Holy hashtags Batman! Some Chinese Twitter fans want to make sure that even Twitter isn’t safe from the deluge of Olympic tidbits you’ll no doubt tire of in the next two weeks.
Steven Lin, one of the originators of the #080808 hashtag said it’s “just for fun, a way to write down the day,” according to [...]
TripSay is hard to explain. It combines travel information, social networking, maps and reviews of places. As someone who enjoys traveling, I think it has potential.
Basically, you log in to TripSay and build your world by entering places you have traveled. Each place you enter can get a rating from a smiley face to [...]
We haven’t written much about Dopplr, a social network for travelers, since we talked about its launch last year. If you’re a jetsetter, or even someone who travels a couple of times a year and has a lot of friends, we’d like to direct your attention to the new features in Dopplr’s “Copenhagen” release, which [...]
Adobe AIR-based microblogging client Twhirl already supported Twitter, Friendfeed and Seesmic, and now its coverage of the world of mini-updates gets even broader with the addition of Identi.ca. Identi.ca is something like a less-popular open-source version of Twitter. This is a big deal for the Identi.ca folks, because Twhirl may actually be better-known than their [...]
SweetCron is a bit of self-hosted lifestreaming software from Yongfook, the creator of opensourcefood. It’s kind of like a hybrid of Tumblr and Friendfeed. While SweetCron hasn’t officially been released yet, Yongfook is already using it on his own blog, so we have a pretty clear idea of what you can do with it: feed [...]
Flock has released a second public beta of Flock 2, a web browser based on Firefox 3. What sets Flock apart from Firefox is the integration with a ton of social networking services including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube, PhotoBucket, and more. There’s a blog editor for updating your web site from the browser, [...]
One of the most striking things about the first crop of iPhone apps is the divide between those that work with the phone’s user interface, and those that either don’t take advantage of the phone or ignore the design specs altogether. The AOL Instant Messenger app for iPhone scores points in some UI areas, but [...]
Sometimes Download Squad has to agree to disagree about a new app, and this is one of those times. Although some on the team have knocked the iPhone version of Twitterrific, I actually like it better than its big brother on the desktop. What can the iPhone version do that the desktop version can’t? Well, [...]
Favthumbs takes a visual approach to your del.icio.us bookmarks. Instead of the usual text based links found on the Del.icio.us web site, Favthumbs displays image thumbnails of your bookmarks giving them a Web 2.0 look and feel.
No setup is required to use Favthumbs, simply enter in your del.icio.us user name and Favthumbs will generate thumbnails [...]
There are already more desktop apps for Twitter than we could ever possibly cover without losing our minds. But what about that OTHER microblogging service, Plurk? A couple of people have hacked the mobile version into Adobe Air to create two similar apps: PlurkAir and PlurkIt. This is ok for now, but it’s nowhere near [...]