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If you have been in the dark, a bunch of Twitter accounts where hacked, 33 to be exact.  Twitter Blog: Monday Morning Madness.  Well some of it was pretty funny to say the least here is a run down from TechCrunch – Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked (Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears, Obama, More). .

This leads me to the reason for this post. Password Rules and Policies you should implement for yourself. Alot of these are no brainers, but you will be amazed at how lax people are when it comes to passwords.

Continue reading “Password Rules and Guidelines”

Tags: hack, Twitter

I hope everyone likes the new Zerosource. I took out the Dark black theme and put in one I like better. I also did away with all the advertisment. I’m not really looking to make anything from this, but figured what the hell. Well with anything I’m free to change my mind and therefore I did. No Ads! Not that I won’t tell you about a company I like and or even the company I work for, but no more random Ads. I will continue to write post that interest me and hopefully you.

While i’m writing I also want to say thanks to Birmingham Magazine, thanks for the mention for the Birmingham Pulse in the Article on the current issue August 2008. I recommend you pick it up. It list the Essential Birmingham websites. While my site the Birmingham Pulse is not essential it is mentioned. (Page 86 btw) So go pick up the magazine. Found out from The Terminal of course.

And if you are not a follower and reader of the Birmingham Terminal, let me take this time to tell you this site is Essential! I wish every city I’ve lived in had a group as dedicated to an online forum/magazine as the Terminal does. Thanks Andre Natta and group! Great work, it is a daily read for me.

So let me know, how do you like the new site?

Tags: Alabama, bham, bhampulse, Birmingham, birmingham mag, birmingham magazine, birmingham pulse, pulse, terminal, Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter for a while now, and I know when it is something that I believe is going to be useful when I tell my wife about it and sign her up. So if you are not using Twitter yet, let me tell you what it is.

Well it isn’t IM, and yet it is. It isn’t a blog and yet it is. And it isn’t a way to keep up with someone and find friends, and yet it is.

It is a way to chat with friends, meet new friends, keep up with people and read about what others are doing.

You can use Twitter via their web site, its real easy to sign up and get an account. I’m not going to go into that part of it here. Trust me it is simple. Once you have it then you can just use it to post your messages on the website. Then there is chat, using your favorite IM client (Pidgin) and your Google Talk account you can add a friend, twitter@twitter.com. Once you have done this, then you can chat your status/messages directly to Twitter. This doesn’t stop here either. I can only speak as to what I have, but I have an T-Mobile Wing. Using it I can also SMS to Twitter, and I run ceTwit on the phone so when I have a network connection I can also send and receive twits. Twits are by the way messages from other people. We’ll get into that in a minute. So I can send my updates and messages from web, chat, and phone while mobile.

Now when you add a friend, you can easily choose how you want to get updates. You can get them to any of the ways you can send, same as above web, chat, or phone. Just because you have a friend added you do not have to receive their chats via your phone for instance. You can set where you want to receive updates.  I have several people I follow, and some are really chatty or I just really don’t want to know what they are talking about all the time. So I make sure not to follow them on chat and my phone. You can always check your Twitter site to see what people you are following have been saying.

A Blog you say? Yes it is a social blog. Remember what ever you chat on Twitter others will see. If you have clicked any of the Twitter links in this post you will see mine. It is NOT private, but then neither is IM unless you use a private server with encryption and we won’t get into that.

It ends up being either a I love it! or an I don’t get it? You will have to check it out for yourself to make that call. I also hear people saying it is a fad. I agree with that, but I see it leveling off in growth. I think it will stay around for a while. I can see a large company “Google” buying them. We will just have to wait and see.

Links for more information:

If you are a Birmingham Alabama Twitter user you can Follow Bhampulse (http://bhampulse.zerosource.org).

Twitters website is at http://www.twitter.com

Twitter Fan Wiki is at http://twitter.pbwiki.com/

Upcoming:

Brightkite review, so far not looking good!

AndLinux nice… run Linux (Ubuntu) in windows

Sun VirtualBox good… acquired VM system

Tags: bhampulse, Review, Twitter