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Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. Ho (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.Twitter is one of the hottest players in the realtime field right now. And it has a $1 billion valuation, which has been the source of (Read More)
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It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Over the last two weeks, we've made improvements across Google Apps, some geared for individuals, others meant for business customers.Green Robot icon in G (Read More)
ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Speech recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years – in this in depth, informative and inspiring video which Jon Morrow (Associate Editor of Copyblogger and Co-founder of Partnering Profits) shares his first hand insights into speech recognition for bloggers. Jon does all of his blogging via speech reco (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1. Last month Quin paid $16 million for Insure.com, and its related media assets, (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and monetization. He has also worked at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and McKinsey & Co. The world of onl (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partner (Read More)
TechCrunch:
For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users’ hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats that could impact their netw (Read More)
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Speaking at an event in London earlier today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed Rupert Murdoch’s plan to wall off his sites and prevent Google from indexing News Corp’s online properties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he characterized the plan as a bad idea, saying that the speed of change on the web meant it would likely “f (Read More)
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Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French.The company took to their blog and penned a post in French to announce the news, which lets users switch their language to French from within the Settings a (Read More)
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Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into th (Read More)
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Back in August, The Huffington Post asked their readers to help identify the top game changers across 10 different verticals to “honor and celebrate people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”Today, after 1.7 million votes, the top 10 has been revealed, and our own Pete Cashmore has made th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud, that other OS for netbooks that is completely (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washingto (Read More)