Hoo should be using Hootsuite?
Every day there’s a new application and few markets are as populated as the social networking arena. Tools that provide phone and desktop users with access to their Twitter, Facebook and other social accounts, are all vying for our attention by adding useful and hard-to-live-without features.
Klout will drive your social engagement
With the rise in popularity of Klout, a tool aimed at measuring social engagement, voyeurs of the social scene are going to be compelled to get involved.
Passive Twitter (and LinkedIn and Facebook…) users will start to emerge from the shadows, seeking to improve their social standing as the irresistible urge to compete kicks in.
Fixing bugs the fun way
Whilst engineers often quote the 80-20-rule (“the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time”, known as the Pareto principle), developers have the “Ninety-ninety rule”:
“The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
Tweetanory
Dubbed Tweetanory, we’ve built a little app that automatically tweets one of a selection of stories at bedtime, line by line. A really simple idea that could be used by parents on the road, staying at friends or just somewhere without a book to read.
