FriendFeed Blog
One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Twitter has long had an official Facebook application that allows users to update their Facebook status with tweets. It's quite useful for those of us who don't want to have to spend all day updating multiple services with the same messages... (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Tweetdeck users have noticed tonight that their hourly API call limit has been increased from 100 to 150 per hour, essentially meaning you can get more frequent Twitter updates if you require them. Twitter, however, has made no announcement, and the API Wiki still states 100 as the limit.It’s not just TweetDeck that saw th (Read More)
Submitted by Svartling
from Twitter:
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting http://bit.ly/4kCVgu Probably because Bing shows Tweets in search results :). (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Are you familiar with the Twitter client TweetDeck? If not, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. With the release of Tweetdeck’s iPhone application, I’ve noticed something that every Twitter developer needs to pay attention to: Tweetdeck is locking users in for a very long time. How so you ask?Tweetdeck for the iPhone (Read More)
: I just purchased Tweetie and love it already. There's something about Tweetdeck that's never felt right to me. It's basically a UI issue. I feel comfortable when I'm using Tweetie. It's the same way I feel when I'm using Twhirl on the desktop. It just feels right.
mashable
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a promotion from website builder Squarespace, where the company offered up 30 iPhones in 30 days to be randomly awarded to users who included #squarespace with their tweets. The campaign worked in getting exposure – #squarespace was on top of trending topics for several days in a row – but w (Read More)
jkOnTheRun
Bookseller Borders in the UK has launched an electronic book reader to compete with Amazon’s Kindle. The 6-inch e-book reader is produced by Elonex and retails for £189 ($311) exclusively at Borders. The Elonex reader launch goes hand-in-hand with the launch of the Borders E-book Download Store.The Elonex eBook doesn’t appe (Read More)
Mashable!
“YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting Web site called YouTwitFace”, Conan O’Brien predicted in his hilarious Year 3000 sketch (below). He may not be far wrong: the sites are becoming increasingly intertwined, with YouTube now automatically posting videos to Twitter, and Facebook now movin (Read More)
: I have raised this issue as a result of first hand experience. What i have found-out is that, what is common sense in Western capital is not common in this part of the world. But it's understandable because old money does not want the new money to start flowing without their control.
Submitted by Matik72
from Google Reader:
The federal Office of Management and Budget posted a notice on its website June 26 saying that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could take steps to remove a travel regulation that prohibits HIV-positive travelers from entering the United States, The Advocate reports. Specifics about the regulatory change wi (Read More)
TechCrunchTwitter Rolls Out UI Changes To Simplify Your Social Connections.
Twitter has just quietly rolled out a set of changes to its user interface on the “Following” and “Followers” sections of its website. These changes will clearly make it easier to manage who you follow as well as take actions, such as @replying someone or direct messaging them, directly from the page.There are two new views (Read More)
: I think that twitter eyeballing the potential purchase by google so everything they do is to generate humangous traffic and inter-connectivity among people to take as much spot - living space as possible to at least pretent to be on the forefront of everyone/s attention. I think they over do it.
FriendFeed Blog
Individual expression is the heart of FriendFeed, and today we're excited to launch FriendFeed themes, with six new designs to choose from.One of the first things you learn conducting usability studies is that a participant will always say 'I don't like the colors'. Designing for a broad user base usually means finding the (Read More)
The Brand Box
Community management as a discipline is evolving. It’s not just moderating boards and forums anymore (though there’s still a certain need and place for that). It’s becoming a pivotal and cross-disciplinary role inside companies that are bridging a social communications presence with their offline world.It’s amazing to me th (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
When it comes to achieving success it seems that most people struggle and fail. This seems to be especially true when it comes to Internet business, but it does not not have to be this way. Successful Internet entrepreneurs understand what it takes to establish a profitable website and to achieve a considerable income from (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension, according to a message on the Twitter developers email list from a company support team member.Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then break t (Read More)
: Tweetlater auto unfollows - so I've switched off that function, anyone know if I should stop auto following too ? - I've got it set up to find people in my niche by keyword and follow them.
Is any sort of automation banned is what I want to know ? - it's not very clear.
ReadWriteWeb
Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. "Still in 10k split," he said. "Didn't sleep much but feel OK...." Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of (Read More)
: "Poker is a psychological game - and you can imagine how the pros are strategizing about their use of this new method of communication.
"People are calling it Tweet bluffing," Sebok says. "It's a game within a game situation and it's effected the way the games go. It's enabling the fans at home to climb into the minds of the players but if they are smart they know they can climb into each others' minds too: to see who tilts, who rolls with the bad situations and who flies off the handle. Players spread misinformation like 'I'm going to play tight' when they are really going to play loose. We do that verbally but since Twitter is written, it seems more believable. But it's just the beginning of all this, it's blown up in last 2 or 3 months.""