Twitter @anywhere

Twitter has developed a new set of frameworks to let consumers tweet, and follow others' tweets, from within other websites outside of Twitter. The user may, for example, “twitter” a YouTube video without leaving, subscribe to the Twitter account of a writer at the Huffington Post, or to that of a journalist from The New York Times through a link in the text. Analysts said the framework could spread Twitter activity far beyond its current boundaries.


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Twitter Use Has Been Steadily Climbing - 600 Tweets Per Second!

Wow, Twitter is so powerful media in this era. The numbers of Twitter users has gone up from time to time. A study from RJMetrics Inc. showed that 10 to 15 million active tweeters using Twitter right now. The numbers of tweet are also climbing up to 50 millions tweets a day. It's about 600 tweets per second. Can you imagine that? No wonder, recently, Yahoo and Twitter announced a deal to put Twitter feeds on Yahoo homepages, e-mail accounts, Yahoo Sports and other sites in a broad content-sharing agreement that also includes Twitter in Yahoo search results. I really hope that every Twitter users has an opportunity to make a lot of money by Twitter and not just spamming the others.

Amazon Kindle For BlackBerry

A brand new Kindle application has been released by Amazon which allow customers to read and buy e-book from their Blackberry smartphone. According to Amazon spokesperson Ian Freed, BlackBerry users have been clamoring for an indigenous app every since the company introduced its popular Kindle for the iPhone program in 2009. You can download Amazon Kindle for the BlackBerry here.


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YouTube New Content Filter

A new content filter called "Safety Mode" has been introduced by YouTube lately. The interesting part is it can help parents screen out content they may think as offensive like sexually suggestive clips and graphic violence. It also hides all text comments by default. To use the filter, just scroll to the bottom of any YouTube page and click "Safety Mode is off" on the bottom left. Click "On" and "Save" to activate the filter. The filter only works whenever you are logged-in and once you're logged-out, the filter is deactivated.

Yahoo Sells HotJobs to Monster for $225 Million?

In 2002, Yahoo bought HotJobs recruiting site for $436 million in stock and cash. Now Yahoo sold its HotJobs to Monster Worldwide for $225 million. As part of the deal, Monster will provide career and jobs content on the Yahoo home page for three years in the U.S. and Canada. In return, Yahoo will make annual payments to Monster based on clicks and how many people express interest in job postings. Monster will be able to negotiate similar deals with Yahoo subsidiaries in other countries. If the deal is approved by regulators, Monster plans to take over HotJobs between June and October.



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Bill Gates Join Twitter

Hey geeks, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates finally started using Twitter (@BillGates). I think the account is held by Gates because it is one of the pages that Twitter lists as a "verified account". His first tweet was "Hello World" (Hello World is actually an output of a simple program that is taught to beginner programmers) and now he has 369,210 followers. He also retweet posts from Time and Ryan Seacrest on Haiti, thanking Seacrest for his work in the quake relief effort.

Facebook Is The Most Popular Mobile Social Network

According to the latest State of the Mobile Web report by Opera, Facebook is now the most popular mobile social network. Twitter was the other big winner in 2009 and saw its usage surge by 2800%. All the listed Social Networking sites, other than Friendster, experienced significant growth in 2009. The other interesting data to emerge from Opera’s analysis is the overwhelming dominance of Nokia in South-East Asia. In Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and India each of the top 10 mobile phones were manufactured by Nokia.

The Top Facebook Status Trends for 2009

The top most discussed topics of 2009 has been released by Facebook. It is taken based on daily status updates by Facebook members. To reach its conclusions, Facebook looked at how many times a given one- to four-word phrase was used in Facebook status updates, and then computed the rate at which each phrase was used in 2009 compared to 2008. The number one trend was Facebook applications, specifically the discussion of FarmVille in status updates. Farmville became the most talked-about application in status updates and now boasts over 72 million monthly active users. To be frankly, this games really addicted and I'm the one of the users.



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Google Homepage "Fades In" When The Page First Loads

If you are a Google users, did you recognized something different on Google homepage lately? All I can see is that Google didn't show any of the links in the image on the right of their pages until a homepage visitor moves his or her mouse. It shows only their logo, the search box and the buttons. Good idea actually because most people just use google for searching, so it makes sense in that way. So what's next Google!?


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Twitter - The Top Words of 2009

According to the Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the world, "Twitter" beat out "Obama," "H1N1," "stimulus," and "vampire" to take the crown. The analysis was completed in late November using GLM’s Predictive Quantities Indicator (PQI), the proprietary algorithm that tracks words and phrases in the media and on the Internet, now including blogs and social media. The words are tracked in relation to frequency, contextual usage and appearance in global media outlets, factoring in long-term trends, short-term changes, momentum and velocity. Below is the top words of 2009:

1. Twitter — The ability to encapsulate human thought in 140 characters

2. Obama — The word stem transforms into scores of new words like ObamaCare

3. H1N1 — The formal (and politically correct) name for Swine Flu

4. Stimulus — The $800 billion aid package meant to help mend the US economy

5. Vampire — Vampires are very much en vogue, now the symbol of unrequited love

6. 2.0 — The 2.0 suffix is attached to the next generation of everything

7. Deficit — Lessons from history are dire warnings here

8. Hadron — Ephemeral particles subject to collision in the Large Hadron Collider

9. Healthcare — The direction of which is the subject of intense debate in the US

10. Transparency — Elusive goal for which many 21st c. governments are striving

11. Outrage — In response to large bonuses handed out to ‘bailed-out’ companies

12. Bonus — The incentive pay packages that came to symbolize greed and excess

13. Unemployed — And underemployed amount to close to 20% of US workforce

14. Foreclosure — Forced eviction for not keeping up with the mortgage payments

15. Cartel — In Mexico, at the center of the battle over drug trafficking

Twitter Plans To Introduce Tools For Business Users

Twitter was planning to roll out a package of tools for business users of the site by the end of the year. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that Twitter's plan focused on two core phases:

- Phase one has and is being spent collecting intelligence on how people use the service.

- The second phase will see Twitter launching tools and services on top of free micro-blogging, these premium tools will be aimed at companies that wish to use Twitter to stay in touch with customers.

Regarding the type of products, although there was no definite answer, Stone says it will be “simple stuff” such as lightweight analytics.


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Anti-Fraud Credit Card

You think you may have misplaced your card and it may possibly be at home somewhere. Then you quickly realize that this is not the case when your credit card bill comes in and there are charges that you could not have possibly made because your "card is in the house somewhere." Though this is the worst case scenario, this does happen very frequently. Once your bill arrives and you see the unauthorized charges you should be on the phone immediately reporting credit card fraud. In today's poor economy, criminal acts are becoming more of a problem.

Emue Technologies has unveiled the next generation of its anti-fraud credit card. The device combines a world first embedded 14-segment E Ink display with a 12-button numeric keypad, microprocessor and, despite being the same size as a conventional card, a battery designed to last for three years. To authenticate a phone or online transaction, the user enters the transaction information and their PIN with the keypad to generate a one-time-only authentication code that appears on the E-Ink display.

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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!

Mozilla is celebrating Firefox's fifth birthday yesterday(November 9th 2009) by proclaiming 330 million users worldwide. Firefox 1.0? Since then, the company says that 330 million users choose Firefox — Mozilla claims that it's one-fourth of the Internet population using their browser. For me, it's never been perfect, but it's always been better. So, Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!




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Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect(their social networking service), which launched in December 2008, is currently in use on over 9 million sites. Now, Google is updating Friend Connect to allow Web site owners personalize their content and online ads while also offering community-building tools. Google is also adding AdSense units to Friend Connect if you'd like to display those on your site. The new features of Friend Connect are aimed at connecting individual users to each other, more than centralized, connected profiles. According to Google Blog:

The interests people share make it possible for you to create a more personalized experience on your website in a number of ways:

* Send custom newsletters: The new "Newsletter" section of your account lets you create, send and manage newsletters. And with the help of "Interests," you can either send out newsletters to all your subscribers, or send out custom newsletters to different segments of your subscribers, based on the interest responses they submit.
* Personalized content gadget: This new Friend Connect gadget automatically presents a dynamic personalized set of links to your site's content that matches each visitor's specific interests. Is a visitor learning how to play swing music? Links to articles your site has published about playing swing are presented to him or her.
* Google ads: For those of you who display ads on your website, your Friend Connect account now includes an "AdSense" section that lets you enable Google ad units that are matched both to your site's content and to the interests users publicly share on your website.

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How To Win Free Trips To YES2009?

The Youth Engagement Summit (YES2009) is a platform to create a cadre of engaged, active youth leaders dedicated to making positive changes happen in their communities and in the world. The summit brings together some of the most inspiring Global Change Icons to Kuala Lumpur to share their experiences with you.

Do you want to win a free trips to YES2009 worth USD$2,500? When you win a trip to YES2009, your flight, hotel, and summit pass worth USD2,500 will be paid for. You will be joining 500 Southeast Asian youth to meet global change icons, right here in Kuala Lumpur. Here's how to win your free trip to YES2009. Click here to signup and answer 3 questions.

Google Will Launch A Music Service Soon?

Google plans to get into the music game through a new music search service that will take you directly to the songs themselves. As far as I know, you will be able to play song clips or in some cases check out the entire song once for free. If you hate it, search for something new. But if you like the song, you'll be able to purchase it directly through Google's partnered service for as low as 10 cents for streaming capability. To own the song as an mp3, you'll have pay for 99 cents. Will be waiting for it launch.


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Twitter May Add Video Functionality To The Service?

Twitter will allow users to upload short video soon? Twitter's founders hope the addition of live video-tweeting will boost the prominence of the social-networking site. I don't think it's a good idea. What about third party sites like Twiddeo and Tweetube that already allow Twitter users to post video tweets? I'm sure it will cause controversy among the developer community. So what do you think about this matter?


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Yahoo! Launches A New Campaign

Yahoo! is launching a new global brand campaign which will begin in the U.S. on September 28th. The campaign will focus on individual users or “Y!ou” and Yahoo!’s desire to be at the center of their lives. The campaign will also market Yahoo!’s core product enhancements.

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Bill Gates Quit Facebook?

Bill Gates quit Facebook this week. He said he's been just deluged by invites and messages and can't spend the time to figure out if these are people he even knows. The Microsoft founder recently revealed he had to manage over 10,000 friend requests during his time on the social networking site Facebook. For further info click here. It's not easy being Bill Gates right?

FTC Plans To Monitor Blogs For Claims, Payments?

The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments. This would, for the first time, bring bloggers under FTC guidelines that ban deceptive or unfair business practices. The rules could be quite strict, even extending to the practice of affiliate links--for example, a music blogger who links to a song on Amazon MP3 or iTunes that earns an affiliate commission in the process. For more info click here.