If you don’t like that strip of social tools that appears when you click on http://ow.ly links, then you’ll be happy to know that Hootsuite, the Twitter client that produces those URLs, has removed its “social bar” from ow.ly links. Why was that social bar included in the first place? Hootsuite says that it provides “easy [...]
Based on Facebook’s big announcements at yesterday’s F8 conference, I’ve decided to add a few of Facebook’s social plugins to Almighty Link. In particular, you can now “recommend” any post using the button at the bottom of the post, and you can see the “activity feed” of your Facebook friends who may have liked other [...]
Paper.li examines links that you share on Twitter, and links shared by people you follow, to produce what it calls a “daily newspaper.” The results are mixed but promising for a service that is in its “alpha” stage. This service is very similar to Twitter Times, which I looked at last year. Trends You don’t [...]
To the question “Is the Ash Cloud dangerous to flights?” Charlie Beckett writes that the honest answer is “I don’t know.” Journalism, tasked with sifting through complexity to find answers, is sometimes presented with a situation so chaotic that it defies the possiblity of deriving a correct answer. Beckett points to the eruption of Iceland’s [...]
