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Friday, 29th February 2008

SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be?

The SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google's Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007. Who's it going to be in 2008? We look at five possible contenders below, taking into consideration the special magic that is the SXSW…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Product Reviews

Twittermeter: Measuring Buzz in the Twittersphere

There is a set of tools that we generally use to determine how popular something is on the web: Google Trends, Blogpulse Trend Search, Technorati, del.icio.us, various social networking sites, etc. We can now add another source to that list: Twitter, thanks to a new Twitter mashup called Twittermeter.

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Social Media Mavens, Promote Yourself With Traackr

If you have photos, videos, music, audio, and blogs scattered across the web, you may not know how many people are viewing and responding to them. Now, with a new service called Traackr, you can organize and manage your content on the web. With Traackr, you can keep track of the popularity of your content, measure your influence, and interact…

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35 Ways to Stream Your Life

It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there, and there are an overwhelming amount of services offering a way to aggregate all the little bits of your…

Josh Catone comments

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Paypal to Safari Users: Switch Browsers or You'll be a Victim of Fraud

In an interview with Macworld, PayPal issues a dire warning to users of Apple's Safari browser: don't use it if you want to avoid online fraud. Apparently, Safari is not on PayPal's list of recommended browsers due to its lack of support for some of the anti-phishing features the other browsers have. Instead, PayPal is recommending the use of IE…

Sarah Perez comments

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