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Summize, the conversation search engine of Twitter, is said to be bought by the later. According to the sources close to Josh Chandler, the deal is likely to occur very soon. Summize is a very cool micro-blogging (Twitter only) search engine which also allows you to send tweets. The San Francisco based micro-blogging service will likely use its current raised money of $15 million on the new venture. The deal is likely to be announced next week, according to GigaOm. Both the companies are yet to have an official word on the deal.
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filrbox is just like Google Alerts, but it claims to have more knowledge and less noise. We’d like to add to that line, more complex too.
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Blogging is not an easy a job as it seems. First, we have to find something to write about, research on it, find related links, then type it, format it, publish it, tweet about it or update your facebook status! Or if you have multiple blogs, you can multiply the number of blogs with all these tasks ( and even more in some cases). And it’s not hard to forget any of the post-blogging tasks.
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It is said when you put forward an idea for a bigger fish in the pond to implement, then you must be the first to make an initiation; especially if you are doing something similar; keeping APIs and other data that belongs to none but users. There was a similar statement as pointed out by MG Siegler as he posted Dave Morin, Facebook’s senior platform manager’s post at twitter stating:
The post created quite a stir as it gave various folks in the tech town as they immediately took the chisel to dig out at Facebook; despite the fact the comment was a mere joke. The first comment came from Chris Sacca, former head of special initiatives at Google, stating; Read the rest of this entry »
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Identi.ca is a newly launched micro blogging service that can serve as a good shelter for the long frustrated Twitter Refugees. Yeah, the service some what resembles Twitter but it offers few interesting features that can attract huge number of twitter users.
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With Facebook making more developments in its site to increase its usability; giving users more things to work on with and the developers provided with opportunity to put forward newer applications. It will very soon be making it a possibility to let users leave comments on each others “mini-feeds”.
The new feature will allow them to comment on the announcements of any item that has been posted as well as to the post. The current feature for comments in Facebook is the user’s ‘wall’, on photographs, videos and any other item that is put up by the users to share. The mini-feed was initially launched in 2006, with a purpose to show details of what activity is being performed by a member. As Tom Whitnah comments on Facebook blog:
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Startup ‘seesmic’, that let users post short video comments and snippets, has raised around $6 million in the second round of funding. Omidyar Network (created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar) and Wellington Partners led the round.
The site allows its users to post short video clips to their blogs, social networks or even the site itself, it is more like Twitter of video. Also it let its users post video comments on other blogs whose discussions are powered by Disqus.
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Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has written an excellent article demonstrating the resurgence of Friendster, the service that pioneered the concept of social networking. The resurgence has been made possible due to enormous user traction in the Asian markets, specially China.
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As a daily routine the first thing I did today after turning my system on was to check whether twitter is back or not and I was not disappointed. The big day has arrived (Worldwide Developers Conference) and yet twitter is down.
According to Twitter there is going to be a very interesting breaking news happening (oh really???). They are expecting around ten times their normal daily traffic (current daily traffic?) and they have made some plans to facilitate the huge flow.
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Dave Troy, the founder of twittervision, a service that lets you visualize twitter stream has now launched a new service called Flickrvision that does the same thing to Flickr photos.
If you dont know by now, twittervision is a twitter visualization service that takes your twitter userid and password and allows you to view who are posting on twitter right now, where they are located by moving Google Maps to that location, and also displays what they are saying. You could also add your twits to twittervision by setting your location on the service and can also make posts on twitter right from your twittervision page. Mine is here.
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BlogRovr has added a new feature, “TwitterThis” which enables users who have installed the BlogRovr Firefox plugin to easily post the page they are on to Twitter.
So the next time you are surfing the web and come across some useful article or blog post that you want to twit about, you don’t need to open up your twitter profile page, copy the url shorten it by going to TinyURL and then Twit about it. All you would have to do is to click on the BlogRovr drop down menu, select the Twitter This button and say what you want. Thats all there is to it. I however want the Twitter This button to be in front so that I dont even have to click on the drop down menu. One other thing missing is that I can not twit about something random, because Twitter This will always post the current page you are on to Twitter. So for Twits like “I hate President Bush” you still have to go to Twitter or else it will be bundled with the Apple iPhone article page you might be reading.
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