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July 31, 2009 • 10:36 am 0

Twtgal – share photo galleries

Twtgal allows you to upload multiple pictures and then tweet a shortened URL to share them as a gallery.  A great way to show off a set.  You could simply make a collection on Flickr or other photos service and use some short URL for that gallery, but not every one would get that either.  The site itself summarizes the service as:

Just upload your pictures, get short url for the gallery, tweet it!
Your first tweet with gallery url will be imported and shown on the gallery page. Last 20 tweets about your gallery will be shown below the images. You can set the style of the gallery and few other options

I didn’t upload a set as most of mine are already on Flickr.  The bonus of the site was the lack of the requirement to provide them your Twitter password.  You can bookmark the admin link to your uploaded gallery to be able to get back to manage it.  You can upload a maximum of 14 images in the free account with 2mb limit for each picture.  Images all get resized to 800×600.

The site is ad supported and allows the galleries to be browsed or played in a slideshow.  Lastly you can also email pictures in and get a reply with the link for the gallery.

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July 30, 2009 • 8:24 am 0

TweetMyPc – control your pc via Twitter

TweetMyPc takes an interesting idea to the 140 characters by allowing you to send commands that get understood by a program on the remote machine and are acted upon.

There is a long list of commands that can be issues, found at this link, but here is a short summary:

  • Shutdown
  • Lock
  • Hibernate
  • OS
  • Standby
  • IP

Yuo can even have the PC send results as tweets with the Reply command.

So how does it all work?  You install this program and create a new private Twitter account.  Make sure this account is quite secure.  You then have the private account ready to start watching tweets.  The code is freely available to download and start enjoying.

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July 30, 2009 • 7:23 am 0

Chir.ps – Tweet Your Voice Now

Chir.ps is the latest audio service to hit the Twitter scene. This service is all about sending audio and sounds to Twitter. Is it it mobile? Duh! Chir.ps supports “chirping” via your iPhone using the new Voice Messages app. That’s right, no need to download a second client. Simply email it to your chir.ps address and have Chir.ps tweet it for you.

Check out their homepage to see what other users are “chirping” . Idea: This would be a great way to start sending out ringtones via Twitter!

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July 29, 2009 • 8:31 am 0

Twitter Link Explorer – navigate links posted by friends

Twitter Link Explorerhas a very simple welcome page, use oAuth to authenticate.  That is it.  The only other thing it states on the homepage is that it only needs read access to your account to see links your friends post.  Which immediately led me to believe they don’t send a tweet out and do not have retweet ability.

Once you authenticate you get a small bar at the top showing the tweet itself and the original shortened link.  The rest of the page is the exact page where the link would take you.  Very clean and smooth.  You could then easily go to the next link using a giant arrow to move along.

This is a great way to browse and see links yet you really don’t get to see the link or where it is taking you.  I would love some type of preview to let me know the next link is safe before moving along.  Or a way to preview the next one instead of just blindly clicking.

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July 28, 2009 • 10:15 am 0

TrueTwit – a possible validation service for Twitter?

TrueTwit bills itself as the title says.  But we are not so sure it really can functionally be what it needs to be.  Allow me to explain.  The require you to enter your Twitter credentials and pass a captcha test to verify you are human.

All your future followers then begin to get a validation notice for them to fill out with a captcha test also.  This “proves” they are human and you automatically follow the back.  So we are back to auto-follow more than anything with the added benefit that some marketer actually did the validation.

Now imagine everytime you want to follow someone a validation comes in from them?  The site says once you register and validate once you are good for the future.  But what happens when other sites just like this start firing up.  Soon I validate all over to follow someone?

Will this stop the bots?  I really don’t care if bots follow me, I am selective in who I follow so them stalking an open stream anyway means nothing.

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July 28, 2009 • 8:22 am 0

Twitteron – a skinnable Air client for Twitter

Twitteron is a nice UI that is skinnable with numerous features inside.  The site lists most of the features:

* The ability to run on any OS that supports Adobe AIR
* A smooth, and rich graphical interface
* Browser-like navigation, with back, forward and refresh capability
* One-click access to uploading pictures to TwitPic!
* One-click access to shrinking links
* The ability to search all of twitter with the built in search box!
* The ability to see larger pictures of friends/followers of yours and others!
* Notification capability, with fine tuning of the rate of requests
* Display of your rate limit, along with the reset time
* Adjustable TwitPic/Photo sizes
* Choose an endless amount of colors with custom hue/saturation/lightness sliders
* Custom search notifications!

Twitpics are all rendered inline, no more jumping out to a webpage or relying in popups.  That was about the whole list.  I did not load the client but a live stream (using tweetgrid) showed numerous people talking about it.  Most good, some were not happy.  Remember this is still in beta, with no updates since May, which worries me.

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July 27, 2009 • 2:16 pm 2

GeoChirp – an awesome Google Maps and Twitter mashup

GeoChirp pleasantly surprised me with the sleek interface and immediate usefulness.  You get immediate function without logging in.  It guesses your current location and shows it on the map and starts to bring in tweets at the bottom.

You are able to enter any address, number of tweets and miles radius.  You can also simply drag the placemarker around on the screen to another location and zoom in and out.  If you need to see more tweets and less map once you search you can click the tiny Map button at the top and it will minimize the map area.

Logging into the site utilizes oAuth and brings your Twitter bio and last tweet to the bottom right.

If you want to find and see any tweeting within some radius, this is certainly a great mashup.

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July 27, 2009 • 10:40 am 0

TweetMondo – find Twitter users close to you

TweetMondo works better the more precise your list your own location.  It allows you to find others in your area as well as them to find you, depending on privacy systems.

You can see the number of people in a location, but not details until you log into the site itself.  I used a test account and tried out the local city.

I did not like the fact that they forced you to post a tweet that you are using the service and followed them automatically.  Make it a freaking choice if I like your site or not.

Once in the map did show avatars of other users in the city.  I can see how the more precise you are it would zoom in tighter showing people very close in proximity.  Ads by Google show in the corner of the map for their revenue.

Hovering over any avatar didn’t not give details but I found a list at the bottom of the page.  You can click to show the person on the map, see how percise they list their location (by percentage) and their basic bio info such as followers and how many tweets sent.  You can follow and send a message to anyone on the list as well as see how long ago they were on.

The right side allows you to filter by name, bio, precision level,  number of followers or minimum number of tweets which was quite helpful.  I found that if they use a client that updates the geo location then it gives an excellent precision percentage.

I liked what they were doing and it was good to see people in the immediate area to find or follow.  I will be back (if they fix the auto follow and posting).

There were some privacy settings on if you should show in searches on the sites as well as some basic profile questions.

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July 27, 2009 • 8:22 am 0

ScreenTweet – share videos, pictures and screenshots

ScreenTweet allows you to take most any video type and send it as a tweet link.  Videos, screenshots, photos and images is what you would expect.  But they also mention YouTube, Hulu and IgniteCast.

Before signing in, there is a public feed showing you the most recent postings using the service so you get an idea of what everyone is sharing.  You can retweet any video type you are looking at and they follow the Hulu style letting you dim the lights around the video so it stands out.

Shortcut URLS are done with scr.tw and can be shared socially from the right side.  Comments on each one can also be preformed on the site.

Keep in mind when logging in that there is a small checkbox that makes you automatically follow ScreenTweet.  While it is not required, it is on by default.

So while they do not use oAuth, I logged in with a test account and was greeted with a clean screen allowing me to upload anything to 5MB, send a MMS from a mobile device to a special email address they create on the fly or paste in embed code from most of the media sites.

Your profile information is brought in and shows on the right side and you also get the ability to see your feed as well as reply feeds now in the upper menu, instead of just the public feed.  The reply feed only shows replies on the ScreenTweet site, not Twitter replies.

Had I not checked the terms of service I forgot to check the settings area.  It allows you to change the email address you use for sending in MMS messages.  Mobile uploads can be disabled.  Now the terms of service mentioned the ability to control privacy on postings, but I did not find that setting anywhere.

Otherwise it is a clean site that functioned easily.  For being new the features worked well and had a lot to offer out of the box.

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July 24, 2009 • 2:31 pm 2

Twitpay.Me – send payment via Twitter

TwitPay.me hooks Paypal and Twitter together allowing you to send payments to someone by simply sending a tweet.  Scary isn’t it?  Ok so it really doesn’t force the payment immediately, but makes a promise and helps broker the transaction.

Sending a transaction via Twitter follows a specific format,  Feel free to sign up and send me a whole bunch of tespayments.

@IdoNotes twitpay $5 for great podcasts and EverythingTwitter

Twitpay will keep a nickel for every transaction over a dollar and then PayPal has their own fee structure.  You can settle up one by one on the site or settle everyone at once with a simple click.

You must follow Twitpay on Twitter to get your activation pin and then it uses your following them to send notifications of payments.  Now let’s see if anyone really sends some funds.

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