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Twitter Launches Official Twitter Share Bookmarklet

Aug 20, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

There are already numerous Twitter bookmarklets and browser extensions on the market that make it easy for Internet users to share any site with their Twitter friends. Today, Twitter itself is joining the fray with its own, official Twitter Tweet Button.

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Embedding an Official Tweet Button (just for the sake of it)

Aug 10, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Tweet Looks like Twitter is launching its own Tweet buttons later this week. While you can already embed the code (see below), not everybody can actually use the button to retweet the post yet. Just for the sake if it, I have embedded the code (courtesy of Mashable) here. I’m guessing we will see a [...]

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TweetDeck Goes Real Time – And It’s a Whole New Way of Using Twitter

Jul 29, 2010 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

Yesterday, TweetDeck’s Richard Barley announced a new beta version of the popular Twitter (and Buzz, LinkedIn and Facebook) client. In this new version, TweetDeck uses Twitter’s new streaming API to display tweets in real time. Until now, clients had to poll Twitter’s servers at regular intervals to update your searches and lists. Now, Twitter just [...]

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Facebook Questions Goes Live: Will it Kill Quora, Yahoo Answers, Ask and Co.?

Jul 28, 2010 1 Comment

Facebook just launched its long-awaited question and answer product dubbed Facebook Answers. You can now ask your social network any question you feel like and get answers from your extended network

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Apple to Hold Special Press Conference on Friday: Will Address iPhone 4 Issues (we think…)

Jul 14, 2010 Comments Off

In an unprecedented move, Apple is now inviting a select number of media representatives for a press conference on Friday, July 16th. According to The Unofficial Apple blog and The Loop, Apple did not specify the exact reason for the meeting, besides noting that it will focus on iPhone 4. We can only assume that [...]

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15 Million Downloads Later: TweetDeck Turns 2

Jul 12, 2010 Comments Off

TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client, just celebrated its 2nd birthday. According to the company’s founder Iain Dodsworth, the TweetDeck desktop client has been downloaded 15 million times and the iPhone app has been downloaded 2.5 million times. Overall, TweetDeck now sends out 4 million tweets, Facebook status updates and Buzz messages every day. That, of [...]

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Today in Google: Chrome Goes Stable and the Paranoid Get a Chance to Hide

May 25, 2010 Comments Off

A summary of today’s Google news, because even though I do my best to keep up with the daily flow of tech news, these days, I come across so much news about Google that it’s hard to keep up:

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Google Chrome Gets Better Extensions Gallery

May 16, 2010 1 Comment

It’s been a long time coming, but now that Chrome sports thousands of extensions, Google is finally taking steps to give the Extensions Gallery a much-needed makeover. Good Start, but Just the Beginning Sadly, it’s still rather hard to just browser Chrome extensions, but at least Google now features separate sections for featured blogging, web [...]

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Intel Reports Record Quarter

Apr 13, 2010 Comments Off

Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. The company reported operating income of $3.4 billion, net income of $2.4 billion and EPS of 43 cents. From the press release: “The investments we’re making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and [...]

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Opera Mini on the iPhone

Apr 12, 2010 Comments Off

So Apple finally allowed Opera’s browser into the store. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is that it’s not a full replacement for Safari. Sure, it’s fast – very fast. But it also has quite a few small issues that – once compounded – make Opera let less useful than it could’ve been. [...]

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