You can now post pics to Twitter from Picnik

Picnik has a new and simple way of distributing photos you've just edited in your browser. Using application programming interfaces from Photobucket's TwitGoo photo-hosting service and Twitter, it lets you compose a tweet that includes a link to the photo right inside of the editor.

Five Twitter Analytics Tools You Might Find Addictive

Many would argue that numbers shouldn’t count on Twitter. Most of the users who make this argument use Twitter for the purpose of personal enjoyment and interaction, so the argument makes perfect sense. But what if you really have a message you want to get out to as many people as possible? What if you’re concerned with the issue of having a growing influence on behalf of your brand, your story, your faith, etc.?

Channel.tv

A new media platform showcasing exclusive underground content from artists across the world.

TwitPub invents paid Twitter accounts


Someone has invented a paid access scheme for Twitter. TwitPub is a marketplace where Twitterers can sell access to their updates, by registering their protected accounts with the service. Other Twitter users sign up and pay for access to these accounts on the TwitPub marketplace. TwitPub takes 20 percent of the subscription revenue for itself and gives 80 percent to its publishers.

YouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor



YouTube on Thursday released a new Web-based application called CaptionTube that lets users add text captions to their videos.

Founded by Tariq Krim in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the personalized homepage as alternative to traditional web portals. Netvibes lets individuals assemble their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the web - all in one place.

Chrome update offers tab micromanaging

A new developer preview version of Google's browser lets people switch off the array of Web page thumbnails on new-tab pages. Also an 'undo close tab' command.

BumpTop



Your desktop doesn't have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop. Create the desktop that suits your needs and style.

Google, Universal to Launch Music Hub 'Vevo'

Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one.

Apple Patent Hints at Answering Machine Message


Apple's patent points to automatically sending an audio or video reply to an iChat call .

Google and Microsoft go for Twitter Advertising Deal

Google and Microsoft are in a bidding war over Twitter.

Nambu

A free social messaging client for Mac OSX and iPhone. See and respond to real-time updates from Twitter and other social messaging services. Beta.

Woya

A new shopping analytics website for consumers. Tracks and analyzes prices of consumer electronics based both structured (e.g. retail sites) and non-structured (e.g. classified listings) data sources on the web. Each week, over 3 million deals from online marketplaces (Amazon, CNet, eBay, Craigslist, just to name a few) for 250 thousand products are processed by Woya. There's also an alert system for users.

Xcerion’s iCloud, a free “web OS” that's launched into public beta with some interesting collaboration features, although limited cross-browser support will be off-putting for many.

P.U.M.A.


GM and Segway showed off a two-wheel prototype vehicle based on Segway's scooter platform that lets two people tool around the city at 35 miles an hour on electric power. GM touted the vehicle's OnStar wireless communications to let people communicate with each other and stay clear of other vehicles. Go to Segway/Puma here

Battle of the multicolumn Twitter clients

There was a time, not long ago, when the power Twitter users were gaga for Twhirl. This Air app gave (and still gives) you quick access to different views of your Twitter network, as well as your FriendFeed stream. But Twhirl didn't last as the go-to client once the Twitterati discovered TweetDeck. Read the article.

Mobile start-ups Brightkite, Limbo to tango



Brightkite, one of the half-dozen or so companies vying for market share in the location-based social-networking space, has merged with another mobile start-up called Limbo. The official branding of the company will be Brightkite now, but its home base will now be at Limbo's headquarters in Burlingame, Calif.

The power of a tiny picture (how to improve your social network brand)

If it's important enough for you to spend your time finding and connecting with new people online, it's important enough to get the first impression right.

Google Turns Tweets Into Ad Dollars

Here’s a real, confirmed tie-up between Twitter and Google: The search engine is giving marketers the chance to turn their Twitter messages into ads.

MindJet and the World of Mind-Mapping


Mind-mapping apps such as MindManager and MindView to be a little clunky and over-engineered. Sometimes, you literally want to sketch some thoughts quickly, with little concern for presentation or correctness. As luck would have it, now across Markus Müller’s Mindnode,

Find information around the webpage you are viewing

Ambiently is a startup company, developing web discovery engine applications. Envisioning the broad usage and benefits of creating a page-centric "ambient web" for every page on the web, Ambiently aims to create a new, richer web browsing and search experience for all web users.

Google Execs in Secret Layoff Meetings

More layoffs are coming to Google, employees there believe. A Googler tells us top executives abruptly cancelled meetings across the Googleplex Friday.

Review on the Decline of Global Warning Concerns

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David Pogue: When it comes to tech, simplicity sells

Twitter to Expand Search Via Discovery Engine

Twitter is looking to roll out a more integrated search feature, which cofounder Biz Stone calls a Discovery Engine.

Listening in a Digital Age

Listening to the wants and needs of your markets and customers has always been a good idea. Any good salesperson can tell you the benefits of listening - if you do it right the prospect will always reveal how to get the sale.

Internal cloud's big test: Amazon vs. Cloudera

The debate about the validity of internal cloud implementations has raged on for some time now, with some claiming that cloud computing and wholly owned infrastructure don't mix.

HTC Touch Diamond

It’s certainly been a long time coming, but thanks to one our faithful Verizon ninjas we now know that Verizon is all set for the launch of its custom variant of the HTC Touch Diamond for all B2B, web and telesales customers come April 10.

Veggie Trader

A free resource for people who want to sell or trade fruits and vegetables that they've grown themselves. Commit to sustainability by not letting the fruits of your labor go to waste, and get yummy foods in return.

How to listen in a bad economy

You know we listen all the time don’t we? We keep telling companies to do it, but sometimes we just leave it at that. Or even worse, we don’t get specific. Here's a list [67] social medial/web/reputation management tools and sites.

Design for Mobile 2009

The second annual DesignForMobile, to be held in Lawrence, Kansas (near Kansas City), extends this welcome: “Speakers come from academia, industry, design, and research. We’re all interested in the user experience, but we come from many different disciplines to share.”

We The People Do Tweet


TweetCongress allows you to contact your government representative via Twitter and petition them. Phone numbers, fax numbers and websites are listed for each representative. You can also petition non-Twitter Congress representatives to join and have direct conversations with their constituents.

Slideline from Yahoo!

Watch, search and monitor the public Twitter timeline in real-time with this Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

TwitDiscounts

Find all tweets that mention a special discount.

Chartbeat

A real-time website analytics and uptime monitoring service free for 30 days. Includes bells, whistles and all sorts of neat little do-hickeys. There is an Intro offer currently running at $9.95/mo vice the normal $15.95, you can also cancel at anytime.

Nomee

An all-in-one (Adobe AIR) social networking application that's not a social site, but a tool that helps manage them all. Nomee simplifies online networking by organizing your contacts and interests all in one place. So you can focus directly on your people, not their sites. And your people can better know you, direct from their desktop.

Google thinking of buying Twitter?

Google is in "late stage" talks to acquire microblogging service Twitter, according to a report on Thursday on TechCrunch citing two unnamed sources.

Twitter Trends: Twist


Twist is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into two-hour intervals.