Though it might not be the first (and it might not be real) a Twitter proposal for marriage has been made (and accepted!) between maxkiesler and emily chang.
Is there anything left that hasn’t yet been tweeted about?
[Via: Mashable]
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Twhirl is an Adobe Air based Twitter client that runs on both Windows and Macs, and features the following:
- Connects to multiple Twitter accounts
- Notifications on new tweets
- Shorten long URLs (using snurl or is.gd)
- Cross-post updates to Pownce and Jaiku
- Post images to TwitPic
- Search tweets (using TweetScan or terraminds)
- Timeline filtering
- Localized to English, German, Italian and Spanish
- Color schemes
- Automatically check for new versions
While I’m currently a fan of Twitterrific, I’ve started to use Twhirl on the Windows based work computer, and definitely like the feature set. It’s easy to use, unobtrusive, and gives you plenty of customization. Plus, Adobe is pushing hard to get developers to work with Air, so there’s a lot of support there for future developments as well.
Maybe it’s time to give Twhirl a whirl.
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Quotably helps you follow Twitter conversations by collecting all of the @ replies to a specific username into one thread, and then matching them to the original tweet to form a cohesive conversation.
Check out Quotably to see what happens when you “follow the conversation”.
[Quotably]
[Via: Twitter Blog]
The 2008 Twitter Color Wars has basically taken over the Twitter world recently, and is an interesting adaptation of a technology that, besides things like Color Wars and StrawPoll that people have created, serves no purpose. (Ok, so you can find out someone’s status, but really, where’s the fun in that?)
Twitter Color Wars is basically a popularity contest where the Twitterati rally around a single color and show their support by taking their profile picture in team colors.
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Anyone can play. To join a team: log on to twitter, search for the team of your choice, then follow that team.
The War goes well beyond just a popularity contest though, as games are going to pit teams against each other to compete for total domination.
Game #1 is a round of Bad Ass RoShamBo.
To play, members took a picture of themselves in their team colors throwing their throw of choice, and then uploaded that picture to Flickr with the appropriate tags. Then, a bracket style RoShamBo tournament will be held tonight with a best of three RSB match determining the winner.
I love the fact that this game evolved out of nothing and turned into a something that everyone wants to be involved in. It’s a fun adaptation of a technology that people continue to find uses for, and there’s a lot of potential for additional games.
Which side are you on?
(And to talk a little smack on the other teams, check out SmackTalk.)
Edit: It looks like zefrank is behind it all. Check out the Colorwar story here.
[Via: Mostly Lisa]
So you’ve seen the “Twitter Me” button in my sidebar, but aren’t quite sure what this Twitter thing is all about huh?
Well then check out this fantastic (and short) video from Common Craft called Twitter in Plain English.
It’s designed to tell you all about the micro-blogging service in words that anyone can understand, and it’ll have you joining the Twitter army (Twittarmy?) in no time.
[Via: Common Craft]
Socialthing! “is a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place. See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, post stuff to multiple places at once and more!”
Basically, it takes your online life and combines it into one easy to read, follow, and update page. Then, instead of checking each site individually to see new messages, updates, photos, etc., you can just check Socialthing! and see them all in one place. The goal is to make interacting across multiple sites as easy as interacting through just one.
Currently, Socialthing! supports del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Pownce, Twitter, Vimeo, and YouTube, with plans for more services as the company expands.
I’ve been beta testing the site for the past few days, and I think the service has some definite possibility. Unfortunately I ran into an issue with adding my Digg profile, but issues are to be expected with any beta release, and I’m sure they’ll have things running smoothly in no time. Everything else loaded without issue though, and I was impressed by the speed with which Socialthing! fetched my data.
Overall, I’d say it’s a useful tool that has the potential to become an indispensable one. Lifestreaming is quickly becoming more popular as everyone tries to manage their vast online world, and Socialthing! is one of the first sites out of the gate, which should give them a jump on adapting and changing to meet users needs with new features and functions.
They should be coming out of beta this weekend, so head on over and give it a try.
Twitter introduced the world to the idea, but lifestreaming hasn’t quite taken off yet; though if SXSW has anything to do with it, that’s all about to change.
Lifestreaming is “an online record of a person’s daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person’s online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.”
Basically, lifestreaming sites take everything you do online during the day and compacts it onto one page so that your friends can quickly and easily keep up with what you’re doing.
It’s also one of the hottest areas for development right now, with plenty of companies trying to be the next big thing. For a rundown of some of the top ones, check out ReadWriteWeb’s list of 35 Ways to Stream Your Life, and see if this lifestreaming thing is right for you.
StrawPoll is a simple site that uses Twitter to ask one daily poll question.
To take part, simply follow StrawPoll on Twitter to get the daily poll question, and then reply with “@strawpoll” (your vote) (your reason)”.
The totals of each day’s vote are then tallied up, and a winner is declared.
What’s your favorite?
Popurls is “the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet”.
Think of it as the best of the best, gathered up and laid out in a clean and easy to read format, with plenty of customization to make it your own.
If that’s not enough, you can also access popurls on your iPhone, via Twitter, through Jaiku, from Facebook, on the PS3 and PSP, and with the Wii.
[Popurls]
Sure you’ve posted a story that got Dugg a time or two and you’ve got a few friends following you on Twitter, but have you really done all that there is to do on the Internet?
Probably not, which is why Webware’s Web Achievements 101: Things To Do Before You Die is a great source of inspiration.
The bucket list includes skill, repetition and egosphere cred categories, and with goals like Get on Flickr’s interesting picture wall, Acquire Elite status on Yelp.com, and Get publicly slammed by Dave Winer, you’ll be busy for quite some time.
Think you’re ready for the challenge?
Then head on over to Webware and scope things out, because you’re going to need a plan if you plan on conquering some of these momentous achievements.
[Webware - Web Achievements 101: Things To Do Before You Die]
