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Yesterday Paul Rawlings launched the UK developed Tweebay. I know we are all scratching our heads and thinking this sounds very familiar. Well your guess could not have been very far off from the reality of it all. Tweebay is a classified listing that you can post with your Twitter account.
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Meebo adds support for Facebook and MySpace
By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 22nd 2008 No CommentsFor those of us who would like to have all of our instant messaging services open but do not like having all the windows open and do not want to download yet another application, Meebo is the perfect web-based instant messaging service.
Poken social network profile-exchanging keychain
By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 19th 2008 1 CommentTechnologically advanced ways to exchange contact information have come and gone, but the business card seems to always remain. The latest gadget to take on the challenge is Poken, and unlike prior devices – which generally target the busy executive demographic – this one is aimed squarely at young people. Each keyring-style character can swap your social networking profile information with another, simply by holding the ‘palms’ together.
Twitter looking for Product Manager to bring in revenue
By Staff Editor on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2008 1 Comment
Twitter is apparently trying to bring in a new Product Manager to help generate revenue on the very popular social networking site. These days is seems everyone is using Twitter to keep the world updated. The lack of a business model has been a topic of debate for quite some time now.
PlayStation Home beta gets pushed out to PS3 owners worldwide
By Staff Editor on Thursday, Dec 11th 2008 5 CommentsSony has announced that the PlayStation Home beta will be opening its doors to lucky PlayStation 3 owners today. This PS3 exclusive allows players to interact in a virtual social environment using text or voice chat. It more closely resembles Second Life and like their online gaming, it will remain free.
RIM and MySpace announce record download numbers
By Staff Editor on Friday, Nov 21st 2008 No Comments
Research In Motion (RIM), along with MySpace have announced record download numbers of the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application, for the first week it was released. Since the release of the MySpace application for Blackberry on November 13th, there have been more than 400,000 downloads.
DIY Plant Twitter Kit helps your plant, well, twitter
By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 29th 2008 2 Comments
When I first saw this DIY Plant Twitter Kit I thought to myself, “No way. That’s just ridiculous!” But then I read up on it and, you know, it’s actually pretty ingenious. When you’re on the go, it might be hard to remember when you need to water your plants. This gadget helps you remember.
So since Twitter is super popular and everyone seems to be using it, why can’t your plant do it? I mean, your Xbox can blog! But now your plants can Twitter as well. With the DIY Plant Twitter Kit, you can set up your plant so that it will let you know what it needs watering.
A-Space is FBI, CIA social network
By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Sep 19th 2008 No CommentsIt seems it’s not just high school and college students and budding entrepreneurs getting in on the social networking thing. No, the CIA, FBI and Secret Service, along with other government agencies will soon have access to A-Space–a sort of classified MySpace/Facebook site.
Dash Express GPS Twitter app: video demos
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 18th 2008 No CommentsDash, makers of the Dash Express GPS unit, recently opened up their API so that developers could create applications taking advantage of the device’s GPS and cellular network connection. One of the newest additions to the Dash software catalogue has been Dave Zatz’s Twitter app, which not only allows you to download the latest 20 posts from your friends’ but to auto-compose messages containing anything from personal text and your address, street, city, state, latitude or longitude, to links to Yahoo! or Google mapping.
Check out the videos of the Dash Express Twitter app after the cut
What can you expect in the Xbox 360 Fall Update?
By James Allan Brady on Friday, Nov 30th 2007 No CommentsWell, first off the parental controls that everyone threw a fit about not to long ago. Then add to that the Xbox originals and social networking features.
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