Punching Soup - Tag: twitter

New my6sense API Gives You “hyper personalized” Streams

Matthew Casperson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:11:39 -0700

Thanks to a new service from my6sense finding the information you want just got easier. Their Digital Intuition technology will analyze your interactions to providing personalized streams, and now that functionality is available to developers with a newly released Attention API.

Want to Buy a Slightly Used API?

Matthew Casperson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:16:04 -0700

Have you ever wanted to own your very own API, but did not have the time or inspiration to create one for yourself? Well here is your opportunity. Song.ly, a Twitter music sharing service, is up for grabs.

Teddy Tote Giveaway

Karen Day — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:38:58 -0700

While traditionally just a cuddly staple in a child's life, the teddy bear gets an upgrade with the addition of a built-in tote. Recognizing its comforting effect on kids, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company recently introduced the useful Teddy Tote, giving kids another excuse to bring their beloved bear everywhere.

The Teddy Tote looks like a standard stuffed animal but by unzipping its back, a convenient carryall bag unfolds—perfectly-sized for kids to transport coloring books, snacks and more.

"Made from scratch" in Vermont, each Teddy Tote comes with a lifetime guarantee. Launching July 2010, CH has one in advance to give away to a lucky reader. To enter follow us on Twitter and simply tweet @coolhunting with what you would do with a Teddy Tote and we'll pick from entries received before 11:59 pm EST on 29 March 2010.

'I'm a nice pirate,' says Hacker Croll after seizing Obama's Twitter account

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:29:21 -0700

An unemployed French man who embarrassed the world’s biggest internet groups when he infiltrated dozens of online services including President Obama’s Twitter account described himself as a ”nice pirate” after his arrest.

Cops: Notorious Twitter hacker caught, released

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:35:00 -0700

A 25-year-old French hacker who goes by the alias 'Hacker Croll' was nabbed this week after the FBI tipped off French authorities, according to an Agence France-Presse story.

The New Face of Geek Chic

Susan Scrupski — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:40 -0700

I was introduced to Anne Petterøe in 2009 by a fellow Enterprise Irregular (EI) who asked me if I might be able to help her find a place to stay for SXSW here in Austin. I had already been following Anne on Twitter, but definitely didn’t know her at all. But, because she hailed from one of [...]

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OfficeTalk: Microsoft's Twitter for businesses (images)

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:00 -0700

Microsoft is testing OfficeTalk, a microblogging service designed to give businesses the ability to host their own Twitter-like service for employees.

Brandfolium tries to make Twitter advertising palatable

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:12:00 -0700

Want to sell your tweets? Check out Brandfolium's Navid.

The Most Powerful Voices in Open Source

Guest Authors — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:21:14 -0700

The Open Source community has many influential and important people. Yet some individuals tend to hold a bigger megaphone than the rest of us. Some of these people are well recognized while others exist in open source niches. But collectively they’re all the most vocal, followed and re-posted open source commentators in the community today. [...]

Facts : Addicted To Social Media

Social Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:21:41 -0700

What is it about social media that causes people to spend so much of their precious time trading information with friends, family and even giant corporations? Of course, we already know the answer; it’s fun and can be rewarding both socially and financially. The latest Retrevo Gadgetology study asked social media users questions such as [...]

Twitter to Introduce Versioning to Their API

Matthew Casperson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:25:36 -0700

The Twitter API continues to see incredible growth and adoption, including Wordpress and Tumblr both emulating the API, in turn providing access to their services through standard Twitter clients. It has been suggested that this adoption of the Twitter API by outside groups marks the beginning of a movement that will see it adopted as a standard for microblogging platforms.

MSN New Look Now Live in US

noreply@blogger.com (Charlie Anzman) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:41:00 -0700

Microsoft's MSN portal has been testing a 'new look' on a preview page for the past few months. Comments from those that have checked it out have been somewhat mixed but mostly positive for the new simpler design.

Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been sending e-mails and also running a banner at the top of the MSN page announcing the upcoming change.

The change is now live for most .... at least here in the US.

One of the things you'll notice immediately is geo-targeting. Even if you are not signed in, the page will deliver news and other results based on your IP (or perceived Internet access location).

The other notable inclusion is a trend chart, not based on Microsoft's Bing xRank, but instead items that have been trending on Twitter:

MSN is also now embracing Facebook Connect directly from the front page. Microsoft is a minority investor in privately-held Facebook.

For now, the new MSN primarily competes with Yahoo and AOL. Both companies launched new layouts as well, also embracing social media, in the past few months.

Microsoft's customizable portal, Live.com recently shut down and offers a page that redirects to the company's search product Bing.

The question that nobody seems to be asking (maybe there's no answer yet?) is what is Microsoft going to do with one of the best web addresses they own .... Start.com ?

Update 1 - Mar 22 - 12:21 AM ET: The new MSN page is apparently also now the default in Canada. (Thanks to Rebekah Jssn chiming in on Google Buzz)

Twitter is 4 today

David Terrar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:42:59 -0700

A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called "Social Media: A Force for Good?". The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter, and Reid Hoffman the Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn (you can see what they said below). The proceedings were moderated by NESTA's own Chief Executive Jo...

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Joel Spolsky and Kathy Sierra are Close, But There is More to Blogging

Bob Warfield — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:48:30 -0700

Joel Spolsky has succeeded brilliantly with blogging as marketing medium, and he says he only learned why a year ago based on something Kathy Sierra said at the Business of Software Conference: To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. Tantalizingly [...]

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Twitter in trouble after setting Sarkozy rumour mill whirring

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0700

The claim was sensational and the impact global: Carla Bruni was having an extramarital affair with a songwriter, while President Sarkozy, her husband, was sleeping with one of his ministers.

lego mindstorms robot controlled by tweets

range — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:51:43 -0700

My brain is overloading with the coolness of this little LEGO robot. On top of being remote-controlled, NIKO can receive its commands via Twitter! Now that’s a cool use of social-robo-networking! The robot receives its commands thanks to a Nokia N900 phone. Users can tweet special commands to @N900Niko to put the robot through its…

Five Years of Column 2

Sandy Kemsley — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0700

As of today, I’ve been writing this blog for five years. My first post was on BPTrends’ 2005 BPM Suites Report, and I’m still pretty focused on BPM, although have branched out to cover a wider variety of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration topics as well. In the beginning, it was just labeled as my business [...]

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Andrew McAfee E2.0 radar chart

Hutch Carpenter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:20:23 -0700

The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review is [...]

The Feeling’s Mutual: the Twitter-related API I’ve Been Wanting

Adam DuVander — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:47:46 -0700

So and So is now following you on Twitter. Who? How did they find me? Why might I want to follow back? That's been a common bit of internal dialogue for me lately. Often the answer lies in our mutual friends or followers. Social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook make this easy. Not so with Twitter, which is why I was excited to find Intersect.

At SXSWi, Twitter may finally have met its match

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:16:00 -0700

No question Twitter is still huge here, but Foursquare and Gowalla have to be considered a major part of people's organizing principle.

Twitter Creates @anywhere, Opens the Social Web

Mike Phillips — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0700

Twitter has been an open network for some time. Now, they are ready to expand beyond geekdom and attach a level of communication across the Web, using a simple system and a network of high-visibility websites.

The impending release, called @anywhere, will let users follow Twitter accounts and post updates (tweets) to their feeds without ever visiting Twitter.com. Rrom the Twitter blog: Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning.

Initial partner sites include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, and YouTube. Amazon and eBay are particularly interesting, considering the availability of Amazon Associates and the eBay Partner Network, as well as Salesforce.com and their huge affiliate network. Functionality like this will add an entirely new layer of interactivity to the sales process, as well as offer the ability for products to be spread virally. But @anywhere is not limited to big media properties - individual site owners will be able to incorporate the network using only a few lines of javascript, according to Twitter.

In addition, having sites like Bing, Citysearch, Digg, and The New York Times will bring Twitter front and center to a new group of consumers who are not yet using Twitter. For those marketing products or content on Twitter, this could be huge. Of course, it could also result in massive overload for regular Twitter users. At any rate, it's a clear indication that Twitter is not satisfied being a niche service provider - they think they have a consumer-facing product that goes beyond geeks, bloggers, businesses and the press. And they have a good start - just about every major media company and website has their own Twitter account and they promote them relentlessly in print, on TV and even in radio.

If you think about it, @anywhere is a perfect evolution of Twitter, and a perfect antithesis to Facebook. Unlike Facebook, you don't need to know people to connect -- you just have to share a common interest or two. Now, users won't even need to visit Twitter.com to connect, share and discover content. This will allow these connections to be made Web-wide. Where Facebook is holding users (and advertisers) captive, Twitter is setting them free. So the next question is, how will Twitter monetize on this?

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Real-time web dictates change in industries

David Spark — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:25:11 -0700

With serendipity and humanity we’re able to connect people’s digital souls

At SXSW, I bumped into Jeff Pulver and asked him to talk about his passion around his 140 Conference. It’s not a conference about Twitter. It’s a conference about how the real-time conversations are motivating behaviors and telling industries what they can and can’t do. Jeff Pulver is insanely passionate, and he gives a fantastic rant on how the speed of real-time information is changing all ecosystems.

Watch the video over on Tweetshare. This is one of many videos I’ve been shooting for Tweetshare at SXSW. Browse through the entire SXSW collection. And please also read my report (if you haven’t already) “Search and discovery of the real-time web.“David Spark helps businesses grow by developing thought leadership through storytelling and covering live events at Spark Media Solutions. He blogs at The Spark Minute and can be heard and seen regularly on ABC Radio, Cranky Geeks with John C. Dvorak, and KQED in San Francisco. See his business profile, contact David, or leave a comment below.

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Is Twitter aiming at Facebook Connect?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:59:00 -0700

With its @Anywhere technology launched as part of SXSWi, Twitter is trying to make its presence spread even further across the Web.

Lackluster Twitter CEO keynote leads many to bail

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:56:00 -0700

One of the most anticipated talks at SXSWi failed to deliver on that energy. After the @Anywhere news was announced, the audience left in droves.

Anywhere

Jesse Stay — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:49:10 -0700

I’ve long talked about the MVC model of the Building Block web. Data Repositories like Amazon Simple Storage, Facebook Data Store, Google Data, and others comprise the Model of this new platform. APIs like the Twitter API, the Facebook server-side APIs, or other REST-type APIs compose the Controllers of this web. Then you have the [...]

Twitter CEO unveils '@Anywhere' platform

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:00 -0700

The company's big announcement at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival was its new way to integrate Twitter data into partner sites.

Seesmic, Now Offers Adjustable Column Size, Sounds, Location Trends and Many More

Rebecca Jordan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:45:47 -0700

Seesmic Web makes it easy to access your Twitter account from any browser and at any time. The new interface of Seesmic Web now brings to the forefront: Adjustable Column Size, Sounds, Mute / Un-mute Users, Location Trends, Inline Pictures and Video Previews. Updated Followers and Following List in Contacts Manage your followers and who you follow [...]

#OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:35:00 -0700

At about 8 p.m. central time Saturday night, the word spread on Twitter like wildfire that Conan O'Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. But it was actually a hoax that hundreds participated in.

Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:40:00 -0700

JetBlue said it had 1,000 free tickets to give away to New Yorkers who showed up at a location broadcasted via Twitter. The only complaint so far: Couldn't there be more?

TurboTax announces Glenn Beck ad pull via Twitter

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:05:00 -0700

After feedback from its Twitter followers, the tax-preparation software company decides to remove its advertising from the show hosted by Fox's most entertaining presenter.

Reading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript

James Governor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:58:55 -0700

Back in 2004 I wrote post called The Death of Consumer Electronics. Wishful thinking of course. My central, hopeful, argument is that we’re actually content creators, not consumers. What exactly do you consume when you take a digital photograph and post it on Flickr? Sure you can sit and watch a TV show or DVD, [...]

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Twitter to block malicious links

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:07:00 -0700

Links in direct messages on Twitter and e-mail notifications about direct messages will be filtered in an attempt to stop phishing attacks.

Making sense of conversations on Twitter

David Spark — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:58 -0700

Launching today, Tweetshare lets you have Twitter conversations around any piece of content

The annoying aspect of Twitter is that it’s really difficult to follow conversations. There’s nothing inherent to Twitter that makes it easy for you to backtrack a conversation. What many people use for conversation tracking is hashtags, and then searching on the hashtags. Problem with hashtags is they’re not threaded so you can’t see specifically how one person responded to another. Nor can you see the beginning of the conversation.

One service I’ve used before that’s a good solution is Twitoaster, which allows you to follow conversations that you initiate, or someone else initiates. It’s pretty good if you ask a question and you want to follow everyone’s answer to it, but it’s hard to back track a tweet up to its source.

Following conversations is necessary because so many people send out tweets that don’t reference what they’re talking about beyond the @ reply.

Launching today is a new service called Tweetshare, which allows you to have Twitter conversations around any piece of content, whether it’s an HD video, picture, Word document, or anything else. Load the content, and then tweet it out from Tweetshare. The automatically included link takes readers of your tweet back to the Tweetshare space where the content resides. Each response you give includes that Tweetshare space link, allowing everyone to be in the same space talking about the piece of content. As you would with a blog or website, you can create a branded Tweetshare page to post all your tweetable content.

Tweetshare is also a brand new client of mine, and I’ll be attending SXSW next week shooting videos for Tweetshare and posting them to their tweetable zones. I invite all of you to participate then, but feel free to try out the service now. All you need to do is log in with your Twitter account.

But I’m interested in knowing what services you use to follow Twitter conversations. Do you use any, or do you just use search? Or do you don’t even bother because it’s far too complicated?David Spark helps businesses grow by developing thought leadership through storytelling and covering live events at Spark Media Solutions. He blogs at The Spark Minute and can be heard and seen regularly on ABC Radio, Cranky Geeks with John C. Dvorak, and KQED in San Francisco. See his business profile, contact David, or leave a comment below.

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The New Entrepreneur: Research Slides Report

Taly Weiss — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:05:04 -0700

The New Entrepreneur: In this report (provided by Grasshopper, research by Trendsspotting) we present a comprehensive research review on entrepreneurs: We provide facts about entrepreneurs: profiles, inspirations, home based statistics, incomes and revenues. We explore the influence of the recession on new jobs, profits, and the establishment of new businesses. We look at the future and suggest a lookout [...]

gone phishing

Jesse Stay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:19:47 -0700

Today we announced on the SocialToo blog that we’ve enabled our phishing protection for all 60,000+ SocialToo users (and many, many more to come). This project means a lot to me, as it means the more people that use it, the fewer phishing DMs will be received, links won’t be clicked, passwords won’t be [...]

When TiVoing the Oscars, Twitter is not your friend

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:40:00 -0700

It's nearly impossible to keep from finding out what happens at live events like the Academy Awards, the Olympics, or the Super Bowl if you're a Twitter or Facebook user.

Conan uses Twitter to change one woman's life

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:16:13 -0700

Conan O'Brien, in what is shaping up to be a fascinating marketing campaign, promises to change the life of one random tweeter--by following her.

The Title Of Your Blog Post Just Got More Important Than Ever

noreply@blogger.com (Charlie Anzman) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:54:00 -0700

The Internet marketing landscape is changing.

It's changing at a pace that nobody would have imagined just a year ago.

Networks that used to drive traffic simply aren't.

The focus of the tech community over the past year (and more) has been real-time.

There's is a lot of good there ... and also some serious drawbacks.

Then there are those 'pipes'. You know, those imported (and in some cases exported) posts you see in your Facebook, Twitter, and other feeds.

Since the advent of Friendfeed, I've counted over 50 'significant' networks where you can pull and push your content, and content from others.

Note: Exercise a little caution here ... If you 'share' too much, there's a good chance people will block you, unfollow you or whatever YOUR network of choice calls it.

A few days ago, I was called out on Google Buzz for importing my Twitter feed. The young lady that made the call was right. For me, they're two separate worlds. It was a bad fit in my case ... and I promptly turned it off.

So what's with the headline about headlines Charlie?

We're living in a sea of blogs and websites, not to mention major portals and others, that want your pageviews. Some want them pretty badly to remain economically viable.

Assuming you want people to read your stuff and you're not just creating a blog for technical or other reasons, it's important to recognize (and embrace) change.

Headlines (SEO aside for the moment) have always been important. If you work hard (or just make sense?), aggregators will include you. You may actually get a play on voting sites (Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, others) without asking someone to post your piece (which, in reality, is really what happens in MANY cases).

Regardless, you want those eyeballs.

Not tomorrow .... today.
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I've been sharing my Google Reader picks a few times daily for a long time, as many others do.

In my case, there are two reasons: (1) If I don't have time to post here, you can always find some fresh stuff the the Google Shared feeds in the right column ... even subscribe to the whole thing if you wish .... (2) There are a lot of hard working bloggers out there that deliver value. They deserve to be read, recognized and watched. If my shares gets them a few page views, well, hopefully they'll keep on writing.

Enter Google Buzz. With the wholesale adoption of Google Buzz because of it's launch within Gmail, it is already a platform. That platform is tied directly to Google Reader, where I've seen a five-fold increase in followers since Buzz launched.

Now, I not only have some excellent, fun and interesting feeds to look at in the morning (and sometimes evening ...) but I also have many of yours. Some say it's out of control. It's not, and easily tweaked whenever you feel like it.

You don't have to sensationalize your headline. While MANY in the mainstream (and not so mainstream) use this vehicle to gain viewers, it's just not my style.

What you DO want is for people to click and read what you wrote. Simple premise right?

Whether it's an aggregator, a re-tweet, an import to Facebook (or wherever), your title makes it MUCH easier for people to find what they want to read, especially now that all of these networks are interlacing and even more so, with the 'here now, gone in a few minutes' world of real-time.

What prompted this post is that there are some really brilliant bloggers out there that don't write topical titles (or worse). I don't know if they're simply jaded and assume everyone already knows who they are and read them every day or what.

Those days are over.

Most people have x amount of time in a day for the Internet and if you lose their interest, you'll have to gain it back.

As far as I'm concerned, there are probably hundreds of blogging rockstars out there that I'd love to be reading, and maybe sharing.

Make my discovery easier. Use a good, solid title in your next post.

I'm pretty sure someone will share it.

It just works.

How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:39:38 -0700

Did you know that New York City offers more opportunities than the standard tourist attractions? Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? I know when my parents come to NYC, they go to what’s familiar. [...]

[ How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media is a post written by Tamar Weinberg. ]

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Why I Quit Reddit – Actually, Reddit Quit Me

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:55:00 -0700

Three years ago I was quite active on Reddit – at least for a while, until I realized just how manipulated it became. I’m not really holding it against reddit, the same happens on Digg and probably on all similar sites – nothing new here, you’ve probably read all this a thousand times, so [...]

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Socialtext Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy

Ross Mayfield — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:56:40 -0700

Ridiculously easy group-forming matters because the desire to be part of a group that shares, cooperates, or acts in concert is a basic human instinct that has always been constrained by transaction costs. Now that group-forming has gone from hard...

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tweetie pillows will let you have up to 140 winks

lambert v. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:38:14 -0700

My Suite Stuff – the guys who make the Adobe CS pillows – have partnered with atebits, makers of popular twitter program Tweetie. There’s the Tweetie for iPhone icon on the top, and the Tweetie for Mac on the bottom. And a very scary looking dude on the bottom right. You can get the official…

Microsoft's Ballmer talks Bing, Twitter

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:18:00 -0700

Steve Ballmer needs a new project now that he's wrapped up the Yahoo search deal, but says he's not sure that buying Twitter is the best way to scratch that itch.

ShareThis Upgrades, Gets More Interactive

Mike Phillips — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:12:00 -0700

ShareThis, one the Web's leading content sharing widgets just got some new upgrades, and they are substantial.

Stream is a real-time view of what's being shared across the Web through the ShareThis community. Think of it like Google's scrolling real-time search results box or a stream of Facebook updates. For now, it's only on the ShareThis website, but will soon be a customizable, embeddable widget for websites and available with an API. See how ShareThis Stream works.

New share buttons are more customizable. Publishers can now remove particular networks from the ShareThis options for users. Don't want your content shared through Twitter, but prefer Facebook? That can be accomodated. It's a nice way for publishers to control where the conversations about their content is taking place, or even to run A/B tests to find what networks are of most value.

Related content on the Done screen. After a user shares content, ShareThis will now display related content from your site on the user's screen. It's a nice way to keep the ball rolling, and hopefully get users to keep sharing your content.

"See what your friends are sharing" will also be featured on the Done screen. If users click on these links, they will be directed to the ShareThis Stream, filtered by your content.

Social sign in - users can sign in prior to sharing via their Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo! profiles. It's a growing trend on the Web and facilitates sharing well beyond the ShareThis community and strictly personal contacts.

Integration with Twitter OAuth allows for a more direct way to share content with Twitter.

In addition to these updated ShareThis is also planning to include Google Buzz in the near future, among other features.

A few quick notes about ShareThis, and why publishers should actively promote the service on their websites:

According to their website, ShareThis reaches more than 400 million users across 130,000 different websites.
What might be most significant about social sign in is that it could open ShareThis to an entirely new set of users - one that is accustomed to sharing content and likely doesn't yet know about or use ShareThis. While it's a powerful tool, it has yet to catch on with many Web users. That could change very quickly if an audience as large as Facebook catches on.
ShareThis can be integrated with Google Analytics and has Influence Insights, their own analytics service. Even if your content is not spread widely through ShareThis, these analytics can show where your content has the most potential to be shared. That's good to know.

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Twitter Turns on the Firehose for Companies of All Sizes

Matthew Casperson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:38:20 -0700

The Twitter Streaming API has been successfully used by Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft, who have been given access to the full feed of all public tweets. Twitter has now enabled this "firehouse" of data for a number of other companies.

Seesmic BlackBerry Now Supports Multi-Accounts – up to 50 Social Networks with Ping.fm and TweetPhoto Partnership

Social Guy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:30:12 -0700

Seesmic for BlackBerry is raising the standards in smart mobile engagement. Always having in mind the infinite number of online social networks, the app introduces Multi-Accounts, Ping.fm component and choosing photo uploading size. Seesmic for BlackBerry also focuses on other features that will make your Twitter experience faster, much more efficient and useful. Seesmic introduces the [...]

Seesmic updates Blackberry, Windows Twitter apps

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:22:00 -0700

A minor update to Seesmic's Twitter app for BlackBerry adds support for multiple accounts, Ping.fm, and a new photo service.

Wufoo Gets (very) Notification Friendly

Peter A. Prestipino — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:13:00 -0700

Online form building service Wufoo announced this week that they have made some serious headway into real time notification integrations.

The Wufoo notification platform enables users to send real time updates about entries collected in Wufoo to Web applications such as Twitter, Campaign Monitor, HighRise, Campfire, MailChimp, Freshbooks and Webhooks. Let's dig a little deeper.

Perhaps the most newsworthy feature (but far from the most interesting in my opinion) is the ability tie Wufoo into Twitter. The integration enables members of your team to stay up to date about form activity. Wufoo and Twitter together could also help you build some excitement around events by showing participation in real-time.

Wufoo has also integrated with a few email services, including Campaign Monitor and MailChimp. Both of these integrations essentially enable Wufoo users add new leads to their database without having to import CSV files, including custom fields and/or conditional checkboxes.

How to Search Twitter Profiles by Web or API

Adam DuVander — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:30:07 -0700

Ever wondered how many of your Twitter followers are web developers? Paging through twenty at a time and looking at bios is too slow to be worth answering that question. Using TweepSearch, you can quickly find that answer... and several others you'll come up with after you see how easy it is.

Instant Geo-tweet Maps: Just Add UMapper

Adam DuVander — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:10:24 -0700

A dearth of geotweets didn't stop UMapper (our UMapper API profile). Viewing geocoded tweets on a map is now super-easy, thanks to the snazzy Flash mapping platform's new feature.