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http://www.WhoTwarted.com allows you to see who follows you that you don't follow back and the reverse; see who you follow that doesn't follow you back.
This twitter tool makes it easy to clean up your follower/following list.
Check out both WhoTwarted.com and TweepleSorter.com
Yesterday, I placed by voice controlled game in Google's android market.
It's not the first voice controlled android game, but it is ONE of the first! Looking through thousands of apps, I saw only 3 others.
The game, titled "Don't Pop it" features a bright red balloon, controlled by the players voice.
On Google Play, click here.
Players must avoid the flying thumb tacks to get points. Pass more tacks, get more points. Thumb tacks fly faster the more you pass.
This simple game is really fun and it's available NOW in Google Play. I hope you'll help me spread the word.
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Another game....
I think I'm starting to get the hang of creating games and android apps.
Here's another - GUNS Game by TWJ Enterprise
GUNS
Play it on Game Galz
Buy it on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.Guns
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SERIOUS TOOL - STUPID NAME
http://www.WhoTwarted.com may look silly but underneath the goofy exterior it's a very userful tool.
Just yesterday, I sorted the 16 million plus followers of @theEllenShow, in paginated results of 5,000 each. It takes a while on larger accounts but works like a champ.
When Not Logged in:
Display & sort followers or followings of any twitter user
Display & sort common followers & followings of any two twitter users.
Example use: You want to see followers of two users @DrPepper and @WinstarCasino. Enter two twitter usernames in the "Common" box and select followers/following; then click the search button.
The result is a list of twitter users who like both, Winstar Casino AND Dr. Pepper. Now you have a list of people who visit Winstar Casino and also drink Dr. Pepper. The list can then be sorted by location & saved in your twitter account - courtesy of whotwarted.com!
View followers that you are not following AND ALSO those who you follow that don't follow you back.
Sort users that follow/don't follow
Choose users to follow/unfollow
Add any of those users to a list OR create or edit a list.
I do hope you'll share this information. The website is http://www.WhoTwarted.com Follow Who Twarted on Twitter http://www.Twitter.com/TweepleSorter
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That's what the December 2012 headline of the Fort Worth StarTelegram said....
Photo by Terry Evans/Star Telegram |
The story was written by journalist Patrick Walker, a very nice guy. Our first meeting he was checking out the story possibility with a reporters slanted eye, (and I'm paraphrasing here) "These products are yours? YOU developed these? Are there any other owners? These are YOUR products? No one else has right to these, right?"
My husband and I laugh when we think about it. It seems most publications (we've been trying hard about a year to get some media recognition) don't get it; that one, extremely, motivated person with a little skill, a little 401K plus a lot of tensity surely can build digital products. But it ain't easy! So, yes I do have rocking, working, selling products & I'll list some of them at the end of this blog post. |
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Patrick Walker's article was nice AND I'm very appreciative of it. (to date the Star Telegram is the only media outlet to respond) The article bills our products as unique, inexpensive Christmas gifts... hey I'll take any slant I can get. It skims the nitty gritty life as a boot strapping entrepreneur devoted to developing digital products without the help of a rich uncle or venture capital. The story mentions some lessons I've learned along the way about running a server, and mentions dealing with free lance coders in other countries. One thing not mentioned is the practice of "Couch Surfing." I learned all about couch surfing from a guy named Aditya. Aditya is a young developer in India whom I paid $500 in advance for some development work. I didn't mind paying him in advance because I had worked with him for about 8 months prior. Couch surfing is a practice where people travel around from place to place, meeting, greeting and partying with strangers then crashing on their couch! I know this because I followed him on twitter, watching as he spent my $500! Read the Star Telegram article, here. I'll put all that junk in an e-book someday. Pictured is Razzle Dazzle - Jewel Matching game selling in Google Play, and featured on CNET! |
Razzle Dazzle - game for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.RazzleDazzle&hl=en
Azul Social - Dashboard for bulk scheduling to Facebook and Twitter
http://www.AzulSocial.com
Tags: tammy jones, CNET, kennedale, star telegram, mobile, android, app, tammywjones
Auto-pilot websites among newest products offered at eMomEntrepreneur.com
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In my quest to find NFL data streams for NFL Player Tweets - I discovered a new friend at ESPN.
My new friend whom I will not throw under the bus by divulging his name, told me of an ESPN hackathon and outreach to female developers.
FROM ESPN:
Unfortunately we are unable to distribute data (including score and schedule info) offered through the Partner-level APIs without some kind of agreement in place, which is why they are currently reserved for more strategic companies working with ESPN.
The primary reason is that ESPN does not own all of its content (we license some from 3rd parties) and therefore we cannot always redistribute that content.
We are working on things that would enable us to bring a broader set of data to independent app developers, startups, etc. No specific date attached to that effort, but definitely looking to have something to announce early next year. We're also committed to bringing additional assets to our publicly available API in the coming months.
In terms of working with talented female developers, we're always interested in speaking with talented technical people who are also sports fans. Have you ever considered working for ESPN? We're currently hiring software developers and Web developers for ESPN.com/Fantasy/etc. If this is something you are interested in I'd be happy to take your resume and pass it along to some of our hiring managers.
Here are some of the tech positions we currently have open. Let me know if any catch your eye:
http://jobs.espncareers.com/search/web-developer
Additionally, we just announced today our first-ever public hackathon which is female-focused developer event, and we will temporarily open up our data beyond the publicly available APIs for the participants of this event. It's at Stanford University. Not sure where you're located but it would be awesome if you could attend. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twilio, and Mashery are joining us and handing out prizes.
http://developer.espn.com/events/espnw2012hackday
Thanks again for the question and for supporting the early stages of the ESPN API program.
So I checked out the program........ the prizes thus far seem pretty lame but they haven't announced the "grand prize" - who wants a stupid t-shirt anyway - come on guys - pass out the CASH!
Tags: api access, hackathon, espn, nfl
Couple weeks ago we launched NFL PLayer Tweets to the Google Play store.
The app features the 32 teams of the NFL and players who use twitter. It's basically an app of twitter lists.
It allows users to keep up with their favorite teams right from their Samsung Galaxy phones or tablets.
We've decided to make the app a little more robust by adding scores & schedules. It was at that point we ran into a road block.
Little did we know the NFL wants developers to actually pay for access to that data! I reached out through NFLData.com and surprisingly received a human response!
I will keep you updated on what we're able to work out. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, you can purchase the android app that works perfectly well on the Samsung Galaxy phone & tablet OR any android device for that matter. See my apps in Google Play. Click here
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Android app showcases Obama and Romney going head to head on Twitter as they race to the White House. App also includes two classic games, solitaire & match game featuring candidates images.
Available on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wBattleofTwits
Go to www.SendMoola.com and click on "mobile" for more information about this mobile payment system. 
We all know the importance of responding to people on social media. A feature of www.AzulSocial.com makes brand or keyword monitoring not only very easy, but also fun!
Check out this video demonstration. The "Search and Tweet" is also most helpful when it comes to building twitter followers.
Click here to see video.
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Twitter the favorite social network of yours truly and several million others crapped out today causing mass confusion.
It made virtual headlines around the globe as bloggers speculated the end of the earth was upon us.
I jumped to Google+ where life appeared to be normal.....I was searching for signs of Twitter life, thinking maybe all the Twitter accounts I'd actually created had finally caught up with me! They'd cut me off for good! Holy crap how will I live without Twitter!!!!!!
I then clicked over to Facebook to see what my friends were saying on Pinterest.
Where will you go when Twitter dies?
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Get a Daddy a mobile payment system for Father's Day! He'll love this. The SendMoola.com mobile payment system will let Dad get paid with any android device.
Customers scan QR code (from Dad's truck window, Dad's invoice, Dad's countertop etc etc) to download the android app. Next they'll open the app and pay!
No peripherals needed. No swiping of the card. Customers fill in credit card information or pay with Paypal money.
This mobile payment system rocks!
Click video to see demonstration.
Buy one for Dad or for yourself!
https://www.sendmoola.com/index.php?option=com_profile&view=detailwidgets&id=484
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Story and photos from USAToday.com - was very glad to see this. Needless to say women don't get near enough recognition. Not surprisingly there's tons of comments knocking the womens accomplishments. Posting things like, "To call these companies "tech" companies is like calling a 900-number phone sex company a tech company because it uses the technology of the telephone. Most of these are so-called "social media" companies - just more websites to share dessert recipes, find a baby sitter, etc." I visualize this person as a nerdy dork with a mouse in one hand and his penis in the other.
The article stems from a round table of female executives hosted by USA Today.
It's good reading, if you're interested in the subject.
by Jon Swartz
SAN FRANCISCO – Reshaping a time-worn narrative isn't easy. Social revolutions rarely are, especially when you're a woman trying to break into the boys' club that is Silicon Valley
But an emerging class of early-stage tech start-up executives is helping dispel the notion that there isn't a leading role for them in the male-dominated valley.
Company founders and leaders are coming out of Google, Salesforce.com and elsewhere for the excitement of shaping a young business.
PHOTOS: USA TODAY's roundtable
STORY: Female tech executive gather to swap experience
The emergence of young female tech founders and executives reflects sweeping change in the worlds of start-up companies and angel funding, where wealthy investors give money in return for a stake in a company. It underscores the enormous purchasing prowess of women online that is transforming the Web economy. As more consumers reach for their smartphones and tablets to shop and communicate, there is a pressing need for commerce sites that cater to women, who control 70% of online purchases worldwide, according to Lisa Stone, CEO of BlogHer, a digital media company.
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Clara Shih, Hearsay Social
Many of these inroads are being made by female-led start-ups that are fueling innovation and the digital economy. Women will influence the purchase of $15 trillion in goods by 2014, according to Boston Consulting Group.
"Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest-growing and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies," says venture capitalist Aileen Lee. She has invested in Brit, a lifestyle branding company, and Plum District, an e-commerce site for moms, among many ventures led by women.
Make no mistake: The executive suite for business in general and the technology industry specifically remains a male stronghold. Just 3% of all tech start-ups are led by women, according to a Kauffman Foundation report. Only a handful of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies are women. Indeed, the glass ceiling remains a reality for many women, and charges of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination persist. In fact, a recent lawsuit by Ellen Pao, a junior partner at one of the Valley's most prestigious venture funds, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, is all the buzz here these days because it exposes the fragile position women hold in the tech world.
Even so, there is reason for optimism.
"The technology landscape has flattened," says Shaherose Charania, CEO of Women 2.0, a media company and resource that helps thousands of aspiring and current female entrepreneurs launch new ventures. Its innovation conference in Mountain View, Calif., in February drew 1,000 people, three times the audience in 2011.
Precise numbers are elusive, but anecdotally they seem to bear out Charania's thesis: The number of women starting tech companies nationally has doubled the past three years, according to an informal poll by Women 2.0.
Meanwhile, all but two of the 19 U.S. high-tech IPOs in 2009 had at least one female officer. Compare that with 1988, when only 4% of the 134 firms that went public in the U.S. had women in top management spots.
"I've been involved in the New York City start-up scene for several years, and I've seen many more female entrepreneurs getting their projects off the ground recently," says Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, who has participated in fundraisers and events for start-ups led by women.
Start it up
Of late, it's been a thrill ride for female entrepreneurs in tech. Advances in technology, lower infrastructure costs and ample angel investing have made it easier to launch an early-stage company, says Leah Busque, CEO of TaskRabbit, an eBay of sorts for odd jobs.
It's cheaper to start a company today because Web servers and other equipment cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, not the millions once required for high-end computer servers. Newer technologies, such as cloud computing, reduce infrastructure costs. And coding isn't as onerous as it once was. Those changes have allowed entrepreneurs to build products faster and land funding sooner.
Five years ago, starting and funding a female-led tech company would have been a formidable task, says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. But, today, women are helping each other through groups such as Women Who Code, Astia and Girls in Tech, and some venture capitalists are warming up to backing companies led by women.
"We (women) try to band together and look out for each other," says Brit Morin, 26, founder of Brit. In April, she landed $1.25 million in seed funding for Weduary, a Web app for building wedding sites. Among the investors: Google Vice President Marissa Mayer, VC Lee and former BabyCenter CEO Tina Sharkey. Before starting Brit, Morin worked in marketing at Google for four years.
"It's great to be a woman in tech. It's definitely a buzzy time," says Katia Beauchamp, 29, CEO of Birchbox, a monthly subscription service for grooming and beauty products. "We're blazing a path, but we're also benefiting from other pioneers."
Foremost among those receiving credit is Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, who has successfully juggled running a multibillion-dollar company and raising a family while mentoring female execs.
Sarah Leary, who in late 2010 co-founded Nextdoor, a private social network for neighborhoods, also credits the dramatic jump in angel investors who have taken their riches from Google, PayPal, eBay and Yahoo, and invested them in start-ups.
Angel investor Dave McClure, whose firm has funded more than 50 companies led by women, has noticed the influx of female CEOs the past year with a parallel surge in e-commerce and consumer sites. "Buyers trend female more than male," he says.
Indeed, 60% of Facebook's membership is female, and their purchasing interests are broad, says Anjelika Petrochenko, general manager of social network LiveJournal.
More progress to be made
For more than a decade, the short list of female execs mentioned in the news media was the province of folks such as Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who ran eBay for a decade; former Autodesk and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz; and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. In recent years, the list expanded to include the likes of Google's Mayer and Facebook's Sandberg.
But social movements take time. The pipeline from academia is relatively dry. Just a fraction of the estimated 120,000 computer-science graduates in the U.S. each year are women — 11.7% of bachelor degrees in 2010-11, down from 13.8% in 2009-10, according to Computing Research Association. India and China are graduating nearly 1 million men and women annually in computer science.
Only 1% of venture-capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available, according to Dow Jones VentureOne. It says a general drop in VC investment hit women-led companies particularly hard.
That is borne out in several unshakeable statistics that underscore the yawning gap between the sexes in executive board rooms. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman are exceptions among the predominately male Fortune 500 CEOs. A scant 3% of public companies — not to mention, Fortune 500 firms — are headed by women, says research company GMI.
"There always has been, and continues to be, a shortage of female-led companies," says Dana Stalder, general partner at VC firm Matrix Partners, which has investments in female-led start-ups such as home-care company Care.com and online retailer Gilt Groupe. About 10% of private companies in Matrix's portfolio were founded by female entrepreneurs.
Female leaders are convinced that such start-ups will lead to spin-offs or investments in other companies led by women.
That has paid off handsomely for Rashmi Sinha, co-founder of SlideShare, an online community for sharing PowerPoint and Word documents and other presentations, which was sold to LinkedIn for $119 million in April.
"As the ecosystem becomes more supportive, you will see more companies created," says Kimber Lockhart, 26, a trained engineer who sold her then-2-year-old start-up, Increo Solutions, to Box for an undisclosed amount in 2009. Several companies bid for the documentation-management firm.
Adds Leary, "It is exciting to see so many (women-led) companies. But it is a long journey, and there are many stages to that journey to be successful."
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