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Twitter Acquires Tweetie

Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop from $2.99 to free, with developer Loren Brichter (who makes up the one-man startup Atebits) joining the Twitter mobile team. Twitter [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Amazon’s Second iPad App: IMDb

With all the talk about Google and Amazon versus Apple, both Internet companies have been quick to release custom applications for the latter’s freshly launched iPad device.
Amazon.com had already introduced its Kindle app for iPad, and over the weekend added a second one to the stable: an IMDb (Internet Movie Database) app (iTunes link).
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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

YouTube: Queries For ‘Snickers’ Jumped 18,000% After Their Super Bowl Ad

It’s been nearly two weeks since the Super Bowl, but the stats behind one of the world’s biggest media spectacles keep pouring in. YouTube has just written about the impact some of the Super Bowl ads have had on its site, offering rare insight into just how much attention those million-dollar advertising spots will [...]

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Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Salesforce Chatter Starts As A Private Conversation

Salesforce’s enterprise friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced at last year’s November Realtime CrunchUp with much fanfare. To many, there is no doubt that Chatter will have a lasting impact on the enterprise and cloud computing. Following Salesforce’s debut of Chatter, over 67,000 Salesforce customers requested to be private beta testers of the realtime [...]

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Wed, February 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Why Bigger Is Better: The iPad And The Arc of Computing

The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal).
Earlier last week, as the day was coming to an end and I was speaking with my 5 year old at bedtime we shared the highlights of our day. I started by telling him the company that created the iPhone is about to come out with [...]

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Sun, January 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments