Tweetboard Brings Twitter Discussion to Your Site
by rahsheen
Tweetboard is an application that creates a micro-forum on your website using your Twitter stream. It’s near real-time since tweets will appear in less than 60 seconds. Your Twitter conversations are automatically threaded with unlimited nesting, which makes it easy to follow each discussion and get a broader picture of all conversations.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-23-09
by rahsheen
No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr’s tagging features superior to Facebook’s is the controls offered to the user.
Read More#BeatCancer Breaks Twitter Trends and Sets Guinness World Record
by Angela
EVERYWHERE, a Social Media Marketing and Content Development firm based in Atlanta, GA set a record October 16-17th for the most widespread social network message in 24 hours. According to Radian6, the official online monitoring company, the phrase #BeatCancer set the record with 209,771 mentions on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. This translates into an [...]
Read MoreComing Soon, Twitter in Your Language!
by Jon Gos
Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. The Twitter blog says:
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-16-09
by rahsheen
Twitter Doing Video Tweets? Uh…No.
For some odd reason, Britain’s Telegraph suggested that Twitter would be adding the ability to upload and host video on the site. Never mind the fact that there are several services that integrate closely with Twitter to provide just such a service. Duplicating those features would only hurt Twitter. The rumor [...]
