Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

This afternoon I’ve spent a few minutes offline rebooting my machine after that. After the reboot I’ve had the Twhirl windows open, one of them with Twitter stream from my friends – and to my surprise it was populated with countless messages from my network about Gmail being down. A quick check proved that Gmail [...]

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today – that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to a site using the so-called clickjacking technique. The technique is a [...]

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is [...]

I believe no one will argue that once a person receives something as a gift, he or she will often be inclined to go online searching for additional information about this thing (especially if it is a gadget that requires some technical knowledge or instructions) or at least to share their joy of having this [...]

The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for – and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may not really [...]

Today we have yet another application built for use with Twitter launched. The name is Twitblogs and it is launched at the Twinterval event in London this evening. Twitblogs is launched in alpha so you definitely should not expect it to be 100% stable for now but you can already see the functionality it offers [...]

This week we have seen Robert Scoble accused of playing Solitaire on his computer while sitting as a judge in the startup competition during LeWeb conference in Paris. Later on Robert explained that he only played two games during the session where he was not even a judge of himself but I don’t really care [...]

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online – without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring [...]

Some of you may remember the service Twittad – the one that lets Twitter users to sell their profiles to advertisers for them to use any graphical file as a background for our profiles for a certain time period. On the launch date the bloggers that reviewed the startup argued that the idea would hardly [...]