Own your data

I find myself repeating variations on this all the time: ‘Much of your target market may be on Facebook, but all of it is on the web & you have a website. Facebook for links; website for content.’ Exploit the strengths of these social media platforms — use them for sharing — but don’t let … Read more

Twitterrific 4.0 for Mac: a brief review

Twitter’s popularity continues to grow, second only to Facebook in terms of the sheer number of users. The Twitter.com website offers a sophisticated interface, but there’s a healthy community of third-party developers providing apps that access Twitter’s features on the desktop and on mobile platforms.

TwitterrificThe Apple ecosystem has been blessed with a number of really solid Twitter clients for Mac OS X and iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), and one of the best — Twitterrific (which was featured among Macworld’s “10 best reading and productivity apps for 2010”) — has just released a major new version for Mac OS X.

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