Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Do You Remember What We Did On Our Computers When We Had No Internet?

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

New Firefox Addon Brings All the Content That Matters Right To Your Browser

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

Twitter Advertising ROI Revealed: $10 CPM, Way Too Expensive

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

Technology Helps Everyone – Mumbai Terrorists Included

Svetlana Gladkova

Today there’s an interesting report about terrorists using BlackBerry mobile devices during Mumbai attacks to watch the world reaction to their actions. I myself can hardly understand why people seem to be surprised about such things at all as it is quite obvious that in this world technology is accessible to just about anyone with [...]

Twitter Too Good to Be Sold for $500 Million to Facebook

Svetlana Gladkova

There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed - with no one knowing about them through all this time.
Facebook reportedly initiated the [...]

Want a Twitter All for Yourself? Shout’Em Can Give You One – We Have Invites

Svetlana Gladkova

Over the week I have been given an opportunity to play with a private beta of a new European startup called Shout’Em. The startup is intended for anyone to create and manage a microblogging community like Twitter or Pownce or any other Twitter clone you have already seen.
The team calls Shout’Em a “Ning for Twitters” [...]

TweetValue: Will Selling Your Twitter Account Help You Survive the Recession?

Svetlana Gladkova

Louis Gray has just published a review of yet another Twitter tool named TweetValue intended to assign value to any Twitter account - this time the value expressed in real money. We have already seen applications calculating all types of ranks for us but TweetValue goes one step further and encourages us to know how [...]

Cannabis Arrives to Twitter. Would You Want Your Children to Be Exposed?

Svetlana Gladkova

Have you ever noticed that Twitter content is generally suitable for all audiences? For some reason everyone tries to stick to language that will not offend anyone and you will rarely see strong language used in tweets in public. And even when strong words are used, twitterers will often choose to mask them somehow not [...]

Less Email Spam, More Blog Comments Spam. Spammers’ Revenge?

Svetlana Gladkova

I may be paranoid or something but I have a feeling that there is something very suspicious going on in the spam empire. You may remember that this week we have discussed news about a hosting company that powered numerous spammers and scammers disconnected from the internet. What’s more, we were told that we should [...]

JigTweets – New Twitter Tool to Send Just about Anything as a Tweet

Svetlana Gladkova

JigTweets is a new little tool launching today that allows a Twitter user to update his or her Twitter feed with just about anything - be it a picture, a URL, an RSS feed, a location or a YouTube video.
To start using the service you will need to go to its website where you will [...]