Perseids, John Hughes, ...

Google has Google Trends , Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia . More here:  Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On...

Twitter Starts Routing ...

Twitter has just announced that it is launching a new anti-phishing feature that allows Twitter’s Trust and Safety team to monitor all links submitted through the service for potentially malicious attacks. Part of the new feature will involve the use of Twitter’s link...

Just In Time For The Lo...

When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW , I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time. While Twitter’s geolocation feature...

It’s Official: We’r...

Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we don’t ‘Update’, we ‘Tweet’ Read more here:  It’s Official: We’re No...
StatusNet Signs Up ABC News And Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta)

StatusNet Signs Up ABC ...

Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them Originally posted here:  StatusNet Signs Up ABC News And Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public...
Go Tribal Wants To Help Women Coordinate Social Plans

Go Tribal Wants To Help...

We’ve written about Plancast , a “Foursquare For The Future,” that essentially broadcasts your plans to your online social circle. We’re big fans of the startup, which just raised seed funding from an impressive group of investors. Startup Go Tribal is rolling out...
Tweetshare: Fuze Box’s Take On Branded Twitter Channels

Tweetshare: Fuze Box’...

It’s a little surprising to see a Twitter application coming out of Fuze Box (formerly CallWave), which creates visual collaboration product. The company has clearly caught the Twitter bug (albeit a little late) and today is launching Tweetshare, an third party Twitter app that...
The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards

The Secret Lives Of Obj...

Every place and object in the world has a secret past: who lived there, who passed by, who touched it. The secret lives of objects are filled with such details See more here: The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message...
Packrati.us: A Dead Simple Way To Make Delicious Bookmark The Links You Tweet

Packrati.us: A Dead Sim...

We just came across Packrati.us , a simple bookmarking service that allows you to essentially sync your Twitter feed with your Delicious bookmarks. Once you sign up with you Twitter and Delicious accounts, Packrati will follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains...
Sh*t My Dad Says Engages Google Buzz

Sh*t My Dad Says Engage...

Shit My Dad Says , the Twitter phenomenon with over 1.2 million followers, and more notably, a TV pilot in the works , has taken his act to the new hot (or at least, controversial ) social network, Google Buzz . View post: Sh*t My Dad Says Engages Google...

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