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This is an exploding ecosystem of applications and services for Twitter -- way too many to keep track of! Your home on oneforty is your place to find, rate, collect and share the best tools for you, and to tell the world what you're accomplishing with Twitter.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Meet the Matrix, er, Elephant Trunk-Inspired Arm of Your Future Robot Overlord
Meet Festo, a prototype robotic arm that takes its design inspiration from the way an elephant's trunk moves every which way thanks to its series of highly flexible muscle segments. Clever? Yes. By Kit Eaton
How Third-Party App Makers Plan to Survive Twitter's New Ad Blitz
Twitter has finally decided to start making money. By Dan Nosowitz
Advice to Twitter developers
The Twitter developer community is aflutter about Twitter buying an iPhone application called Tweetie. The controversy is that Twitter is competing with other Twitter iPhone applications after encouraging developers to create these applications. By Guy Kawasaki
Future Drive Concept: The Electric Luxury Racer
Advanced electric drive, autonomous navigation and other technological advances will revolutionize the way we drive.
A Mobile Touchscreen Projectable On Any Flat Surface
This tiny projector casts images that you can click and swipe. By Darren Murph
Google Cloud print
Computer users who hate installing a new driver for each printer they use might want to keep an eye on the Google Cloud Print project. By Jeremy Hsu
Scott McNealy can still dish
Sun's former chief talks Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and how in his next company nepotism will be 'not a bug but a feature.'
Gmail gets drag-and-drop attachments
Google has put out a pair of small, but useful Gmail updates that make it both easier to use and more integrated with the company's free Calendar service. By Josh Lowensohn
Just Tweet It
Just Tweet It was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service Twitter to find other “Tweeters” with similar interests.
Kylo and Loop advance web video on tv
More consumers are watching TV shows over the Internet using computers hooked up to their sets. But this can be a hassle. By Walter S. Mossberg
Yahoo wants Foursquare
You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile social network Foursquare is an F. By Kara Swisher
Heapr
Heapr is a search engine that aggregates results from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Flickr, and other sources in near real-time.
Quix
Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot.
Viamente
A route planner that knows how to reduce your driving time to a minimum. It’ not only links between two points on a map, it also provides the shortest route to visit all your destinations.
How Apple killed the future of search
Today Google gets over 9.5 billion searches per month in the United States. In reality, it is not other search engines that should have Google concerned. By 237WallSt
iPhone Apps Need Low Starting Hurdles
Most mobile applications are used only intermittently, so they must be especially easy during initial use. In particular, upfront registration shouldn't be required before users experience an app's benefits. By Jakob Neilsen
Twitter grows up
The mircroblogging firm is making a huge shift in it's business strategy, starting with the fact that it now actually has a business strategy.
Using video to increase your Google AdSense earnings
This article shows you can increase your Google AdSense earnings by at least 12%.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Envisioning Your Future in 2020
Forbes magazine asked Frog Design to help them envision the future in 2020. By Sam Martin
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Rick Barron: Twitter Getting Started
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Ubervu
Social media dashboard for small businesses: monitor your company, follow competitors, connect with customers and fans.
Venmo
An easy way to pay for things using your cellphone. Pay, charge, and trust individuals and businesses. With Venmo, you can pay your friends, family, and favorite shops by simply sending a text message.
Hot Potato
Connects you with friends to socialize around live events.
Tungle.me
Web-based calendaring. Easily schedule meetings with anyone. Share calendars inside or outside your company. Allow others to schedule meetings with you.
SimpleGeo
A geo-location infrastructure for developers.
Gazelle
The easiest, fastest way to sell or recycle your gadgets. Every items gets an offer, and you get paid to be environmentally responsible. The service pays for shipping and even sends you a box.
This Tweet is Priority 1: SalesForce.com's Chatter is Transactional Social Media
Soon, Twitter users will be in a better position to get satisfaction with the companies that they do business with. By Mike Kirkwood
Digg CEO Jay Adelson steps down
Citing an "entrepreneurial calling," longtime Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced that he's resigning his position at the social-news site. By Caroline McCarthy
Apple to introduce iPhone OS 4.0 Thursday
On the heels of the introduction of the iPad, Apple is ready to talk about the next version of iPhone OS. By Erica Ogg