Archive for March, 2009

FlashTweet – Mass Follow App for Twitter

FlashTweet

If you are established on Twitter and want to create a separate account for a business or for personal reasons, FlashTweet will allow you to mass follow your followers from your previous account. Instead of clicking on each account individually, this will save you a tremendous amount of time. This is a unique solution for Twitter as there are none out there that have this functionality.

You can login using your Twitter account information and you will be able to bulk follow up to 100 friends at a time (due to Twitter’s restrictions), unfollow individuals who are not following you back, display mutual friends and all of your followers. This is all done with a click of a button and then the application will send the updates to Twitter’s database to update your ‘Following’ & ‘Followers’ list. (more…)

Livescribe Raises $7.5 Million in Series B Funding

Livescribe

Livescribe raises Series B funding of $7.5 million by Aeris Capital, a private Switzerland-based investment company. Livescribe also secured $11.1 million in its Series A round last month led by Vantage Point Ventures Partners and Lionhart Investments Ltd., raising a total of $18.6 million in funding within the first quarter of 2009.

Key initiatives in 2009 include the launch of an online application store, major domestic and international expansion, and new emphasis on mobile professional needs and feature enhancements to capitalize on rapid early market adoption in this segment. (more…)

New Twitter 2.0 Now Available on fring

fring

Following much user demand and the phenomenal explosion of Twitter, fring just released an all new Twitter 2.0 Add-on with stacks of new features.

Users can now view other Twitter profiles, check-out their own followers and see who’s following them. A new keyword search enables them to keep on top of a particular topic, and with our cool new look and feel they can also open links like Tiny URL’s in their incoming Tweets.

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CitySpeek – Micro-Messaging Service, with Picture or Video

CitySpeek

You know as well as any that micro-messaging is one of the web’s most efficient forms of communication. We’ve got Twitter, Identica and Tumblr just to name a few. Now, let me be the first to introduce you to one of the web’s newest micro-messaging sites, CitySpeek.

CitySpeek allows you to easily stay in contact with your friends, family, teammates, co-workers and customers. Like other micro-messaging sites, CitySpeek gives you 140 characters to tell the world what’s on your mind. But what you need to know about is what makes CitySpeek different.

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Justin.tv Becomes a Top Five Online Video Site

Justin.tv

Justin.tv, the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video, has become a top five online video site, according to Quantcast.

Based on global network traffic, Justin.tv attracts 41.4 million monthly unique visitors, more than Hulu (28.1 million) and Veoh (22.5 million). In addition, according to Google Analytics, Justin.tv’s year-over-year traffic has grown by 1,800 percent.

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