Ryan Joy (atxryan)

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 be [...]

My coworker, Alex, posted the following tweet today referencing our fried chicken taste-off planned for tomorrow: Setting up the rules for fast food fried chicken taste-off in the office tomorrow. To which, Popeyes Chicken chimed in with: @alexcc I know the winner! I know it! Do we have to wait until tomorrow to announce? (sounds [...]

Well, I just got back from this evening’s SXSW Mixer for Austin. Overall it was good times and only the slightest prelude to the frenzy of parties that is SXSW. I was able to hang out with fellow Refresh Austin members (Alex Jones, Tim Thompson, Grant Hutchins, Justin Perkins), former Statesman.com coworkers (Nick Welp, Wendy [...]

Wondering why the local Austin paper doesn’t have a Twitter account so I can get updates like NYT. Ryan, thoughts? Paul Menard via Twitter Well, it’s true that you can find Twitter accounts for the New York Times, CNN, BBC, TechCrunch, et al. However, it’s not clear how many of those are actually official branding [...]