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  'Tweet Your Location' From Twitter Next Move in Location-Based Blogging

  JP 12:48 am on March 12, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: application program interface, google maps (15), mapping option, nbsp (1,002), Read (820), tweet (13), Twitter

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  Like moths drawn to a flame, the titans of the social networking world have all begun implementing various location-based features into their platforms. Now, following the recent news of Facebook’s upcoming location-based status updates, Twitter has officially thrown its hat in the ring by allowing users to “Tweet With Your Location.”

  While developers have long been able to tweet their locations with the Twitter API (Application Program Interface), it now seems that the option has been introduced to all members of the Twittersphere. As TheNextWeb reports, the feature allows your followers to pinpoint the precise location from which you tweet, with the help of Google Maps. Should you choose to enable it, a little pin will pop up underneath your tweets, as well as beneath those in your stream. When you click on the pin, a small Google Maps window will pop up alongside the text, mapping out exactly where the tweet was first posted. A few users actually spotted the tweet-mapping option on Tuesday before Twitter decided to suddenly take it down. Yesterday, though, the company appeared to have rolled it out officially — just in time, not coincidentally, for the SXSW festival, and all the location-based hype that’s been building up around it.

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  ‘Tweet Your Location’ From Twitter Next Move in Location-Based Blogging originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Text Messaging Tricks Invigorate Your 'Dumb Phone'

  JP 12:51 am on March 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google (93), message updates (2), nbsp (1,002), phone (4), Read (820), text (4), Twitter

  Filed under: Cell Phones, Google, Social Networking

  We spend a lot of time discussing the various capabilities of smartphones and the apps available for them, but the truth of the matter is that not everyone has a smartphone. In fact, the vast majority of people don’t. Fortunately, though, “dumb phone” owners don’t have to miss out on all the fun, thanks to the versatility of SMS.

  The blog Make Use Of highlights several ways that you can use text messaging to stay connected via social networks like Twitter. In particular, Make Use Of looked at the services Posterous, HelloTXT and Ping.FM, all of which can update multiple sites, such as Flickr and Facebook, simultaneously. You can even use hash tags with some of them so to specify which sites a text message updates.

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  Text Messaging Tricks Invigorate Your ‘Dumb Phone’ originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Twitter: The Criterion Collection' Turns Tweets Into Cinematic Masterpieces

  JP 12:51 am on March 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Criterion, criterion collection, Jason, jason sweeney, nbsp (1,002), Read (820), tweets (119), Twitter

  Filed under: Audio/Video, Web, Social Networking

  

  Are you tired of seeing tweets confined to plain text on a computer screen? Well Jason Sweeney, who runs the blog I Am Your Canadian Boyfriend, enlisted people to recreate their favorite Twitter messages in film form. Participants were allowed to act out the tweets, read them or even perform them with puppets. The only requirement was that the vignettes contain the entire tweet, and that the tweets come from someone other than the performer.

  The messages are as schizophrenic as the performances. Most are funny, some are contemplative, and our favorite (i.e., “Who the f**k vacuums their apartment at 1AM? People who get cut at 1:03AM. That’s who.”) is downright violent.

  You can check out the results below, Twitter: The Criterion Collection. [From: I Am Your Canadian BoyFriend, via: Vimeo]

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  ‘Twitter: The Criterion Collection’ Turns Tweets Into Cinematic Masterpieces originally appeared on Switched on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Text Messaging Tricks Invigorate Your 'Dumb Phone'

  JP 12:51 am on March 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google (93), message updates (2), nbsp (1,002), phone (4), Read (820), text (4), Twitter

  Filed under: Cell Phones, Google, Social Networking

  We spend a lot of time discussing the various capabilities of smartphones and the apps available for them, but the truth of the matter is that not everyone has a smartphone. In fact, the vast majority of people don’t. Fortunately, though, “dumb phone” owners don’t have to miss out on all the fun, thanks to the versatility of SMS.

  The blog Make Use Of highlights several ways that you can use text messaging to stay connected via social networks like Twitter. In particular, Make Use Of looked at the services Posterous, HelloTXT and Ping.FM, all of which can update multiple sites, such as Flickr and Facebook, simultaneously. You can even use hash tags with some of them so to specify which sites a text message updates.

  Continue reading Text Messaging Tricks Invigorate Your ‘Dumb Phone’

  Text Messaging Tricks Invigorate Your ‘Dumb Phone’ originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Twitter, Facebook Finally Freed as US Military Lets Stationed Soldiers Sign On

  JP 12:50 am on March 4, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: blogging sites (2), cbs news (3), David Wennergren (2), Deputy Assistant (2), deputy assistant secretary (2), facebook (160), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), Twitter, U.S. (64), US (18)

  Filed under: Web, Social Networking

  Social networking sites may offer a plenitude of distractions for us civilian folk. But in the U.S. military, apparently, the potential benefits of sites like Twitter and Facebook far outweigh any downsides.

  After an expansive, seven-month review conducted by the Defense Department, the Pentagon has decided to allow soldiers and military civilian leaders to use social networking and blogging sites as a means of facilitating communication, recruitment, and collaboration across ranks. Though the new initiative means that sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will now be unblocked on the military’s non-classified network, it also allows for commanders to suspend access to these sites as a security measure, or as a means to preserve bandwidth for more urgent use. The Pentagon originally blocked many of these sites back in 2007, claiming that they dragged down the network. But, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Technology David Wennergren told CBS News, “We need to take advantage of these capabilities that are out there — this Web 2.0 phenomena.” Wennergren also stressed safety, though, saying, “The idea is be responsible and use these tools to help get the job done.” (Pornography, in case any of you soldiers were wondering, will remain blocked.)

  Continue reading Twitter, Facebook Finally Freed as US Military Lets Stationed Soldiers Sign On

  Twitter, Facebook Finally Freed as US Military Lets Stationed Soldiers Sign On originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Twitter, Facebook Finally Freed as US Military Lets Stationed Soldiers Sign On

  JP 12:51 am on March 3, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: blogging sites (2), cbs news (3), David Wennergren (2), Deputy Assistant (2), deputy assistant secretary (2), facebook (160), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), Twitter, U.S. (64), US (18)

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  Social networking sites may offer a plenitude of distractions for us civilian folk. But in the U.S. military, apparently, the potential benefits of sites like Twitter and Facebook far outweigh any downsides.

  After an expansive, seven-month review conducted by the Defense Department, the Pentagon has decided to allow soldiers and military civilian leaders to use social networking and blogging sites as a means of facilitating communication, recruitment, and collaboration across ranks. Though the new initiative means that sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will now be unblocked on the military’s non-classified network, it also allows for commanders to suspend access to these sites as a security measure, or as a means to preserve bandwidth for more urgent use. The Pentagon originally blocked many of these sites back in 2007, claiming that they dragged down the network. But, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Technology David Wennergren told CBS News, “We need to take advantage of these capabilities that are out there — this Web 2.0 phenomena.” Wennergren also stressed safety, though, saying, “The idea is be responsible and use these tools to help get the job done.” (Pornography, in case any of you soldiers were wondering, will remain blocked.)

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  Twitter, Facebook Finally Freed as US Military Lets Stationed Soldiers Sign On originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  United Airlines Twitter Account Hacked by Aphrodisiac-Hawking Dummies

  JP 12:50 am on March 3, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: having better sex (2), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), thrifty traveler (2), Twitter, United (2), united airlines (2)

  Filed under: Web, Social Networking

  

  Let’s role play a bit.

  You’re a hacker and a spreader of malware. Your specialty is hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to spread spam and links to malicious sites. You’ve just managed to take over the Twitter page for United Airlines. In the meantime, we’ll play the role of the hapless United Airlines follower who is constantly hoping to see a deal for cheap flights pop up. So, what will be the first tweet from your newly stolen account? Remember, the aim is to get us (Hapless United Airlines Customer #1) to click on the link.

  If you answered “an offer for ‘male enhancement,’” you fail — as did the brain-dead scammers who actually did take control of the United Airlines account Thursday night. Someone hacked the airline’s Twitter page, and immediately sent out this linked message: “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here.” A piece of info that we, thrifty traveler, have no interest in receiving from our airline.

  We’ll leave you with a bit of life advice: don’t click on any link promising better sex. Ever. [From: NYCAviation, via: Consumerist]

  United Airlines Twitter Account Hacked by Aphrodisiac-Hawking Dummies originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  United Airlines Twitter Account Hacked by Aphrodisiac-Hawking Dummies

  JP 12:51 am on March 2, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: having better sex (2), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), thrifty traveler (2), Twitter, United (2), united airlines (2)

  Filed under: Web, Social Networking

  

  Let’s role play a bit.

  You’re a hacker and a spreader of malware. Your specialty is hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to spread spam and links to malicious sites. You’ve just managed to take over the Twitter page for United Airlines. In the meantime, we’ll play the role of the hapless United Airlines follower who is constantly hoping to see a deal for cheap flights pop up. So, what will be the first tweet from your newly stolen account? Remember, the aim is to get us (Hapless United Airlines Customer #1) to click on the link.

  If you answered “an offer for ‘male enhancement,’” you fail — as did the brain-dead scammers who actually did take control of the United Airlines account Thursday night. Someone hacked the airline’s Twitter page, and immediately sent out this linked message: “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here.” A piece of info that we, thrifty traveler, have no interest in receiving from our airline.

  We’ll leave you with a bit of life advice: don’t click on any link promising better sex. Ever. [From: NYCAviation, via: Consumerist]

  United Airlines Twitter Account Hacked by Aphrodisiac-Hawking Dummies originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Conan Joins Twitter, Spring Comes Early

  JP 12:50 am on February 28, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Conan (4), Conan Joins (2), conan o brien (7), Conan O'Brien (6), conanobrien (2), Jay (5), Jay Leno (4), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), show (8), Twitter

  Filed under: Celebrities, Web, Social Networking

  If there’s one person capable of upstaging the Dalai Lama’s arrival on Twitter, it might just be Conan O’Brien. We may not be seeing him on TV anytime soon, but now that the former ‘Tonight Show’ host has officially taken the plunge, we can at least get a glimpse of what goes on in his carrot-topped funhouse of a dome.

  Last evening, an account under the name @ConanOBrien suddenly popped up on Twitter, and immediately started drawing followers. The account’s authenticity wasn’t clear, however, until Twitter verified it about an hour after its maiden tweet. As HuffPo reports, O’Brien christened his page with the following tweet: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.” Within just a half hour of the tweet, the apparently real O’Brien had already mustered up 15,000 folllowers. By about 9:30 last night, he’d already passed 120,000 followers, and is now well over 239,000 (Jay Leno, in case you were wondering, has a relatively middling 30,000 people on his Twitter trail). Conan’s typically self-deprecating bio currently reads: “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” And, like the baller he is, O’Brien has yet to follow a single person himself (not even Jay).

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  Conan Joins Twitter, Spring Comes Early originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Conan Joins Twitter, Spring Comes Early

  JP 12:51 am on February 27, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Conan (4), Conan Joins (2), conan o brien (7), Conan O'Brien (6), conanobrien (2), Jay (5), Jay Leno (4), nbsp (1,002), Read (820), show (8), Twitter

  Filed under: Celebrities, Web, Social Networking

  If there’s one person capable of upstaging the Dalai Lama’s arrival on Twitter, it might just be Conan O’Brien. We may not be seeing him on TV anytime soon, but now that the former ‘Tonight Show’ host has officially taken the plunge, we can at least get a glimpse of what goes on in his carrot-topped funhouse of a dome.

  Last evening, an account under the name @ConanOBrien suddenly popped up on Twitter, and immediately started drawing followers. The account’s authenticity wasn’t clear, however, until Twitter verified it about an hour after its maiden tweet. As HuffPo reports, O’Brien christened his page with the following tweet: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.” Within just a half hour of the tweet, the apparently real O’Brien had already mustered up 15,000 folllowers. By about 9:30 last night, he’d already passed 120,000 followers, and is now well over 239,000 (Jay Leno, in case you were wondering, has a relatively middling 30,000 people on his Twitter trail). Conan’s typically self-deprecating bio currently reads: “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” And, like the baller he is, O’Brien has yet to follow a single person himself (not even Jay).

  Continue reading Conan Joins Twitter, Spring Comes Early

  Conan Joins Twitter, Spring Comes Early originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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