Archive for August, 2009

Twitter Integration with Pluck Social Media Platform

Pluck

The integration between Pluck and Twitter is in accordance with its ‘Social Bridging’ initiative – a collection of capabilities enabling enterprise customer communities to establish 2-way connections with 3rd party social networking destinations.

The Twitter integration is the next step in the Demand Media commitment to extend its customers’ reach across the Web, allowing them to unify their users’ identities, relationships and activities across multiple destinations through social bridging.

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Livestream Releases APIs and Player Plug-in for Brightcove

Livestream

Live video streamer Livestream opened its industry-leading live and linear video streaming platform by releasing several powerful APIs for companies like Brightcove.

The Livestream Player API enables customers, programmers, and web agencies to build their own Livestream powered video players and clip libraries using HTML, Adobe Flash or Adobe Flex development environments.

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Why Are Criminals Targeting Twitter, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites?

Why Are Criminals Targeting Twitter, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites?

The hugely popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become attractive targets for phishing and scamming attacks as online criminals follow the latest Internet trends that are attracting the most users.

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iLike Challenge App Now Available on App Store

iLike

iLike announced the availability of the iLike Challenge App on the App Store. The iLike Challenge App for iPhone and iPod touch tests how quickly music fans can listen to, and correctly identify, songs from a host of Sony Music superstars including Britney Spears, Sean Kingston and Kenny Chesney.

The app is also a valuable discovery tool because it allows users to visit the iTunes Store to purchase the songs they listen to as they compete in the challenge. (more…)

140 Characters No Longer the Twitter Limit

Maxitweet

As much as the 140-character limit defines Twitter, it often leads to frustrated users, from poets and recipe writers to businesses and the verbose; Now a new Twitter service, Maxitweet, has found a way to extend this limit.

Type “140 characters” into Twitter’s search box and the resulting tweets come flooding in – predictably the majority of them lamenting this constraint. A new Twitter service, Maxitweet.com, has found a way around the restriction by clever use of letter-like symbols called Unicode characters.

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