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Hi. My name is Adam. I am the co-founder of Pure Adapt, Inc in Albany, NY. We own Detailed Image, LockerPulse, and a bunch of other websites. I write about our company, entrepreneurship in general, work-life balance, and whatever else interests me.
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Category Archives: Twitter
Z.ips.ME Launched!
After URL shortening service tr.im closed and then re-opened this week due to the public backlash, I thought it would be a good time to release Z.ips.ME, the URL shortener for PHP & MySQL that I started working on a few months back. We’ve been using it internally for our Twitter accounts and it’s worked fantastic. Of course, a few other developers had the exact same thought, so I doubt that this thing will really take off. As was discussed in that first post, the easily replicable nature of the project makes it the type of thing that probably isn’t … Continue reading
Announcing Z.ips.ME – Your Very Own URL Shortener
Background When I started using Twitter, one of the first things that piqued my interest was URL shorteners. Not only does it make no sense why Twitter doesn’t officially have their own URL shortening service (although bit.ly is sort of official now), but it really made no sense to me why everyone used either bit.ly or tinyurl.com instead of creating their own. A URL shortener is uber simple to program and can offer you a ton of value. So I picked up the domain “ips.me” with the intent of using it as my own URL shortener. Then I realized that … Continue reading
Will Twitter Replace…
No. The answer is no. Twitter won’t replace blogging or anything else. It is it’s own medium, one which I recently found was very helpful and decided was worth my time. But the idea that it will replace blogs is a little crazy in my opinion. Just like it’s crazy to think that blogs replace a well-researched newspaper or magazine article, or that the same article could ever replace a book. A tweet takes 60 seconds to write well, a blog post takes 30 minutes, an article takes a few weeks, and a book takes years. Twitter is the ultimate … Continue reading
Tweet This
I just broke down and signed up for Twitter, but not for the reasons most people do. I found the Twitter search EXTREMELY helpful today when my Thunderbird + Google Apps Gmail IMAP email set up started giving me all sorts of errors. No one had likely blogged about it yet (plus there’s no real good way to instantly search blogs), but in searching Twitter I found out that all sorts of people were having the same issues as me. It was very re-assuring and time saving. I didn’t see any posts on the Gmail Google Groups so I may … Continue reading