Tag: twitter
Posterous ups the blogging ante
Now Posterous users can add their banners, choose from different types of layout, adopt a theme and even create their own themes via HTML and CSS.
Seesmic adds more Facebook features to its Twitter app
The latest Facebook revamp – version 0.6 – is great news for people who control Facebook fan pages, What the app enables you to do is manage activity on Facebook's fan pages as well as personal profiles, so you can update them at the same time as you update your Twitter accounts.
Pure adds Twitter and Facebook to DAB radio on the Sensia
It not only includes a 5.7inch 640×480 screen but also offers access to a growing set of custom apps. Among those lined up already are Facebook, Twitter and weather and news channels.
Another Android phone – now INQ goes Google
'We can beat Nokia and Sony Ericsson and Motorola at this … we're small, we're nimble, and we're fast,' he added.
3 unveils INQ Mini 3G 'Twitter phone'
The new phone is a little smaller and arguably a touch more stylish than its predecessor, though its lineup of features is fairly similar. It has 3's headline free Skype-to-Skype calls and Windows Live Messenger in the UK as well as Facebook and Twitter access.
Twitter's new rival Woofer might be a joke, but it may have a use or two
Just maybe the Woofer crew are on to something here. Maybe there is space for a Twitter type site where people add slightly longer posts. How about come classic bits of comedy? Some cool song lyrics? Anyone got any other cool ideas.
Nearly half now share digital images via social media
An online survey, commissioned by Blurb.com and carried out by YouGov, found that 44 per cent of respondents now share their digital photographs using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Of course the trend is particularly prominent amongst 18 to 24 year olds, where 83 per cent share their images on social media websites, while only 19 per cent of people aged over 55 do the same.
The survey also found that there is a growing trend for people to use creative online services to transform photos into real, personalised products, to keep, share, and give as gifts. Almost half of those surveyed stated that they would prefer to make a hard copy photography book from their snaps (coincidentally this is precisely the service that Blurb offers, handy that).
Five reasons why Facebook bought FriendFeed
By buying FriendFeed Mark Zuckerberg is acknowledging that in many ways Twitter has stolen a march on Facebook and that the uber social networking site needs to catch up.
Edtwinge – clever Twitter widget at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
There's a new very clever site called Edtwinge that takes tweets about the various plays and then gives them a rating based on the phrases used in the tweets
Why London is the World's top Twitter city
All of this begs the question why do Brits love Twitter so much? Here's a few of my half-baked theories.
