Hyder and I spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on our entry on the Sponsored Tweets API Challenge, a competition for developers and designers to make use of the Sponsored Tweets API. The competition aims at rewarding the best entry judged on Creativity User adoption potential (or actual) Revenue...
@bigcheeser pointed me at a most excellent video this morning that brings out the humour that 140 characters can get you entrapped in. Enjoy … Excellent stuff by @zemoga and @wiltonbound, I’m...
GFI Software are running a competition to entertain their 5000+ Twitter followers and maybe get some more, with consists of people suggesting some great places they can hang out in their home town and potentially taking Max, GFI’s mascot with them. Well, I decided to have some fun with it,...
@bigcheeser sent me a link to Twitter’s business plan: It’s from Geek & Poke, a great cartoon site I’ve bookmarked for further perusal. There seem to be some good cartoons there, so if there’s anything good, I’ll be sure to let you know. I always think it’s great that you can find...
I spotted something interesting on my Twitter page just then: It looks like Twitter has identified an area on their page which can be used for advertisements and it currently being used to advertised their Search service. Is this the start of mini ads being shown on Twitter? Will Twitter try...
In a move that puts Facebook one step closer into the league where Twitter plays, Seesmic has released a desktop client, based on the Twhirl technology for Facebook users to get access to their Facebook dashboard directly on their desktop. Here’s what it looks like: As you can see it’s quite...
A new version of Twhirl hit the streets yesterday, as it came out of a beta where hundreds of people (including yours truly) have been testing and helping improve the new features. Here’s a feature rundown: In a nutshell, here’s what’s new in Twhirl 0.9 -spellchecker (currently English only, can be deactivated...