Jeromakay

If you find yourself wasting time on Twitter, I have one single word for you: TweetDeck.

I have been using TweetDeck for about two weeks now, and I think it really changes my way  of using twitter, and if I can say so, I’m more productive. This means, less time wasted on finding exactly what I want to read, and more time for things that I am focusing on at the moment.

Here’s few reasons why you should use tweetdeck:

• it is faster than the site
• real-time tweets
• it let’s you know quickly if there’s any update related to your account, so you can quickly evade the tweet zone
• it brings focus on what you want, everything is nicely rendered, you don’t waste time with unnecessary filtering
• you are in control of the tweets you want to see thanks to the multi column data (replies to @vladimir_ghetau are so cool in their own column, same thing for my saved searches and direct messages – I feel like a DJ)
• way faster navigation: replies, tweets, direct messages, shoter URLs… all this is all painless with TweetDeck
• it’s for all the major operating systems: Win, linux, Mac
• it’s free

All this tweet play thanks to TweetDeck takes now 10 minutes max a day, instead of 30 when I was using the web interface. I can’t look back for anything else.

I think I’m the first to say this: Loopthing just launched the business networking feature which allows businesses to associate based on common interests. The feature is called simply “networks”, and allows companies or self employed users to create their own business networks, join existing ones and interact with the members of these networks through discussion boards.

This feature becomes very handy when it comes to businesses focused on the same things, because they can discuss and socialize based on one thing that is most important for their existence and development. I can see only good things coming out from this.

A network was already started by Loopthing, and it is designed to attract bloggers from the IT industry. You can see me on the members list because the “networks” feature accepts both business users and individuals.

It’s easier to design code if you start with mock-up objects. This means, mainly defining the general public methods and properties.

At the time you’ll finish designing the whole application using mock-up objects, you can move on to fill in the blanks with code.

Designing with mock-ups has always been easier, faster and safer.