Product Reviews Twinkle: Location Aware Twitter Client Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes link) already existed as a native application on jail broken iPhones before, but Apple only added it to the official iTunes store tonight. While there are some… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over corporate boardrooms around the nation, according to study performed by Ed Moran, a director at consulting mega-firm Deloitte. It may be all the rage, but are company-built social… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Twitter Testing a New Design - Getting Ready to Integrate Summize? There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new design as it prepares to integrate Summize's search into its current look. The new design moves the navigation bar away from the top and to the right side of the screen… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally) Today online music service last.fm released the new design they've been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in the beta in June. However as we noted in our review of the beta last month, the beta UI was much criticized - so the fresh lick of paint is probably due to that user feedback… Richard MacManus View comments
Features The Story of the Fail Whale How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been latched onto by Twitter fans not just as a representation of Twitter's downtime, but also as a representation of the community's love for the service and… Sarah Perez View comments