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Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch Joshua Schachter is best known as the creator of Delicious. But a few years after he sold it to Yahoo in 2005, he left the company and joined Google. Since then, he’s been known to speak his mind about Delicious’ overall direction (which he doesn’t seem to like), and it’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TweetDeck beats Twhirl to the punch, adds Facebook support
By Lee Mathews If you’ve been using TweetDeck without a dual-display setup, it’s just about time for you to make a purchase. With newly-announced support for Facebook, you’re going to need some more real estate. The release comes two short days after Twhirl frontman Loic Le Meur announced that Seesmic had released a standalone Facebook [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blellow: Like Yammer meets LinkedIn Meets Twitter
By John Biggs, Techcrunch To paraphrase Cracker, what the world needs now is another web-based Interactive micro-content production community like I need a hole in the head. But strangely enough, I think the world needs Blellow. Blellow is a fascinating collaboration tool a la Yammer but Blellow allows you to create groups based on projects [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twitter Suggested Users: problem and solution
By Brad Hill, Downloadsquad Plenty of swirl this week about the Suggested Users page that Twitter newcomers see after sign-up. Jason Calacanis (co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., which publishes Download Squad) made a splashy offer of $250,000 to be installed near the top of the suggested list for two years. Dave Winer refuted that ploy, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Eight great Userscripts for Twitter users
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Not using a desktop Twitter client? Maybe you’re quite happy to use the Twitter site to post updates and monitor those you follow. Just because you do doesn’t mean you don’t have access to more powerful interface options than the bare minimum Twitter provides. Grab some Userscripts, and use your browser [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FriendFeed Notifier brings real-time updates to the desktop
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Sometimes it seems that we’re so plugged in to Twitter here @downloadsquad — rather, at Download Squad — that we don’t even know FriendFeed exists. Not true! In fact, I noticed that FriendFeed just released an official desktop notifier, built on Adobe AIR. It’s pretty rough so far, but a lot [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Search Cloudlet for Firefox brings tags to Twitter search
By Brad Linder, downloadsquad Search Cloudlet is a plugin for Firefox that adds relevant tag clouds to searches you conduct using Yahoo! or Google. We first looked at the program a few months ago and were impressed with the way it helps refine your searches. Now there’s a new version of Search Cloudlet that works [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twimailer improves Twitter’s new follower emails
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad If you’re signed up to get email when someone new follows you on Twitter, you’re probably used to seeing just the tiniest bit of information about them. With only a person’s name and Twitter URL, you’re forced to click through and change focus from your email to Twitter if you want [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TechFuga Updates Its News Aggregator. Now, With Twitter Search!
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch Tech news aggregator TechFuga has some new features this morning, including a new news clustering algorithm, easier-to-read graphics, more news sources, and better news search. The one feature I really like is that it now searches Twitter, in addition to all of the news sources it keeps track of. For instance, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tweetie 1.3 rejected from App Store because of swearing on Twitter
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Many iPhone developers have horror stories about their apps being rejected from the iTunes App Store for frustrating, sometimes arbitrary reasons. After today, Atebits, makers of the bestselling iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, might take the prize for the most absurd rejection yet. Tweetie 1.3 was barred from the App Store for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twitterfall tracks Twitter trends and more in real time
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Twitter Search is great at tracking trends, but you have to refresh your search page manually when new results appear. Twitterfall solves that problem by cascading tweets with popular keywords or your custom search down the page in real time. You can also log into Twitter to put your friends’ tweets [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tweetpkr: peek in on your Twitter friends from any site
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com Everyone’s Twitter habits are different. Some people check the site once a day via the web, some people check it every 3 minutes using a Twitter client. If neither of those appeal to you, because you’d rather not have a separate app or even a separate tab open to view your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google TipJar : nice idea, but too much self-promotion?
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad.com There’s been a fair amount of buzz over the past couple days regarding TipJar, a place to share money-saving advice powered by Google Moderator. It started with a Tweet from the official @google account, which nearly warranted an immediate post from us, but we let it sit for a couple of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TwitteReader is like Google Reader for Twitter
By Josh Lowensohn, news.cnet.com My Webware colleague Don Reisinger would get a kick out of TwitteReader, a new and free service which turns Twitter into something resembling Google Reader (something he’s ditched entirely in place of Twitter). Once you’ve plugged in your username and password, it presents the latest tweets as individual feed items, which [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users?
By Robin Wauters, Techcrunch.com Germany’s Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated version of the interview here, which features Williams answering the usual, boring questions ‘professional’ journalists tend to ask about the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Topify Lets You Manage Your Twitter Followers Via Email
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com If you are not a Twitter power user, you can ignore this post. But if you find yourself increasingly relying on Twitter and spending way too much time managing your followers, trying to figure out who they are, or responding to their private direct messages, you’ll want to try out Topify [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook’s Response To Twitter
By Erick Schonfeld – Techcrunch.com Facebook made a number of announcements today about changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond members’ personal circle of friends. One of the biggest changes is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It’s Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine
By Michael Arrington – Techcrunch.com At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn’t get it, and he’s certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn’t understand the massive valuation ($250 million or more) that Twitter won in its recent funding. I told him [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Two Twitter Games That Help Make Your Day Less Boring: @TwitBrain And @BeatMyTweet
By Robin Wauters – Techcrunch.com If you’re procrastinating on Twitter anyway, might as well train your mind while you’re at it. Here are two simple games that make use of the microsharing service’s functionalities and keep your brains busy while tweeting: TwitBrain Follow @TwitBrain and get served calculations on a regular basis (like 3 per [...]
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