NickMoline: I should have known it was you... RT @TheRaj: Dude. I think I just took down GMail. I knew I shouldn't have hit Refresh...

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NickMoline: GMail offline, Google's 1999 Fail Whale showing http://twitpic.com/g49wd

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NickMoline: RT @TechCrunch: Twitter: Just Make Sure You Spell Everything Wrong And Swear A Lot http://bit.ly/1ToNO by @arrington

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NickMoline: RT @rww: Wikipedia Plans to Use Color Codes to Highlight Untrustworthy Text http://bit.ly/QSPMe

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Yesterday I retweeted a post by ReadWriteWeb concerning Yahoo's announcement that they are closing down GeoCities this year.

This was particularly sad news for me because GeoCities was where my first website was hosted.

Earlier this month, I wrote about tracking mentions of yourself on twitter more completly then just checking the @replies tab on twitter (or in tweetdeck).  Keeping tabs on what people say about you in twitter is only one step in effectively tracking references to yourself online.

So here's step 2, if you want to really know what people are saying about you online, take the search a step furthe

Both Twitter and TweetDeck (as well as most other Twitter Clients) give you an easy way to get a list of responses people sent you.  On Twitter itself, this is the @Replies tab off of your home page. TweetDeck gives you a Replies column by default, and if you delete it, you can get it back by clicking on the replies button on the top of the screen.  TweetDeck's replies button uses the replies twitter feed feature from the Twitter API to work, so it returns the exact same list that you get on the home page.

I've found however, that I often want to track everything that is said to or about me, even if they are not technically @replies.  Because of this I've ditched the replies column in my TweetDeck and instead have created my own @replies list of sorts using the Search feature in TweetDeck which uses the Twitter Search API. To do this yourself follow the simple instructions after the break.

As I Posted about last week, I attended Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum this week. It has been a packed couple of days. I mentioned before I was not really considering entering the Speedgeeking Contest that occurs at each Mashup Camp.

Ok, I admit it, I haven't been a subscriber to PC World magazine in a few years, even before I became a member of the Mac camp, but I'm really excited to say that a couple interview questions with me are now published in PC World! in an article about Google I/O.

I've updated Cap's Log to the new Wordpress 2.1, though this may only be temporary, I'm planning on combining it and several other blogs I manage into a Wordpress MU installation once I'm sure that MU works. In other news, after listening to this week's episode of MacBreak Weekly, I've started messing around with Twitter.