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  • 4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    A common thread I’ve heard by people who use social media services are the concerns of how to access their archived data or what could happen if the service ceased to exist. In the case of photos and videos I personally always have local versions that are usually much higher resolution than the versions I [...]

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  • Find Out Your True Identity According to People on Twitter

    Find Out Your True Identity According to People on Twitter

    There are several sites out there allowing us to add ourselves to lists describing our skills, specialties or other information about ourselves. Wefollow is a popular one and I’ve also  seen many use Twibes as well. That’s fine and dandy but we know many folks see themselves as things they clearly are not. For instance [...]

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  • The Year in Lifestreaming for 2009

    The Year in Lifestreaming for 2009

    Image courtesy of Flickr user r9M I’ll start this off by saying that I had high hopes at the beginning of the year for technical advancements in Lifestreaming. I really thought we would see some new innovations from service providers and unique ways of processing data and create better filters to view it. Unfortunately I didn’t [...]

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  • Progress on the Open Web is Finally Reaching a Tipping Point

    Progress on the Open Web is Finally Reaching a Tipping Point

    Today provided several serendipitous stories which is what led me to write this post along with its headline. I’ll start with some of my own observations. One of the biggest barriers towards allowing a simpler and more fluid Lifestreaming experience is the lack of open standards. While creating a Lifestream has become a fairly simple process [...]

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  • How to Use Posterous as an Alternative for Twitter Photo Services

    How to Use Posterous as an Alternative for Twitter Photo Services

    Twitpic used to be my primary method for posting photos from my iPhone.  Several months ago I began researching ways that I could automatically post my iPhone images to multiple sites including Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed and Twitter. I looked into using Tarpipe, Pixelpipe, and several other services but none of them offered a simple workflow [...]

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