July 14, 2009 • 2:06 pm 1
find2follow attempts to simplify the task of finding other people that might share common interests.
In our first tests we either had to wait a log time or got back the same results as Twitter recommendations give you. I know they are in beta and working on their algorithms to help give great results.
Filed under: Follower Management , followers, follower_management
• 7:10 am 1
TweetFeel was sent to us yesterday to poke around with. It appears Mashable listed it and overloaded their site so be patient.
You simply enter a search term (I chose Mixero as a test) and it scans tweets looking for terms around it that would show how a person feels. It then gives a percentage rating between smiley faces and frowns.
A simple approach to try and gauge how the public is reacting towards a product, person, event or whatever you dream up. The results fill the screen as it counts so you can see the tweets themselves. Once they build in the ability to authenticate and retweet or reply to specific ones that will be great.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , mood, opinion
July 13, 2009 • 2:42 pm 0
TopicOfTheDay is simply a Twitter account and hashtag that runs and gives you a new question to think about each day. It is your way out when you have nothing to say and have tweeters block. Each day a new question is asked for you to respond, blog or do nothing.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , question, topic
• 10:48 am 0
TwiPho is a search engine for finding pictures shared across Twitter from some of the bigger sites like Twitpic, Img.ly and yfrog. The homepage is a simple search box with some suggested searches below to get you started.
What you get in results is very eye pleasing. The images come up in their own thumbnails (framed) and when you hover over them you have some actions:
The frame shows the image source as well as the tweet that came with it, if any. It was very appealing and provided good functionality. I am not sure how far back the results will go, bu I did get a nice sample on all my test searches.
The settings icon lets you limit the results to one of the pic services and the help says they even support viewing this on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Great work.
Filed under: Search Tools , images, pics, pictures
• 8:39 am 0
TwitPaint let’s you express yourself in graffiti instead of just 140 characters. You can view samples of work done on the homepage or log in with your Twitter credentials to start creating your own.
Choose the brush width, opacity and color while working with your drawing. You then type a comment about your drawing and send it as a tweet. You must make the message around 100 characters to allow for the URL to fit before sending. Each brush stroke counted as a character when I did a sample.
You can view all your graffiti or everyone’s by language area before letting others in on the fun.
Your followers can remix and update your work by doing the same thing with a reply @you.
Peek at the site to see some of the creative work.
Filed under: Add-on Tools, Games , graffiti, paint
July 10, 2009 • 2:24 pm 0
Vimey sounded promising when I first got the suggestion to list it. But I was quite confused on how it works. The UI was simple and clean and had categories of types of tweets listed. But from there is fell a bit flat.
I checked the tech channel but it seemed it only had a couple people it listed. I am not sure how it populates the categories based on this description on their website:
vimey is a way to organize tweets by the most popular people on twitter and display the tweets for you to see
There was no other Help or About page to read up, but I think they are picking what gets listed. This is like looking at someones personal Alltop page. There is a search box but apparently unless they already follow that account it never sees it.
So if you want to see what they find important in actors, celebs, sports, tech and more then take a look.
Filed under: Add-on Tools, Search Tools , categorize, search, tweets
• 12:17 pm 1
tweetymail takes a different approach in trying to reduce your need to visit the Twitter homepage or yet another Air client. You simply associate an email account with them (and their oAuth login) and off you go.
You can send emails in to create the tweet, follow someone or even send links. They have a good example of sending the link as email right from your mobile or any desktop browser. Instead of you sending email to some coded address only you know, they reverse it and look for your configured from address.
This is good and bad. The good is that you don’t need to create address book entries or try to remember it. You can then tweet from anywhere you send as your email. The bad is you have to use your email to send it always, instead of to the code and it is slightly possible that someone could send as you if they knew you used the service.
While they are trying to use SPF, DomainKeys and other measures to verify the sending server, it is not 100%, but is ok.
Tweetymail will automatically shorten URL’s (I didn’t see where to configure which shortening service to use) and they will ignore your email signature.
Filed under: Mobile Clients , email
July 9, 2009 • 12:02 pm 0
ScreenJelly is very cool! Take screencasting w/audio and Twitter and merge them together into one big event. No installation and everything is done via the browser.
Authentication is oAuth, so security isn’t a concern there. Once the recording is complete, a maximum of 3 minutes, it is ready to tweet and share across other networks and even email (this facility is built in also).
I did a test run and was quite impressed. You can mark videos private and not tweet them if desired. It actually records them locally first using an applet and then uploads when you authorize the tweet. It uploaded quick and once done allowed me to see the number of views and any comments left about the video itself. For sharing they use their own URL http://screenjel.ly/ which helps brand it further.
I think I found a new tool I can use from any machine for a quick screengrab and commentary. A view of my profile on the site shows all my recordings and my last 3 tweets. Once you click to watch the video you can retweet, reply to me or even share it yourself from the interface.
There is no ability to brand the video unless you ran your logo in the corner of your screen as it captures whatever you are showing.
UPDATE: It also seems you automatically follow them on Twitter which I did not see mention of anywhere. If it is there, I apologive but it was not apparent and I don’t like auto-follow settings.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , screencast, video
• 10:17 am 1
Tweet Reel is an iPhone 3GS application that was just released. While this is a paid program in the iTunes store for $2.99, it automates the linking of videos and pictures to your Twitter stream.
It will add a TweetReel URL link to your tweet with the description you give. I watched a bunch of them on the site (which you can do at anytime from any browser) and all the videos were great quality. They don’t stream, they have to totally buffer and load first, then they play.
The application got good reviews on Mashable, and people are starting to talk about it as stable and reliable. It uses oAuth for authentication to protect your security and automatically rotates pictures and video for proper viewing. Also, the 3GS is the only supported iPhone model.
July 8, 2009 • 1:54 pm 1
DM++ is an interesting broker service for sending direct messages. They become the middle-man service of sorts. You basically trust this middle source so everyone else that trusts them can send DM’s through them.
For example you could send a DM to a string of people or one person if they also trusted DMplusplus.
d dmpp @IdoNotes @Corvida you guys rock with EverythingTwitter
we would both get direct messages brokered by DM++ and we may not be even following you. It opens the door to help keep the amount of people you follow down while allowing them to directly communicate with you when necessary.
Now what scares me is the opening of spammers using this very service by seeing who else follows dmpp and sending mass directs out. I am not sure how they handle that filtering or removal yet. But wait! I found something in their text that answers this question! Great work guys!
Set DM access levels, by default U receive DMs only from people you have @replied
Set access levels – Who do you want to receive DM from?
Filed under: Add-on Tools , direct message
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