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Mashable has a post up about the most popular twitter clients according to TwitStat.

I’m not surprised by many of the notable entries on this list, such as TweetDeck.   I use it regularly at work and load it up occasionally on my Mac, but like most AIR applications it is a resource hog and doesn’t integrate well into the rest of the desktop experience (growl support, please?).

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I’ve decided that improving the SEO level of WordPress will be my next plug-in project.   I expect it to be a learning an eye-opening experiment, as there are at least as many opinions on what is optimum SEO as there are themes for a WordPress blog.

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Random Gemini has a great post about the state of local news outlets and the state of the Mobile Web.

Many news web sites, especially those using platforms such as WorldNow and flash-hungry or proprietary video players simply aren’t ready for the Mobile Web.  I think this is a great opportunity missed for many of these established media firms.

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A new study by ChangeWave research (as reported in Information Week) puts the iPhone as the contining leader in customer satisfaction amount SmartPhone users, though this article says not to count RIM out quite yet.

Here’s the truth of it tho.  RIM has spent years focusing their products on the business customer.  Blackberrys do email very well.  Their browsing experience is, well, lacking.  Even on the new Storm.

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Twitter Updater 3.02

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Some more minor tweaks to Twitter Updater to make it work better with WordPress 2.7. Some major things have changed in the post screen!
Twitter Updater 3.02