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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates. One thing I like about twitter is simplicity.
So Are you a Twitter addicted ? or want to make your own application for twitter. Take a look at this list with Twitter API Scripts and libraries for make your own twitter application to send and receive Twitter Updates.
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Trampoline Systems , specialists in “social analytics” for companies, launched in the UK and the US last year but a search for a new £5m round after an initial £3m round in 2007 from Tudor Investments (the venture arm of US hedge fund Tudor Group) drew a blank after Tudor was hit massively in the credit crunch.
They’ve instead turned to “crowdfunding” to pull in lots of £10,000 or more from high net worth individuals around the world. They worked with lawyers for a month on how to structure the deal in compliance with UK regulatory rules, and aimed for £1m.
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I say ‘quite possibly so’ – though it’ll be a long road to get there. I say we’re headed towards a Federated real-time web, and WordPress looks like it could be best positioned to take the helm of that ship.
Friendfeed (and their acquisition by Facebook) has been the topic of conversation here at SiliconANGLE as well as much of the blogosphere yesterday and today. I don’t doubt that this will continue for a while. Louis Gray probably best captured the emotional aspect for most of us early adopters who were on the system chatting away with the immediate family of the founders when it was just us:
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True confessions time: I created a FriendFeed account some time back but never really used it. I was already deeply entrenched in Facebook by then and was starting to see some value in Twitter – so I jumped into FriendFeed and created an acccount.
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Facebook has splashed out almost $50m (£30.3m) on FriendFeed, the start up that allows people to see what their friends are doing in real-time on social media sites including Digg and Twitter. Will McInnes, managing director of NixonMcInnes, examines the strategy behind the deal.
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The number of 15-24 year olds visiting social networking sites reached 6.8 million in June, up 14 percent versus the previous year. Though the overall audience of social networkers in this age segment is up substantially during the past year, the time they spent on social networking sites is down 9 percent. The overall decline in time spent on the sites appears to be attributable to younger users spending less time on secondary social networking sites.


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