Foursquare: Here’s A Solution to Your PleaseRobMe Problem
March 11, 2010 – 12:50 PM | 0 Comments

By now you have probably heard of PleaseRobMe a service which aggregates all of the foursquare check-in’s into one place using the tweets sent out through the application.  There has been a lot of uproar …

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5 Things I Hate About Twitter
March 12, 2010 – 7:20 PM | 0 Comments
5 Things I Hate About Twitter

There are many lists and reviews out there praising Twitter and how great it is, listing the numerous reasons you should be on it.  While I think Twitter is a great service and has its …

Could Twitter’s New Features Kill 3rd Party Clients?
February 28, 2010 – 8:05 PM | 0 Comments
Could Twitter’s New Features Kill 3rd Party Clients?

Twitter is bringing some big changes to their website according to a Tweet from Alex Payne, a Twitter engineer. As a matter of fact, the features may be so good that people may want to …

Facebook Stopping Application Notifications March 1st
February 28, 2010 – 6:00 PM | 0 Comments
Facebook Stopping Application Notifications March 1st

Recently Facebook posted on their blog that will no long send notifications from Facebook apps to users.  My response?  ”FINALLY!  Thank you very much Facebook!”.  I’m sure you are all in agreement with me on …

Foursquare Launches Its BlackBerry App
January 21, 2010 – 9:49 PM | 0 Comments
Foursquare Launches Its BlackBerry App

Foursquare users who have a BlackBerry it’s time for you to rejoice!  Foursquare has officially launched their BlackBerry application.  Granted the application is still in beta, it seems to be pretty stable according to some …

Official Launch: bt.gd Goes Live!
December 24, 2009 – 7:30 PM | 0 Comments
Official Launch: bt.gd Goes Live!

Roslyn, New York – December 24th, 2009 – BestTechie Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce the official launch of bt.gd.  The launch of bt.gd marks BestTechie’s first full web service.  The bt.gd project started as …

It Seems Almost Impossible to Make it Big on the Internet
December 14, 2009 – 6:30 PM | 0 Comments
It Seems Almost Impossible to Make it Big on the Internet

Let me preface this post by stating a few things: I’m well-aware that no one is entitled to anything on the Internet.  I know that these industry blogs (e.g. TechCrunch, Mashable, etc.) probably receive several …

Angels & Airwaves: Changing The Music Industry Through Social Media
November 18, 2009 – 1:55 PM | 0 Comments
Angels & Airwaves: Changing The Music Industry Through Social Media

Angels & Airwaves, the band, led by front man Tom DeLonge (of blink-182 fame) is on the forefront of revolutionizing the music industry.  According to DeLonge, he wants to change the way music is made, …

What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?
November 13, 2009 – 12:30 PM | 0 Comments
What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

In a place where every character counts, URL Shortening services such as bit.ly have been gaining a lot of popularity.  Web services such as Twitter which limit you to 140 characters of text per tweet …

TechCrunch’s Super Secret Spy Subdomain
August 8, 2009 – 6:51 PM | 0 Comments
TechCrunch’s Super Secret Spy Subdomain

Earlier today, TechCrunch Co-editor, Erick Schonfeld made a blog post about his issues with Firefox 3.5.  However, in that blog post, he posted a screenshot (see below) which included a tab labeled “TechCrunch Spy”.  Purposely …

Digg Launches Digg Ads But Will They Be Dugg?
August 6, 2009 – 6:30 PM | 0 Comments
Digg Launches Digg Ads But Will They Be Dugg?

Digg Ads have been much anticipated (at least for Digg) for quite some time now and today Digg has rolled out the initial beta of their new ad platform.  The way the system works according …

Are You Being Heard On Twitter? Probably Not.
July 10, 2009 – 2:52 PM | 0 Comments
Are You Being Heard On Twitter? Probably Not.

People all over the web are praising Twitter and the power and potential of retweeting and I’m not going to lie, I think Twitter is great (I praised it here for helping me spread the …

Digg’s New Dupe Detection Fails
June 30, 2009 – 8:34 PM | 0 Comments
Digg’s New Dupe Detection Fails

Today, Digg launched their new dupe detection system.  However, there is one slight problem – it doesn’t seem to be working.  As you can see in the screen shot below there are two stories on …

Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups
June 17, 2009 – 4:08 PM | 0 Comments
Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups

Dear Search Engine Startups,
I realize that I may only be 19 years old and lack a lot of the experience that a lot of big name (or just older) entrepreneurs may have acquired throughout their …

Chirpio Attempts To Stop Twitter Spam
May 22, 2009 – 5:33 PM | 0 Comments
Chirpio Attempts To Stop Twitter Spam

Chirpio is a new web service which is aiming to stop the twitter spam problem. The idea behind the service is to allow twitter users to rate the people they follow or just mark …

The Twitter Spam Problem
May 19, 2009 – 12:17 PM | 0 Comments
The Twitter Spam Problem

Twitter has a spam problem on their hands and it’s not going away.  Spam which is generally a pretty clear cut subject especially when it comes to email spam, people spamming web forums, blog comment …