Jive.ly is a new app in full beta, billing itself as a Twitter-like site for mobile. Created by UK-based developer Martin Buhr, the app is designed as a place to update your social network accounts with images and videos from a mobile without having to hook up third party services like Twitpic.
Lounge is a Twitter client that spans both Mac OS X and the iPhone. Offering a powerful, consistent user interface that will soon synchronize various features between the two platforms, Lounge seems like a great choice for using Twitter on-the-go.
In a matter of months, expect both Yahoo and AOL to come up with their own news feed offerings, likely to be embedded in their more popular web services. While Yahoo’s working on a life-streaming product called Yahoo Updates, AOL’s new offering that takes a cue from Facebook Connect is being called “Site Social” internally.
If you already use twitter and only use it via web you should be glad to know that there are a number of desktop clients available for us Linux users which makes using twitter a lot easier.
Facebook is counting on the same relative inertia that Twitter has so carefully cultivated. The calculation is that 175 million people are less likely to move away from something than they are to wait and see what is going to happen.
First off, It’s important to note that, if you actually have a Twitter Strategy, you’re a dickhead. This isn’t an insult, it’s just a statement of fact, and the more we know about ourselves as people, the more we can grow and evolve and achieve oneness. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but better you hear it from me than from someone you care about.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams today announced part of the company’s long-awaited business model: Twitter Premium accounts.
Twitter power users have many thousands of people following their tweets. Here are their tips and insight to gaining so many followers.
eviltangerine writes “Twitter user stroughtonsmith was dickering around with the carrier bundle files for his developer version of the iPhone 3.0 OS and enabled the USB tethering options. Apparently he has even been able to use his laptop to access the internet over the USB tether. MacRumors comments that while Apple has announced the availability of tethering, it hasn’t hashed out the details with the mobile carriers (probably so they can charge more in fees). No word on connection speed, but here are some pictures of his phone while tethering.”
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In a rare show of openness, the team behind Apple’s Movie Trailers page has started a Twitter account.
