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March 31, 2010 • 10:54 am 1

Twaller – Discover what travellers are tweeting about

Twaller was built with the traveling person in mind.  Utilizing oAuth to log in, the goal is to give you up to date travel information being pushed across Twitter.  From their own About section:

Twaller is a twitter based service which presents you with real-time travel related updates from people around the world. Our search engine queries and presents relevant tweets at Twitter. We sort updates into locations and categories, providing you an interface to browse tweets at ease.

Tweets tagged with weather and sightseeing will be picked up by the service easier than things that are just random travel related facts.  Looking through the other tweets listed on the homepage, anything with a city is easily picked up as well.  I could see this being helpful while in a new city or traveling and looking for hot spots, recommendations or just info.

Humorously I thought maybe they had a mobile site since this is for traveling, or even a mobile app.  I couldn’t find any yet.  But don’t count them out.  Just another niche service built around the tons of data in Twitter.

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March 24, 2010 • 9:34 am 1

TweetLytics – Twitter analytics for brand monitoring

TweetLytics is not a free service.  Let’s start there.  It is designed by a Chicago firm for brand and buzz tracking.  They do offer a free trial before asking for $199 to $299 per month in a no contract service.

Their demo video shows the ability to split information and trending on gender, sentiment.  You are able to monitor, analyze and then engage with their interface.

So you might ask why this review is so short?  Because they have no screenshots of the interface (they had a slick video that was a great marketing piece) but nothing on the product itself.

I couldn’t create a trial account without credit card information and my ability to remember to come back and cancel in the 30 days before getting charged.  I like the idea of having the free trial, but let it be free, no credit card and then close and hold my data if I choose not to continue.  If I continue, unlock my data and parameters I established and let me roll on.

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March 23, 2010 • 1:52 pm 1

ReadTwit – a cool way to glean links from your Twitter stream

ReadTwit snuck up on me and captured my attention quickly with the capabilities  it has.  Here is what it does for you:

  • You allow ReadTwit access via oAuth to what you follow
  • It finds all tweets with URL links inside
  • URL shorteners are put back into full links
  • All the links are compared and duplicates are removed.
  • The cleaned stream of links is presented in RSS for you to put in your feed reader
  • You can now quickly see all links shared to you quickly and efficiently

Just reading that, evaluate the benefit, I’ll wait.  I bet you already signed up.

Once I authorized the service, I was able to control settings and filters, which surprised me even more.  I could:

  • hide specific people
  • ignore specific hashtags
  • get the full or partial feed
  • control the time update

Quite impressive.  I could also place the feed into my reader with a simple click or choose to just get the feed link itself.  I moved it to my Google Reader and then use Feedly to keep up.  A must have for those that want to see links from your stream at your leisure and act on them.

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March 23, 2010 • 10:26 am 0

ShoutOut – speech to text tweeting for the iPhone

ShoutOut is a nifty (free) application for your iPhone/iPod that allows you to talk your way through tweeting, Facebook updates and texting.

What was unique about the updating was the rolling list of words as it guessed what you were saying, and allowed you to delete and select words with your finger quickly.  You can also shake the device to clear the new message and start over.  Simple, intuitive and free.  It shows when it is listening and you can see the words it is selecting to send as you talk.

Note, if you click the link it will attempt to launch iTunes.  Just hit cancel and you can view the webpage if desired.  There are also more screenshots available to see the user interface.

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March 19, 2010 • 1:36 pm 0

MyTweetMap – map where your friends tweet from

MyTweetMap is a very simple Google Maps mashup offered by a school district.  You enter your Twitter username and password (no oAuth) and it starts mapping out your friends locations.  It was fast responding for a few hundred people that I follow.  Otherwise, not too exciting and you cannot fully act on the tweets.  Great for a quick showing geographically of who you follow.

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March 15, 2010 • 10:43 am 0

TweetNotebook – a personalized notebook of your tweets

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TweetNotebook places one tweet from any account you specify at the bottom of each page for a mere $12 and gives you a living book from it.  The confusion is how best to use it, not if it is cool or not.  The downfall is that tweets are not chronological in any way but totally randomized. How they selected the ~300 of my over 7k tweets is beyond me.

“TweetNotebook” is a personalized printed notebook of 320 almost blank pages, for you to fill with thoughts, reports, tools, to do’s,droodles , …. On the bottom of every page you’ll find a tweet, its timestamp and the url to retrieve this tweet online. So on every page, you’ll find a little piece of your twitter-history. Sometimes fun, sometimes serious

Now that sounds like a lot of pages to fill out with information about your tweets.  After testing it I read more on the FAQ to learn I couldn’t remove tweets either, making it hard to tell a story or get rid of miscellaneous items.  You can modify the title and have it in your hands in a few weeks via PayPal payment.

A neat idea, but lacks a bit of work to make this useful for business accounts.  Then it hit me.  This would be awesome for someone trying to build a reasonable timeline of tweets from a trip with associated pictures.  However, the lack of chronology made that a bit impossible also.

The last problem I encountered while testing the application, was I could not scroll through the book due to the way they pop up the sample.  I was on the Macbook/Firefox and could not scroll down and have it hold there to flip pages.  It kept popping the page back to the top.  So I was unable to see the inside of the book, only the cover.

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March 11, 2010 • 11:55 am 0

Session Tweets – a daily digest of relevant hashtags

Session Tweets is an awesome idea, straight from the makers of Backupify (which service I use and recommend).  They take hashtags and put them together as a collection into an emailed PDF file.  So if there is a conference, session, seminar or hot trend, you can get an emailed version of the entire day.

The site homepage has the most recently created, then by date.  At the bottom you can suggest some tags to have a report created.  I can see this being huge during SXSWi in the coming days.  Backupify is even tying this in nicely with the promo free year of the Premium service.  SXSW will have a Session Tweets Daily edition coming out you can subscribe to.

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