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Should I post to Twitter in English instead of my native language?

Posted in Web, tagged , , , on Tuesday December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In little over a year, I became quite a Twitter-fanatic. I follow around a hundred people (which I organized in categorised Lists for easy reading), and I daily post a handfull of messages myself (using the account @JorgK). Up until now, my tweets are in Dutch. Being a citizen of The Netherlands, Dutch is my [...]

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How Twitter’s new Lists feature will dramatically impact follower count

Posted in Web, tagged , on Sunday December 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Twitter is great, and like millions of others I’m a big fan of the service. Many people are worth following. In my case this includes of a great number of personal friends, but also a big number of media reporters, tech bloggers, scientists and politicians. With the growing number of people to follow, it gets [...]

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YouTube higher quality video and stereo sound

Posted in Web, tagged , on Tuesday October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As you might be aware, videos uploaded to YouTube are usually of a higher original quality than what the site shows you in the video window. Video and audio are transcoded to a low quality Flash format, resulting in a fairly low quality video and low quality mono audio. I expect YouTube made this trade-off [...]

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