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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Twingly Tackles Microblog Search
I’ve used in Twingly in the past but, for some reason, it’s never resonated as a blog search tool that I would use as a replacement for Google or Technorati. That, however, may changed with the launch of a new “federated microblog search” engine that indexes micro-blogging services. For now, it features Twitter, Jaiku, identi.ca [...]
Automate Your Twitter Account
There are a growing number of ways to use Twitter but one area that hasn’t got a lot of attention is the adminstrative features. TweetManager steps into the fray with an interesting tool that comes with a variety of ways to automate your Twitter account. It features ways to: 1. Automatically follow people who based [...]
Twitter 101 from David Pogue
In case you had any doubts that Twitter is moving closer to the mainstream, the New York Times’ David Pogue had a column this week: “Twittering Tips for Beginners”. While I’d a big Twitter fan, I’m not sure Twitter is poised to become a mainstream tool. I think it has broad appeal to particular groups [...]
Jaiku’s Not Dead; It’s Morphing
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Jaiku’s death have been great exaggerated amid reports Google was turfing a bunch of services. Rather than going away, Jaiku is morphing itself into an open-source platform in which people can use the “Jaiku Engine” to create their own micro-blogging services. In some respects, it reminds me of identi.ca’s [...]
Tumblr Unveils Serious Upgrade
Tumblr, which has been attracting growing attention (and venture capital) as a publishing platform between blogging and Twitter has just unveiled an updated version of the service that, frankly look pretty amazing. The look and feel, while still clean and accessible, has been given a solid make-over with some nice sizzle, an improved dashboard, widgets, [...]
Tweepler to the Rescue