The Kids' Guide to the Internet. Twitter people search and lists directory. First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard. You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this.
You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news aggregators like Techmeme, Google News, Skygrid, Yahoo News, Hacker News, or Huffington Post, but you’ve never seen one like this. What is “this?” It’s Flipboard. It’s from a new company you’ve never heard from before. What is Flipboard? The differentiator for Flipboard is the design. 1. To get a sense of how dramatically different Flipboard is from any other Facebook or Twitter client, you should watch the video we filmed with McCue where he demoed the app for our cameras.
So, why is this disruptive, or even, revolutionary? Techcrunch has covered that in a second post about why Flipboard is a killer app that — on first look — appears very disruptive to Twitter client producers, news readers, and news aggregator/publishing companies. Twitter Changes Tweet Storage Strategy, Confirms Realtime Analytics Product. Twitvid. Twitter data buffet is back in business. Almost a year and a half ago, Infochimps, the data repository slash marketplace, released a giant scrape of Twitter data representing 2.7 million users, 10 million tweets, and 58 million connections.
Twitter soon requested that they take it down while they figured out how they wanted to handle licensing, privacy, etc. That was in 2008, before Twitter really started booming. Fast forward to now. Twitter and Infochimps have figured out what they want to do, and the Twitter census data is back up. It's no longer a measly 2.7 million users anymore though. This time around, instead of one big data dump, Infochimps provides large datasets for several metrics.
Here are the free ones: These will cost you, ranging from $20 to all the way up to $800. Twitter To Begin Wrapping All Links With Official t.co Link Shor. Big changes are coming to Twitter links.
In a post just published on the Twitter blog, the company has announced that it will soon be using a new official link shortening service t.co to wrap all links shared on Twitter. Starting some time this summer, every time you share a link through either the Twitter web client or a third-party, it will be wrapped in a link with the format t.co/******. So what does this mean for the Twitter ecosystem? Twitter VP of Product Jason Goldman says that the feature serves three purposes. First, it’s going to help Twitter crack down on spam, as the service will be able to accurately monitor the distribution of each link, and it can warn users when it thinks a link may be malicious.
The confusing part about t.co is that many users won’t really be aware of it. Goldman says that the “goal is not to build a brand around t.co”. Bettween Makes Tracking And Sharing Twitter Conversations Even E. Paper.li Lets You Read Twitter In Daily Newspaper Form, Raises M. Exclusive – SmallRivers, a fledging Internet startup based out of Switzerland that has developed a Web app called Paper.li that basically lets you turn Twitter streams, tags and lists into daily online newspapers, has landed more cash after inking a $1 million seed funding deal back in 2008.
Investing in this new round are a group of unnamed ‘reputed Web 2.0 business angels’ along with German investment and media group Econa and Kima Ventures, the early-stage investment firm started by French entrepreneurs Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi. Paper.li, launched in alpha mode last April, organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-skim page that makes it look like an online newspaper’s homepage. Virtual, personalized newspapers can be created for any Twitter user (TechCrunch), list (Robert Scoble’s ‘most influential in tech’ list) or tag (#oilspill). On a sidenote: Niel is also one of the many angel investors behind Jack Dorsey’s Square.