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Love iTunes But Amazon Is My Mistress

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While I love all that the iTunes Store has to offer, I have a secret. I’ve been cheating on iTunes with my mistress also known as the Amazon MP3 Store. Yes, Amazon is my dirty little ho. I can find similar offerings on both iTunes and Amazon, but sometimes Amazon offers up a deal too good to resist.

For example, take U2’s latest CD, No Line on the Horizon. iTunes has the deluxe version that includes bonuses for $17.99. Today, Amazon has a special offer on the regular version of the CD going for $3.99. How can you not give Amazon some lovin’ with deals like these? And I don’t really care about MP3 versus AAC formats.

So I’ll typically shop iTunes first, but I can’t deny that lusty Amazon anymore.

Woz Is So Going Down on DWTS

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Yikes! Cnet has this exclusive video of Steve Wozniak practicing his dance routine for the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars.

He’s not going to go very far in the competition…

New Respect for Skittles

While I still won’t eat those pure sugar pills known as Skittles, I have a new found respect for Skittles’ recent online advertising. Skittles (temporarily) dumped their web site and instead is showing a live Twitter search of tweets containing the word “skittles.”

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So whatever you tweet about Skittles, it’ll show on their site. Gutsy for sure since there are a lot of worthless tweets showing up, but a very bold move to leave your “site” in the hands of the public.

The Lightness of Twitter

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One of the things I’ve noticed about using Twitter is its “lightness.” Once you’re using Twitter’s microblogging service, you’re not tied to or heavily dependent on any particular Twitter client. You can use the default Twitter web interface, or you can try other web UIs that improve on Twitter shortfalls like Ginx.

There are Twitter clients for mobile platforms like Twitterriffic or Tweetie for the iPhone. And there are a ton of desktop clients such as Tweetdeck and Twhirl.

With all these various client apps, you can easily switch without losing much. Because Twitter is so light and specific in functionality, trying out various apps ain’t nothing (try changing email clients – what a pain). I’ve now switched to Twhril since it better manages multiple Twitter accounts, but I also use the Twitter web and Ginx web interfaces and Tweetie while mobile.

102.7 Da Bomb Going Away?

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Heard Rella of 102.7 Da Bomb say that after 8 years on the radio, Da Bomb was going away. Was in context of tough economic times but might also be a marketing trick/promotion. Did the station change owners? New name for the station?

More details on Monday at 7:00 with Sam Da Man.

Help with Twitter: Multiple Accounts

After twuating a bunch of Twitter names, I now have a problem of managing these various accounts. Most of these twuats aren’t frivolous. Some are experimental to see what local businesses can do with Twitter. Some are to introduce the power of social networking, and some are simply to protect a business’s twats from twuating.

So is there an easy way to monitor these various accounts for any possible conversations? Currently, I log into each account via the web to see if there are any @replies (direct messages work fine since they’re emailed). On the iPhone, Tweetie makes it convenient to quickly switch to different accounts, but I still need to manually make the switch.

It would be so much easier if the timelines of the various Twitter accounts could be aggregated into one “master” account. Logging into that one master account, I’d see the tweets and replies of that account but also all the @replies for all my other “sub” accounts. But that’s just one implementation. I’m sure there are others.

Any ideas?

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