Social Media

The Twitter Effect - Bright Kite and Digsby “get it”

Almost 2 years ago I remember reading Wil Wheaton’s blog where he lost all or most of his purchased iTunes music, and I remember feeling jealous when a rep from apple who read his blog, called him to make everything right.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/09/apple_gave_me_b.html
Fast forward to the Twitter age.
DIGSBY
I have used several IM clients over the years, and [...]


New site header, photo by CC Chapman

I wanted to edit the theme a little bit on troyrutter.com, so I finally added a pic that wasn’t black and white.   I’m not thrilled with my weight lately, so photos of me are hard to come by.  But the one above was taken at Podcamp Boston 2 by none other than the great CC [...]


Introducing: The Gathering of Gamers

I have a little secret.  Ok, to some it’s not so much of a secret.  But for all of my new media and social networking friends - I have been developing a social networking site over the past few months, and we are growing every day. This was something new to me, and it was [...]


Will Blog For T-Shirts

As one of my latest and greatest “help me help you” ideas, something I’ve been thinking about for a while… T-shirt link baiting.
Send me one of your “techy” T-shirts, literature about your company, and I will blog about it and post a photo of myself wearing the shirt on my Flickr account with a link [...]


Overheard at PodCamp Boston 2

Originally the Podcamp “name badges” were touted as being $200 off the cost of attending the VON expo. By Sunday, however, it was revealed that the VON organizers would now allow anybody with a Podcamp lanyard and badge to attend VON free of charge.
“Hey,” I heard whispering a couple of rows behind [...]