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May 20, 2010 • 3:35 pm 0

Parade – the gosh darn cutest Twitter app yet

It is all about being cute in this one with IsParade. Enter a search term and the results are brought to you in a parade. Each person in the parade gets the avatar from the search results and the band brings them marching across. The help is written in Japanese and I have yet to finish my Rosetta Stone course, but it just works.

Tweets are shown as balloon pop-ups. You can click anyone to get them to pause and dance to show you their tweet. Some play drums, some skip, some march. I don’t even want to give it away. Just go enter a keyword or Twitter id and watch the festivities. The music is different the couple things I tried.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Search Tools , parade, search, twitter search

May 17, 2010 • 10:21 am 0

UMapper – map tweets in a specific area

UMapper is a neat little tool I was sent a link to investigate. It can actually map anything into a custom map, but tweets are our focus here. I created a map for a recent conference, easily zooming into the city it was held. Surprisingly, it was fast and a great way to see what people were talking about with their avatars showing.

The engine is so powerful and I would encourage you to watch the tutorials as well as make some for your events. It is quite the hyper local tool. There is plugins for WordPress and Drupal, outside of the embedding feature. You can alway just link to a map as well.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Graphing Tools , geolocation, geotweet, maps

May 10, 2010 • 10:16 am 0

Retweet Rank – find any users rank in being retweeted

Retweet Rank allows anonymous or authenticated lookup (via oAuth) on the retweetability of a user. The formula seems to be easy. It is the ratio of the number of times a person is retweeted. I am not sure how the percentage helps you. I imagine the more your followers followers retweet you is even better, no?

The do run an ad down the right side when you use the service. Nothing major, but at least they are trying to monetize.

Filed under: Add-on Tools , retweet, retweetability

May 7, 2010 • 10:00 am 0

tDash – a clean web client focusing on productivity

tDash was sent to us to check out, so we did as expected. Dug in to give you the review. For starters, they use oAuth for login and promise a clean, simple interface. URLs are automagically shortened and you can also share pictures. I was curious how the interface would look. The left side broke down to:

Lists
Folders
Trends
Friends

You can view a screenshot of the dashboard right here. Some alternate abilities were in the toolbar at the top including reordering how tweets showed and advanced tools like direct messaging. An unread count next to each friend name was also available to see how much they have tweeted recently. I am not sure how far back it goes or how it keeps track. Each users is treated as a folder, and you can mark a folder as read.

Selecting a folder also gives you info on the person and their avatar. Sharing a picture brought a pop-up window allowing you to browse to your local computer and place some description. Allowing me to grab URLs of pictures on the web would be cool too. The very bottom (scroll if you have lots of friends) shows the API usage and what tweets it is pulling in.

Ok, in summary then. A clean interface yes. Some unique features with the folder idea and read/unread. A killer web based client? No. A useful one in a pinch, yes. I know they are in early stages, so we will check back when they do more updates.

Filed under: Web Clients , web client