Adium gets its Twitter on in version 1.4

Mac users long ago discovered the incredible power of Adium, the open-source, multiprotocol instant-messaging application for the Mac. The next time someone suggests that open source can’t innovate, is not user-friendly, etc., point them to Adium. It’s simply incredible. What Adium isn’t, however, is a good Twitter client. That’s about to change, starting with Adium’s [...]

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Yahoo counters Google Latitude: Friends on Fire

Taking a different approach to Google’s Latitude software, Yahoo has released a Facebook application called Friends on Fire that lets people share their location with each other. Google Latitude is an island unto itself, using Google’s own technology for cell phone-based location detection and for managing who gets access to your location. Friends on Fire, [...]

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Webware Radar: Diddit brings life experiences to Twitter, Facebook

Diddit, a site that allows users to share life experiences with others, announced Friday that its “diddits” and “wanna dos” can now be shared with other social networks. Users will be able to deploy new Diddit widgets, showing their lists of what they’ve done (“diddits”) and would like to do (“wanna dos”) on their blogs [...]

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Twitmatic turns Twitter into a TV channel

Twitmatic is a new video aggregator from the creators of Ffwd. It taps into Twitter’s public stream and pulls together a grouping of videos people have posted in their Tweets. It’s powered by the same technology that runs Ffwd, which means you can skip to the next video when you get bored of the one [...]

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Google Voice: A push to rewire your phone service

SAN FRANCISCO–Google plans to unveil a service called Google Voice on Thursday that indicates Google wants to do with your telephone communications what companies such as Yahoo have done with e-mail. Google Voice, the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007, has the potential to make the search giant a middleman [...]

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PR firm launches Twendz: A Twitter trend analyzer

Normally, PR firms are pitching us start-ups, not creating them. That’s not the case with Twendz, a new Twitter tool from the folks at Waggener Edstrom. It pulls in the latest tweets on any given topic, and shows you what the overall user sentiment is, be it positive or negative. This is cleverly wrapped up [...]

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Apple tweaks user reviews to show version number

This week Apple made a very small, but important tweak to the user rating system on its iTunes app store. It now shows which version of an application the user was running when they wrote the review. This has been applied retroactively, so that reviews written before the change will show which version the users [...]

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Beyond freemium: The Timebridge business model works

The meeting scheduling service Timebridge, which we first covered in 2006, has been upgraded recently with a somewhat better e-mail user interface and some important related services. And according to CEO Yori Nelken, the business model he set out to execute is actually working, even in this awful economy. The thing that I didn’t get [...]

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