Threadsy Helps You Pull Yourself Together

Threadsy is a service that allows you to access your Facebook, Twitter, and email all from one slick interface. It's quite similar to FriendBinder with a few major differences. The design is simple: on one side, you have all your inboxes from the services you've plugged in, including your email, Facebook messages, Twitter DM's, and Mentions. On the other you see your Twitter feed and Facebook notifications.

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Tech Week in Review 9-25-09

SocialToo: Your Vaccine For The Social Web SocialToo is well know as a service to help you manage your Twitter following. They started out offering an auto-dm service, but later reversed their stance and became a service to help you block all auto-dm's. In response to the frequent Twitter attacks we've seen recently, Jesse Stay decided to do something about it.

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Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Cash With Udorse

Udorse is an interesting service that launched at TC50. The founders call it a "visual endorsement engine." It allows you to turn your online photos into real endorsement deals that can earn you money. At the 140tc conference recently, rap artist Chamillionaire (@chamillionaire) asked the others on the panel what they thought about sponsored tweets.

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Getting Started with Yahoo Meme

Meme is a Tumblr-like service recently launched by Yahoo. Many have called it a Twitter clone, but the similarities are pretty minimal. The only things they share are those basic features you would find with any microblogging service. Meme is basically a blog where you can post random stuff. There is no 140-character limit, but you probably wouldn't want to use it for lengthy blog posts.

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Brizzly Goes Hard As Twitter Web Interface

Brizzly is yet another up-and-coming Twitter web interface. It's currently in private beta and packs some very interesting features. First of those features being that it was created by ex-googlers and you can usually expect to be impressed where Google refugees are involved. This is also the same team that created Plinky.

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Facebook Swagger Jacks Twitter…Again

We talked about Facebook biting off Twitter and FriendFeed back in March when they made their first round of major UI changes. I mentioned that copying a few features was probably not going to have people paying Facebook any more attention and it really comes down to what's under the hood, but a lot has happened since then. For one thing, to the horror of many FriendFeed users, Facebook bought FriendFeed and stole all their staff. While twitter has continued to gain popularity, Facebook dropped Facebook Lite and the ability to @reply your friends just like on Twitter.

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Joe Wilson Will Not be “Muzzled” – Hires Conservative New Media Strategist

David All, principal of David All Group - "the nation's first conservative web 2.0 agency" - just signed their most (in)famous client to-date, Congressman Joe Wilson (R, S. Carolina). Most will remember Joe Wilson as the person who shouted "you lie" at President Obama on Wednesday, September 9 during an address. (You can watch it here.) And social media users will recall that the congressman's identity was first revealed on Twitter.

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Kanye has Joe Wilson Moment at VMAs

Blame it on post-traumatic stressed head disorder, post-modernist experimentation... Kanye West who cannot stand to bested by anyone, let alone Joe Wilson, just topped ol' Joe. And before you see what he did (in the event you missed it), read some celeb tweets:

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Jay-Z the #1 Trending Artist on Twitter

To take a look at Jay-Z 's trending reign on Twitter you'll have to go back to June 5 when Jay-Z released Death of Autotunes track. We covered it here on the post "Jay-Z Kills AutoTune via Twitter with D.O.A." Ever since then Jay-Z has been trending on Twitter longer than any other music artist. Jay hasn't been trending every day since June 5 but every time a new announcement about the Blueprint 3 album was made he would crawl back to #1 trending on Twitter or reappear.

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Kirk Franklin Tweets from Kampala, Uganda Riot

Popular American Gospel artist Kirk Franklin tweeted as he was caught up in riots in Kampala, Uganda yesterday afternoon. The penman of the songs “Stomp” and “Do You Want a Revolution” was returning from a visit with Uganda’s Vice President. KIRK FRANKLIN, an American gospel singer and author, was yesterday caught up in the Kampala city riot [...]

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