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 HappyTwitDay.

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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 using “tastyping” as invitation code.
• Battlefield Heroes is a free cartoon-style game from the people behind Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2. The game is currently in closed beta, but accepting testers from time to time.

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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, but can they replace twitter? Read more

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Linking By The Beta News

In the nature of this blog’s name I’ve gathered a bunch of applications and services, that are in beta.

• StumbleRank - Are you one of the top stumblers? You can add yourself and see who has the most followers. Rank is calculated on number of fans and reviews.
• Spanning Sync 2.0 - Sync your Gmail contacts with your Address Book and your Google Calendar with iCal. This is Mac only. Remember to back up your Gmail and Google Calendar first.
• Twine - Let’s you network with people who share your interests and hobbies. I have 30 Twine invitations. Let me know if you are interested.
• Evernote - Capture information with whatever device you have at hand. It doesn’t support Firefox 3 yet, so I haven’t tried the browser version. Evernote only supports Windows Mobiles too. No Linux support either, so not completely sure about the sales pitch. Let me know if you want an invite.

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A Day In The Life Of Twitter

This is only my second video, so please be gentle.

Using summize.com I’ve gathered some of the tweets from desperate, disappointed or even angry twitterers after twitter.com’s nasty downtime last Wednesday.

Which program and on which hardware I made the video is not important, at least not now, but it’s a part of my quest for the Apple. Read more

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Linking By The Beta News

It’s time for another batch of very useful links:

• Twitter.com is down a lot and the latest statistics from Pingdom confirms this. From January to April twitter has been down 37 hours and 16 minutes. That’s 18.5 minutes a day.
• Mahalo VLOG Idol continues and The Beta News favourite, Lisa Brewster is still going strong. All I (and Tyra Banks) can say is: Congratulations Lisa, you are still in the running of becoming America’s Next To….ehrrmmm…Mahalo Top Host.
• Duncan Riley, who I interviewed a few months ago, has left TechCrunch and started his own site, The Inquisitr, which features a mix of pop, tech and odd news.

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Linking By The Beta News

• Windows 7 milestone is ready next year. According to many rumours, some sort of release milestone of Windows 7 will be ready in a year. (I guessed that in January). Paul Thurrott has a screenshot gallery of Windows 7.
• Twingly, the spam-free blog search engine, launched it’s private beta last week. I’ve got my hands on 10 invitations and I can get a bunch more. Some are calling it the next Technorati. Let me know if you are interested.
• Dan from Minute44.com spent a great deal of time helping me correcting a few design issues on The Beta News. I really appreciate the help and I think you should stop by Minute44.com and check out Dan’s blog!

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-31

• Last day @ my old job is over. Had to return my laptop :-/ Anyone happening to travel to Denmark from the US? I need a new laptop #
• If you haven’t seen the TV Spot for Indiana Jones IV then see it here: http://tinyurl.com/3×5nsw/3/v33 #
• Celebrating 10 years of Mozilla today. 10 years already…Time flies…sometimes http://www.mozilla.org/ #
• @chrisbrogan That’s not true…I can read…hmmm…. #
• WP 2.5 automated plugin update. Is that a tear in my eye..?! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-05

• @duncanriley lol what a hilarious site. Who comes up with this?! #
• @lisabettany Is this bunny pic something that requires you to send me a link? #
• RIP Gary Gygax. I didn’t know that until I saw the latest lolcats. What a way to find out… #
• Free wbebrowser for Nintendo Wii http://www.wiibrowser.com/ #
• Finally a search engine for beer lovers http://www.beerinfo.us/ #
• Checking my Facebook application invitations. 189 ignores later..Oh there is a ignore all-button /joke #
• If I were to buy a Mac Notebook in the US. In which store should I buy it? BestBuy? Electric City? Apple Store? #
• @byosko Hang in there Ben! You’ve had a very busy time so far. Surely there must be some light ahead #
• @byosko Ohh…Cold coffee. Then I can’t blame you. That’s a tough one. Perhaps you should buy one of these USB-coffee cup warmers #
• 12,3 Gb files on my HDD I didn’t know about. There is nothing like getting extra HDD space #
• Thank you very much for the link love @andybeal http://snurl.com/211i1 #
• @eMom Sounds really interesting. Can you reveal a bit about the blogs? #
• @JenniferLaycock You got it. I’ll go vote again. It’s a tough one to vote for though. Why not pay them all #
• @searchforchris Yes I am. I’ve been a member a year now! #
• @shoemoney I’m glad you finally like twitter and that you could be persuaded to try it again. How’s it working for you? #
• @shoemoney I think it’s important you find a good program. If twitterific is your thing then stick with it. I use twhirl. That’s a good alt. #
• @wilw It’s kinda funny. Democrats are pretty close to our liberal/conservative party. Republican is too far right. Noone is that extreme #
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is now available http://snurl.com/211zl #
• Don’t worry. I use Flock and Firefox. I just can’t help it. I’m curious. I have to see how IE8 works #
• Can anyone recommend a good twitter plugin for WP? I would like to gather all my daily twits in one post. #
• 20 mins. left. Looks like Real Madrid is out of Champions League #
• Hmm Real just equalised. This is thrilling 15 mins. left….C’mon Real!!! #
• Why the heck can Real play football (soccer) when it really counts… #
• That’s it for today. Good night! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-05

• @duncanriley lol what a hilarious site. Who comes up with this?! #
• @lisabettany Is this bunny pic something that requires you to send me a link? #
• RIP Gary Gygax. I didn’t know that until I saw the latest lolcats. What a way to find out… #
• Free wbebrowser for Nintendo Wii http://www.wiibrowser.com/ #
• Finally a search engine for beer lovers http://www.beerinfo.us/ #
• Checking my Facebook application invitations. 189 ignores later..Oh there is a ignore all-button /joke #
• If I were to buy a Mac Notebook in the US. In which store should I buy it? BestBuy? Electric City? Apple Store? #
• @byosko Hang in there Ben! You’ve had a very busy time so far. Surely there must be some light ahead #
• @byosko Ohh…Cold coffee. Then I can’t blame you. That’s a tough one. Perhaps you should buy one of these USB-coffee cup warmers #
• 12,3 Gb files on my HDD I didn’t know about. There is nothing like getting extra HDD space #
• Thank you very much for the link love @andybeal http://snurl.com/211i1 #
• @eMom Sounds really interesting. Can you reveal a bit about the blogs? #
• @JenniferLaycock You got it. I’ll go vote again. It’s a tough one to vote for though. Why not pay them all #
• @searchforchris Yes I am. I’ve been a member a year now! #
• @shoemoney I’m glad you finally like twitter and that you could be persuaded to try it again. How’s it working for you? #
• @shoemoney I think it’s important you find a good program. If twitterific is your thing then stick with it. I use twhirl. That’s a good alt. #
• @wilw It’s kinda funny. Democrats are pretty close to our liberal/conservative party. Republican is too far right. Noone is that extreme #
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is now available http://snurl.com/211zl #
• Don’t worry. I use Flock and Firefox. I just can’t help it. I’m curious. I have to see how IE8 works #
• Can anyone recommend a good twitter plugin for WP? I would like to gather all my daily twits in one post. #
• 20 mins. left. Looks like Real Madrid is out of Champions League #
• Hmm Real just equalised. This is thrilling 15 mins. left….C’mon Real!!! #
• Why the heck can Real play football (soccer) when it really counts… #
• That’s it for today. Good night! #

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