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TinyTwitter Updated: Now Add Pictures and Geolocate Your Tweets

sarahintampa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:00 GMT

If you have a Windows Mobile device and you are a Twitter user, then you may have heard of an app called TinyTwitter. Many people say that TinyTwitter is already one of the best applications for using Twitter on their mobile phone, but now it’s even better than before! A recent update to TinyTwitter has added two great new features: picture uploads and geolocation. The picture uploading is done via a service called TwitPic and there’s nothing special you have to do to use it – just add append a picture to your tweet.

The new geolocation feature is pretty great too, especially because it’s using our very own Live Maps service to geolocate your tweets. Assuming your mobile phone has GPS built in, your tweets will be mapped out and posted on a timeline along with a link to Live Maps so people can see where you are. Don’t worry, though, it won’t be exact enough to encourage stalking.

To try out the new version of this app, go to TinyTwitter.com on your PC or visit m.ttwt.at from your mobile phone.

(Thanks to Jeremy Cath for the tip! Img courtesy PocketPCThoughts)

Twitula: Another Twitter App for Windows Mobile

sarahintampa — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:53:00 GMT

I know some of you are sick of posts about Twitter apps – to you, I apologize. But for those of you that aren’t, you’re going to love this one: Twitula is yet another Twitter app for Windows Mobile phones. After logging in, you can view your friends timeline, send tweets and direct messages, and get your responses. This app even has an auto-refresh setting which can be turned on or off. When on, it will refresh the screen at approximately one minute intervals. To install Twitula, download this CAB file, copy it to your device, and then double-click it to install. Alternately, you can visit the Twitula homepage from your phone’s browser and download the Twitula file directly to your device.

(via Mr Mobile)

Microsoft Tweeters

sarahintampa — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Back in January, Steve Clayton blogged that he wished that there was a list of all the Microsofties that were on Twitter. Well, as he recently discovered, now there is. The Twitter user MSTweeters is following all the Microsofties using Twitter. As of now, the account is following 152 people. If you should be on the list, ping @MSTweeters and let them know! I was going to check to see if I was on the list (@sarahintampa, by the way), but of course, Twitter went down right when I clicked through. I guess I’ll check back after the fail whale disappears.

Dashwire 2.0 Launches: Backup Your Phone and Sync Content To Social Web

sarahintampa — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:19:00 GMT

On Tuesday, mobile phone app Dashwire released Dashwire 2.0, a much improved version of their mobile phone backup and sync service. With Dashwire 2.0, you can backup your phone’s content – like photos, videos, text messages, ringtones, bookmarks, speed dials, contacts, and call logs – to Dashwire’s site on the web. This syncing is done automatically, so if you make a change to your phone, that change is reflected on the web, and vice versa. In addition, the app lets you share your content across several social networking sites. You can easily and automatically send photos and video to flickr, Facebook, bebo, and Twitter and you can also update your Twitter and Facebook status from the app. The Dashwire website also offers you a public page where you can share your mobile uploads with others who can then leave comments on the items. Dashwire 2.0 is free for Windows Mobile users - just go to m.dashwire.com from your phone’s browser to sign up.

Mars Gadget for Vista

sarahintampa — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:00 GMT

Sweet! Brandon just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while –the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. And for even more Mars fun, the Lander is also on Twitter so you can get quick and humorous updates from the mission throughout the day, like this:

Tweet About Your Blog Post Directly From WLW

sarahintampa — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:59:00 GMT

Wow – talk about a cool plugin! I just read about the new WLW plugin called Twitter from Windows Live Writer over on Digital Inspiration, and I immediately had to install it. This new plugin for WLW users gives you the option to notify Twitter as soon as you publish a blog post. Of course, you could use a service like Twitterfeed for that, but then you couldn’t really customize your tweet – whatever you set up in Twitterfeed is how the tweet will be displayed each time. With this new plugin, however, you can fill in what you want the message to read by default, but you’re also prompted to customize it each time you post.

Installation is easy, too – here are the steps, (courtesy of DI):

Download the file Twitter.WriterPlugin.dll and copy it to the following directory: C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\Plugins\
Go to Tools –> Options –> Plug-ins –> Twitter Notify and fill it with your Twitter username / password.

That’s it. Tweet away, bloggers!

Tweet Your Xbox Live Status

sarahintampa — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:26:00 GMT

Are you a Twitter user and an Xbox Live fan? Then you'll love this new Twitter app called Twee60. The app lets your Twitter followers receive your Xbox Live status updates via Twitter. To use the service, you must first register for an account at Twee60. Then, it's as simple as entering in your Twitter credentials and your Xbox Live gamertag. After that, no more configuration is required - the service runs 24/7 to keep you friends informed as to when you are online and ready to play.

Twitter+Email+Flickr+Virtual Earth = Twisney.com!

sarahintampa — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:35:00 GMT

What do you get when you combine Disney World, Twitter, Flickr, and Microsoft's Virtual Earth? You get the awesome site Twisney.com! The site lets you send in email, IMs, text messages, or tweets in order to update the Virtual Earth map with your photos and news. When you send in your status update to Twisney.com, they match it to a location on the map by looking at the first few words of your message. You can use an abbreviation, a paraphrased name, or the location's full name as found on your map of Disney.

Examples:

btmr, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
thunder mountain, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
thunder mountain rr, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!

If you're emailing in your update from a mobile phone, just attach the picture to the email, and send it to these instructions. That way, all your photos will be available from one page: www.twisney.com/username, which you can then share with your family and friends.

You can keep tabs on other Twisney users from your mobile phone from the mobile version of the site: http://www.twisney.com/mobile/overview

All the photos sent in to Twisney are uploaded to the Twisney group on flickr. You can also see them on a map here.

Another Twitter App for Windows Mobile

sarahintampa — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT

I had just come across Twobile, a Twitter client for Windows Mobile, and now I find this: ceTwit, yet another Twitter client for Windows Mobile! This app looks pretty cool since it features the avatars of your fellow Twitter users. You can also follow or unfollow users from the context menu, check for updates or turn on auto-update, and view your timelines, replies, and directs, of course, too. An auto-refresh feature makes sure you won't miss a thing. Nice! Want to give this one a go? Download it here!

Twitter App for Windows Mobile

sarahintampa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:27:00 GMT

Twobile is a brand-new app, still in beta, designed to be a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices. The app is small - only 200K - so keeping it always running shouldn't hog up too much memory. The Twobile app offers many different features, each in a separate tab. You can switch between your friends timeline, your messages, your replies, etc. For active twitters, this may mean a lot of switching needs to be done, but no worse than any other app. However, the layout for viewing tweets does make good use of the screen's real estate by displaying one-line views of the tweets. You can download the software for free from here.

JD and Brian Podcast - Episode 5

brianjo — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:03:00 GMT

This week on the podcast, JD and I welcome guests Nic Fillingham and Andrew Duthie for a lively discussion of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, cool stuff we saw on Channel 10, and we ask the question, "How do you handle all the different social networks?"

Links:

Twitterlight: A Silverlight Twitter Client

sarahintampa — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Twitterlight is a Twitter client that is built with Silverlight built by Steve Holstad. He decided to build the app because Silverlight would "give the UI more pop than the existing Twitter site, and provide features like auto-update and TinyURL support." What's more, he posted the Twitterlight code on his site and explains how it all works so you can build your own Silverlight Twitter client, too, if you want. You'll need the 1.1 Alpha Refresh version of Silverlight to see Twitterlight in action.

All-A-Twitter: Twitter+Silverlight, Twitter+Popfly

sarahintampa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Michael Palermo, who works with the development team at Interface Technical Training, has done a video where he demonstrates how to create a Silverlight app that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users. The video shows you how to make calls to the open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects. You can watch the video and download the code.

Meanwhile, Steve Clayton writes a Popfly/Twitter mashup in about a minute and posts it on his blog. In the comments, Rohan Thomas writes that he found a way to post the widget on his MSDN blog. You can see it here in the left-hand column.

Witty for Vista

sarahintampa — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:07:00 GMT

From the Windows Vista Team Blog, I learned of Witty, a Twitter client for Vista. The software, powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation built into Windows Vista, runs like a "real" application and like some apps, can be minimized to the system tray. Like most Twitter apps, Witty lets you post updates, view timelines, view replies, respond to direct messages, and open links in your browser. However, Witty has some more unique features that make it stand out like the skinning capabilities, fade techniques, spell checking, the ability to remember the window location & size, and a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts. You can download Witty here.

Twitter, TwitterPoster & Deutsche Varianten

lorigros — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:32:00 GMT

Schon von Twitter gehört? Twitter ist ein Dienst, wo man schreiben kann, womit man gerade beschäftigt ist. Nutzer aus der ganzen Welt können bis zu 140 Zeichen Nachrichten an anderen schicken. Das Hauptthema ist immer “Was macht du gerade?”. Um das Status upzudaten, kann man diese Nachrichten per SMS oder Instant-Messenger schicken oder via die Webseite twitter.com mitteilen. Man kann auch die Updates von Freunde oder Bekannte gezielt zuhören. Diese Leute nennt man Followers. Ich denke auf Deutsch würde man die Zuhörer nennen.

Vor ein paar Wochen auf dem BarCamp hat jemand mir eine visuelle Applikation gezeigt, die heißt TwitterPoster. Diese Webseite nutzt die Twitter-API, um eine grafische Darstellung zu erzeugen und zeigt wie viel Einfluss die Twitter-Nutzer haben. Je großer das Photo desto mehr Followers bzw. Einfluss hat man. Ich „twittere“ seit Sommer und mein Bild ist auch da zu sehen. Findet Ihr mein kleines Bild? TwitterPoster findet Ihr hier…
http://twitterposter.com/de

Meine Englische Twitter-Posts könnt Ihr hier lesen…
http://twitter.com/LoLoG

Es gibt auch Deutsche Varianten von Twitter, wie z.B. Wamadu, Frazr , niimo.com, und 1you. Sie funktionieren ähnlich wie Twitter aber haben eine Deutsche Oberfläche. Ich habe noch einen ähnlichen Dienst gefunden, wenn man mit Deinem Partner auf einem anderen Weg kommunizieren will. Sie heißt Partnr und das Grundprinzip ist, dass Du etwas von Deinem Partner wünschen darfst. Wie wäre es mit…„Schatz, ich wünsche wir könnten miteinander reden anstatt nur über einen Webdienst zu kommunizieren.“?! Ob so ein Dienst wirklich gut für eine Beziehung ist?

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Twitter in Your Outlook

sarahintampa — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:52:00 GMT

As a huge fan (or perhaps, addict) of micro-blogging platform, Twitter, I was really thrilled to have found this great add-in for Microsoft Outlook: OutTwit. The OutTwit add-in integrates Twitter with Outlook, letting you send and receive messages directly to Twitter from your mail client. All your Twitter friend updates will show up as Outlook messages in your inbox by default, but you can change this in the settings to have the messages sent to a particular folder instead. You can also configure custom categories for messages and shorten URLs using TinyURL, something most Twitter users do to keep their messages under the 140 character limit. Let the time-wasting begin! (Via The How-To Geek)

TwitterMSN

sarahintampa — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Twitter is the popular web service that started a revolution by allowing users to answer and share their responses to the simple question: "What are you doing?" Rapidly morphing into a micro-blogging service that hyper-connected users update and check obsessively, Twitter gained momemtum. Recently the service garnered mainstream attention in a Wall Street Journal article on the subject of media marketing in Twitter.

Now arrives a new 3rd party service called TwitterMSN, integrating Twitter into your Windows Live Messenger application. The TwitterMSN service allows you to update your Twitter account from your MSN account. To use the service, you just have to add last episode of The Show. The award for our jealousy award goes to Caesar, who had the distinct privilege of playing the new Queens of The Stone Age album and shared out the single to everyone who was packing a Zune.

Twitter was at SXSW, in the sort of way that locusts were in Egypt low these many years ago. The frequency of updates to the Twitter – SXSW 2007 page, combined with the influx of new users to the social communication service, was enough to grant it phenomenon status; Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration says the Wall Street Journal.

The official SXSW coverage site has collections of short videos and MP3s of panel discussions that will get released over the next few months. If you only listen to one of these, make it Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Rant, as you’ll always get the most enlightening opinions from a, “Visionary in Residence.”

Nick White relayed the report from Greg Amrofell of the Windows Vista team, “Some people have asked why we wanted to go to SXSW. Apart from the obvious answer (that it's the most fun you can legally have in Texas), it's really the perfect place to showcase Windows Vista and its strengths in mobility and multimedia. Whatever you create and wherever your creativity takes you, Windows Vista makes it easier and more fun.”

Wired’s blog Listening Post has a great collection of musical coverage from the week, including their picks for the Best YouTube Videos of SXSW07.