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Twitter To Add “Nifty” Site Features That May Make You Forget Third-Party Clients

Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop Twitter clients, apparently. As Payne writes:
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Sun, February 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Earth Gets Android 2.1 App Before Most Phones Get Android 2.1

When the Google Nexus One was announced, there were several cool new features unveiled for the device and Android 2.1: interactive wallpapers, 3D graphics and support for Google Earth. The latter wasn’t available at the time, and there was no date set, but it looks like it’s available on Android Market now.
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Mon, February 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Seesmic Web Perfects The Management Of Twitter Followers

Do you follow more than 100 people on Twitter? If so, have you ever tried to manage them on Twitter.com? It’s awful. Really awful. They make you go through page after page of names in no real order (other than how recently you added them). If you want to remove some people you followed years [...]

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Mon, February 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari. Puts It On Death Watch For Firefox And IE.

While digging through the Chromium forums back in November looking for clues about the then-unreleased Chrome for Mac beta, we stumbled on an interesting bit of information: Google was moving away from supporting Gears going forward. While this move was obvious for some given Google’s heavy investment in HTML5, Google hadn’t talked much about what [...]

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Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Nsyght Releases New Ways To Manage Realtime Social Streams

Nsyght is a startup we broke just before the Christmas vacation which focuses on making realtime streams manageable and is similar in scope to Friendfeed and Cliqset.
It currently integrates accounts from Twitter, Facebook, digg, Vimeo, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Delicious, and Last.fm – with other networks planned – and has now introduced a bunch of new [...]

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Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Seesmic’s Latest Android Build Is Dare I Say, iPhone-Like

Perhaps the main problem I have with Android is that the apps (aside from the excellent Google-built ones) are simply not as good as the apps on the iPhone. Nowhere is this more apparent then with Twitter apps, since there are so many for both platforms. On Android, Seesmic was clearly the best one, but [...]

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Fri, February 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

MyHeritage Buys Germany’s OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong

Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition,  buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US. It was launched in 2007 just after LA-based Geni and, at first, it was just your typical German clone. But it added features and grew fast [...]

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Verizon’s New VZ Navigator 5 Lets You Send Your Location To Facebook

Back in October, Google changed the mobile navigation space when it launched Google Maps Navigation for Android. While the product itself is solid it also has one killer feature: it’s free. This has forced the makers of other non-free navigation tools to scramble to convince users their products are still worth paying for. Verizon is [...]

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Mon, February 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments