Lately I’ve been noticing that I tend to fire up TweetDeck before my browser or even my e-mail. This is apparently just fine witht he developers, and the’ve just dropped an update designed to increase the stickiness of their awesome little Air app. The latest version adds the ability to upload and view YouTube videos, as well as share photos through Flickr and other sharing sites.

This all builds upon recent updates that have added columns for Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace feeds and many, many other features that bring some of the most useful features of the social web under one umbrella application.

They haven’t buyild a webkit browser into TweetDeck yet, but if and when they do, I might just have to uninstall Chrome. But not yet.

Features « TweetDeck.

Seth Godin is good at practicing what he preaches, at least when it comes to his credo: the more you give, the more you get. I just stumbled across this post over at the Lava7 blog with a link to Godin’s free eBook What Matters Now. Essentially a collection of quotations from today’s big thinkers in business, blogging, marketing, and beyond, this serves as a good pep talk for what is sure to be one of the most challenging years in our careers, but one in which we can make possibly the biggest impact on our lives, our businesses, and our communities.

You can download the free eBook here.

Let’s be honest: Is there really a limit to how many news sites, opinion blogs, and business analysis we can cram into our eyeballs during free cycles? With the election frenzy reaching a fever pitch this early in the game and Wall Street suddenly turning into a pumpkin at midnight, I think we may find out the answer soon, but for now there isn’t enough! I must have more! This Fall of our Discontent is brought to you by CNN, HuffPo, CBS, Wonkette, Politico, NYTimes, and TPM, just as much as last year was brought to you by TMZ and 1967 was brought to you by The Beatles. The problem is, Sgt. Pepper had a run-out groove. This news cycle looks like it’s in for the long haul, and will continue long after Bush gets on that helicopter.

We’re in for a major news hangover sometime in ‘09, but for now it’s Woodstock, and Bush just made the announcement about the brown acid going around.

From The LinkedIn Blog

“The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we’re glad to announce the next step in that evolution – a completely redesigned homepage as well as further details on LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform. In this post we hope to give you a quick snapshot of what’s new on LinkedIn today.”

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Oh man. I can’t help myself. I just gotta post!

In October 2003, as controversy grew about the leak of Valerie Plame’s name, McClellan stood at the White House podium and said that Karl Rove, the president’s top political adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, had not been involved.”There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes in his new book, “What Happened,” which is to be released in April.

Ex-White House aide: Bush, Cheney involved in misleading media – CNN.com

Thanks for your honesty Scott. Talk about closing the barn door!

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Love this designophile site!

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Some of the big names in Social Media and online marketing are gathering in New York for two days, and I get to listen in!

http://searchmarketingexpo.com/social/

I switched to Wordpress, and hope to import the old Nonstory archives when I have a chance. Not that I really want any of that stuff, which was admittedly just me ranting to myself.

The Nonstory blog will herewith be devoted to ranting to myself about the industry in which I work (networked mobile games) and related subjects. How bloody fascinating!