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Twitter is taking their service a notch.
Twitter announced that soon users will be able to upload photos and videos to their service. “A hashtag is worth a thousand words,” the company said in an advertising. The ad also hints that soon people could upload videos via Twitter. It is the [...]
@gruber wrote, “”Imagine what else the system could provide if your Twitter account was a system-level service.” This is in reaction to MG Siegler’s post on the rumored twitter photo sharing service..
Macrumors asks, is Apple going to add twitter integration to iPhone?
Why stop at a partnership when Twitter [...]
This infographic shows the Geosocial Universe. It was made by Jess3. From a certain point of view, it also kinda illustrates a reason why Microsoft bought Skype. That’s 663M users right there, and they are bigger than Facebook’s 629M, hotmail’s 364 million, or Yahoo Mail’s 273 million.
Twitter’s at 6th place with [...]
Frédéric Filloux drew some insights into the Osama bin Laden coverage, and puts that into proper context. Filloux suggests that news organizations must now rethink organizations, processes as well as business strategies.
What were his observations?
First, that Twitter is king, and he cites the analysis and visualization done by SocialFlow [...]
SocialFlow analyzed over 14.8 million tweets and bitly links to gain an understanding of how a single tweet could be retweeted to a massive scale.
Dropship is an open source project that “allows users to exploit Dropbox’s file hashing scheme to copy files into their account without actually having them.” In simple terms, it could be used for file sharing.
So Dropbox asked the creator to take the project off github. And Wladimir van [...]
Facebook launched “Social Deals,” and locked on its crosshairs: Groupon and LivingSocial.
Social deals are focused on local businesses. According to Search Engine Land, “Facebook’s new Social Deals, like Groupon or LivingSocial, must be purchased up front using money or Facebook Credits (the first use for real-world products/services). You actually [...]
Mathew Ingram wrote:
“Facebook has had analytics for its own pages for some time, which show “fan” page administrators how users are interacting with the pages, whether they are sharing content, etc. — along with particulars about their age, sex and any other demographic info they have chosen to share through [...]
A question came up earlier. How do I keep up with twitter? Without a doubt, I do follow over a thousand people. And there are others out there who follow even more people.
The simple answer is, I don’t try to keep up. If something really important comes up, people will retweet it. [...]
By Marko Papic and Sean Noonan
Internet services were reportedly restored in Egypt on Feb. 2 after being completely shut down for two days. Egyptian authorities unplugged the last Internet service provider (ISP) still operating Jan. 31 amidst ongoing protests across the country. The other four providers in Egypt — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom [...]
