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Results from all blogs forAugust 2006

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Derek Powazek: "Fun!"

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Thursday, August 31, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [22:37 UTC]

This is Powazek: “Twitter lets me SMS to a group all at once and creates a handy ‘what I’m up to right now’ insert for my site. A kind of in-situ, realtime, status message blogging. Fun!”Read more…

Don't Text And Drive

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Thursday, August 31, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [16:22 UTC]

Today’s news about a kid in Michigan who smashed into a police car because he was texting while driving is a sobering reminder: Don’t text and drive. Twitter responsibly.Read more…

Financial Times on Texting in America

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [18:23 UTC]

FT.com / Companies / Telecoms - Americans get texting as SMS catches on: “After years of lagging behind Europe and Japan in the adoption of mobile text messaging, US subscribers have finally caught the SMS (short messaging service) bug.”Read more…

Twitter in SF Chronicle

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Monday, August 28, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [17:36 UTC]

“The only real requirement is that the companies are something you probably haven’t heard of before.” We made the short list of Cool Web 2.0 sites in today’s Chronicle. Nice!Read more…

New Twitter Sharing Feature

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Friday, August 18, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [05:47 UTC]

Put Twitter on your web site. Ev’s doing it. I’m doing it. You can do it with a shiny flash widget or simple bit of javascript if you want more control. Let your blog or myspace readers know what you’re up to *right now* with Twitter. It’s good stuff.Read more…

Have Your Quake And Twitter It Too

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Thursday, August 3, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [20:17 UTC]

Last night I felt an earthquake but my fiance didn’t believe me. Within seconds my phone started twittering with reports from friends.

Aha! See? It was an earthquake and Twitter had my back. The quake was a light 4.4 centered somewhere in Sonoma county.Read more…