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2008

April

Monday, 14th of April. 19:48:52 Google bought Amit a car! http://tinyurl.com/468q7d  By:steverubel

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 14-April-2008

May

Wednesday, 7th of May. 14:53:03 Can youtube please come up with a better video for their India launch? http://tinyurl.com/6z9yb3 By:garimadhiman

Thursday, 8th of May. 22:45:28 My new email signature : "Please do not respond to this email because it will be potentially used against you in a court of law." By:ai

Wednesday, 14th of May. 09:46:05 Just remembered this - One of the grannies during our wedding when told Ash is Oriya looked puzzled and asked, she's from Korea? ROTFL. By:patrix 14:49:52 Listening to a talk about social networks in German. I can't understand a word except Facebook and iGoogle. :-) By:steverubel

Thursday, 22nd of May. 19:37:22 At the airport's cellphone lot, 30 people sitting in cars and one guy stretched out on the grassy mound soaking in the sun. Me. By:judell

Thursday, 29th of May. 11:30:17 [blog post] Bloggers get “paid” with comments: The debate over fragmentation of blog comments .. http://tinyurl.com/5wd6hr By:mathewi

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 29-May-2008

June

Sunday, 1st of June. 10:37:00 @Brajeshwar Guess Twitter must first learn to handle the load on Earth :) By:patrix

Monday, 2nd of June. 21:04:40 The end is nigh: just got friended by my Mom on Facebook. By:rklau

Tuesday, 3rd of June. 11:28:01 @twilightfairy I guess Google favicon small g is for insignificant searchers, capital G means you are a 'special user' ;-) ! By:GautamGhosh 12:50:49 will happily pay for a limit-free premium Twitter API By:codelust 13:48:32 Invited someone to view/download a google doc, but they need a google account..if i publish to a public url they can only view, not download By:johnt

Thursday, 12th of June. 14:55:58 FF2 has passed its age and FF3 is not ready yet .. lets see what happens once the final version is released on 17th By:mrinal

Monday, 16th of June. 07:41:53 I now get more traffic to my blog from Friendfeed than I do from Twitter by factor of 2x. By: steverubel

Tuesday, 17th of June. 10:33:24 recording of waitress spilling coffee over me and my (now dead) laptop: guy i'm interviewing says 'shit'. i say 'interesting.' huh? By:loosewire 21:11:36 @dannysullivan You need to blog about payday loans or mesothelioma ;) By:jenstar

Wednesday, 18th of June. 22:16:32 thank you, Firefox 3, for a wonderful legal wedding gift--the best traffic day in Lifehacker's history yesterday By:ginatrapani 22:20:36 omg, THANK YOU to each and every one of you for your kind words and support--my Twitter replies tab is my virtual legal wedding guest book! By:ginatrapani

Tuesday, 24th of June.

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 24-June-2008

13:42:59 hilarious mixup at RWW, as three of us start writing the Nokia-Symbian story. Two got posted. The resulting post is 50% mine and Frederic :) By:rww

Thursday, 26th of June. 00:09:44 Also: life hack? Using Ustream as a baby monitor. By:mollywood

Saturday, 28th of June. 09:10:56 At the Pownce anniversary party. Am I allowed to Twitter that? By:ryanblock

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 28-June-2008

July

Sunday, 6th of July. 05:26:57 Today I threw two pennies at a bird outside my window. Naptime is naptime, bird. By: mollywood

Tuesday, 22nd of July. 20:30:18 this stinks, Wordpress uploads their app yesterday, gets it approved and for sale today. I've had mine uploaded for A WEEK and no progress By:mdjensen

Friday, 25th of July. 12:54:32 playing with an iPhone. In 5 hours I've had 4 hard spontaneous reboots and 2 lockups. Contacts are unusable with only 2800 contacts. Rough. By:shanselman

Sunday, 27th of July. 04:44:46 Studying for the bar exam is like eating Phantom Tollbooth subtraction soup. The more I study one topic, the more I forget of the last. By:meredithlea

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 27-July-2008

August

Monday, 4th of August. 09:43:46 hubby just smashed a spider with his iPhone to save me. By:nancyduarte

Monday, 11th of August. 21:40:23 Google Docs: Sorry! We are experiencing technical difficulties and cannot show all of your documents. By:scottkarp

Wednesday, 13th of August. 00:30:33 it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. By:pluggdin

Thursday, 14th of August. 06:17:47 Just got an IM from my 8 year-old. That rocks. By:rklau

Friday, 22nd of August. 12:06:21 Retweet @ev: I like this new Twitter UI so much better, I now hate looking at the old (current) one. (Coming soon.) By:crazybob

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 22-August-2008

September

Friday, 19th of September. 05:28:18 Wow, the Zune 3.0 software is *WAY* faster to navigate than iTunes 8. Â By:shanselman

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 19-September-2008

October

Saturday, 4th of October. 17:36:06 Journalist Rafe Needleman has been pitched by PR people in the restroom http://tinyurl.com/3zguly  By:steverubel

Monday, 13th of October. 10:36:15 @TechCrunch just told me to go to hell. Among some circles in the Valley that's a compliment! :-) Â By:Scobleizer

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 13-October-2008

November

Friday, 7th of November. 23:33:29 Here's an idea for a Gmail Widget: One that auto puts the recipient's full name as SUBJECT when left blank. By:brucewagner

Sunday, 9th of November. 01:02:07 so, I've switched back from Leopard to Windows XP for work reasons, and I'm way happier with it than I expected. By:ginatrapani

Tuesday, 11th of November. 03:02:04 @JohnMu - I only worry now about keeping my BP under control :-) But management like the figures of GOOG green bar :-) By:Harith 11:17:02 @TechCrunch Did you ever wonder whether your own policy on requiring exclusives has led others to bust embargoes? By:timoreilly

Wednesday, 19th of November. 18:48:33 John Faughnan: "I think of Google as a device sent back in time to create archives for the Skynet's reading pleasure." http://bit.ly/DPbw By:judell

Monday, 24th of November. 19:22:25 Since Microsoft is apparently searching for new names for Live search, I'd like to suggest one or two: NotGoogle and BetterthanYahoo By:LanceUlanoff

Tuesday, 25th of November. 17:14:59 I actually had a dream about Twitter last night. Very weird, but real enough I woke up and it took a bit to realize it wasn't true. By:judis217

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 25-November-2008

December

Monday, 15th of December. 09:25:24 @loiclemeur I thought LeWeb rocked. The most vocal critics have their own agendas, just like with Sarkozy 2 years ago. By:gapingvoid

Tuesday, 30th of December. 08:43:34 Yes Virginia, Techmeme's most bitter and persistent critics are merely upset that Techmeme doesn't love their posts. Always been that way. By:gaberivera

Wednesday, 31st of December. 12:21:16 Yes, Google updated our toolbar PageRank values today. Consider this the confirmation. By: mattcutts

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 31-December-2008

2009

January

Saturday, 3rd of January. 09:35:10 It's been 2 weeks with the Mac, inlcuding 10 days w/ no PC. So far, I'm nowhere near as fast as I was on Windows. How long do I give it? By:Rafe

Tuesday, 6th of January. 06:33:09 Holy cow. I'm following Guy Kawasaki on Twitter...he's tweeting EVERY 3 MINUTES!! Don't people have lives!?!? By:Pogue

Tuesday, 13th of January. 10:51:20 Tip to Techmeme bloggers: You'll get more hits summarizing your original idea as the title, rather than just duplicating the first headline. By:jdowdell 13:04:04 I don't appreciate bloggers that don't give credit. (even if they hear about a piece of news on Twitter) By:Orli

Wednesday, 14th of January. 10:59:54 Just received a gorgeous wedding invitation in the mail. Shame I can't recall ever having met the bride or groom (and yes, I Googled 'em). By:thatadamguy

Friday, 16th of January. 18:42:45 -5℉. Plenty of ☀ but not much ♨. Only a ☃ can ❤ this. By:judell

Monday, 19th of January. 09:17:58 SnailMailTweet lets you mail in tweets for posting in 6-8 business days http://tweetbysnailmail.com. Uhhh....no thanks By:sarahintampa

Tuesday, 20th of January. 12:17:36 mrs_crazybob: "Is it a coincidence that both Google and the Whitehouse have the address # 1600 Amphitheatre and Pensylvania respectively?" By:crazybob

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 20-January-2009

Friday, 23rd of January. 11:26:43 Discovering that in Gmail, each email has a unique URL. pretty useful. i can bookmark my emails  By:OurielOhayon

Saturday, 31st of January. 11:24:36 Arrrgh! Just spent hours reading Amit Agarwal's blog - fascinating stuff on blogs, googledocs, email, tweets - & accomplished zilch myself!! Â By:kateduttro

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 31-January-2009

February

Monday, 2nd of February. 15:10:24 @OurielOhayon now that you won't be linking to Techmeme anymore from fr.techcrunch.com, I just want to state that I've always disliked you. By:gaberivera

Wednesday, 4th of February. 08:33:55 hoping india pulls off the $20 laptop By:emilychang

Friday, 6th of February. 08:24:03 I just landed in houston in my private jet. Due to cutbacks and scrutiny from obama administration i decided to give a few 100 a ride an ... By:jowyang 22:20:28 Removing "friends" from Facebook that constantly sending me spam (comments, messages) By:Orli

Tuesday, 10th of February. 10:35:15 Twhirl 0.9 uses as much memory as Windows Media Center playing a recorded HD TV show. Wow. Not cool. By:brandonleblanc

Thursday, 12th of February. 05:31:33 Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. I expect that to remain for a while. By: mattcutts

Tuesday, 17th of February. 19:10:08 Aha! I have just got an idea for a blogpost. It is the greatest feeling in the world that. By:sidin

Thursday, 19th of February. 21:39:17 contemplating to change popurls TOS FB/tumblr-style in resp. of imposing a ban to click any link,then revert back when WSJ picks up t. story By:thomas

Saturday, 21st of February. 11:53:33 'nothing we've done with wordpress is original' - matt #wci By:garimadhiman

Tuesday, 24th of February.

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 24-February-2009

17:44:13 FreiedFeed ought to give @scobleizer stock, his Twitter feed is 97.4% links into FF-space. By: davewiner

Thursday, 26th of February. 05:34:18 I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010 By:google

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 26-February-2009

March

Tuesday, 3rd of March. 00:09:54 OH: Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. No one actually knows how. When finally done, there is surprise its not better. By:avinashkaushik

Thursday, 5th of March. 00:20:30 Disabled offline on all my Gmail accounts and it's suddenly usable again. Guess that was the problem. When am I seriously offline anyway? By:judis217 05:04:48 After about 5,000 followers do you ever get the feeling you need to start saying something of value on Twitter? So much pressure! By:avinashkaushik

Friday, 6th of March. 23:57:54 Great write-up by Amit Agarwal about last week's Search Masters conference in India: http://bit.ly/THPDw By:mattcutts

Saturday, 7th of March. 16:33:30 had a memorable lunch today with someone whose work has greatly influenced my digital world By:emilychang

Tuesday, 10th of March. 03:03:26 @gaberivera - awesome job today getting the story about the office up on tm! By: centernetworks 07:30:40 Wondering why Discovery/TLC channels have lost all quality programming over the past five years. Is it all Real estate+reality show now? By:peeyush

Tuesday, 17th of March. 11:03:03 dell tries and give two different embargo times to different outlets. i am sick of this shitty behavior. okay serenity now! By:om 22:14:11 Ben Huh: "Everyone starts out on the internet as a douchebag. Then you do something that moves you above or below that line." #sxsw By:ginatrapani

Wednesday, 18th of March. 21:39:50 My father is teaching me Twitter. Isn't that a little backwards? By:TheJub

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 20-March-2009

Friday, 20th of March. 02:26:43 Does anyone else think Twitter should ban RSS-aggregating alert-spam? Get that garbage out of here, how much bandwidth are you wasting? By:leemathews 09:45:22 We want kid coming out of college to be an engineer, doctor, scientist, but not an investment banker. - Barack Obama on Jay Leno Show By:alexiskold

Saturday, 21st of March. 10:45:27 after meeting with Wordpress founder @photomatt i think stocktwits should have StockCamps in different cities By:howardlindzon

Monday, 23rd of March. 05:16:52 i swear window movie maker is so much more intuitive than imovie 08 By:dannysullivan

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 23-March-2009

April

Friday, 3rd of April. 00:58:04 Annoying: The iPhone's touch screen does not work if there's a band-aid on your finger. By: dewalt 08:07:01 another poor habit i've seen is echochambers crediting other echochambers, and not the original source. engadget does this a lot By:longzheng 11:13:20 @gaberivera - you may know this @google is now following @techmeme. Now would be a good time start @google acquiring @techmeme rumor :-) By:atul

Thursday, 9th of April. 09:35:59 @anand_raj Re: Jet Lag, two tricks that work for me - Drink liters of water & hit the gym soon after you land. Get into the zone by 10p. By:amitsomani

Sunday, 12th of April. 12:27:45 Also shouldn't SP change its name to Samajwadi Dal since "party" is a filthy English word? By: abhi2point0

Tuesday, 14th of April. 21:09:14 ok people plz tell me if u r going to tweet score and cricket discussions during IPL. I will have to unfollow u till IPL ends. By:Reema226

Thursday, 16th of April. 03:44:09 CNN Acquires @CNNbrk Twitter Account With Nearly 1 Million Followers. http://tr.im/iUQV By: davewiner

Wednesday, 22nd of April. 14:33:39 Note to self: speak slower when attempting to make jokes to non-native speakers of your language. By:randfish

Thursday, 23rd of April. 01:41:00 i'm bored with twitter. goodbye, followers. By:thewishnow

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 23-April-2009

May

Thursday, 7th of May. 00:14:29 New Pew Report says 93% of blogger interest in the Kindle is driven by a $40 affiliate kickback; 7% is based on "something something books." By:hotdogsladies

Thursday, 14th of May. 21:26:56 Is Google also crawling semantic location data too? I missed that. [pic] http://ff.im/-2SZBp By: steverubel 21:32:43 Google stumbles and the internet breaks a leg: http://tr.im/lljo #googlefail By:dewalt

Thursday, 21st of May. 23:06:05 Reader gripes that our site doesn't look right w/ AdBlock. One, it does in a copy of Firefox I just tested; two... why is that our problem? By:robpegoraro

Saturday, 23rd of May. 13:29:16 I know I shouldn't be working while on vacation, but fixing a bug... perl is like a vacation unto itself... By:btabke

Friday, 29th of May. 16:14:09 The focus on how Wave will make money is misguided. It's part of the platform that Google's building. By:nbradbury

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 29-May-2009

June

Wednesday, 3rd of June. 02:15:51 Any browser not giving each tab its own thread is not fit for the modern web. i.e., all Mac browsers are broken. By:gaberivera

Thursday, 4th of June. 00:49:57 This iGoogle showcase of Celebrity home pages shows how celebrities are like regular people, but with stuff to sell http://bit.ly/18pPul By:MParekh

Wednesday, 17th of June. 20:25:32 Lack of computer injurious to your wealth but luxurious for your brain. I found out the hard way when my macbook died. By:om

Tuesday, 23rd of June. 18:16:04 PCMag.com: iPhone 3G S is "The Best Handheld PC Ever" http://tr.im/prPe Me: Yeah, it's that good. Now if they could just work on the phone. By:LanceUlanoff

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 23-June-2009

July

Wednesday, 15th of July. 20:18:06 Side-by-side, FF3.5 renders pages faster for me than Chrome. By:GetAdam

Friday, 17th of July. 17:29:49 Reading the twttr doc @TechCrunch feels like snooping someone's medicine cab: it might be interesting, but it doesn't feel good By:GetAdam

Friday, 31st of July. 23:47:51 Prediction: 7 people buy the Crunchpad tablet thing and they're all employed by the same person. Ultralight notebooks win out. By:MITorres

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 31-July-2009

August

Tuesday, 4th of August. 23:33:29 IE's Web Slices won't catch on because anyone geeky enough to figure out how to use them doesn't use IE. By:dmozealous

Thursday, 13th of August. 18:26:56 RT @DanBlank Guy next to me on the train read 4 newspapers in 45 minutes. He says they all say the same thing, he just reads the headlines. By:scottkarp 20:20:12 I wonder if the AP purchased Twitter if we would be required to pay to ReTweet? By:nickbilton

Monday, 17th of August. 10:22:00 Indian media celebrating 10 years of blogging 12years after the first blog came. Is it just Blogger's anniversary or am I missing something? By:PragatiVerma

Tuesday, 18th of August. 22:50:42 Sitting in a windowless Windows conference room right now. Bldg 37...A lull between meetings By:maryjofoley

Wednesday, 19th of August. 20:05:53 RT @NiemanLab: BMW calls its takeover of NYT homepage "edgy." Times calls it "unique." User calls its "super-annoying" http://tr.im/wGzY By:mathewi

Monday, 24th of August. 22:33:23 I'll give $1 for each retweet up to $1k. @lammerding son suffers rare genetic disorder http://lammerding.org he's a doll. Pls help. By:nancyduarte

Sunday, 30th of August. 16:20:50 Flight ☑ Hotel ☑ TC50 Ticket ☑ - San Francisco here I come! By:Orli

Monday, 31st of August. 09:50:08 My boyfriend is using Bing to search for flights. He seems satisfied! :) By:maileohye 11:56:41 Irony: the fastest way to get UNfollowed is to DM me with a spammy msg telling me you have a program to get more followers By:problogger

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 31-August-2009

September

Wednesday, 9th of September. 16:00:32 Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins! By:tanya25m

Friday, 11th of September. 00:19:28 "Ask and you Shall Receive." This is why I love Twitter, where else can you get so many genuine responses in minutes? By:rjacquez 00:41:23 Wow - just saw a very cool demo of the next version of Bing. Extremely cool. Lots of innovative Silverlight features. By:mdowney

Tuesday, 22nd of September. 18:50:01 Responding to his critics, NYT's David Pogue says: "Since when have I ever billed myself as a journalist?" http://bit.ly/ByDdK By:NYTPicker 19:21:01 'RT' for a retweet, 'via' when you get the link via someone. RT @iyermatter: RT or via ? #youPrefer By:amitvarma

Thursday, 24th of September. 08:04:53 RT @ginatrapani: Prediction: Google Sidewiki will go the way of Google Knol (ie, you'll never hear about it again) By:jeffjarvis 10:15:27 This site is best viewed in Google Chrome Frame for IE Tab for Firefox for Windows in Parallels on a Mac. Upgrade Now! By:anildash 12:50:12 Some people never stop checking my site rank on Alexa. I find it amusing. Please don't bother, 'cause I'm not worth it =). By:ckunte

Friday, 25th of September. 10:27:37 #WordPress developers: When the plug-in directory asks for a "description," please DESCRIBE your plug-in. http://ow.ly/qZAJ By:jdlasica 11:50:25 Welcome back, Gmail. We need to talk though. By:robinwauters 21:37:03 Amit Agarwal's Digital Inspiration blog (http://bit.ly/FJKw) is outstanding, replete with practical computing tips. Highly recommended! By:rsivaram

Tuesday, 29th of September. 00:56:00 I am deeply amused by @nprnews using su.pr links when their own site's Terms of Use says "NPR does not allow framing of the Site." AWESOME. By:meyerweb 12:58:14 why is banking software so lame? feels like it was written by dorks in the mid 1990s By:

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 29-September-2009

loosewire 17:34:38 I'm considering changing my job title from "editor" to "full time comment spam remover" By: bradlinder 23:25:48 I've said it before, and I'll definitely say it again: Thank God, Krishna & Allah for the GMail Undo button. By:nickbilton

Wednesday, 30th of September. 09:17:49 I hate to beg, but if anyone has a Google Wave invite I would be most grateful :-) By:mathewi

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 30-September-2009

October

Friday, 2nd of October. 23:13:11 I've made 37 calls from my iPhone 3Gs in the last week and literally 100% of them have dropped. I'm disgusted by this poor service. By:mdowney

Saturday, 3rd of October. 13:38:47 RT: @peterrojas: My mom just called: "I read on Facebook that you weren't feeling well. Everything ok?" - interesting By:Nandini_M

Tuesday, 6th of October. 06:22:46 lol @Office_Live tweet -- Display your pictures like a pro using Microsoft Popfly http://bit.ly/RLneu. Um, Newsflash: MS closed Popfly By:inafried 14:05:44 By simple logic, Wave invites should first be offered to the (heavy) users of Google Groups, 'cause that's where people really collaborate. By:ckunte 17:36:27 RT @shelleypowers Isn't it interesting how HTML5 has now become Google's primary competitive tool against Microsoft. By:Carnage4Life

Wednesday, 7th of October. 22:45:22 I remember when I used to write blog posts for a living. SHeesh this event organizing stuff can sure take up a lot of time! By:marshallk

Friday, 9th of October. 00:53:17 Twitter Tip: If a tweet has vague text and a link, don't click it... compromised Twitter passwords could be inviting you to an exploit page. By:jdowdell

Saturday, 10th of October. 10:17:56 apparently hiring a pr firm means that a startup is "showing maturity" By:centernetworks

Monday, 12th of October. 19:42:35 Dear Mr. Cheap Data Recovery, I like your site too. By:JohnMu

Wednesday, 14th of October. 14:02:45 As a user, the best way to learn about any software is to sit with a power user for 15 mins. It works, every single time! By:amitsomani

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 14-October-2009

Thursday, 15th of October. 02:13:41 If you apologize a lot during your presentation/keynote, you are doing something wrong. By: avinashkaushik 10:57:41 How many bloggers does it take to blog about Blog World Expo? None. They're all tweeting about it, instead. By:chrispirillo 14:09:47 RT @nirav: Oh, just noticed that Diwali is a trending topic. @twitter India is your big market! By: blogadda 18:10:06 TechCrunch keeps link-whoring titles about Chrome OS, and TechMeme keeps posting the headlines. Weak. By:leemathews 23:18:24 One should always invest in a good chair, monitor, bed and keyboard. Don't buy cheap if you're using something thousands of hours a year. By:shanselman

Friday, 16th of October. 23:15:30 i'm begging. please don't use URL shorterners that do the annoying frame thing. just say no. By:dannysullivan

Sunday, 18th of October. 10:19:19 RT @waynesutton Only in Vegas where water is $4.00 and beer is free! #waynedoesnotdrink! #bwe09 By:hc

Wednesday, 21st of October. 18:07:07 Some1 jst asked me why I wasn't flying a Pvt craft. Bcause we did hv 2 planes&a chopper&when we sold them our stock price went up!! By:anandmahindra

Friday, 23rd of October. 00:02:23 In life one is always short of something- money,time,love,health....you're lucky if you're only short of height. By:suhasinih 20:46:44 Why do d 'wonders of d world' hv to b of brick&mortar?The colour of the leaves in new england in Fall is a spectacle that is a true wonder. By:anandmahindra 22:16:24 welcoming @timberners_lee to twitter By:GoogleAtWork

Saturday, 24th of October. 12:42:30 Always disappointed when I meet someone from Twitter and they don't look like their avatar. Was hoping for a Panda, not a dude in a onesie. By:shanselman 18:16:58 Kingfisher Airlines knows how to delight. if you are traveling with a young child, they serve your meal early AND one parent at a time. By:amitsomani

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 26-October-2009

Monday, 26th of October. 16:53:53 Just helped a friend think through their 3-min talk at TED India. Boy, short presentations are really, really hard. By:amitsomani 17:33:41 Please use Google reader to share items from blogs OTHER THAN YOUR OWN. Thank you, that is all. /unfollow By:leemathews

Tuesday, 27th of October. 13:19:10 Now introducing the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). IBM, Oracle, Hello??? http://bit.ly/QJaNf By:amitsomani

Thursday, 29th of October. 19:18:49 But do you wish to be fraands with the geek from Gopalpur? RT @labnol: They have redesigned Orkut.. http://bit.ly/4BgcSK By:kushanmitra

Friday, 30th of October. 10:42:57 Building Twitter lists. Surprisingly useful. By:rklau

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 30-October-2009

November

Sunday, 1st of November. 10:05:52 Marathon update: Finished 21km in 3hours 10 minutes #delhi #marathon By:indianterrain 20:47:10 Wishing upcoming Kindle Reader for PC/MAC were AIR-based, it would also include Linux in one shot, a la TweetDeck and TimeReader #justsaying By:rjacquez

Tuesday, 3rd of November. 20:45:47 Apparently the population of New York decided two years ago to only have boys. Every pre-school has limited/no openings for 2-yr boys. @%#^! By:Shripriya

Thursday, 5th of November. 00:07:09 Delighted to meet @labnol Amit Agarwal of http://digitalinspiration.com #TEDIndia great guy, brilliant blogger who I have follwed 2-3yrs #fb By:DrAwab

Monday, 9th of November. 00:56:50 I explain my vegetarianism by saying i don't want to bite into anything that in its natural living state would have bitten me back. By:ShashiTharoor 01:58:39 We discovered 62 wireless signals on our block. We've used the advice at http://labnol.org/?p=10549 to ensure security for each user. By:Rey_Carr

Friday, 13th of November. 22:07:48 Attn PC makers: If your desktop's design includes a wireless keyboard and mouse, build the transceiver into box. Dongles are a pain. By:dsilverman

Saturday, 14th of November. 21:24:09 NRI Tip of the day. 'Instead of hiring a Pundit for a Puja, just play one of the devotional Anuradha Paudwal CDs.' By:tanushreebaruah

Monday, 16th of November. 06:06:27 @grandmarquee AdBlock wouldn't block video ads. Besides, as someone whose livelihood depends on web ads, I don't believe in blocking ads. By:ryanblock

Tuesday, 17th of November. 13:35:07 I wonder about people who spam the Google blogs ... are they doing it on purpose? Putting time into their sites would help more. By:JohnMu

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labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 17-November-2009

Thursday, 19th of November. 22:30:09 Observation upon meeting the very-tall @jeffjarvis: "Everyone is the same height on Skype." Love that guy. By:ginatrapani

Friday, 20th of November. 01:59:13 I have no opinion about Chrome OS. All I know is that cheap hardware feels cheap. It's less "cloud computing" than "disposable computing". By:al3x 09:16:14 Is it just me or is Google's OS really just a web browser? I mean really. By:davewiner

Saturday, 21st of November. 11:08:43 Wife: "I found a gray hair!" Me: "Don't worry, everyone has them." Wife: "You don't!" Me: "I know, I was trying to make you feel better." By:mike9r

Monday, 23rd of November. 20:45:03 I made "friends" with many of the top Bajrang Dal leaders; they promised my crew a ringside seat when "the great event" took place. By:vikramchandra

Tuesday, 24th of November. 07:25:45 Is it me and my computer, or is Twitter still experiencing growing pains? Now, I see Twitter, now I don't & no sign of fail whale either! By:kamla

Wednesday, 25th of November. 16:15:22 My first debate in the Lok Sabha today.Spoke on Afghanistan & answered 6 supplementary qsns.Full house,pindrop silence.Terrific experience. By:ShashiTharoor

Friday, 27th of November. 13:40:27 Ironically, the only person really safe, 1 yr after 26/11 is Kasab ! By:drbindu

Monday, 30th of November. 18:30:50 You can't make a Gmail label called "Voicemail" b/c it's "a reserved system label." Sign of impending Google Voice/Gmail integration? By:ginatrapani

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December

Thursday, 3rd of December. 15:28:45 In Javascript, if you don't declare a variable with "var" it's global. I keep forgetting this! By: rajeshja 19:03:13 Twitter is like a field full of kindergartners. One catchy chant, and they all join in. By:aditya

Friday, 4th of December. 08:08:36 we're aware and looking into it...stay tuned ^az By:bing

Saturday, 5th of December. 00:49:50 @ClaytonMorris You said it. It was a bad idea. Any netbook could do what CrunchPad could do and more for less cost. 'Tweener devices FAIL By:Gartenberg 08:54:13 Dear NYU, We pay you shit loads of tuition fees. The least you can do is keep the NYU Home site up (a night before our mid-terms) Thank you. By:shahpriya

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