With the increased hype and focus on social media and social networking, many people are struggling with trying to keep their public/private lives, or their professional/personal lives separate. And for those people, I have some bad news – there can be only one You in social media!
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Be brilliant.

Brilliant people get to do whatever they want.

- Peter Shankman (@skydiver on Twitter)

• Twit Truth – Who's really using twitter
  (tags: twitter)

• Twitter API Wiki
  (tags: twitter software.reference)
• Trail: 2D Graphics (The Java™ Tutorials)
  (tags: java graphics)
• Twitter4J – A Java library for the Twitter API
  (tags: twitter java opensource software)

• BusinessBlogAngel: BLIP.fm blog badge – take it, it's yours…
  (tags: social.networking blogging social.marketing)

• Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking
  (tags: twitter)

• monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget
  (tags: twitter)
• TweetGrid – by jazzychad
  (tags: twitter)
• twopular – popular trends on twitter
  (tags: twitter)
• Tweeting Trends (TweetingTrends) on Twitter
  (tags: twitter)
• Twitscoop – Stay on top of twitter! – Search twitter, twitter client, hot trends
  (tags: twitter)
• Yiying Lu
  (tags: twitter)
• iStockphoto.com – Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
  (tags: images)
• High Sierra Music Festival : July 2 – 5, 2009
  (tags: entertainment)

• craigsdickson's posterous
  (tags: social.networking personal.brand)
• twtvite :: a simple event manager twitter app.
  (tags: twitter social.networking)
• TweetPsych
  (tags: twitter)
• TweetPsych – craigsdickson
  (tags: twitter personal.brand)
• Craig Dickson – Google Profile
  (tags: personal.brand)
• What The Trend?
  (tags: twitter)
• Tagalus
  (tags: twitter)
• #hashtags – What's happening right now on twitter
  (tags: twitter)
• twi.bz
  (tags: twitter url.shortening)
• is.gd URL Shortener – The Shortest URLs Around
  (tags: twitter web.development url.shortening)
• BrewCommune – The Online Home Beer Brewing Community
  (tags: beer orange.county)
• bit.ly, a simple url shortener
  (tags: twitter web.development url.shortening)
• 140it
  (tags: twitter)

I couldn’t get to sleep last night, so pulled out The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein. I purchased it the day it came out a couple of weeks ago, but with JavaOne etc. I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.

It is an easy read so far, I made it through the first 100 pages before my eyelids finally gave in.

I think I have bookmarked every other page so far, because there are things I need to go back to and address – mostly websites and tools I need to take a look at.

I will post up a more complete review when I am finished with it.

• wwdc keynote is underway. #
• had to kill the #wwdc search on #TweetDeck, my laptop was melting down. i thought the #javaone chatter was high but wwdc is out of control #
• looks like a refresh of the complete laptop lineup, all at lower prices at #wwdc #
• #iPhone 3.0 software available worldwide June 17th #wwdc #
• It’s official, new #iPhone to be called 3GS #wwdc #
• #iPhone 3GS officially available June 19th, a month earlier than previously speculated, but definitely not today #wwdc #
• Family Blog Update: American Tourist Fail http://bit.ly/15SO7w #
• http://twitpic.com/6yhnv @gorkeyv trying to convince @jazzlifejunkie that the #pre doesn’t make him a giant douche #
• #oracle to keynote AJAX World, will talk about #flash but not #javafx ? http://bit.ly/4guTRt #
• is it just me or is meetup.com only used to promote multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes these days? #
• RT @JasonCalacanis: Great post by @mcuban –> “The year of WTF?!?!?!” http://tinyurl.com/lpha5k #
• Netflix just sent me Revolutionary Road #
• Netflix just sent me Weeds: Season 4: Disc 2 #
• #eXo Platform Merges Portal Software Development into #JBoss Community http://bit.ly/BL4az #
• Testing out #TweetLater #
• thanks to #squarespace for sponsoring #twit #
• #lifehack – Sell Your Knowledge On The Side – http://bit.ly/98Gk9 #
• RT @alleyinsider: CHART OF THE DAY: One-Third Of Web Video Watchers May Cancel Cable by @fromedome http://bit.ly/zoUGg #
• #O’Reilly Webcast: #Twitter Power Tips – http://bit.ly/3u4AVy #
• checking out #squarespace #
• RT @timoreilly: Trends for jobs calling for gwt or jquery show sharp increases: http://bit.ly/tDChW #
• Job growth of #ajax vs plugin based #ria technologies like #silverlight and #flex – http://bit.ly/d1maj #
• Farewell #analog TV , I will miss you like VHS tapes and pagers. #
• So is this kid #lucky or #unlucky? http://bit.ly/dxHF0 #
• @ebuckl don’t panic, your nonsense will suck just as much as everyone else’s in reply to ebuckl #
• doing my best to win an #iphone from #squarespace #
• @thatkevinsmith yay zack and miri for the win! #
• @jazzlifejunkie I didn’t know there were shortstops in the stanley cup??? #
• Life imitating art (again) – anyone seen the movie Final Destination? http://bit.ly/KMvUt #
• RT @digg_2000: “George Lucas Then vs George Lucas Now [PIC]” – http://digg.com/d2tbGN?t1 #
• RT @JessicaElastic: Less than 25 Super Early Bird registrations left for the #Agile2009 Conference! Get yours now!! #
• #iPhone 3G S pre-orders sold out http://bit.ly/15b8Fz #
• @ABridgwater #SNL Will Ferrell and Green Day in reply to ABridgwater #
• #Beer Log: Mission Street Blonde Ale #
• Secured my piece of the #Facebook vanity land grab http://ping.fm/5bm0c #
• #Beer Log: Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat #
• Adelaide Crows def. North Melbourne Kangaroos, 68 to 24, take 5th position overall #
• #Beer Log: Orion Breweries’ Premium Draft (Okinawa, Japan) #
• #Beer Log: Saporo Breweries’ Premium Yebisu (Tokyo, Japan) #
• Just me, or does track 2 “Shake Me Like A Monkey” on the new #DMB album sound a lot like Cameo’s “Word Up” from the ’80s? #