Comments on: #1 Twitterer leaves Twitter over name conflict http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-666910 TDavid Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:39:20 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-666910 Looks like Leo Laporte has given into the force of Twitter with this message on November 8, 2007: "I surrender Twitter. You win." http://twitter.com/leolaporte/statuses/399724442 Looks like Leo Laporte has given into the force of Twitter with this message on November 8, 2007: “I surrender Twitter. You win.”
http://twitter.com/leolaporte/statuses/399724442

]]> By: Google validates Twitteresq conversations with Jaiku acquisition » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-641742 Google validates Twitteresq conversations with Jaiku acquisition » Make You Go Hmm Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:50:07 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-641742 [...] Leo Laporte switching from Twitter to Jaiku because the former was too much like the name of his podcast? Seems like #1 Twitterer at the time [...] […] Leo Laporte switching from Twitter to Jaiku because the former was too much like the name of his podcast? Seems like #1 Twitterer at the time […]

]]> By: Twitter My Love, I Won’t Leave You For Jaiku ¦ Online Media Cultist http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-507749 Twitter My Love, I Won’t Leave You For Jaiku ¦ Online Media Cultist Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:02:49 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-507749 [...] Part of the buzz over Jaiku stems from the fact that Leo Laporte is jumping ship to Jaiku because of feat that his podcast, TWiT (This Week in Tech), might get confused with the name Twitter. Tony Hung over at Deep Jive Interests says that “walking away from Twitter isn’t going to solve any potential confusion — if there was any in the first place,” and I quite agree. [...] […] Part of the buzz over Jaiku stems from the fact that Leo Laporte is jumping ship to Jaiku because of feat that his podcast, TWiT (This Week in Tech), might get confused with the name Twitter. Tony Hung over at Deep Jive Interests says that “walking away from Twitter isn’t going to solve any potential confusion — if there was any in the first place,” and I quite agree. […]

]]> By: Steven Hodson http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-507596 Steven Hodson Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:33:45 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070408/4402/#comment-507596 ROFLMAO The only reason I even knew the name Leo Laporte was because of his association at one time with Lockergnome and since I don't follow podcasts much less follow the popularity of Leo I didn't even know about TWiT. I came up with the name TwitBox because it sounded okay when creating the folder to store the code in and as such it stuck. thanks for my chcuckle of the day :) ROFLMAO

The only reason I even knew the name Leo Laporte was because of his association at one time with Lockergnome and since I don’t follow podcasts much less follow the popularity of Leo I didn’t even know about TWiT. I came up with the name TwitBox because it sounded okay when creating the folder to store the code in and as such it stuck.

thanks for my chcuckle of the day :)

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