Monitter: Real Time Live Twitter Search

Published at August 11, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Monitter is a new addition to the ever growing list if twitter apps, it is the best application for monitoring twitter for real time updates on topics of interest. It allows you to search for three keywords at a time in a nice jQuery mashup interface.
If you are interested in tracking what people are talking [...]

Beware with Twitter Links, Malware Arrived on Twitter

Published at August 5, 2008   Filed Under Internet, Technology, Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Twitter links are mostly in short URL format and you never know what you are clicking until you see the opened site. It is always better to click links from only trusted contacts.
Kaspersky folks are reporting that malware is making its way to twitter, Twitter, so be cautious with suspicious profiles and links. Some [...]

Nested Twitter Replies Greasemonkey Script

Published at July 26, 2008   Filed Under Firefox   0 Comments  

Twitter is awesome but sometimes it is not enough, the conversations are mixed in the timeline and it is difficult to follow them. If you are also feeling the same checkolut this Greasemonkey script by Pratham, it shows nested repelies in the twitter timeline.
The big advantage with this is that you don’t need to [...]

Twhirl Supports Identi.ca

Published at July 22, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Twhirl is one of the best twitter cleints out there, not only twitter it also supports Friendfee and cross-post to Pownce and Jaiku. The new version of the Twhirl added support for Identi.ca, the new

TweetDeck: Twitter Desktop Client

Published at July 13, 2008   Filed Under Tools, Web 2.0   0 Comments  

TweetDeck is a Twitter client with some useful features. It is an Adobe AIR application  which supports groups and has different panes to better categorize tweets.
With tweetdeck you can visualize tweets, replies, direct messaged in different panels. This is done using a local database to store tweets and then categorized in separate columns. It [...]

Identi.ca: Open Source Microblogging Platform

Published at July 2, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Identi.ca is an open source implementation of a distributed microblogging platform. There are enough twitter clones but this one is different from others. One of the striking features of this app is that you will have full control of your data, meaning if you want to migrate to another service you can take it with [...]

Create Twitter Extended Profiles

Published at July 1, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   4 Comments  

Early adopters and social media junkies use twitter for connecting with friends, peers and others, what if the profile page of twitter can be customized to include a simple bio of you so that others know your other online destinations. Adam at Mashable pointed out to a technique used by folks like @problogger to customize [...]

Plurk: Twitter Clone with a Timeline

Published at June 2, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Plurk is the new social microblogging tool that is buzzing all over the blogosphere today. When i signed up first it was confusing but then got used to it. So what is plurk, Plurk is a microblogging platform like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc but with rich user interface and some more features.