Instant Tweetup iPhone App Helps You To Do Just That. Recently released iPhone app Instant Tweetup provides a straightforward interface that, if the developer knocked off the $1.99 price tag (UPDATE: the app is now free, see comments), it could be an instant smash. We came across Instant Tweetup (@instanttweetup) while browsing through the Twitter app directory, oneforty. With no reviews either on oneforty or on Apple’s App Store, it seems as if this very useful app has gone completely unnoticed since its launch in late January 2010, and we suspect that US$1.99 price tag was partially to blame. That’s too bad, because this well done, simple app, does exactly what the name implies – it lets you find and invite nearby Twitterers to an impromptu tweetup. Here’s how the app works. After you buy it (again, we strongly suggest that this app be free) and launch it, all you do is use the simple slider bar to find people within 1-10 miles or kilometers (a nice touch) and click “Find peeps”.
New Study Shows 'Intent' Behind Mobile Internet Use -- NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new survey announced today by Ruder Finn, one of the world's largest, independent public relations agencies, Americans are spending an average of 2.7 hours on the mobile Internet – connecting socially, managing their personal finances, and even as a means for advocacy. Ruder Finn's first-ever Mobile Intent Index studies mobile phone user habits and explores the underlying reasons – or intent – people have for accessing the mobile Internet: According to the Mobile Intent Index, mobile phone users do not access the mobile Internet for educational purposes or for creative expression, as the transitory nature of mobile intent goes against spending time to engage in discussions about personal issues. As expected, usage by gender and age differ – with men accessing the mobile Internet 'to escape,' and women making others laugh.
Additionally, the data underscores the rise of phone applications. SOURCE Ruder Finn. Google Reader Gets (More) Personal with Recommendations. The NYT’s blogs are set to be paywalled | Analysis & Opinion | R. Arthur Sulzberger, Janet Robinson, and Martin Nisenholtz of the NYT all took the opportunity of hosting today’s PaidContent conference to talk at length about their paywall plans. Which makes it all the more surprising that their message was so garbled: when they weren’t simply refusing to say anything at all, they were giving three conflicting answers to the same question. Nisenholtz did say quite clearly that he expected ad revenue to go up rather than down, which implied to me that that paywall was going to be pretty porous. And Sulzberger said that “we are not trying to eliminate ourselves from the digital ecosystem”.
But when I asked about specifics, it all got rather messy. That shocked me: blogs rely on loyal readers who come back to read them often. My guess is that if Nisenholtz does this, a lot of the branded blogs on nytimes.com, including both Freakonomics and Paul Krugman, will simply leave and set (back) up on their own. Kindle reader arrives on BlackBerry. BBC image chief accused of conflict of interest after seeking To. The BBC's head of corporate affairs, Tina Stowell, is attempting to become a Conservative candidate in the general election, prompting Labour calls for her to resign to avoid a conflict of interest.
Stowell, a former senior adviser to William Hague, runs the department responsible for protecting the BBC's image and lobbying politicians in Westminster. Despite working for the Tory party before joining the BBC in 2001, Stowell has not been a member or "politically active" since working for the corporation, BBC sources said. She was accepted on to the approved list of Conservative candidates in November, at which point she informed senior people at the BBC and was told she could not represent or speak for the BBC for the duration of her campaign. Two weeks ago she lost out in the selection of the Tory candidate for Bromsgrove, but she is hoping to secure another candidacy. The Tories have been aggressive critics of the BBC over the past year.
Tigereffect - Uploaded by tim. Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day. Labour to copy Obama election model - 22 Feb 2010 - Computing. Obama's campaign will be used as a model Labour will model its election strategy this year on Barack Obama's winning campaign which made the internet central to spreading his message, according to the party's election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander. In an interview with the Guardian Alexander said Labour is investing in a system that enables party members to contact voters online to build support. The system will complement rather than replace offline campaigning, Alexander said.
Last year he went to speak to the Obama team and expected them to tell him that modern campaigning should be focused around the internet. "Actually they said this is about to peer-to-peer communication – the internet just gives you new ways of having that conversation," Alexander said. "Historically Labour has used technology as a form of control. The internet was widely seen as a key factor in Barack Obama's US presidential election victory last year. Finance. NYTimes.com announced today a collaboration with New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute to create a new Local community news and information Web site covering the East Village in New York City. The Local East Village site will be developed by N.Y.U.’s journalism faculty and students and is scheduled to launch later this fall.
Richard G. Jones, an award-winning veteran journalist and former New York Times reporter, will serve as the editor of the site. Together with N.Y.U. professors Yvonne Latty and Darragh Worland, Mr. N.Y.U. will coordinate with Mary Ann Giordano, a New York Times deputy Metropolitan editor, on the editorial content for The Local East Village. “This collaboration with The New York Times emphasizes our commitment to the highest journalistic standards in providing an innovative model source of news and information about and for our East Village neighborhood,” said Brooke Kroeger, director, the Carter Journalism Institute.
How Paul Krugman found politics. When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column, or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist Paul Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, go to St. Croix. Here it is warm, and the days are longer, and the phone doesn’t ring much. Here they live in a one-bedroom condo they bought a few years ago, nothing fancy but right on the beach. The condo’s walls are yellow and blue, the furniture is made of wicker, there are pillows and seashells. There are tall, sprawling bougainvillea bushes along the side of the road. “We first fell in love with St.
John,” Krugman says. “But St. “Our complex is more Midwesterners. The east end of St. “The west end is where the whites who’ve gone native live,” Wells says. “It was Buffalo Springfield.” “Yes, Springfield, O.K. Here Krugman wears the same shirt for days, a short-sleeved plaid cotton shirt, and bathing trunks. Study Buddy? College Offers Choice of iPad or MacBook | Cult of. Organize party pics or study? Hmmm. @Gizmodo In the competitive rush to win over students and parents by providing the latest technology, one university is letting freshmen decide between an iPad and MacBook Pro. First-year students at George Fox University in Oregon have been handed personal computers along with their orientation packets for the last 20 years.
The devices are included with tuition. School officials admit they don’t know how much help an iPad will be for trig or anthropology homework. “The trend in higher education computing is this concept of mobility, and this fits right in,” Greg Smith, the university’s chief information officer, said in a press release.
“At the same time, we realize there are a number of uncertainties. So the school will offer both in fall 2010. “How the numbers work out will be interesting, but no matter what I think we will see many iPads, iPhones and iTouches throughout the undergraduate population,” Smith said. Related. College News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and f. Penny Arcade! - A Cyclical Argument With A Literal Strawman.
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For my first 2.5 years at The Patriot-News I covered the residential school for underprivileged children, so I offered to help find classmates who knew him in the 30 minutes I had before I needed to leave for another commitment. I first checked the two main online forums where alumni gather — the Milton Hershey Alumni Forums and TheMilt.com — but no one was discussing it yet. So I turned to Facebook. I searched for “Milton Hershey School,” but there was no discussion on the school’s main fan page, nor in several other general groups. Then I tried “Milton Hershey School Class of,” hoping to find his specific graduating class. Less than an hour earlier, one classmate had written on the group’s wall: Once again, my phone rings. It’s another of the classmates I had messaged. Evangelize the Ambassador, Not the Brand « JessicaRandazza. Who are the National Bullying Helpline? | Tory Troll. The BBC are leading on claims from Christine Pratt of the "National Bullying Helpline" that members of Gordon Brown's staff called them on "three or four" occasions.
Now this story immediately smelt funny to me. Why would a charity breach apparent confidences like that? And why have I never heard of this supposedly national organisation? Well according to the original BBC report: "Ms Pratt said the helpline was "a non-political organisation". Now this may or may not be true, but the BBC did not appear to have made even the most elementary of checks before running the story. In fact a quick look at NBH's website reveals: A personal endorsement from Conservative leader David CameronOne of their patrons is Conservative MP Ann WiddecombeAnother patron is Boris Johnson's Chair of the London Health Authority, Conservative Cllr Mary O'ConnorThey have close ties to Conservative controlled Swindon borough Council. There are also doubts about whether NBH is actually a functioning charity at all. Microsoft about to offer Windows users a browser choice screen | Microsoft's web browser choice screen Microsoft is about to start offering Windows users a "Web browser choice screen" as required by a settlement agreed with the European Commission's competition department last year.
As part of the testing process, some users in the UK, Belgium and France will see it next week. It will be rolled out in 30 European countries next month, but not worldwide. The browser choice screen was preferred over Microsoft's earlier decision to ship boxed copies of Windows 7 without a browser at all. In a blog post, Dave Heiner, Microsoft's Deputy General Counsel, said: "Internal testing of the choice screen is underway now. We'll begin a limited roll-out externally next week, and expect that a full scale roll-out will begin around March 1, a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. " Under the scheme, Microsoft's automated Windows Update service will present users with a screen showing a range of browsers, with the top five presented in random order.
Abbey Road studios 'not for sale', says EMI. Music group EMI has said it is not considering selling London's Abbey Road studios. EMI released a statement saying the studios, made famous by a Beatles album, should stay under its ownership. The firm added it had rejected an offer for the historic building last year and was working with "third parties" about funding a "revitalisation project". It ends days of speculation after it was reported that struggling EMI would sell Abbey Road to ease debts. The reports led to Facebook campaigns to try to save it, the National Trust said it would look into buying the property and even composer Andrew Lloyd Webber expressed an interest in owning the studio. However, on Sunday EMI said that while it was looking for an investor in the site, based at 3 Abbey Road in St John's Wood, it was not looking for a buyer. 'Revitalise studios' "Abbey Road studios had, for a number of years, been losing money and we have developed plans to revitalise the studios.
Reid: Dems will use 50-vote tactic to finish healthcare in 60 da. Democrats will finish their health reform efforts within the next two months by using a majority-vote maneuver in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said. Reid said that congressional Democrats would likely opt for a procedural tactic in the Senate allowing the upper chamber to make final changes to its healthcare bill with only a simple majority of senators, instead of the 60 it takes to normally end a filibuster.
"I've had many conversations this week with the president, his chief of staff, and Speaker Pelosi," Reid said during an appearance Friday evening on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" in Nevada. "And we're really trying to move forward on this. " The majority leader said that while Democrats have a number of options, they would likely use the budget reconciliation process to pass a series of fixes to the first healthcare bill passed by the Senate in November.
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