Ryan Joy (atxryan)

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was [...]

A few years ago, using photographs as a background was the reserve of the daring and those who didn’t worry too much about making their visitors wait while the site loaded. Now with broadband and a good understanding of how to compress image file siz…

I’m flattered to be included in @LaniAR’s list of Austin’s top social media innovators. You’ll find me under Marketing & PR with my coworker Aaron Strout representing social media at Powered, though I probably blather about technology, politics, and the economy more than anything else.  Regardless, I’m proud to help make Austin “the Live [...]

Israel is making full use of social media to sway public opinion and convince the world at large that their offensive in Gaza is a justifiable response to the constant missiles being rained upon them from Hamas-controlled territories. (I’m not going to debate whether they’re correct or not. I’m just listing the social media tools [...]

 
I did a Google search on the #tcot Twitter hashtag to determine what it stood for (Top Conversatives on Twitter as far as I can tell). I was pleasantly surprised to see the search.twitter.com service featured in it’s #1 spot.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon, American Psychologist

As I’ve written in the past, I’ve worked to cultivate a personal brand and personal name recognition. Well, I’m very happy to say that I’ve aquired ryanjoy.com!
For the foreseeable future it will simply remain a mirror of this site, atxryan.com. However, I may either start to promote this domain more as my personal [...]

How do you and your organization incorporate web standards into your development?
Dr. David Robins and Sanda Katila are conducting a survey on the adoption of web standards in your design and development processes. If you have a moment, take the survey.

I got into a discussion with coworkers last week that reminded me that everyone does not use websites in the same way, even power users and creators of technology. What surprised me most was that their use of the same feature was almost the exact opposite of mine. Our own assumptions informed our [...]

It appears that part of Twitter’s strategy to mitigate downtime during WWDC 2008 this year is to push tracking, and therefore traffic and constant refreshing, of the event over to third-party search service, Summize. I’ve noticed before that Summize will often not return the most recent tweets associated with a search. So, it may [...]