Whats New
Friday, July 25th, 2008
at 6:55am
Twitter may be experimenting with a new design, but even its new interface still leaves something to be desired. Tweenky, a new mashup that launched in private beta last week, is looking to offer Twitter users an alternative. The site sports an AJAX-heavy design that borrows heavily from Gmail (which isn’t a bad thing), and integrates a number of features that should appeal to Twitter powerusers. To get one of 200 invites, go here and enter the word ‘techcrunch’ as the invite code.
Users send new tweets from a form at the top of the page that includes integration with link-shortening sites snipurl.com and is.gd. The familiar left sidebar is broken into shortcuts, folders, and a list of hot topics taken from search.twitter.com (formerly Summize). Each folder represents a collapsible lists of keywords and Twitter users that you’ve subscribed to. The site also emulates Twitter’s Track function, which lets you keep tabs on a certain keyword over IM or SMS (Twitter used to have this feature, but disabled it earlier this year).
Tweenky isn’t doing anything revolutionary - all of its features are available elsewhere, either from twitter.com or TwitterSpy, which also provides Twitter’s lost tracking feature. But it brings everything together in a cohesive package that is much more intutive than most other attempts we’ve seen. For more information, check out Orli Yakuel’s introduction to the site.
(Via TechCrunch.)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
at 5:19pm
Today Data Robotics launched the second generation of its Drobo ’storage robot’. Drobo is a drive system that offers redundant data protection, and instant expandability allowing storage capacity to grow over time as need be. New enhancements in the second generation Drobo include an upgraded core processor, two FireWire 800 ports, dramatically increased USB 2.0 performance, and newly optimized firmware. If you held off on buying the first generation Drobo because it was USB only, this new one is for you.
Features include:
- Best in class performance
- Redundant data protection
- Hot expansion up to 16TB
- Ability to take advantage of mix and match drive capacities
- Two FireWire 800 ports (FireWire 400 compatible)
- One USB 2.0 port
The second generation Drobo is priced at USD$499 and also comes in a 2TB version for USD$899, and a 4TB version for USD$1,299. Discount codes are also available if you know where to look.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Drobo, take a video tour with Cali Lewis.
(Via MacMerc.com.)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
at 5:14pm
Google Maps wants to help you get where you’re going on foot with a new option to switch your step-by-step driving directions to walking directions. The main difference between walking and driving directions appears to be time estimates, with Google estimating your walking pace at about 19 minutes per mile. The walking directions appear to deviate from driving directions at times, though from trying it in my neighborhood I can’t pinpoint why it’s changing for the walking route. The other main difference is the ominous warning that I should ‘use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas.’ Thanks for the dose of fear, Google. (I guess the same doesn’t apply to driving?) We’d heard some users were seeing walking directions rolled out a few weeks ago, but it looks like Google has recently unveiled the feature to all users.
(Via Lifehacker.)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
at 4:10pm
The USB Data Link Watch is essentially ‘a simple digital watch, with an internal battery that’s charged when you plug it into a USB socket.’ Click here for first picture in gallery.
And then the same USB socket plugs back into the watch face, secured with PCB mount-style latches, with the ribbon cable as a strap.
(Via Tech Blog.)
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
at 12:08pm
Are you a Twitter fan? Twitter is everywhere in the news, it seems. It’s great for keeping in touch with friends, and even addictive, but a lot of people have been using it for more than just idle updates. Twitter’s concept is quite simple, but given the right tools, it can be harnessed into an instrument to help your business, like blogs have become. There are many apps out there, and I encourage you to continually search for the best out there. To get you started, I’ve compiled some tools you can try out.
1. Livetwitting. During the last Worldwide Developer Conference where Steve Jobs delivered his eagerly anticipated keynote to launch the next iPhone, the top tech blogs used Twitter to give almost real-time update to their readers. The speed at which you can broadcast information to a great number of people makes Twitter ideal for live events. Livetwitting extends this capability a little further by giving you the means to format and edit your tweets.
2. Twitter Groups. Ordinarily, your published tweets are sent to all your followers. However, there are times when we want only certain people to read certain updates. For example, random musings only to close friends, while work-related stuff to clients. Twitter Groups makes this possible by allowing you to organize your followers to certain categories, and send targeted tweets to each.
3. Tweet Volume. It’s a great and simple way to measure the popularity of a brand, a person, or a certain product on Twitter. TweetVolume counts the number of times a word or a phrase has appeared in tweets. Right now the data covers everything from the time Twitter started, but the site has plans to include an option for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly counts in the future.
4. Tweet Scan. Going a step further than Tweet Volume, Tweet Scan is a search engine for Twitter. It’s useful to see what people are saying about you or anything else of interest (like your competitors). You can search by keyword, author, and date with results available via email, RSS, and Twhirl.
5. Twitter PollDaddy. Want to know whether people prefer the iPhone over Blackberries? Omelets over pancakes? The possibilities are endless. PollDaddy enables you to easily conduct surveys through Twitter. All you need is a short question and a list of potential answers. This allows you to get a feel for the people’s pulse, and can be an invaluable tool for your business.
6. Twitter Feed. As tweets are really just another way to publish updates, Twitter Feed is a handy way to incorporate Twitter posts to blogs. It gets content from any site that supports RSS feeds and automatically places the link in your twitter account. A lot of people are already doing this manually anyway to get traffic, so Twitter Feed should make things easier.
7. Twit Response. If you have any time-sensitive announcements, TwitResponse will let you write them and publish them later. The means to hold this information until they’re ready is very important in some businesses where timing is everything, especially in dealing with events, holidays, and product launchings.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
at 8:39pm
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
at 9:00pm
Tuesday Night Tech once again returns and that means it’s time for the best LIVE party on the internet! Your TNT hosts Bill ‘Dr. Soos’ Soucy and Mark H. Delfs comb through their mostly-disturbing Google Newsreader Tech Stories and bring you the best (and usually comical) stories of the week. Fire up your browser and head to our live video page and help us craft the Tuesday Night Tech Show at 9:00PM (EST).As always, here is the weekly schedule:
9:00PM (EST): The TNT Preshow
10:00PM (EST): The Recording of the Weekly Podcast
11:00PM (EST): The TNT Postshow
As usual, join the official TNT chatroom (which are a bunch of drunk and rowdy fans!) hosted by Ustream.tv. Bring your favorite cocktail and join us each and every Tuesday!
Show Links:
Monday, November 12th, 2007
at 10:06pm
Makes fun of windows users for downgrading back to XP from Vista.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
at 9:38pm
The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold. Of course, it’s easy to spot who gets an Android device first: T-Mobile and Sprint. And it’s easy to understand why underdogs like them would be the first two carriers to sign on to the initiative. But let’s look a little deeper, to see why the gPhone/Android platform is off to a much better start than the iPhone, and why you probably won’t have to switch to a carrier you don’t want to get a phone you might really love.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
at 6:25pm
Tin Man is a miniseries coming to the SciFi channel in December. It is a complete re-imagining of the world of The Wizard of Oz. A dystopian urban fantasy world. Be sure to also check out “The Infinite OZ” at the link; it’s a very impressive flash presentation. This could possibly be one of the best films/miniseries to come to TV this year.
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