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Introducing Commentwitter

by Jon Bishop on March 5, 2009

in Free, Plugins, Social Media, Twitter

The other day I was thinking that it would be great if Twitter could be used as a communications platform for discussions around blog posts. I mean we already do this but lack organization. We all know organization isn’t Twitter’s strong suit.
Ultimately I think it would be beneficial if everyone tweeted their blog comments. Currently [...]

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I Might Win an iPhone

by Jon Bishop on October 6, 2008

in Free, Social Media

I wrote about how to use search.twitter.com to find contests and giveaways. Well because of that very post I am half way to winning my very own iPhone 3G and a year supply of chocolate.
I received a phone call from Newtree’s PR department about a week ago informing me that I was one of the [...]

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Free Stuff on Twitter

by Jon Bishop on August 8, 2008

in Free, Twitter

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was some sort of centralized posting system to make your giveaway known to the world. Oh wait there is.
Something I’ve been doing to win some free stuff is monitoring search.twitter for just that… free stuff.
Search Twitter for Free Stuff

A lot of these contests are easy to join….. usually just [...]

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Realistic Fog/Smoke Effect

by Jon Bishop on March 13, 2008

in Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Free, Web Development

Here’s another effect using AS3 to make fog with source files below.

View: http://bishport.com/fog.html
Source: zip

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Realistic Flame Effect

by Jon Bishop on March 11, 2008

in Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Free, Web Development

This is my first attempt at creating a realistic flame effect in Actionscript 3.0 so be gentle.

View: http://bishport.com/flame3.html
Source: zip

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