The Beta News

Twittermania 8 New Twitter Services

The twittermania continues. “Every time a bell rings, a new twitter service gets it’s wings” - You may use this quote freely. It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new twitter services that are constantly launched. I’ve created a list of the most recent services. The list goes from Tweetmarks and spamplets to Hiimok and [...]

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9 Reasons Why Blogging Is Just Like Playing World Of Warcraft

I’ve had this post in my head for quite some time. I’m not sure if it will work, but I have to get it out of my head. I tried stabbing my brain with Q-tips, but it doesn’t help anymore. Statement: Blogging is just like a massively multi player online game, it could be World of [...]

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FIFA 09 News Launched But Which Ads Should I Show?

Last year’s successful launch of FIFA 2008 News inspired me to try again this year. Through hard work and a lot of viral marketing (commenting on blogs and forum participation) I managed to make FIFA 2008 News one of the major FIFA blogs. I’ve moved the entire blog to FIFA2009News.com and redirected the traffic to the [...]

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Holy Gadget Batman Apple Releases *Insert Name Here*

Warning:*This post may contain spoilers!* As the picture shows Apple has done it again. They’ve just announced it at the WWDC08 in San Francisco. I know that because I’m liveblogging from the PWAAWWDC08 (People Who Aren’t Attending WWDC08 aka. my living room). They’ve taken *insert common gadget name here* reinvented and redesigned it. All I can say [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

I’ve found a new batch of really interesting links. Plurk is the new microblogging service that everyone is talking about. It can be a very addictive. RevenueRobot has gathered a few Plurk tools. I can recommend the Plurk tracking tool. Ping.fm let’s you post to all your microblogging sites at once or update your statuses. Sign up [...]

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Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce

It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users. But what are the alternatives? There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]

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