Decius wrote:
Twitpay has been busy.

Let's say you are a coffee company looking for a way to promote your newest seasonal drink, the Pumpkin Latte. In order to get people talking about your product on Twitter, you could use RT2Get to start a retweet campaign:

The first 1000 people to retweet this message get one free pumpkin latte RT2Get 23212

This could be a pretty powerful way to harness the viral nature of twitter.

I'm starting to become disillusioned with monetizing friendships.

It's cool tech though.

RE: Twitpay - Easy promotions on Twitter

July 2009 will be Month of Twitter Bugs.
This blog will be used for posting the vulnerabilities.

...

First up are vulns from bit.ly. Looks like this blog is having the desired effect so far.

July is Month of Twitter Bugs

janelane wrote:

ADELPHI, Md. — A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.

This is a blow to migraine sufferers like myself, but [b]I'm sure other products will soon fill the gap left by these medicines[/b]. I just wish they had actually addressed the core problem (medicines which are a combination of acetaminophen) instead of two of the culprits.

-janelane

YMMV

RE: Ban Is Advised on 2 Top Pills for Pain Relief - NYTimes.com

Acidus wrote:
This could be interesting...

Looks like putting munging logic in a separate .js is a workaround... for now.

RE: Google parsing document.write()'s?

Acidus wrote:
Like VNC but for gaming. The game is rendered by a cloud of machines/GPUs and send to your browser.

What's your take on this?

http://www.onlive.com/

RE: OTOY Demo - Remoting Console Gaming

Mike the Usurper wrote:

An apology from David Letterman was good enough for Sarah Palin - but not for protesters who demanded the late night host's dismissal Tuesday at a Broadway demonstration.

Note to CBS. None of these people watch Dave anyway, so to hell with 'em.

It was between Letterman and Palin. Letterman apologized, Palin accepted, end of story.

Kind of funny though how the apology didn't come until Embassy Suites dropped their advertising. Guess he didn't want a repeat of the Imus treatment.

RE: 'Fire Dave!': Crowd lines up to protest Letterman's 'Late Show' Palin joke

Mike the Usurper wrote:

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, NBC News reported. NBC said he may have had connections to hate groups or anti-government groups.

For those who started something when the terror book came out about right wing groups, this and the Tiller murder are the sort of thing it was talking about. How many lefty attacks have there been? Oh that's right, none.

Reality does have a liberal bias, and it's because of people like these guys.

And also people like these guys.

RE: Gunman, guard shot at Holocaust museum - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

This study is titled 'Bank Failures and the Deposit Insurance Fund'

Subsidyscope

Acidus wrote:
Pretty Hate Machine is 20 years old.

... ... [sigh] ...

I was thinking the same thing about Space Quest III the other day.

RE: Feeling old

Acidus wrote:

So there's your tweet from your sweet, Lance Armstrong. He's watching the Belgium cycling race La Fleche Wallone. Does receiving that information make you feel like you're part of something? And if so, what? And why?

Am I sounding negative? Even petty? Sue me. Everybody has a limit, and I've reached mine with Twitter, which isn't just the world's fastest-growing social networking tool. It's a religion, filling the hole in regular people's regular lives.

Don't look at me like that. I'm not the neighborhood crank, kicking you kids off my lawn. I've embraced the blogging revolution, bookmarking multiple sites and visiting them every day. More than 20 million Americans write a blog, many of them for audiences approaching zero. Less than 9 percent of the blogging public makes any money at all, and only 2 out of every 100 bloggers support themselves fully. But still 20 million people do it. And I get that. It's personal expression. It's art. Doesn't matter whether it's done well or not. Art is art. So I get blogging.

Facebook and MySpace? I don't get that, unless it's for dating purposes. Horniness, I understand. The need to tell people what you're doing at various junctures of the day? And to read what other people are doing? Gregg is folding clothes ... I don't understand. And I never will. My life shouldn't be that interesting to you, and your life damn sure isn't that interesting to me.

Hear hear!

RE: 'This Twitter thing is annoying as hell' -- Gregg Doyel at 6:01 p.m. - CBSSports.com News, Fantasy, Video