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Election Results According To Twitter

Is there anything Twitter can’t do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together by Setfive Consulting . They’re parsing...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
Twitter: Hey! We're hiring!

Biz Stone, co-founder of microblogging service Twitter, sent out an e-mail to the site's members on Monday night. The take-home point: They're hiring. "We're hoping to hire for a bunch of new positions," the e-mail read. "If you or someone you know wants to work at a small...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
Politics and Baseball on Twitter: Who’s on First?

As was expected, coverage of election campaigning in the U.S. at this point in time has reached a frenzied pinnacle. And we’ve paid a good share of attention to the race, as you may have gathered over the past several months. Yet, there is now another event currently underway, albeit considerably less...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-25-2008
People Search Site 123people Goes International

123people is a people search engine that has been in private beta since February of this year. Originally covering only Europe, the company is throwing open its doors to international people searches with a US launch and going into open beta today. If you have ever heard that nothing is private on the...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
How to Improve Your Twinfluence and Twitter Grade

There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks about two Twitter ranking tools, Twitter Grader and Twinfluence . Any tool that measures the effectiveness of a Social Media site for a user is important to serious and casual users alike. The fact that there are now two tools presenting a user...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
StockTwits or How to Recognize a Real Need

StockTwits is an application built on top of Twitter . It focuses on stock trading, letting users discuss their latest stock trades in an interface similar to that of Twitter, but with some additional features like graphs and the ability to filter messages by stock. It’s not an entirely new application;...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-17-2008
I’ve Got Good News and Bad News

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, and an interesting day, too, as it turns out. As I alternate this evening between scrolling through the editorial inbox, the corporate newsfeeds, it’s hard not to notice a couple of seemingly diametrically opposed trends taking place. As is expected...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Flock 2.0 out of beta: Gets current Mozilla engine, MySpace support, more

Flock is the browser for people who love features but hate plug-ins and extensions. There's very little you can do in the product that you can't also do by layering extensions to your Firefox installation, but in Flock they're all preconfigured and integrated into the browsing experience...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-15-2008
Trendrr Makes Graphs That Move With Time | The Startup Review

Company Name Trendrr 20-Word Description Trendrr tracks consumption trends across leading social media and e-commerce sites. Users can track, compare and share graphs easily for free. CEO’s Pitch Trendrr is a service that tracks and graphs consumption trends and activity across the digital spectrum...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
The startup squeeze

Startups that don’t have revenues or a business model, like Seesmic or Twitter, are going to get squeezed big time in the next six months. Already we’ve seen how Seesmic responded to that coming squeeze yesterday. It got skinnier to make the squeeze easier to take. They will be joined over...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-11-2008

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