Obama-Biden 2012 Joins Tumblr as Hipsters Scream in Anguish Did you hear that? That was the sound of a thousand hipsters screaming. They scream because Tumblr is officially played out*. When a presidential campaign...
created by Truemorist | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 198 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
I am checking out NowPublic for the first time in almost a year, and I realized why I don't contribute to it: they discriminate against microbloggers/link journalists, they only deal in stories that are 100's of words long.Maybe *that's* why they went out of business,...
opinion by markmayhew | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 203 views | 3 recommendations | 6 comments
If you thought people tweeting about what they had for breakfast was annoying, just wait until houseplants get in on the game. And they can indeed get in on the game, thanks to science. We're talking about a...
opinion by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 199 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
Jaiku, the presence-streaming service acquired by Google last year while still in beta and subsequently left on the back burner, is getting its code moved to open-source.This will likely spur development, if only...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 64 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Pownce gets pwned.The former micro-blogging rival to Twitter is being purchased — and shut down — by Six Apart.In light of Pownce's shutdown, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for other...
"Mark Mayhew, who used microblogging service Twitter to update from New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav hit, is using a range of multimedia tools to document efforts to rebuild towns and cities affected by Gustav and...
created by markmayhew | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 118 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Twitter, meet Qwitter, your other half. Twitter is your life in 140 characters or less, your way to tell the world what you are doing. Qwitter is the world’s way of telling you that sometimes people...
created by chowdawg | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1186 views | 2 recommendations | 8 comments
Give the runaway success of micro-blogging sites like Twitter and the growing popularity of digital mixtape site, Muxtape, it was only a matter of time before someone created a niche-based micro-music blogging...
Cyber criminals are learning new tricks as the internet terrain changes. Social networking sites such as Twitter are being used as a tool for scams and prove to be another chink in the armor for trusting citizens...
created by jessica.lam | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 178 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
In a recent inquiry to dozens of online friends, I discovered one truth about Twitter. People either love it and use it daily (even hourly) or they absolutely hate it. Few people fit into the 'moderate feelings'...
created by JD Rucker | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2628 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
Good for Twitter. It's one of the few web 2.0 success stories that, despite its ongoing downtime and wide-ranging technical glitches, outages, and problems, is still insatiably in demand by its fast-growing user...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 284 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Microblogs are here to stay and the most important thing about microblogs is their immediate feedback information loop capabilities.
Some microblogs worldwideThis list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced...
created by jansegers | 4 years ago 376 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Twitter might have gone fown for more than 37 hours in the first four months of 2008 -- working out to roughly 9 hours / month -- but even that can't seem to stop twitchy microblogging-junkies from twittering at...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 161 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment