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Do you Twitter or FriendFeed? A lot? True, twittering is addicting and hard to easily drop. Luckily, if you’ve got a mobile and Moblf, you don’t have to leave it at all. Moblf brings Twitter, FriendFeed, LinkedIn and Yelp among other to your mobile via the powers of SMS. Moblf (stands for mobile life), lets you check the five most recent links from FriendFeed stream as well as send messages via SMS. You can also follow Moblf through Twitter by typing “follow moblf” in the twitter box or go through gtalk or Twhirl etc—which ever is easiest. To start just enter your Twitter username ...  read more
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TinyURL made long and cumbersome URLs manageable by providing them with a short, or tiny, if you will, alias. So if you wanted to link to news articles, or forum postings, you could do so a lot easier with TinyURL’s help. It made things that much easier. So now we have a new development in the TinyURL world called Tinydb. Tinydb takes the same concept or making burly things more manageable, but instead of applying it to URLS, Tinydb applies it to data. The idea is to provide an API for reading and writing bits of data. This, in turn, serves as a platform for Twitter apps and javascript widg... read more
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Being part of the Web 2.0 community means having a LinkedIn profile and a Twitter account, for starters, at least. Even heads of states are getting in on the Twitter action. Microblogging is slowly changing the face of the nets. So it isn’t surprising that new microblogging platforms are emerging and taking advantage of the MySpace/Facebook generation. Consider NextBestAction, for example. While to the untrained eye, it looks like a mess of dialogue and conversation bits-- sort of like a nerdy im conversation with lots of links and nonsense. However, it’s more than meets the eye. NextBest... read more
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With fuel prices soaring and predictions of $200 a barrel, the world is feeling the squeeze. Everything from food prices to airline luggage fees are going up. One way to be smart about your fuel costs is to use FuelFrog. FuelFrog tracks how much fuel you expend. It takes the information you input—how much gas you used, how much money you spent, etc—and compiles trend information about your fuel habits. You’ll be able to see how prices have risen in your area over time, and you’ll get a better picture of how your car’s gas mileage changes. FuelFrog makes entering info easy as it... read more
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Take your favorite light comm presence app—Twitter, of course—mix it up with Tweetscan, the real time search engine for Twitter, and throw in some Yahoo Pipes action and you get TweetWire, the first human filtered Twitter news service. It looks similar to any regular news aggregator, except that the links are picked by humans and not robots, which therefore makes for more interesting leads and stories. You’ve got four rudimentary categories—the 2008 Elections, Tech, Sports, and Celebrity. The twitter links to each story have been shortened using TinyURL. TweetWire also has links to... read more
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Newcomer Spaz is a cross platform desktop Twitter client based on Adobe Air. Not only is Spaz open source, it’s also quite slick. It simply looks good. Users will appreciate its simple yet elegant design. They’ll notice that it’s ad-free too. Spaz is completely customizable as well. Users can design their own themes with a little CSS. There are several views—you can see your own tweets and also the tweets of your followers, along with direct messages and the public timeline. Users can add favorite messages and delete old messages. You can be notified of new messages via Spaz... read more
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Twitter’s powers keep growing and growing seemingly without end. Twitter is a superhero with no limits, thanks to a dedicated following and a gang of tech savvy fans. Indeed, you can Twitter at home, abroad, on your mobile, in your bath. You can buy, sell, see pics, stats, find jobs, learn the secrets of good moo goo gai pan, and everything else in between. You can even conference live. And for those who do, Live Twitting will help you with all your Twitter conferencing needs. Live Twitting takes the pain out of trying to manage all those constant twitter updates and pasting them into one co... read more
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MyTweeple is the happy new baby of Twitter and a Twitter fan/ self-confessed Twitteraholic named Shannon. We’ve already seen what Twitter can do. Witness the hype, the apps, the legions of fans sprouting in all corners of the earth. And it wouldn’t be a lie to say that a good deal of these twitterers, tweetsters, twitwits, et al. have contributed a widget, app or tool to help the Twitter community out. Such is the fervor of Twitter. A lot of these are shiny, happy apps with a lot of sheen but no real substance, which is why MyTweeple stands out. MyTweeple is an Twitter organizer/manager. I... read more
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Make all the jokes you want about Twitter and its spawn of funnily named applications, but Twitter is not going away. At least in the near future. So here’s one more Twitter app to tweet about: Twitgraph. No, Twitgraph isn’t about measuring the antics of the Bush administration nor is it a measure of the personal growth of politicians, movies stars, or clowns. Twitgraph is actually a measure of you and your tweets. If you tweet like a madman and consider you tweet skills something fierce, you might be happy to know how your Twitter stats stack up. Head over to Twitgraph to see. Enter your... read more
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You may have heard about SmartTickr, a useful little Ajax reader for RSS-Feeds and the usual suspects like Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, eBay, Facebook, et. al. It has different viewing modes including scrolling, cards, and bookmarks so you can change your viewing style at whim. It’s also got a number of interesting widgets and tools to go along with. One of those is ApiTickr. Like SmartTickr, ApiTickr is very beta and sparse, but it’s also a nice addition to the SmartTickr family. ApiTickr deals with those hard to remember/understand API’s that get in the way for the average blogger, or sit... read more
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Twitter applications abound these days, some good, some bad. Twibler is one of the good ones since it allows people who sell things on eBay to have a message sent to Twitter every time they post a new listing. This is a great of gaining new customers and obtaining repeat business from old customers. To get started with twibler, simply enter your twitter account and password along with your eBay account name and store. Next click “activate” and you are good to go. Any of your current followers will now receive a notice that you have posted something new on eBay and if you place a notic... read more
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The next time you meet someone you’d like to keep in touch with – be it for business of pleasure – remember rmbrME. It’s a service that lets you easily connect with your new acquaintance over social and professional networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn, simply by sending a regular text message. To use rmbrME, you send your new buddy’s phone number or email address to “RMBRME” (762763), and the site will send them a link that unlocks your profiles on the social and professional networking sites that you have registered at rmbrME.com. The service even keeps track ... read more
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