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TechCrunch:
Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that’s not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a ‘WordPress for microblogs’. That is (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
Specialized mobile search engine Taptu and real-time search service OneRiot have teamed up to launch a new real-time search engine for mobile. With the touch-friendly interface provided by Taptu, you can now perform searches from your mobile phone and receive real-time results from sites like Twitter and Digg. In addition, (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
Montreal-based StatusNet, the company behind the open-source microblogging service identi.ca, is closing an $875,000 seed round today. Investors include Montreal Startup, iNovia Capital, and Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzoff. The startup, which changed its name a few weeks ago from Control Yourself, raised a previous se (Read More)
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Mashable!:
Here’s my contribution for this Friday’s #followfriday: Tim Berners-Lee. Yes, the guy who pretty much invented the World Wide Web back in 1989 (has it been that long already?) has finally joined the omnipresent microblogging service. Berners-Lee already has over 2,500 followers, but we don’t doubt this number will increase (Read More)
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Mashable!:
Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.By now, most consumer marketers know they could be using Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social media platforms to boost brand recognition, engage customers, and drive sales. But ge (Read More)
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microblogs,
twitter
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TechCrunch:
In October 2007, Google bought the Finnish social networking site Jaiku. In the following couple of years, they somehow managed to do absolutely nothing with it, even as rival Twitter rose in popularity. Today, co-founder Jyri Engeström is leaving Google.Now, to be fair, by all accounts, Engeström enjoyed his time at Google (Read More)
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Oct 12, 2009
ReadWriteWeb:
We're in the final days leading up to the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit. People are coming from around the world to Mountain View, California this Thursday to talk about building and leveraging the diverse set of technologies referred-to as the real-time web.You should join us! If you can't, though, please plan on checki (Read More)
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Mashable!:
Back in June, we published a round-up of desktop Twitter clients, with one of the Mac-only apps being EventBox, a multi-purpose Twitter, Facebook and Flickr client. Today, Brighton, England’s Realmac Sotware (makers of some of my favorite Mac apps including LittleSnapper and RapidWeaver) have announced that they have acqui (Read More)
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readwriteweb:
Most of us have profiles on a wide variety of services these days. Thankfully, these days most of these profiles are available in machine-readable microformats like hCard or XFN (XHTML Friends Network). For developers, Google's Social Graph API makes discovering these profiles easier, though this is still a relatively compl (Read More)
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Lifehacker:
If you're not one of the 100,000 lucky users who gets an invitation to Google Wave today, don't fret. You can check out Google Wave right here. But first, ground rules. Click on all images in this post to see it full size. Uppercase "Wave" refers to the entire Google Wave product. Lowercase "wave" refers to an individual m (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
Kutano, a browser-based Twitter client that also aggregates comments on Twitter about the website a user is currently visiting, just launched the first client for Google's Sidewiki project. Sidiwiki allows users who have a special version of the Google Toolbar installed to annotate any web page and comment on any blog post. (Read More)
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twitter
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Huffington Post:
Are our everyday lives really so mundane? Does it all boil down to working, getting home, satisfying the most basic needs such as eating and sleeping, and then repeating the cycle the next day? Well, if we look at what we post on microblogging networks, it looks that way.
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microblogs,
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ReadWriteWeb:
New Trend: Web 2.0-controlled malware?Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a backdoor trojan whose spread is being dictated by commands hosted in Google Groups, Google's online discussion forums. The backdoor trojan, named Trojan.Grups, appears to the be first ever malware to use an online newsgroup as the "c (Read More)
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Mashable!:
There’s something interesting happening in the space between Twitter and a full blown blog. We’re seeing more and more of our social friends turn to sites like Posterous for 140 character plus musings, or simple and fast photo and video sharing.Whether you need a little more space to create a lifestream that serves as a com (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
The race between Twitter and RSS readers to be the best personalized source of news just got a little more interesting. Former Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo is joining Twitter as its new chief operations officer, according to a report from TechCrunch.Costolo left Google in July, a little more than two years after the search g (Read More)
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