Jeff Says

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has just listed his San Francisco penthouse loft on the market, asking $1,498,000 for the two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit.

With Twitter’s value recently pegged at $1 billion, Williams can’t be hurting for cash. Is he aiming for an upgrade?

The “Manhattan-style” penthouse has 11 foot ceilings, a private patio, 110 inch high-def projected video and screen, and remote controlled blinds, according to the listing. The unit is in the historic Heublein Building in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/twitter-co-founder-evan-w_n_307596.html

I have been anticipating the beginning of FlashForward on ABC, it’s great to see that the writer of the book does a lot of research to keep the the science accurate.

In today’s world Email, phone calls, websites, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, 12seconds.tv, blogs, Skype and all of the other distractions continue to trump one another… How do we keep up?

Check out this great play on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs focusing on Digital Distractions, brought to us by the really great site: www.informationisbeautiful.net

Blackberrys, iPhones and the whole lot have great applications for Twitter users to stay connected to their accounts while on-the-go. But what about the rest of us?

Texting

If you have the know-how and ability to send a text message with your phone, you can update your Twitter profile with east.  Simply set up your account with text updates by logging into your profile on Twitter.com, click Settings > Devices. Put in your phone number and hit save.

**Be sure to un-check any of the annoying things like allowing Twitter to send messages to your phone.

Texting Pro’s: You can send updates anytime you want while on the go, you can send @ replies, Direct Messages and include #hashtags.
Texting Con’s: You can’t receive updates, check @ replies or Direct Messages.

TwitterFone

Don’t have texting on your phone? Too busy to crank out a message? Why not call a number, leave a voicemail message and have it auto-transcribed into text and post to your Twitter account automatically. Welcome to TwitterFone.
(*NOTE: This should NOT be confused with TwitterFon (no “e”), which is an iPhone application).

The free service of TwitterFone does just that, transcribes your voicemail message and posts it directly to your Twitter account. An added feature is that anyone can listen to your message by clicking the auto-inserted short-link. Think of it as voicemail to the masses.

TwitterFone Pro’s: Free service, leave voice updates to be posted to your Twitter account, listen to updates from people you follow.
TwitterFone Con’s: No ability to make @ replies, Direct Messages or #hashtags (or not that I am aware of).