17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners

This is a very nice post over at doshdosh.com. I always find it difficult to try and convey to people the benefits of using a certain tool. I think it comes mostly from the fact that there is already thousands of posts on the subject floating around there in the echo-chamber we have come to know and love/hate as the blogosphere.

So there is always a chance that you could be wrong about something, just because of the sheer impossibility of keeping up with millions of blog posts and press releases and product updates all over the world, every day. that has to be monitored and mined for little juicy nuggets to enhance your own content offering.

It is therefore always a pleasure to come upon someone else who has overcome these fears and succeeded in putting up a very nice introductory “manual” of a service or product that makes it easier for others to learn about it and start using it immediately with the minimum amount of obstacles.

It is with these thoughts in mind that I offer the link above, both because I have become totally addicted to Twitterland and the many thought leaders and A-list bloggers I have befriended and from whom I learn an amazing amount just by following their “lifestreams”.

There seems to be an irritating bug in WordPress where I work on a post and put pics in and everything and then when I press Save, only the subject line comes out. What’s up with that?

So this is the fifth time I am now doing this post over and hoping it comes out allright.

The geeks at tesladownunder.com are huge fans of Nikola Tesla. He was the guy who invented the alternating current we use to power the world and our lives today. They use high voltage tesla coils to create some mega-aewsome lightning FX!

Mega awesome!!!

Dude!!!

The best car protection system in the world!

This is an older post from last year November, but still relevant and on-topic, so I will share it here. The post analyzes the qualities of a good programmer, someone who has a real passion for the code and the technology and how it works…

It’s not as easy as it sounds. CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don’t always have the “official” experience to demonstrate that they’re great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone’s a great programmer.

I consider myself to be a pretty good programmer. At the same time, I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the business side of the fence, filtering technical CVs for projects, interviewing people, etc. Thanks to this, I think I have a bit of experience in recognising good programmers, and I want to share it in this article, in the hope that it may help other “business guys” to recognise good programmers. And, who knows, perhaps some programmers who have the potential to be good but haven’t really exploited this can also read this and realise what they need to do to become good (although, as I’ll argue, that’s definitely not accessible to all programmers!).