Jure Cuhalev

Posts Tagged ‘Twitter

20 Apr, 2009

Forget PageRank. TwitterRank via Crowdsourcing is the new Win

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Everyone and their dog should have an OpenID account now. Right? Well, mostly but I somehow managed to skip this revolution so while I probably have a bunch, I don’t have primary one. Since this is a pretty complex decision I decide to ask my nice Twitter followers. I get almost instantly the answer – [...]

16 Apr, 2009

Personal branding, social media and pretty pictures

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

In spirit of eating my own dog food, I’m publishing the presentation that I’m giving tomoorow at my old faculty to undergrad class about things I live and breath – twitter, social media and branding. Probably not much for veterans reading this blog but I was surprised how many good case studies I could do [...]

13 Apr, 2009

rev=”canonical” and extra burden on services

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

With debate about rev=”canonical” being the next best big thing in land of Twitter and shortening services, I wanted to throw in two extra things to consider:

Image by Dystopos via Flickr

How can we trust the rev=”canonical” URL? Who’s burden it is to prove that they’re correct URLs. What to do with misconfigured rev=”canonical” targets?
The proposal [...]

21 Jan, 2009

When ReadWriteWeb mentions your Twitter account

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech|zemanta

Yesterday two of Twitter accounts I control got mentioned in ReadWriteWeb article 50+ Semantic Web Pros to Follow on Twitter. That’s @zemanta (my company’s account) and @gandalfar (personal twitter).
This allowed me to measure how many new followers I would get as a consequence of this story. Today TweetDeck told me for my personal account:
(On quiet [...]

13 Nov, 2008

Twitterank and the perceived need for OAuth

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

In the last few days, there have been a number of stories about Twitterank and the way it asks you for your Twitter username and password in order to calculate something it calls “PageRank for Twitter”.
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr
The issue here, as you might have guessed already, is that the service requires you to [...]