One of the interesting features on Twitter is #hashtags. Hashtags are used to identify conversations and tweets based on a topic. For instance, a hashtag #Google on Twitter which return all the latest tweets which contained the hashtag #Google. Hashtags were developed as a means to create ... Read More →
Trendsmap: Twitter Trends in Real-time
Trendsmap is a web service which provides you with real-time mapping of Twitter trends from across the world. It lets you see what are the current trending topics in any region of the world like a tag cloud. Upon clicking any of the topics, you can see real-time tweets posted by users on that ... Read More →
Make Phone Calls to Twitter Followers with @call
JAJAJH, the web based phone service launched today a new service over twitter - Jajah@call, that allows twitter users to call each other over phone. This is a nice feature on top of twitter to call your followers to say Hello, but is it effective?. The service only allows 2 minute calls, that ... Read More →
TweetDeck better Facebook and Myspace integration
TweetDeck, one of the best twitter desktop apps around is updated with some new features to Facebook integration and MySpace support for the first time. MySpace support may not interest to most of you but there are folks who are still using MySpace. TweetDeck is aiming to become a one for all ... Read More →
Yahoo Meme in English
Yahoo has never been successful in social networking type of sites, it launched a few and closed due to lack of interest among users. Flickr and Delicious are successful but they are not launched by Yahoo, they are acquires. The newest bet in this space is Yahoo Meme, a microblogging service which ... Read More →
Twitter redesigns home page, highlights search
Twitter redesigned it’s home page, not so surprisingly it is promoting twitter search. The newly redesinged home page is not visible if you are logged in, logout and see for yourself. Twitter says the new home page is for folks who are new to twitter.com. ... Read More →
Bing Tweets: Twitter and Bing Search Mashup
BingTweets is a new project from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. In true sense it is not a mashup but a mix of twitter search results with bing search results. While the idea is interesting, bing search results are embedded in a ugly frame that looks annoying. Bing already displays ... Read More →
Sobees web based twitter app
Sobees is an interesting twitter and Facebook app that runs in a browser. Sobees is based on Silverlight 3 plugin released recently by Microsoft. Sobees is an web based app but there is a desktop cousin to it. ... Read More →
A Microblogging search engine from Google
Twitter made Microblogging more famous than any other and some folks gave up blogging for twittering. These twitter messages or micro blogs are rich source of valuable links, breaking news, and of course spam. Twitter acquired summize last year and launched as a twitter search engine. ... Read More →
AlternativeTo Finds Alternative Applications For All Platforms
Next time you curse the world for software that don't work as you want them to be, check out AlternativeTo. AlternativeTo brings a new approach to finding alternatives to applications on different platforms whether Windows, Mac, Linux or web based apps. ... Read More →