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We’ve been taking an active analytical look at emerging Twitter related trends on a monthly basis. This month instead of analyzing the state of the Twittersphere on our own, we thought we’d give some of the web’s most experimental, influential, and knowledgeable thought leaders an opportunity to share their perspectives on (Read More)
Engadget
We're not exactly sure what's going on here, but it certainly seems like at least some Google Voice voicemails are being indexed and made publicly available somehow -- if you use "site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/*" as a search string you get a few pages of what appear to be test messages, but there are a couple eye-ope (Read More)
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: 16appsQuick Pitch: Personalized iPhone apps recommendations based on so (Read More)
Inside Facebook
Since Facebook’s design team posted some before-and-after screenshots of today’s design tweaks, there has been some speculation about the existence of an “Outside World” News Feed filter that has a labs-style icon. Could Facebook be testing a FriendFeed-style feed aggregator so that users could consume any web content insid (Read More)
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The most popular URL shortener on Twitter just teamed up with Imageshack’s Yfrog. Could this spell trouble for TwitPic?In a blog post earlier today, Bit.ly revealed several major companies using its API (application programming interface) to share their content via the URL shortening service. They include some big compani (Read More)
clipotech
Version 3 is our biggest release since Disqus launched. In many ways, we went back to the drawing board for this version. Many of these changes and additions comes from the culmination of everything we’ve learned about how people use Disqus and approach comments on the web.We’ve always had two distinct sets of users: publis (Read More)
readwriteweb
Annual changes of note: Facebook at #5 with a rocket, Twitter entered Top 50 in June '09, Demand Media, Answers.com and Break Media sites to watch.comScore has just released their latest Media Metrix rankings for the Top 50 U.S. Web Properties. If we compare the top 50 to one year ago, we see that the top 4 is still the sa (Read More)
clipotech
So, I've been studying Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and Google's Wave and other things for some time.Last week I also visited Yelp, which is growing at a million new users PER MONTH.Twitter is growing at about 4 times that rate. Facebook is growing about 2x that rate.So, these are the big players. It's clear that they ar (Read More)
: Perhaps I'm stubborn, or set in my ways, or just old school. OK, I use many social media services, but for my primary online communication, it's still email for me.
I have a facebook account, and shove things into it, mostly from other services, but I can't say that I've embraced it.
Google, on the other hand, I use for email, docs, maps and IM.
Twitter is great for concise messages, and in fact, I don't even know the phone numbers of many local bloggers nad geeks, I simply Tweet at them.
Sometimes, I bemoan the fact that there are so many social media services around. So much to look at or update. In truth, although, I've joined many, my own habits have, over time, determined which I use most, and which I use so little, I've forgotten about.
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Whether you’re artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy — design talent optional!Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use as filling i (Read More)
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With all the recent talk of Virgin America possibly setting up some routes to both Vancouver and Toronto, we thought it'd be nice to take a look at what people are seeing from ground now at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Sea, mountains, and a neverending stream of international jumbo jets and itty-bitty island-hop (Read More)
Webware.com
As I have said in recent stories about short URLs, I believe that content management systems (blogging platforms, for example) should have their own short-link generators. Why hand over control of your traffic -- and your analytics -- to a third party, after all?Automattic's Wordpress.com has launched just exactly this: its (Read More)
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As much as we love to experience Twitter through desktop apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic and mobile apps like UberTwitter and Twitterrific, it’s still Twitter’s web interface that dominates in terms of overall popularity. A study published this week by Rapleaf looked at the most recent 20 tweets from 4 million different Tw (Read More)
: I'm shocked and appalled... how on earth do 65% of twitter people manage their twitter accounts without a twitter client? Surely they aren't managing multiple accounts.
TechCrunch
Since Gina Trapani stepped down from her role running Lifehacker, the blog she started under Gawker, she’s apparently been busy working on a new kind of Twitter application. Today, she gave a preview of what it will be on her new blog Smarterware. Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that (Read More)
: I could really use something like this to better determine how I'd like to use Twitter vs. how I use FriendFeed, since I tend to use the two services for different reasons.
: "Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that grabs your tweets, archives them, and uses them to give you some interesting data about the people you follow and those who follow you."