labnol's Favorite Tweet Book Compiled By Amit Agarwal. labnol Amit Agarwal Personal technology columnist and founder of @labnol_blog, a popular how-to site. Reach me at [email protected] India http://labnol.org All content © Amit Agarwal. All rights reserved. 2008 April Monday, 14th of April. 19:48:52 Google bought Amit a car! http://tinyurl.com/468q7d By:steverubel page 3 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 14-April-2008 May Wednesday, 7th of May. 14:53:03 Can youtube please come up with a better video for their India launch? http://tinyurl.com/6z9yb3 By:garimadhiman Thursday, 8th of May. 22:45:28 My new email signature : "Please do not respond to this email because it will be potentially used against you in a court of law." By:ai Wednesday, 14th of May. 09:46:05 Just remembered this - One of the grannies during our wedding when told Ash is Oriya looked puzzled and asked, she's from Korea? ROTFL. By:patrix 14:49:52 Listening to a talk about social networks in German. I can't understand a word except Facebook and iGoogle. :-) By:steverubel Thursday, 22nd of May. 19:37:22 At the airport's cellphone lot, 30 people sitting in cars and one guy stretched out on the grassy mound soaking in the sun. Me. By:judell Thursday, 29th of May. 11:30:17 [blog post] Bloggers get “paid” with comments: The debate over fragmentation of blog comments .. http://tinyurl.com/5wd6hr By:mathewi page 4 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 29-May-2008 June Sunday, 1st of June. 10:37:00 @Brajeshwar Guess Twitter must first learn to handle the load on Earth :) By:patrix Monday, 2nd of June. 21:04:40 The end is nigh: just got friended by my Mom on Facebook. By:rklau Tuesday, 3rd of June. 11:28:01 @twilightfairy I guess Google favicon small g is for insignificant searchers, capital G means you are a 'special user' ;-) ! By:GautamGhosh 12:50:49 will happily pay for a limit-free premium Twitter API By:codelust 13:48:32 Invited someone to view/download a google doc, but they need a google account..if i publish to a public url they can only view, not download By:johnt Thursday, 12th of June. 14:55:58 FF2 has passed its age and FF3 is not ready yet .. lets see what happens once the final version is released on 17th By:mrinal Monday, 16th of June. 07:41:53 I now get more traffic to my blog from Friendfeed than I do from Twitter by factor of 2x. By: steverubel Tuesday, 17th of June. 10:33:24 recording of waitress spilling coffee over me and my (now dead) laptop: guy i'm interviewing says 'shit'. i say 'interesting.' huh? By:loosewire 21:11:36 @dannysullivan You need to blog about payday loans or mesothelioma ;) By:jenstar Wednesday, 18th of June. 22:16:32 thank you, Firefox 3, for a wonderful legal wedding gift--the best traffic day in Lifehacker's history yesterday By:ginatrapani 22:20:36 omg, THANK YOU to each and every one of you for your kind words and support--my Twitter replies tab is my virtual legal wedding guest book! By:ginatrapani Tuesday, 24th of June. page 5 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 24-June-2008 13:42:59 hilarious mixup at RWW, as three of us start writing the Nokia-Symbian story. Two got posted. The resulting post is 50% mine and Frederic :) By:RWW Thursday, 26th of June. 00:09:44 Also: life hack? Using Ustream as a baby monitor. By:mollywood Saturday, 28th of June. 09:10:56 At the Pownce anniversary party. Am I allowed to Twitter that? By:ryan page 6 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 28-June-2008 July Sunday, 6th of July. 05:26:57 Today I threw two pennies at a bird outside my window. Naptime is naptime, bird. By: mollywood Tuesday, 22nd of July. 20:30:18 this stinks, Wordpress uploads their app yesterday, gets it approved and for sale today. I've had mine uploaded for A WEEK and no progress By:mdjensen Friday, 25th of July. 12:54:32 playing with an iPhone. In 5 hours I've had 4 hard spontaneous reboots and 2 lockups. Contacts are unusable with only 2800 contacts. Rough. By:shanselman Sunday, 27th of July. 04:44:46 Studying for the bar exam is like eating Phantom Tollbooth subtraction soup. The more I study one topic, the more I forget of the last. By:meredithlea page 7 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 27-July-2008 August Monday, 4th of August. 09:43:46 hubby just smashed a spider with his iPhone to save me. By:nancyduarte Monday, 11th of August. 21:40:23 Google Docs: Sorry! We are experiencing technical difficulties and cannot show all of your documents. By:scottkarp Wednesday, 13th of August. 00:30:33 it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. By:pluggdin Thursday, 14th of August. 06:17:47 Just got an IM from my 8 year-old. That rocks. By:rklau Friday, 22nd of August. 12:06:21 Retweet @ev: I like this new Twitter UI so much better, I now hate looking at the old (current) one. (Coming soon.) By:crazybob page 8 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 22-August-2008 September Friday, 19th of September. 05:28:18 Wow, the Zune 3.0 software is *WAY* faster to navigate than iTunes 8. By:shanselman page 9 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 19-September-2008 October Saturday, 4th of October. 17:36:06 Journalist Rafe Needleman has been pitched by PR people in the restroom http://tinyurl.com/3zguly By:steverubel Monday, 13th of October. 10:36:15 @TechCrunch just told me to go to hell. Among some circles in the Valley that's a compliment! :-) By:Scobleizer page 10 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 13-October-2008 November Friday, 7th of November. 23:33:29 Here's an idea for a Gmail Widget: One that auto puts the recipient's full name as SUBJECT when left blank. By:brucewagner Sunday, 9th of November. 01:02:07 so, I've switched back from Leopard to Windows XP for work reasons, and I'm way happier with it than I expected. By:ginatrapani Tuesday, 11th of November. 03:02:04 @JohnMu - I only worry now about keeping my BP under control :-) But management like the figures of GOOG green bar :-) By:Harith 11:17:02 @TechCrunch Did you ever wonder whether your own policy on requiring exclusives has led others to bust embargoes? By:timoreilly Wednesday, 19th of November. 18:48:33 John Faughnan: "I think of Google as a device sent back in time to create archives for the Skynet's reading pleasure." http://bit.ly/DPbw By:judell Monday, 24th of November. 19:22:25 Since Microsoft is apparently searching for new names for Live search, I'd like to suggest one or two: NotGoogle and BetterthanYahoo By:LanceUlanoff Tuesday, 25th of November. 17:14:59 I actually had a dream about Twitter last night. Very weird, but real enough I woke up and it took a bit to realize it wasn't true. By:judis217 page 11 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 25-November-2008 December Monday, 15th of December. 09:25:24 @loiclemeur I thought LeWeb rocked. The most vocal critics have their own agendas, just like with Sarkozy 2 years ago. By:gapingvoid Tuesday, 30th of December. 08:43:34 Yes Virginia, Techmeme's most bitter and persistent critics are merely upset that Techmeme doesn't love their posts. Always been that way. By:gaberivera Wednesday, 31st of December. 12:21:16 Yes, Google updated our toolbar PageRank values today. Consider this the confirmation. By: mattcutts page 12 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 31-December-2008 2009 January Saturday, 3rd of January. 09:35:10 It's been 2 weeks with the Mac, inlcuding 10 days w/ no PC. So far, I'm nowhere near as fast as I was on Windows. How long do I give it? By:Rafe Tuesday, 6th of January. 06:33:09 Holy cow. I'm following Guy Kawasaki on Twitter...he's tweeting EVERY 3 MINUTES!! Don't people have lives!?!? By:Pogue Tuesday, 13th of January. 10:51:20 Tip to Techmeme bloggers: You'll get more hits summarizing your original idea as the title, rather than just duplicating the first headline. By:jdowdell 13:04:04 I don't appreciate bloggers that don't give credit. (even if they hear about a piece of news on Twitter) By:Orli Wednesday, 14th of January. 10:59:54 Just received a gorgeous wedding invitation in the mail. Shame I can't recall ever having met the bride or groom (and yes, I Googled 'em). By:thatadamguy Friday, 16th of January. 18:42:45 -5℉. Plenty of ☀ but not much ♨. Only a ☃ can ❤ this. By: judell Monday, 19th of January. 09:17:58 SnailMailTweet lets you mail in tweets for posting in 6-8 business days - http://tweetbysnailmail.com. Uhhh....no thanks By:sarahintampa Tuesday, 20th of January. 12:17:36 mrs_crazybob: "Is it a coincidence that both Google and the Whitehouse have the address # 1600 Amphitheatre and Pensylvania respectively?" By:crazybob page 13 / 84 labnol's Favorite Tweetbook 20-January-2009 Friday, 23rd of January. 11:26:43 Discovering that in Gmail, each email has a unique URL.