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Archive for July, 2009
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FileSocial 2.0 – Secure Twitter-based File Sharing Service
July 27th, 2009 
Social Guy 
What happens when you want to share more than 140 characters with your followers? Now we can share pictures, videos, music, text documents, compressed files, PowerPoint presentations, Firefox extensions, applications… Anything!
Itʼs as easy as uploading it to FileSocial and a “tweet” will be automatically published with a permanent link to the file along with the description you wish for everyone to see it, download it or comment on it.
MyLife.com Appoints Ian Siegel as Chief Product Officer
July 27th, 2009 Social Guy 
MyLife.com, the world’s most thorough people search, has hired Ian Siegel, former Rent.com and Pictage exec, as their chief product officer.
Siegel, who has experience developing and executing on product roadmaps for industry leaders such as Pictage and Rent.com, will be responsible for extending the rewarding consumer experiences on MyLife.com as the company enters its next period of rapid growth. Siegel will be based in Los Angeles and report to MyLife.com CEO and founder Jeffrey Tinsley. (more…)
Using Bash Shell Scripts for Twitter Updates and Information Posting
July 26th, 2009 Social Guy Using Bash Shell Scripts for Twitter Updates and Information Posting
These scripts are used to both send tweets from the command line and to automate information to your Twitter account. You can use your Linux server or desktop to help present useful information to your account, not Spam. This creates a way to present tips, FAQ, and other information to people as they follow your account.
Tweet Message
The first example is a bash script that you can save in your home directory, say call it twitter.sh and then chmod 755 the script. Here is how the script works. The two variables at the start, are where you will need to enter your email address and then your password. These variables are called later in the script. The “URL” variable is used to connect to the twitter account and is used later in the script. The “result” line uses curl to send the username and password to twitter to connect to the account and then the status message is what is tweeted on your account. (more…)
Ten Twitter Tips – Make Twitter Work for You
July 25th, 2009 Guest Authors 
Here are ten Twitter tips from Tee Morris, the author of “All a Twitter” (Que Publishing). These tips are not included within the book:
1. Complete Your Profile. Consider how you want to introduce yourself to people. Take a moment to fill out your profile and let people know something about you. You don’t have to tell Twitter everything, but you do want to make an introduction.
