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Sarah Palin yesterday announced her plans to resign from the role of Governor of Alaska, leaving the press clueless as to why. Does she plan to retire from politics completely, or is she preparing to make a 2012 presidential bid? Palin is talking to no one…except Twitter and Facebook.The press appears somewhat frustrated (Read More)
Submitted by Grahunt
from Google Reader:
In the past 4+ years living in Spain, I’ve seen my fair share of Spanish and Portuguese wineries. From old, rancid smelling and spiderweb infested bodegas making drop dead gorgeous wines to sleek and modern wineries who couldn’t make a decent bottle of wine if their life depended on it, my experiences have been vast and mem (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other di (Read More)
FriendFeed Blog
One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva:
Our little Twitter is growing up. The time has come for us to come to terms with this fact, and take our Tweets to the next level. Mature Twitterers (those of us who have been around longer than Ashton Kutcher) are tired of the noise, and certainly don't want to be the ones creating it. So, we’ve taken matters into our own (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva
from mixx:
For the 165,000 Bahais in the United States, many refugees from Iran, the questionable election and suppression of protesters are grim confirmation of the government’s character. (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Are you familiar with the Twitter client TweetDeck? If not, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. With the release of Tweetdeck’s iPhone application, I’ve noticed something that every Twitter developer needs to pay attention to: Tweetdeck is locking users in for a very long time. How so you ask?Tweetdeck for the iPhone (Read More)
: I just purchased Tweetie and love it already. There's something about Tweetdeck that's never felt right to me. It's basically a UI issue. I feel comfortable when I'm using Tweetie. It's the same way I feel when I'm using Twhirl on the desktop. It just feels right.
Submitted by Matik72
from Google Reader:
The federal Office of Management and Budget posted a notice on its website June 26 saying that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could take steps to remove a travel regulation that prohibits HIV-positive travelers from entering the United States, The Advocate reports. Specifics about the regulatory change wi (Read More)
Live Crunch
I just wanted to see my followers list and noticed Twitter changed the layout which I think it’s awesome when it comes to us regular users but NOT spammers or auto-followers. You can follow users by clicking that + sign or down arrow for more options such as Mention, Block, DM etc…You can see it for your self hereI very muc (Read More)
Inside Facebook
While Facebook has over 230 million active users and has been rapidly growing around the world in the last 24 months, Orkut, the social network run by Google, has remained dominant in Brazil and India. Although Facebook has grown slowly in those two countries, it’s never been able to turn the corner - until now.Starting abo (Read More)
Lifehacker
Google's data-crunching ways found that the majority of Gmail users aren't actually using the webmail service's labels. Starting today, those label names get higher placement, and drag-and-drop labeling aims to make Gmail's labels more like familiar email folders. By placing users' own labels higher up on the left-hand side (Read More)
: I've wanted this for years. Most of my mail goes straight into folders (okay, 'labels') so having to scroll down half the screen all the time is a pain.
Having all those 'draft', 'archive' etc folders was just wasted screen space and now I can put them away where they belong and own my own set of folders where I want them, just as I would with a real email program.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. This weekend we saw Michael Arrington raise a ruckus due to the “mob behavior” on FriendFeed. He states that FriendFeed is an example of what is wrong on the internet because all of the comments are together and that gives rise to a mob quicker. Yep, FriendFeed is the pro (Read More)
: why everyone should alike or conform to the standard you think is correct, the beauty of internet is in the fact that every one does what he thinks is right and let if go into the open sea of customer/user reactions, if user on it, it means they like it , so then why change the way it is , - it is working and people a on it despite the fact that many other people do not like it, so do not go there , get yourself elsewhere, ... I think it is sufficient and effective to the point and does what it set to do... so I would not even bother with what people say in their critics, if so many other find it useful and good for them, keep this way.... in french they say "chacan son gout, chacan son terrain" - "everyone has their own taste and therefore every one has his own way/[road to follow]" - common expressive to ward off critic ...
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Flickr has just released their long awaited feature for posting photos to Twitter. It’s been in beta over the past few weeks, but now it’s live for everyone. It’s not exactly like other photo tweeting services like TwitPic, which lets you sign-in using your Twitter account. To use Flickr2Twitter, you first need to sign-i (Read More)
: think what twitter look like with the photo, when most of people twitt with one line sentence, it is going to only foto on the page with very little not relevant text
AJ's shared items in Google Reader
I could easily lose my geek cred and early adopter license for this post, but I think a lot of non-early adopters have been wondering, what is the real-time web for? Alexander Van Elsas has an excellent post “calling bs on the real time web.” Basically, he just does not know what use it has, but he sums up the problem nicel (Read More)
: good point, in today fast paced world yesterday is seems like too distant future, earlier adopter are usually dealing with a beta version far from complete, I find many new online services and features and learning that actually they have been around for years, wow