Andrew Cafourek | 2007 August

Twitter Steps Up The Game…Sort Of

By Andrew ⋅ August 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Twitter is a really cool service that asks the simple question “What are you doing?” All you have to do is type in what you are doing in less than 140 characters and it updates your timeline. It is a really cool tool to track what you [...]

August 21 Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ August 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

UPDATE: This post title has been updated to include the date. -ac This week, I’ve come across quite a few high quality sites, but I’ll only go in depth on a few of them here and perhaps detail others later in the week. Ziki is a new [...]

The e-President?

By Andrew ⋅ August 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

According to Mashable, a new poll released by Global Market Insite (GMI) shows astonishing results regarding the impact of social networks on the upcoming presidential election. 17% of respondents said they had looked at a candidate’s profile on some social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, [...]

Fight the Man: Facebook Edition

By Andrew ⋅ August 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

(UPDATE: post edited to include Mashable source citation and category links) As social networking sites increase in popularity, more and more businesses are striving to maintain worker productivity by simply blocking access to sites such as Facebook and MySpace. This week, an Australian firm released a study [...]

Networking your ‘Social Flow’

By Andrew ⋅ August 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

The current development of social networking tools focuses on those people you already know (unless you happen to venture off into the wild blue, looking for random people to meet on MySpace), and most sites focus on a certain subset of the people you encounter in your [...]

Blessed are the Open-Source, for they shall inherit the earth.

By Andrew ⋅ August 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It has been said time and time again; there have been books written, academic works published, and thousands of blog posts proclaiming the revolution that user-generated content has brought to the internet. In the form of open-source software and sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr; people [...]

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-17

By Andrew ⋅ August 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I am realizing how truley nerdy I am…as my google homepage grows more and more tabs # Attempting to reorganize my life after living from a suitcase # Powered by Twitter Tools .

August 17 Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ August 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t really run across any high quality ‘functional’ sites in the past weeks (most likely due to the fact that most of my past two weeks has been inside a car!), but I’ve hit a couple excellent ‘content’ sites! I am delineating a ‘functional’ site from [...]