It’s been about a month now since I introduced Plurk here at gHacks and now that I have had a chance to properly test it, here is an update on the developments over the last few weeks. The first thing I began to realize was that although Plurk has a great way of managing threaded [...]
Don’t Fancy Twitter? Try Jaiku
I’m not a big user of social networking sites for a very simple reason: I simply don’t have the time. The little time I spend at home can definitely be better utilized than hanging out on Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, etc. Having said that, I know plenty of people who just can’t do without their social [...]
How does Plurk work?
Are you as sick of hearing about Twitter as I am? See the problem is that I never really “got” Twitter… I tried, I really did. I signed up and followed people and Twittered regularly, but it never really did it for me. Eventually I just forgot about it. Enter Plurk. Considering micro-blogging isn’t something [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Use Twhirl for Adobe Air to twitter
I’ve been quite fond of the Adobe Air environment for some time now, since it manages to achieve a lot I have been missing from traditional applications. First and foremost, many Air aps bring together your desktop and the internet, which is great if you don’t want to launch your browser for a task, or [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Alert Thingy Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed in one Desktop App
Are you addicted to to social networks like Twitter or Friendfeed ? If you are you might be interested in the Adobe Air application Alert Thingy which combines data from three popular networks into one desktop application. Once installed it is possible to receive Friendfeed updates, send and receive Twitter tweets and post photos to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Create a dynamic Twitter Signature
Twitter: Some love it while others would never even think of using the service that lets other people know what you are currently doing. Still it is widely popular and third party applications are beginning to be published that take advantage of this popularity.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Twitter notifier for Firefox
Twitter. Some love it, some can’t see a reason to use it at all. Although I belong to the second group I know a lot of users who use Twitter regularly and this users might find the following Firefox add-on useful enough to give it a try. TwitterFox, formerly known as Twitter Notifier is a Firefox add-on that adds a icon to the Firefox statusbar.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Twitter Real Time Search
If you are using Twitter regularly you might find the Twitter real time search script handy. Tweet Scan makes it possible to search in real time for keywords on Twitter. The result of the search is displayed on a individual page that can be bookmarked or subscribed in your favorite RSS reader. If you would for instance want to stay updated on anything related to Yahoo you could search for Yahoo and add the RSS feed to your reader.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Snapfoo Mobile Photo Blogging
Richard from Windows Observer was so nice to send me an invitation to the mobile photo blogging community Snapfoo which is currently in beta and invite only. With Snapfoo you can easily send pictures taken with your mobile phone to your Snapfoo profile and integrate it with other web 2.0 sites such as Myspace, Facebook or Twitter as well.