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  • 04.01.08
    7 Twitter Clients for Mobile Phones on the go | (7)
    It's hard to find a way to follow all of your Twitter updates without being interrupted by a constant barrage of noise. While it's easy to update your twitter status via SMS, keeping track of your friends on the go would require near-constant text messages. You can subscribe to @ replies, but sometimes you just want to scan through the latest and greatest from the Twitterverse on your phone. I'm hoping for an integrated IM and Twitter application like what Digsby is for the desktop, which seems to be Yahoo OneConnect's goal. Until then, check out these mobile Twitter tools: ...
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  • 03.26.08
    Thomas Vander Wal Speaks at AOL work | Comments Off
    This afternoon I had a chance to listen to a talk by Thomas Vander Wal, the innovator that coined the term folksonomy circa 1994. He speaks on social media and two of the key factors that he looks at are folksonomy and circles of sociability and does workshops diving in depth on a particular service or platforms. Thomas does a really good job of breaking down the components of any social media site, whether a social network, bookmarking service or social news. The most fundamental concept of social media is what he calls 'object oriented sociality.' That is the ...
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  • 03.20.08
    TwitSig: Add Status to Your Signature on the go | (1)
    Twitsig has just released a new service that turns your current status into an image so that you can add it to your signature on email or anywhere online. basically you just reference your username as a PNG file on their domain as such: http://twitsig.com/TwitterName.png With their quick code grabber you can get your status in HTML or BBcode or even get code to reference a particular status. This is another cool little hack around Twitter technology that is helping to make status ubiquitous on the web. See how it works after the jump. Continue Reading...
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  • 03.18.08
    Auto-follow on Twitter on the go | (4)
    Apparently there's a generally undocumented feature on Twitter that allows you to automatically follow any Twitter user that starts to follow you. I first learned about this capability from Douglas Karr's Marketing Technology Blog. Apparently if you ask Twitter customer support very nicely, they might be able to enable this feature on your account. I've noticed that there are a lot of different standpoints on this particular issue on Twitter. Some people seem to feel obligated to return the follow for everyone that adds them. Others are a bit less open and seem a bit less accustomed to the anonymous attention. ...
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  • 03.13.08
    AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 MM work | Comments Off
    <3 This morning AOL CEO Randy Falco announced that AOL is acquiring Bebo, the third largest social network behind Myspace and Facebook. With over 3.5 monthly unique viewer, Bebo is the number one social network in the UK and New Zealand. Bebo resides in a space between Myspace and Facebook in that it is inclusive of teens and college students. It also strikes a nice balance between the rigid design of Facebook and the garbled mess of Myspace in look and feel. Bebo allows users to skin their profiles in order to add their own ...
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  • 03.10.08
    Pixnay: Hot-or-Not Style Battles to the Death work | (1)
    Last week the AIM product design team launched a new site called Pixnay. The idea of a social voting site like Hot or Not has been around for a while, but this application takes a slightly different approach and makes the process more social. Pixnay shows you two pictures at a time and asks you to vote between the two of them. This gives more context to the votes and they did a fantastic job designing it. When you click on one of the two pictures you'll see a blue circle drawn around it. Then you can also see the user ...
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  • 02.28.08
    Palringo: Free Mobile IM Client gadgets | (1)
    If you're anything like me, you're always searching for a better IM client for your phone. A FREE mobile IM client with a great user experience has eluded most of us for some time. Agile Messenger was close to filling this spot for Windows Mobile, but then they cut off the free beta, leaving their fans out in the cold and unsatisfied. Today I just may have discovered the mobile IM client of my dreams in Palringo. Continue Reading...
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