Dan Frommer, Deputy Editor of Business Insider, speaks with John Borthwick, CEO & Co-Founder of Betaworks, about a white-label version/branded version of Bit.ly for Twitter, such as 'Twit.ly'. Borthwick is working with 23 Internet companies in New York and around the world. Bit.ly, the URL-shortener company, is one of them. Bit.ly allows users to shorten, share and track URLs (links).
Neat fact: If you put a plus sign after any Bit.ly URL, you can track how many clicks that URL received.
Chris Smith, the Senior Director of the BlackBerry Application Development Platform, discusses turning Twitter into a super-application for BlackBerry, at the Mobile World Congress.
This is an unboxing of the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit by David Di Franco. In summary, it allows you to type more easily and fluently in on-screen forms. This is definitely something we can use for Twitter and Facebook!
Have a serenely blessed Christmas, Everyone! I appreciate your 'online' presence with me here, at this blog, and on Twitter! Thank-you for visiting (here) and tweeting with me, this year. Take care and have an extraordinary 2010!
Saks Fifth Avenue takes the holiday windows display to the next level with Twitter integration, all powered by Windows 7. The first video features a brief look at the Twitter-integrated Windows 7 window display. Videos 2 and 3 feature the beautful scenes of some of the Saks Fifth Avenue store-window displays, for you to enjoy!
"Follow your friends on Twitter and Facebook in one central place. Seesmic makes it easy to reply to them and share text, links, photos and videos all in one screen.
We update Seesmic every other week or so. Come see what's new! See what Seesmic can do for you in this video." ~ Seesmic
With Seesmic, multiple Twitter accounts and Facebook updates appear together in one single, easy-to-follow column. It can be used just for one Twitter and Facebook account or to manage multiple accounts/identities. Seesmic can be used to manage your personal brand and different business accounts on Twitter, as well.
I used Seesmic's desktop client 'Twhirl' for the first time, earlier today for the ease and speed of 'following' it allows; I love it. Twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. So, I tried Seesmic to see what using it accomplishes as compared to Twhirl.
With Seesmic you can download a desktop version of it or click on 'Web' on the Seesmic webpage to utilize it in-browser. I tried the in-browser version a few moments ago and I love it, too! Both Twhirl and Seesmic make tweeting, following and direct messaging a breeze! Both, Seesmic and Twhirl are functional and a delight to use.
By now many of you have heard of, or read about Twitter. For those that have not: "Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is often described as the "SMS of Internet," in that the site provides the functionality (via its application programming interfaces) for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages, often obscuring the Twitter service itself." Excerpt from Wikipedia.org
