Tag: MICROBLOGGING

Let me start this off with a disclaimer: If you feel any sort of aversion towards hipsters, you should probably move on; I don't think you can enjoy Forrst. However, if Tumblr feels like a second home, and you spend your days endlessly gazing at ffffound and sharing snarky comments over at the Shirt.woot forums, you are probably going to love Forrst. The site has a simple, clear-cut mandate: it's ...

Posterous, continuing its 15-ways-to-switch-in-15-days tirade, has today enabled its Blogger importer. Posterous's vice president of marketing, while talking to Spanish tech blog Genbeta [translated], says that this importer in specific is one of the big ones: "This launch is very important to us because Blogger has been one of the most requested services by our users, especially outside the ...

We first covered Glass back at SXSW, with a video interview. Glass is a very aesthetic and tight combo of website plus Firefox add-on; it allows you to place notes ("Post-it" style) over any website, and then share those notes in a Tumblr-like stream so that your friends can see them (and comment). Glass is very social; you can send a note to your friends, and you have a "feed" that shows ...

Welcome back to Twitter Tuesday! Apple stole the spotlight this week with iPhone 4 and WWDC news, but things have been happening on the Twitter beat, too. (I mean, someone had to livetweet Steve Jobs' keynote, right?) If you'd rather hear about what's new with everybody's favorite microblog, though, you've come to the right place. Twitter Tuesday is go! So, it's become clear that Twitter ...

Today I tried doing something which seemed really simple at first glance: I set out to get a list of Facebook status updates on my desktop. Just the updates. No pictures, no pokes, no Farmville. I kind of wanted to be able to post replies, but that wasn't super-important. And after spending quite a bit of time, I simply couldn't find anything worthy. I found Seesmic and TweetDeck. Beautiful ...

'Hey look! We've got billions of users in just two days!' That's a bit like President Obama strolling back to the Oval Office after the presidential inauguration and bragging about the number of people he has sovereignty over. Google launched a new, free service and automagically activated it for every Gmail user -- is it any wonder that they're currently enjoying an overnight success? I ...

Seesmic is one of the most popular twitter clients for Google Android (there are also Seesmic apps for BlackBerry, Windows, Adobe AIR for Mac and Linux, and a web client). You can use the Android client to keep track of your Twitter timeline, replies, direct messages, and profile. And of course you can send updates. You can even include links and photos taken with your Android phone's camera. ...

If a tweet gets posted in a forest, and there's no one around to read it, does it make a sound? When it comes to finding a big audience, Twitter's so far ahead of other Twitter-like services that it seems almost impossible to catch up, even if you're offering features that Twitter doesn't. A new site called Whispurr is willing to try, though, with a focus on groups. Instead of making you send ...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, said that software developers are working on 'interesting hacks' to evade the censorship by oppressive governments in China and Iran. He didn't go as far to say what these 'hacks' are -- he also said that the technology is being coded by third-party developers, rather than Twitter itself -- but he alluded to some ...

In a flurry of interesting (if you're into social networking) statistics, pie charts and graphs, RJMetrics has just published its latest Twitter data and user analysis. If social media or Twitter isn't your thing, here are the vital statistics: by the end of 2009, Twitter had 75 million user accounts -- of those, only 17% actually sent a tweet. The delicious stats go on! About 80% of Twitter ...

If you're a Tumblr user, you may have noticed the Tumblr staff teasing a new feature on their own Tumblogs over Christmas -- Ask a Question. It allows you to easily pose a question to the Tumblr user (or users) behind your favourite Tumblog. The blog owner can then easily post the question and their response from within the Tumblr dashboard. Today sees the launch of the Ask feature to all ...

Seesmic have released their 'Seesmic Mobile' Twitter client for Android and Blackberry on their respective application stores. Available for download free of charge, the clients are slick, feature packed and refreshingly free of advertisements. The Android client (pictured above) has a great design that utilises a standard tab-based user interface with a red accent, providing virtually every ...

Though Twitter seem to be having some stability issues, at the time of writing, almost every active Twitter user should now have access to the new Lists functionality. We covered it briefly back when the beta started, but here's a quick guide on how to make them -- and how to get the most out of them, because really... this might be exactly the change we social media addicts have all been ...

You've met microblogging before. Twitter's the most famous example, with its 140-character maximum. Well, get ready to meet macroblogging. A new service called Woofer boasts a massive 1400-character minimum. Yeah, you read that right: Woofer won't take your posts unless they're more than 10 times as long as a tweet. This definitely raises some questions. For example: is this a joke? How is ...

When Yammer first launched, I thought it wasn't going to last long. A Twitter for business? It sounded like an opportunistic idea to latch onto Twitter when it was clearly about to take off. Yammer has taken on a life of its own, though, and it's got the new iPhone app and threaded conversations to prove it. The Yammer app has something that Twitter apps to date have been struggling to achieve: ...