Events that take place completely online can be captured using programs that record what you see on your screen. Those recordings are called screencasts. You might have run across them as video tutorials or promotional videos, but they can also be used to tell a story. I used screenr to create this “screencast story” that [...]
To accompany Sunday’s look at Twitter tools that unmask shortened URLs, here are some utilities that reveal the true destination of shortened URLs outside of Twitter. I’ve shortened five URLs, including one YouTube link, with the five URL shorteners that were used the most in tweets within last 24 hours. http://bit.ly/7VFyx http://tinyurl.com/m44knh http://is.gd/19RUq http://ow.ly/fBXz http://tr.im/ppYe [...]
In light of last week’s hack that redirected over 2 million shortened URLs to an unsuspecting blog post, this is a good time to look at how to find how to unmask a shortened web address before clicking on it. After all, malicious web sites could be lurking behind those tiny URLs … or worse. Let’s start [...]
Once you’ve written and published a blog post or story, use ConvoTrack to find what people are saying about that post on Twitter, other blogs or a handful of other social networks. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a current member of those communities to use the tool. As a matter of fact, ConvoTracker might [...]
