Pownce Upgrades Itself to More Traditional Filesharing Service

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News, Pownce | Leave a Comment

Pownce, the microblogging service you know, have upgraded itself to a filesharing service. They’ve done this by letting you share 100 MB files with the public, should you want to. Previously, the cap was 10 MB, and 100 MB was for pro users only, so I wonder what they’ll do to compensate that feature that […]

Twitter to Suspend Spammers

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, Twitter | 1 Comment

This is great news for Twitter users (like me and The Blog Herald)! Twitter have been marking accounts as spam, but the practice have been a bit weird to say the least:
Before today, Twitter would mark accounts as “spam”, but not tell the owners of the accounts they marked them as spam. Those owners of […]

Hitwise: “Twitter Still Niche”

April 30, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, Twitter | Leave a Comment

Heather Hopkins at Hitwise talks about Twitter in a recent blog post. She’s analyzed the Hitwise statistics and notes that Twitter still haven’t hit mainstream:
However, to put things into context, the site ranked #439 among Social Networks and Forums last week and #4309 among All Categories of websites. Twitter’s size is notoriously difficult to measure […]

Tweet frees man from Egyptian Prison

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News | Leave a Comment

Twitter may not have a business plan. But it is still really useful. Recently a graduate student from UC-Berkeley was arrested in Egypt along with his translator. Yet he managed to send tweets to his family and friends utilizing the social media service Twitter. Within hours his college had hired him a lawyer and helped […]

Are You Followed by Twitter Spammers?

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News, Spam | 1 Comment

Download Squad profiles Twerp Scan, a nice little application that checks your followers to see if there are any known spammers there. Personally, I wonder why Twitter is so quiet about the fact that there’s a, probably great, number of spammers perusing Twitter and luring users into their scams.
Check out the post, and then check […]

Twitter Gets More Money

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News | Leave a Comment

CNET reports that Twitter have signed for “either $15 million or $20 million” in funding. VentureBeat and others are following this up, but nothing official from Twitter yet.
They do pimp an e-card focusing on the release out of prison-story with Twitter as the saviour. That’s something I guess.

New Version of Desktop Blogging Software Blogo to Support Twitter

April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Software, Microblogging, News | 3 Comments

The new version of Blogo, a Mac desktop blogging application, have native support for Twitter, including a Microblog Viewer to read your tweets, as well as simple posting to your Twitter account. This version is in beta now, but I can attest that at least the Twitter functionality seems to be working as it […]

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A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

SocialMediaPop Mashes Social Media Sites
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Ryan Caldwell, of Performancing fame, had an idea:
Why not build a tool that only shows the stories that went popular on at least two social voting sites?
The result, via Suffolk Software, is SocialMediaPop. Cool project, in beta for now. I wonder what the social media sites think of services like this?
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