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Thursday
Apr092009

How to Become a Super Tweeter in Just 15 Minutes a Day with iGoogle

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Turn iGoogle into a Twitter Powerhouse

Do you want to become a Super Tweeter that everyone is dying to follow? Who doesn't? The good news is that it's really easy. Here's the formula: find stuff that people don't have time to on their own, link to it, talk about it and engage in interesting relevant conversations around it. That's all there is to it and this is a snap using iGoogle.

First, if you don't have an iGoogle page. Go sign up here. Then add a tab for Twitter and bolt on these four Google Gadgets to your page: Google Mini Search, Google News, Google Reader (assuming you're a Reader user) and TwitterGadget. If you click on the "edit this tab" link in the sidebar you can reformat the page so it's two columns. 

If you look at the above screenshot you will see what my page looks like. The left-hand side is where I graze for content. The right side is where I share. I have customized my gadgets so that they cover topics that both my followers and I are interested in.

Now here's where this gets fun. 

All you need to do is use the left to find stuff and the right to share and comment on it. The mini search widget lets you search the web for related links. The Google News and Google Reader let you track topics. And the a-mazin' TwitterGadget is for searching for Twitter topics (type a word and it ctrl-q to search for it on Twitter), tracking the people you follow and for re-tweeting. You can even drag links from the left into the right, as I did in the screenshot above.

That's all there is to it. Do this for 15 minutes a day around a topic that people are passionate about and you will be on your way.

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Wednesday
Apr082009

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Monday
Apr062009

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Saturday
Apr042009

Google Preferred Sites Option Now Available to All Users

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Google's experimental "preferred sites" option allows users to overweight certain web sites in the search engine result pages. It debuted in January but at the time was not available to all users. Now anyone can sign up for the feature via Google Labs.

Once you sign up, Google recommends pages from your history that you tend to visit when searching. You have the option to make these sites (or any other) a preferred destination. Further information is available here as well as on the Google Operating System blog, which first reported on the feature earlier this year.

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Saturday
Apr042009

Bring Twitter Right Into Gmail with the Amazing TwitterGadget

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

TwitterGadget for Gmail

I have tried TweetDeck a number of times but I keep uninstalling it because it puts a drain on my system and I find it distracting. Still, I want fast access to my Twitter account and to be able to track my replies, direct messages and to also quickly glance at what my favorite users are posting. Enter the amazing TwitterGadget for Gmail.

I always keep Gmail running in a tab in my browser. As I have written, I use Gmail for far more than just communications. The TwitterGadget embeds a powerful Twitter client right into your Gmail account. The instructions for adding it are here.

Twitter Sidebar
When you first add TwitterGadget, you get a miniature Twitter app that sits in your sidebar. But that's only the half of it. Click on the double arrows in the gadget's title bar you get a full blown Twitter client that looks like the photo at the top of this post. In many ways TwitterGadget is the best client out there. The app also can be added to iGoogle or run stand-alone in a browser tab.

Here are some things worth exploring. If you tweak the settings, the gadget will auto refresh every three minutes (hopefully the developer will make it real-time soon). You can also easily click on a tweet to reply or even re-tweet it. All short URLs will turn into the full links if you hover over them. In addition, you can change the colors and more in the settings.

Where TwitterGadget gets really interesting, though, is with its kller keyboard shortcuts. They add a ton of functionality. For example, if you type a phrase, select it and then hit "control Q," it will pull a Twitter search right in the app (see photo below). Also, you can easily pull up tweets for an individual user and/or see statistics about them.

TwitterGadget for Gmail Searching

Finally, if you have the "go to label" and "quick links" features enabled in Gmail Labs you can bookmark the TwitterGadget and then pull it up with a keyboard command.


Pull Up TwitterGadget via keyboard

There's another Twitter app for Gmail that's out there that looks promising, but it's a bit buggy and not as feature rich. For now, however, TwitterGadget is a game changer and I highly recommend it to anyone who uses Gmail and or iGoogle.

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