Twitter, Oprah and the Influx of the Soccer Mom Clan

big-o-topSon of a bitch! (pardon my language) So it’s some big deal that Oprah is now on Twitter. I mean, people are acting like Jesus just showed up on the scene or something. You know what this means for Twitter and the real users of Twitter? A mass takeover by the technology illiterate soccer mom clan.

No offense, I hear Oprah is pretty cool beans and all that but it’s people like her that are evolving Twitter into some sort of popularity beast focused on who’s following who and how many followers you have. I suppose this happens with all new social media avenues but it’s still unfortunate. read more…

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net.tutsplus.com Awesome Competition

anniversaryFirst of all it’s the 1 year anniversary of net.tutsplus.com (formerly nettuts.com) which is awesome since I love the tutorials and information I get from that site.

Now, about the really good stuff… In celebration of their 1 year anniversary they’re having a “little” competition at ThemeForest.net (owned by the same company).

There will be 5 winners getting some neat prizes but 1st place is just awesome. 1st place will get $2000 worth of free web hosting at Media Temple on a RAGE server (40GB storage, 512MB RAM, 1.5TB bandwidth) normally $100/m or $1000/y. 1st place will also get a lot more. read more…