NYT Selling Ads on Your Twitter Background? You'll Love Magpie While Twitter has been less than forthcoming on how they plan to monetize their service, there is no shortage of ideas from third parties on ways to get paid for spending time with Twitter. From pay-to-tweet to selling off the real estate on your Twitter background, there are any number of ways you could be making money off the service. Now… Social Rick Turoczy View comments
Blogging Errors By Bloggers Kill Credibility & Traffic, Study Finds Blogging is fast, informal and easy to do. Spelling, grammar and factual errors happen - but do they make a material impact on the success of a blogger? A small but interesting survey run by crowdsourced copy editing service GooseGrade concludes that they do. Approximately 200 respondents told GooseGrade that while blogs aren't a major source… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Google Clarifies Its OpenID Implementation Update: We've been contacted by members of the OpenID community who argue that we've mischaracterized the controversy in this post. Additional complications not discussed here include the now-ceased process of whitelisting domains that could use Google OpenID. After we wrote about Google becoming an OpenID provider yesterday, a number of reports… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Lifestreaming Lifestreaming Evolves with Storytlr Straight out of Belgium comes a really interesting life streaming service, yes another one, but this one brings a few unique and much needed features to the market. The service is called Storytlr (a play on story teller) and it allows members to create their own lifestreaming service at their own URL. It's similar to the recently launched… Zee View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Updates Live Mesh: Worldwide Availability, Mac and Windows Mobile Clients Today, Microsoft will release a major update for Live Mesh, its consumer oriented cloud storage and synchronization service. Among these updates are more granular permissions for sharing folders, better support for large monitors during remote connections, and support for drag and drop between the online desktop and local devices. Live Mesh is… Frederic Lardinois View comments