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June 7, 2009

Roundup : Trackle, LiveFlows, Google News Timeline, Evernote, Tinychat

Filed under: blogs, rss, readers, tools, roundup, im

Trackle - when a visitor clicks the Tracklet button on your blog they can enter keywords and choose to get latest content delivered by email, SMS, or login to their Trackle inbox.
The RSS feed Trackle is only one of many, there’s loads of them, and you can manage all of them in Trackle. See Notify.Me and others to DIY.

Liveflows - offers related posts from your blog, similar to Outbrain and Zementa, only this one is a distributed network, and lives in the footer of your blog (it actually feels like part of the browser). See related posts from your blog, popular posts in my network, blogs I follow, blogs that follow me. I get the feeling that it’s something MyBlogLog could have done, and something Google Friend Connect (GFC) is doing. Only in GFC you only need a profile to follow people, whereas in LiveFlows you need to be a blogger (which is essential so it can show popular posts from your network). GFC can be seen more of a fans type tool …I do like that the social bar gadget has commenting and site activity, and other features like ratings. Most of these relate to the homepage, unless you embed a gadget in a post.
I wrote about the blogosphere as a distributed social network a while back. [via LG]

Google News Timeline - When you visit the site delete the saved queries. Then from the drop down menu choose blogs, and enter the name of your blog. Voila, now you have a visual date based archive of your blog. Sort by day, week, month, year and drag to sift through the archives.
Here’s a link to my blog starting from Jan 2009.
Of course you can add lots of blogs and other news sources, or even keywords…perhaps a liteweight alternative to Google Reader.
It’s all based on Google Reader, so the archives only go back to its inception in 2005. Also see 30boxes blog timeline. [via DI]

Evernote - How did I miss this one. I’ve been using Webnote for so long, but I’m now testing to switch over to Evernote.
Basically via the web, mobile web, email, SMS/MMS, blog post footer button, Twitter, download version (even for mobiles) or bookmarklet I can add a note, clip a webpage, add an attachment (audio/video/etc) into any of my Evernote notebooks. Also tag all my notes, search (even text in images, limit to title field and tag, limited to one or multiple notebooks), synch files, make public notebooks, to-do list boxes, saved searches…and heaps more. Check out their blog, and tips.

Tinychat - create an on-the-fly chat room, even embed it in your blog

May 31, 2009

Roundup : vlingo, Poll Everywhere + Twitter, TwitVid, TwitDoc, Mixero

Filed under: tools, roundup

vlingo - speech to text. Not sure if you have to ring a number, it seems more like, hold the key, speak, and then send…also updates Facebook Status. Also see Twitwoop, TwitterFone, Twitsay, Jott, Spinvox [via m]

Poll Everywhere + Twitter - A polling form where the audience can tweet their answer, and the widget embedded into your blog, website or online doc will display the current progress…great for live audience presentations (using Twitter in PowerPoint)

TwitVid - just like Twitpic share’s a link to a photo in your tweet and hosts it at their site, TwitVid does the same for video, also see Tweetube…and Twitmatic will serve you up the latest.

TwitDoc - upload a file to Twitter, also see Tweetafile…I’m thinking like Twitpic and TwitVid, these should be hosted at a Scribd like service.

Mixero - A client that has some great features - create groups, channels, and filtering. If you ask me Filttr already does all this - filter slide for tweeps, black/white list words, create groups, create keyword streams, it also has automatic filtering based on your past behaviour, and a mobile version. My favourite filter is creating a group, then filtering that with a a few keywords, and then filtering that again to just show me tweets that have links in them.
For other filtering sites see peoplebrowsr, TweetGrid, Monittor, ConvoMonitor, JustSignal, Twalala, microplaza, and Ginx. [via RWW]

BONUS
Union Organizers Twitter Bombing Starbucks #top3percent Campaign
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May 27, 2009

Roundup : Repeets, twtbizcard, twitmatic, hoodlenow, tagth.is

Filed under: tools, roundup

Repeets - yet another hot tweet site based on retweets, also see Retweet Rank, Retweetist, Re-tweetradar, re-twit’d

twtbizcard - from the folks at twtapps…you can now create a virtual business card, and send it to someone eg @elusa here’s one of my cards to keep in touch #twtbizcard
It also keeps track of sent and received cards, and tweets and retweets…only the people you send it to can read the details

twitmatic - search and watch video’s being linked to in Twitter.

hoodlenow - yet another site which displays tweets by location, so you can know what’s happening around town, see more under the groupings section in this post.

tagth.is - tweet @tagthis with a link and keywords, and that link will be bookmarked in delicious. I prefer this to Tweecious which automatically bookmarks every tweet that has a link. But what I really want is a button in my favourite Twitter sites like dabr and filttr to send a tweet to delicious

BONUS
Twitter Reaches New Heights As Climber Tweets From Everest

May 24, 2009

Roundup : TwitterCompressor, twitwoop, Twitoaster, Twonvo, Twitterel

Filed under: tools, roundup

TwitterCompressor - compress your tweets, also see Twi8r, 140it

twitwoop - speech to text tweets…maybe now we can tweet while we drive

Twitoaster - threads reply tweets to your tweet. This is what I referred to in my post the other day. On our reply tweets we have a link to the tweet we are replying to, but on the original tweet we don’t have a list of replies (similar to comments on a blog). But this is even better, for each tweet you have the replies, just like blog post comments, but if one of those replies has replies of it’s own, then they too will have those tweets threaded…so it becomes a tree like conversation. Here’s an example.
You will also notice each tweet has its own RSS feed (at the moment it’s not promoted as it’s an experimental feature, but you will find it by the browsers auto-discovery feature), here’s my RSS feed for the example above (basically, just add “/feed” at the end of the URL.) This means you can subscribe to the feed of a conversation. Twitoaster has more features, go check it out.

Twonvo - similar to Twitoaster, enter a Tweet URL and view all the replies, similar to viewing comments on a blog

Twitterel - find Twitter users with related interests

BONUS
The city where every arrest gets Twittered

May 18, 2009

Roundup : TweetBios, TweetEffect, Tweeterate, TweetIE, TwittBot

Filed under: tools, roundup

TweetBios - extend your Twitter profile…more info about yourself, links to all your profiles, etc…

TweetEffect - find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you.

Tweeterate - an alternative interface where you can rate tweets

TweetIE - a plugin for Internet Explorer…these are far and few between

TwittBot - allows multiple people to publish to a single Twitter account, and for a single person to post to multiple Twitter accounts.

BONUS
3rd Party Twitter Application List

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