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Aug 10

Slashdot Technology Story | Can Twitter and Facebook Deal Wi

Barence writes; One and a half million Facebook users die each year. Twitter faces a similar mortality rate. Yet the social networks have been relatively slow to deal with the uncomfortable business of death

…As a funeral director I can make a few observations.Deleting the accounts is a bad idea. Many of these accounts serve as online memorials to people’s loved ones. Even if the person is no longer around to post or update their profiles, loved ones may take comfort in the fact that the deceased is still in their social network. Many of the people using social networks are still young people and most of their deaths are unexpected (accidents, suicides, homicides) and many of the survivors are still dealing with the reality of the situation. I think many of these companies need to be sensitive to the needs of the grieving and in an age where user loyalty is everything they should hold onto these accounts in the interests of of being sensitive to the grieving who make up part of their still alive user base.If you ever want access to the content of somebody who died then you need to have the executor of the estate forward a page from the will outlining who the executor of the will is and a copy of the funeral…

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Aug 10

Twitux Minimal, but Light Twitter Client

Today I present Twitux, an early Twitter Client created, but its genesis to now has not changed much. The original aim was to create a thin client application, small and simple desktop, and is exactly what he does. Developed using the GTK libraries for GNOME, the user interface is logical and easy to understand this because there are not…

…Today I present Twitux, an early Twitter Client created, but its genesis to now has not changed much. The original aim was to create a thin client application, small and simple desktop, and is exactly what he does. Developed using the GTK libraries for GNOME, the user interface is logical and easy to understand this because there are not many features. This is a very basic client and nothing more than the minimum, Forget lists, groups, upload photos, of combining the address, translation, management of multiple accounts, tracking conversations, and so on. Twitux not even come to support the “retweet”. We meet our friends, and we can follow if they know of their new username and insert it manually. There is no system of research, there is no mechanism to filter mail and contacts, objectively, any useful function and which we have a tremendous need, and there is not enough. point. What you get with Twitux is an attractive feed reader Twitter. It is planned to develop new features? In short, no. The development…

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Aug 10

KeyTweet Finds Most Relevant Links for You From Twitter

Unless you’ve mastered the art of not blinking, you probably miss updates from connections on Twitter. Even the most attentive of people will have gaps in their attention to the real time stream. In early beta, is a site called KeyTweet, which finds relevant tweets that contain links, based on keywords in the streams of those you follow.

…Unless you’ve mastered the art of not blinking, you probably miss updates from connections on Twitter. Even the most attentive of people will have gaps in their attention to the real time stream. As Twitter has become a prominent place to share links and point followers to news and sites of interest, new services have arisen to find the best of what you may have missed. Among the newest, in early beta, is a site called KeyTweet, which finds relevant tweets that contain links, based on keywords in the streams of those you follow.

KeyTweet, like Cadmus and My6sense’s offerings before it, aims to find a relevancy filter for Twitter, to surface important updates and hide the more trivial. But instead of using implicit activity, as my6sense does, or collapsing duplicates and finding conversations as The Cadmus does, KeyTweet finds popular topics that people you follow tweeted about, and brings tweets that match multiple keywords to the top of your stream, sorted by relevance.

Top Topics from My Followers Today…

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Aug 10

fflick Turns Twitter Into A Crowdsourced Movie Critic

fflick is movie reviews by you and your friends.

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Jul 10

Top 10 Best Android Social Media Apps | Top 10 Lists: Ayzor.

Android has a wide range of applications for Android users. If you have android phone, I will suggest you to take a look at these apps for social media.

…Android has a wide range of applications for Android users. If you have android phone, I will suggest you to take a look at these apps for social media. These apps are very useful for you mobile phone android based. These apps included a Twitter client for Android, Digg, Delicious bookmarks manager, MySpace and Facebook apps, music and contacts managers. Here you can see top ten best android social media apps.
01: fBook-…

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Jul 10

Are social networking sites addictive?

Find out if sites like Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites are addictive.

…Popular Web Site Image GalleryDan Kitwood/Getty ImagesIs this you late a night — eyes locked on your favorite site? See more pictures of popular web sites.
In April 2009, Oprah Winfrey logged on to Twitter and sent her first “tweet,” taking online social networking out of the hands of the computer-savvy and into the living rooms of every American. These days it seems like everyone and their grandma has a Facebook page, Twitter account or LinkedIn profile. People are logging on every day, obsessively updating their profiles and checking the status updates of their online friends. It’s a fun way to pass the time and stay in touch, but can these sites be dangerous? Can you become addicted to social networking?
Social networking is not a new concept. In fact, it’s been around as long as we have. A social network is simply the structure of relationships among individuals. Everyone on the planet is part of one big social network, but we also belong to smaller, more distinct subnetworks. We define these…

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Jul 10

Interview with Australian Designer Yiying Lu(Twitter artist)

LTL PRINTS has launched an exclusive collection of Yiying Lu premium wall graphics, featuring artwork and giant character cut-outs from the acclaimed Australian artist + designer. PLUS: an interview with Yiying!

…Fun.
I believe that Great Design should serve a purpose, yet the expression should be organic and intuitive.
Simply: I want to reach people intellectually AND make them smile.
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Yiying at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art:
I previewed my new wall art collections at the 2010 Creative Sydney opening at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art and revealed some of the new friends of Fail Whale in my Sticker Photo Booth Project with photographer Prue Lewington.
These animals and speech bubbles have been printed as premium repositionable self-adhesive wall graphics from LTL PRINTS. People who came to the opening could choose their favorite character(s) by sticking the chosen ones onto themselves or the white walls in the photobooth. And people really had fun!
Some photos from the opening night below.
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http://www.myspace.com/fantinepritoula
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Guests at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art were also invited to use the speech bubble sticker (which is also the shape of the Tweety Bird)…

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Jul 10

5 Free Tools to AutoFollow Your Followers on Twitter

Here are few free tools which will help you to follow the Twitter users which are following you.

…t suggest that you must follow all the followers who are following you, and not select the ones which are of same interest and you find their tweets useful. This will help you to avoid spamming on your timeline and you can also make your Twitter profile powerful.
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There are Twitter tools like SocialOomph, Geeky reciprocate. which also provides feature to follow your followers on Twitter but as I have already covered those tools in our previous articles about Twitter,I would prefer to share few other useful twitter tools which will help you to follow twitter users who are following you on Twitter.

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Here are 5 free tools to follow your followers:
FriendorFollow:
FriendorFollow is an twitter tool which will help you to get quick glance about your followers, mutual friends and fans. Thus you can easily select the twitter user who are following you and…

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Jul 10

Finding a celebrity’s location using their twitter username

Using a celebrity’s Twitter username, ZaaLabs was able to scrape GPS data from many of their photos, including places of residence.

…Last week one of my favorite video podcasts, Hak5, had a segment on Exif data mining (Episode 721). In the episode Rob Fuller (a.k.a. Mubix) shared his experience, how his images contained unwanted GPS information embedded in the Exif headers.
While mining Exif information from images is nothing new (Version 2.1 of the specification is dated June 12, 1998) most consumers don’t realize the kind of information attached to their images by default.
In February of this year, Johannes Ullrich over at ISC published a paper titled Twitpic, EXIF and GPS: I Know Where You Did it Last Summer. Johannes explains:
Modern cell phones frequently include a camera and a GPS. Even if a GPS is not included, cell phone towers can be used to establish the location of the phone. Image formats include special headers that can be used to store this information, so called EXIF tags.
So after watching the segment, I was curious how widespread the issue is and decided to conduct my own investigation, codenamed Seeker.
Harvesting…

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Jul 10

Buzzbird - Easy Client for Twitter 0.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

Buzzbird is an easy to use client for Twitter that will enable you to manage several accounts and communicate with your friends. All you need to do is install it and login to be able to manage your tweets.Features: * Multiple Account Support * Selective filter views (can choose Timeline, @mentions, direct…

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