If duty, family or friends call and I need to head back west towards Rockville, I have taken it upon myself to check Google Maps for the traffic. Google recently started collecting location data from people who use smartphones and have Google Maps installed. When this geo-location data is cross referenced with location change over time gives Google the unique opportunity to display live traffic on their maps…or so they say.

So I believe I have found a security hole in Google’s login systems, and why they need to unlink usernames with YouTube accounts, or they need to at least address this issue.  I’ll be brief.

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I just want to do a really quick post about the recent Twitter changes with regard to how @reply’s are shown in your timeline.

If you don’t know already, Twitter used to have an option in the settings area that allowed you to choose whether or not you could see reply’s of a particular user you were following that were replying to another user. In short, if you don’t know the person in an @reply from a user, their tweet with that reply would not show up in your timeline feed. You could, before the controversial change, opt to see them or not.

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According to David Martin, Vice President of Primary Research at Nielsen Online, Twitter’s current visitor retention rate, that is the number of visitors that return to Twitter after signing up within one month is about 40%.  Now for some strange reason, Nielsen isn’t reporting how exactly they determined that number.  I’m going to go ahead and guess here, but I bet they calculated that based on visitors returning to the Twitter.com domain, which won’t give them correct results.

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After being on twitter for over a year now, I have finally started to follow mass amounts of people in search for some good inspiration, friendship, and conversation.  However, with all these new friends, I have to weed out the one’s who aren’t really contributing to the conversation-at-large.  The ‘tweeps’ I usually weed out are users that….

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