We had a good run but the time has come to close the site. July 31, 2010 will be the last day you will be able to access any content on microblink.com. We may come back at some point but it won’...
Today we’d like to announce our second public project, FeedStats. FeedStats exists for the purpose of visualizing FriendFeed users’ data to see how they interact not only with the service...
Announced via a shout 60 minutes ago, Rejaw is official shutting down on May 31, 2009. Rejaw has stopped accepting new sign-ups effective immediately. From now until May 15th, you can continue to sen...
Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda) is a guest author at Microblink. Julio has been on the front lines of the Internet and computer revolutions as a syndicated columnist, editor and award-winning reporter f...
This week a number of bloggers picked up Kara Swisher’s visit to Twitter HQ. On the AllThingsD blog she posted a nice interview of two of the co-founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. In a nuts...
If Blellow is Twitter for freelancers, TribeHQ is Twitter for professionals. TribeHQ is one of the latest flavors of microblogging, this time around with a targeted audience of business professionals...
Lee Aase, Chancellor of Social Media University, Global (SMUG) and Director of Syndications and Social Media for Mayo Clinic, will be holding a free, one-hour intense Twitter training session with so...
Twitpay, a project created during Atlanta Startup Weekend 2, finally emerged from beta status (something Gmail is still holding on to) just over 30 days ago. While they’ve been already been aro...
Ev Williams, founder of Twitter, will be speaking at a number of events at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln today. Williams is a Nebraska native and attended UNL as a student. Check out our post, &...
Do you spend a lot of time on Twitter wishing you could find links to articles NOT talking about Twitter or social media? Birdhive may be the creative outlet you are looking for. Birdhive is an aggre...
Official as of yesterday, Qwest Communications now has an online team of customer service reps strictly dedicated to interacting with customers via social media. Among those social media tools Qwest ...
Nambu is another player in the multi-service social network client pool. It’s a native Mac application that requires Leopard to run. At first glance, Nambu is a mix of EventBox, TweetDeck, and ...
Tonight Loic Le Meur unveiled the preview version of Seesmic Desktop, the company’s new multi-network application. Seesmic Desktop will support all the same features you found in Twhirl and mor...
Yesterday marked the resurgence of the Twitter Failwhale and a number of technical issues. Plagued with disappearing avatars, lost direct messages and delayed tweets, the Twitter team worked to isola...
A relatively quiet weekend in the world of microblogging. Here are a few posts worth noting: Watch out Twitter, here comes Flutter Mashable posted this “mockumentary” by Slate Magazine. If you have e...
A new question and answer feature is slowly being rolled out by the Tumblr team. We first spotted this feature on Jacob Bijani’s (Tumblr’s creative director) tumble log. Since then, the f...
I hadn’t encountered a service running Twitter’s OAuth beta until I checked out Airmailr. While the service itself is pretty cool, I think the exercise of going through the OAuth flow for...
This week has been busy for the Twitter GUI. Here’s the rundown on what may look different. Replies are Now Mentions On Monday Twitter announced that the Replies tab will instead be referred to...
One of the bigger hurdles of setting up a Laconica instance is getting a server, configuring it, etc. Today, a new service launching in May called status.net was announced which will allow you to cre...
Even with the financial turmoil looming over General Motors, that doesn’t keep them from coming up with new ways to please their customers. In a report from Gear Live, author Andru Edwards says...
Announced earlier today on the company blog, Yammer has released two new features to its enterprise microblogging solution: a visual organization chart and a link bookmarklet. Visualize your Coworker...
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reports that YouTube has now added a “Share on Twitter” button below its videos. This is in addition to the MySpace and Facebook links which have existe...
When it comes to searching for jobs, Twitter is killing job boards left and right. Instead of paging through hundreds of listings all auto- and cross-posted from every other job board on the web, you...
Some people love Twitter. Some people hate Twitter. Vincent Hunt (@vincenthunt) is certainly the former, but he doesn’t just Twitter, he loves brevity, and brevity is microblogging’s midd...
According to an article in the WSJ, “[Twitter] is watching the outside initiatives closely as it prepares to launch its own fee-based services this year, but doesn’t view them as competit...
Earlier today CNBC’s Power Lunch segment briefly discussed Twitter’s rapid growth in recent months and the fact that they have no revenues or profits. You can catch a bite-sized interview...
Twitter is whatever you want it to be. It may be your personal log of the number of tacos you eat or your personal branding platform. All uses are acceptable, but with Twitter’s recent mainstre...
Twitter’s been making some changes recently, including rolling out OAuth, adding search/trend functions, and implementing a new More button for loading tweets. The other major new thing youR...
With spring around the corner and weather warming up in the Midwest, this could be one of the slower news weekends I have noticed. Perhaps most of the weekend warriors are still recovering from SXSW....
It’s only been about three weeks since we launched What the Hashtag?! and we’re happy with the reception it’s gotten so far. We’re currently nearing our 900th hashtag in the c...
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