louisgray.com
On yesterday's micromedia panel here at the Blog World Expo, I said the way that companies can start using microblogging tools is to first be aware of them, and second to monitor them, before jumping in deep with both feet. The idea would be to understand the nature of the community, and to see how your business or industry (Read More)
: I've been using Tweetbeep for some time now. It's a useful service for ensuring you never miss at @reply or mention of topics and/or keywords that are important to you. Kudos to Michael Jensen (@mdjensen) for his Tweetbeep work!
: @Kenburbary I too have used it for a while... but felt rather not to overflow my inbox .. probably i dont want to miss something important in the mail get lost in the tweets list...Ofcourse i do afford the time to check them on twitter iself:)
: I have had several beeps monitoring things for a few weeks - one of the great aspects is that is recognises when a domain is 'beeped' using a short url - a link you'd otherwise have no clue had been made.
Submitted by Ketan
from YouTube:
Swype is a new way to input text on touch screens - by swiping your finger instead of typing on a virtual keyboard. The founders demoed it at TechCrunch50 on Sept. 9, 2008 in San Francisco and received very positive feedback from the judges.The video shows the judges trying it for the first time ever.The founders claim you (Read More)
You should follow me because you want to, not because you're reading this message and feeling a sudden feeling of guilt. Heck, if you don't follow me, I won't hate you or anything, but I mean, all you have to do is click a little follow button and you're done. It's not like you have to do a whole lot of work to follow me or anything. NO PRESSURE!! Seriously, just take your time, and do it only if you want to. ... ....... *cough*
ReadWriteWeb
Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search's content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the searches performed each day believes that the new program, called BOSS ( (Read More)
TechCrunch
Google employees are so special that they even get Japanese space toilets on which to rest their stock options. SFist found these sexy Japanese Toto toilets in Google’s headquarters. They feature front and rear cleansing along with a dryer and some sort of insane wand cleaning system that may be part of Google’s (Read More)
Engadget
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable VideoStuff.tv is kicking back in Nike's HQ at the moment and claims to have official word about Nike's future plans with Apple. They say that the Nike+ system will be "definitely" extend beyond the iPod nano to support the relatively bulky iPhone and iPod touch. Interestingl (Read More)
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