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We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such as TinyURL or Twitter’s own Bit.ly. MakeUseOf has also profiled many others in the past. But one of the drawbacks of using one of those URL-shortening services is that the links you’re firing out by email, blog post or Twitter stream to your friends are rathe (Read More)
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TechCrunch
Now that they got what they wanted – a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon – the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture they’re putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-to-launch digital music (Read More)
Planet XML
There was an article in the The Register earlier this week titled Twitterfanatic glimpses dark side of OAuth which contains the following excerpt A mobile enthusiast and professional internet strategist got a glimpse of OAuth'sdark side recently when he received an urgent advisory from Twitter. The dispatch,generated when (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
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It has been an interesting week if you are following news about Twitter. After their launch of lists, most people probably figured that Twitter would get fairly quiet for a while. Well, it sounds like this is a different kind of Twitter team. Instead of waiting for a week or a month to go by, [...]. (Read More)
The Next Web
One of the notable things about the way Twitter has run its business up to now is that it has never got into the app business. New screenshots suggest that might be changing.Twitter has always left development of everything except the core Twitter website and API up to third parties. It even bought the service’s search tech (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
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A while back I was surfing the Twitter developers wiki and noticed 2 interesting images uploaded by Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s Platform Project Manager. One of the images looks like a very rough status message entry screen, with a toggle button for Twitter’s new geolocation feature. This same feature just launched in read-onl (Read More)
TechCrunch
textPlus, a text messaging app that’s powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it’s just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or a (Read More)
TechCrunch
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web. This works because Android’s browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access l (Read More)
The LinkedIn Blog
A couple days ago, we launched several new features aimed at enhancing the professional conversation in LinkedIn groups. We call one of those features “following”.Following makes it easier for you to see contributions made by your connections and other people you value within your groups. To get you started, you’re already (Read More)
Google Operating System
Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk, added last year voice and video chat. The feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut, but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well.SFGate reports that Google will improve the service significantly in the coming months.Gmail's voice and video chats are n (Read More)
louisgray-com
Earlier this morning, Iain Dodsworth, creator of TweetDeck, posted that the day could potentially be "manic". While he cautioned the day's updates would not be list-related, as many updates from his competitors have been over the last week, it was hinted it would not be desktop related either. That left the iPhone, as Tweet (Read More)
Google Analytics Blog
If you manage many Google Analytics profiles, it can be difficult to stay on top of all your top line metrics across accounts -until now. Trakkboard is a free, easy to use desktop application that allows analysts to create dashboards that pull data across different Google Analytics logins and different Google Analytics prof (Read More)
GigaOM
Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where it is starting to offer companies a lot of flexibility and cost savings is in cloud computing. Cloud deployments can save money, free businesses from vendor lock-ins that could really sting over tim (Read More)
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Langer: “The guys in the office knew I was freaking out about turning thirty, so they got me a birthday cake in hexadecimal to help soften the blow.”. (Read More)
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Submitted by Robdiana
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This is my last week at Endeca. The decision to leave has been a heart-wrenching one: not only have the past ten years been the best of my life, but my experiences at Endeca have defined me professionally. Moreover, Endeca is riding a wave of success with recent advances in our products, new relationships with key partners, (Read More)