This evening Facebook began testing what appears to be their version of Twitter’s retweet feature: “via”. On any article shared by your friend, you can click on “Share” and when you post the article to your profile, Facebook will now automatically say who the article came from. While the “via” content only currently works on shared articles, I’d assume that this feature would be extended to other stream stories if initial user testing proves successful. We’ve written extensively about the Twitterfication of Facebook, and this appears to be one more step in that process.

As pictured below, users are able…

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[POTUSCamacho] listens to his @public_timeline rss feed. In part one of his project, he describes creating a bash script in which he uses cURL get his private feed, sed to clean it and eSpeak to output a WAV file. In parts two and three, he goes on to discuss how he created an audio stream (currently down, opens in a new window) of @public_timeline and how he plans on tweeting vocally.

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It has been less than a year since I first suggested that Facebook’s Status API would be the death of Twitter. Almost 11 months later, Twitter is still around and much more popular than before. While Twitter hasn’t disappeared, Facebook has spent the past year doing everything in their power to duplicate the functionality of the popular “micro-blogging” platform.

The Year Of Facebook’s Twitterfication
In January, the first step of taking on Twitter was the opening of the Status API. Developers could now instantly bring in user status updates into their applications. Within weeks, TweetDeck used the Status API to…

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Attention Everyone! Please join me in congratulating James Key for passing the CCIE Voice lab. In the words of James himself … “It is done. CCIE #25772 Voice“. For those of you not on twitter, James passed the CCIE Voice lab on Tuseday of this week.
Allow me to give you a little background [...]

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This super-cool Twitter icon set you can download to you free of charge. You can download the icons as buttons on your website, on your blog, or use them as wallpaper. Download in PNG format: Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Just over a month ago, ex-Facebook platform program manager announced that he was leaving the company to pursue new opportunities. That new opportunity appears to be over at Twitter as he tweeted about the new move earlier this morning. Given Josh’s extensive knowledge of Facebook’s strategy and product development process, this is most definitely a big hire for Twitter.

For many Facebook developers, Josh was one of the primary points of contact in order to resolve any issues. Yesterday Louis Gray first broke the news of the move:

Rumors about Elman’s joining Twitter had been bubbling in the tech backchannels…

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Stop waisting your time. Use the twitter that targets the one person that actually wants to hear about your day. Twitteleh – Twitter for your jewish mother.

Twitteleh requires that you answer three basic questions:
Where are you?
What have you eaten?
Are you wearing a sweater?

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I want to take a minute to address the over 450 subscribers here at GlobalConfig.net.  Over a year ago when I started blogging I was primarily about my CCIE Studies.  Now that I have passed the CCIE Security I am on to the R&S and Voice, kinda at the same time.  With that, work, and family it’s been difficult to bring you fresh, useful content.  That’s all about to change.
Here are the changes to the blog that I believe will make it a better resource for you:

The Domain Changed to http://www.ascoltablogs.com.  The old URL will still work- but…

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