Year: 2013

Comparing countries

Remember: Your economic situation isn’t everything. It is the worst country when it comes to making friends (37th), and scores poorly among expats for social life (33rd), making local friends (32nd), entertainment (32nd), local work culture (30th) and learning the local language (32nd). Expat explorer

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Twitter tools http://bit.ly/1b3NVw9

Despite Twitter’s handling of third party apps and API changes, some tools are still around or re-emerging. Noteworthy: If you don’t know what a hashtag means, go to Tagdef. http://tagdef.com/ Long time ago, Twitter client Brizzly used to do this. I briefly clicked into Tagboard. It looks like a useful search tool. http://tagboard.com/

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#POSSE learnings – Things to add

Testing in progress. I’m using my self-hosted WordPress to tweet. It works. WordPress offers Aside and Link formats for short entries. Some things I’ll need to add or general comments: I often tweet external links I find interesting. Twitter is my Delicious substitute. I need some kind of URL shortener for links that will appear… Continue reading #POSSE learnings – Things to add

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Changing chiperoni.ch/wordpress/ into a tweet machine

I am quite excited about POSSE. I’ve added a plug-in called Hum to shorten URLs. And I activated the corresponding WordPress app for Twitter via Publicize. And that’s it. Voilà. My own personal tweet machine is up. Advantages compared to publishing an RSS feed on Twitter? I guess it has a very similar end-effect to… Continue reading Changing chiperoni.ch/wordpress/ into a tweet machine

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