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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, [...]
Another Rival Bites the Dust
Twitter’s competitors are disappearing. First, it was Pownce being acquired by Six Apart, and then closed down. Now, Google has decided to close Jaiku, which it acquired in 2007 to much acclaim. The move comes as Google attempts to reduce expenses, and involves the closure of several other services such as Dodgeball, Google Notebook and [...]
Shrink Your Tweets
For all talk about the power of brevity on Twitter (140 characters or less), there’s a growing number of services offering ways to get around the character limit. A good example is tweetshrink, which takes your Twitter messages and then reduces the number of characters using abbreviations. Here’s an example: Before: hey, this is good [...]
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There’s Twitter Service Born Every Minute
Over the weekend, a good old fashioned bitchmeme broke out on Techmeme after Loic Le Meur asked for a feature within Twitter that would be based on authority (aka the number of Twitter followers) that someone has. There was a lot of spirited and enthusiastic dialogue about the pros and cons of such a search [...]
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Plurk Gets an Overhaul