been with the same carrier through three different branding switches: Southwestern Bell, Cingular and now AT&T. When I came to college in Austin and stayed here post-UT, there was never really a need [...]
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On Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 2:15PM, I will be donating blood for the first time in my life. This is completely motivated by Michelle Greer’s poking and prodding (pun intended) over her idea of organizing a blood drive via Twitter, the social messaging network. Read her blog post about the entire thing and get [...]
Filed as: Business, Design, Technology | 4 Comments »
Take any communications class (or major in advertising like I did) and you will invariably research the importance of the Industrial Revolution in the history of the industry. Innovations like the printing press, the telephone and the personal computer have been catalysts for speeding up communication between multiple parties. The internet has quickly become one [...]
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This March, like so many others, I got the chance to meet the phenomenon that is Gary Vaynerchuk via his now famous Twitter flash-parties and as Kathy Sierra‘s on-stage example during her keynote. His talks on personal brands and his involvement in the technology/startup sector as a marketer—and not a developer—are what initially piqued my [...]