Is Square the Next Big Thing?
Back in September this year when Twitter founder and inventor Jack Dorsey left the company, to a work on a new project, everyone was skeptical at best when he said “I came back to St. Louis to find the next thing, and I found it.” Obviously we are aware of the Genius of a person that Jack is, so expectations are quite high. Well today he’s revealed this next big thing to world as Square. The idea – let people quickly and easily accept physical credit card payments from their... Read The Rest →
Bettween Makes @Twitter Conversations a Breeze
As Twitter goes more mainstream than it ever was, I see a lot of people having chat like conversations on Twitter. It’s just so easy, and its inevitable that your one tweet leads of to a very interesting conversation. With Twitter working on its own implementation of ReTweet it is only going to more harder for us to keep track of our conversations in the coming future. Twitter has never really had any easy to manage your conversations and this is where Bettween comes into the scene. Replete with its... Read The Rest →
The Five Best Twitter Clients
photo credit: carrotcreative As Twitter continues to explode at a rate faster than any other web2.0 app that we’ve ever seen. The reason why Twitter has done so well because of the simple API that Twitter has and the number of apps that have been built on it. I thought with the growing popularity of Twitter it would be a nice idea to showcase some of the best clients for Twitter that have actually outdone Twitter itself. Here they are in what I feel is the best order. From the... Read The Rest →
Twitter Shows Its Strengths As Earthquake Strikes China
photo credit: seektan Twitter is finally coming of age, and is demonstrating why the microblogging medium is fast catching up to be the fastest news breaker in the world. Something like 7 hours back a huge earthquake struck in China. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the richter scale and thousands have been feared to be dead. The epicenter was 50 miles from Chengdu, which has about 10.5 million residents. Robert Scoble a noted tech blogger and a Twitter addict first broke out the news on Twitter, even before the... Read The Rest →
TweetWheel : A Cool New Way to Visualize Your Twitter Friends
If you are a having a slow weekend, and you happen to love cool new visualizations, then I got some great news for you. Yes you heard me right, you can now visualize all your Twitter friends in a cool new fashion all thanks to TweetWheel. Basically TweetWheel visualizes you and all the connections to your friends and their friends and you and soon. All you have to do is enter your Twitter username (no password needed) and TweetWheel will go to work digging up all of your contacts, and... Read The Rest →
Who Said Marriages Are Made in Heaven? They're are Made on Twitter too!
Twitter really is proving to be a disruptive force in the way we think. The past two days people all over Twitter have been passing tweets about an apparent proposal by a guy on Twitter. I didn’t really feel that people would get engaged over Twitter but turns out that an engagement did indeed happen. Who is this geeky couple you might ask! Well Max Kiesler and Emily Chang made it official in the early hours of 20th March. Max really is a lucky guy because Emily responded within... Read The Rest →
Twitterrific Updated to Work with Leopard
If you are a Mac user and a Twitter Addict, then I am sure you have heard about Twitterrific, everyone’s favorite Twitter client on the Mac. Icon Factory the developers of Twitterrific have added support for Mac OS X Leopard in its latest version. If you are wondering what I am talking about then here what Icon Factory says about Twitterrific : Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and... Read The Rest →
Google Loves Jaiku and not Twitter
Well this may come as a bit of a shock to you, Jaiku the microblogging service similar to Twitter has been acquired by the mighty Google. Well there were rumors about Nokia planning to acquire Jaiku but all that looks like it was just another rumor. The price of the acquisition has not been revealed as yet. I wonder why Google didn’t acquire Twitter, who are the leaders when it comes to Microblogging. When Google has no problems whatsoever when it comes to paying money for an acquisition, I fail... Read The Rest →
The 10 Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Users
Are you a big fan of Twitter? If you are one of those bloggers who want to convey to your readers what you are currently doing then you need to install wordpress plugins to show your current Twitter status. But as usual you have plenty of options to choose from, so decide which will suite your blog the most. Well here they are : The Twitter Updater The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You... Read The Rest →
