Microblogging refers to the posting of very short updates about oneself. It is in contrast to long-form blogging, where there are usually at least a few hundred words. Microblog posts usually involve a few hundred characters or less. Instead of posting a message on their regular blog, people who microblog use Web services designed to make microblogging very easy.
No, we aren't going to let you take a break from checking out new social-status services; especially not when a new one is bringing something actually interesting to the table. Rejaw, just launched this week, describes itself as "a new way to chat with your friends, family, and coworkers." Combining short, Twitter-like messages with instant updates via custom push technology, Rejaw may have hit the sweet spot at the intersection of dead-simple, web-based microblogging and conversation.
Microblogging - more than fun?
Martin Ebner
Social Learning
Computer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Steyrergasse 30, A-8010 Graz, Austria
martin.ebner@tugraz.at
Mandy Schiefner
Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Zurich
Hirschengraben 84, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
mandy.schiefner@access.uzh.ch
Interesting idea between SMS microblogging like Twitter under an other title with voting
ibibo.com is India's first entertainment and talent based social network.
Prueba Nokia Lumia 800. España es uno de los primeros países en que Nokia inicia la comercialización de sus primeros Windows Phones, el Lumia 800 y el Lumia 710, un gama alta y un gama media novedosos que llegan al mercado para respaldar la palabra dada por Stephen Elop tras el anuncio del acuerdo entre Nokia y Microsoft en el mes de febrero. Muchos 'analistas' creyeron que no llegarían, se han cantado réquiems por la multinacional finlandesa en foros, blogs y microblogs y se aseguró que, si antes de fin de año no había un terminal, ya no se podían subir al carro de la competencia
Here's how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) sent to popular microblogging platforms: #
Decide which network(s) you want to post to
twitterfeed can post directly to twitter, identi.ca, custom laconica installations, and via HelloTxt or Ping.fm, simultaneously to the many platforms supported by these services.
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Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID
OpenID is a standard for providing single sign on between web sites
You can register your own OpenID for free, or may even be able to use your existing blog ID [more]. Tell us the URL for your blog's RSS feed, and how often we should post on your behalf
There are heaps of other sites all around the web where you can put your short stories, anything from DeviantART to Yahoo! Geocities, so when the magical unicorns went to create Ego, they knew exactly what they wanted. Ego was born to be a tool that specializes in creative writing of all sorts, one not distracted by social functionality. With lovely typography and beautiful designs, writers and roleplayers can focus on their writing and have results like this page, without any branding or distractions to the reader.
Owning Your Content
With some websites you need to agree to Terms of Service pages far too long to read, selling your soul, and your creations, to the website operators. Not so with Ego. There are no Terms of Service beyond three simple rules: No Pornography, No Illigal Material, and the unicorns may remove content they feel inappropriate. If your content is removed, this simply means that your account will be restricted from publishing through the ego website, and to host your content you'll need to use the Download Zip functionality to get the html files, and upload them to a hosting service. You will continue to have access to your content regardless of these rules, unless we're legally required to remove it, or we become aware of attempts on your part to disrupt access for other users.
Interoperability
When you publish through Ego, not only is the static html file available, but also a 'JSON' based computer source code file, which can be read in the vast majority of common programming languages, and manipulated with ease. This means that if you provide a link to one of your pages on another website, they can potentially do all sorts of interesting things with the data, like import it in to their own competing publishing systems, add it to a search engine, or combine it with other useful information like maps. If you'd like more information on this, check out our page on Hacking. Additionally, when creating a new page, there are a few othe
There are heaps of other sites all around the web where you can put your short stories, anything from DeviantART to Yahoo! Geocities, so when the magical unicorns went to create Ego, they knew exactly what they wanted. Ego was born to be a tool that specializes in creative writing of all sorts, one not distracted by social functionality. With lovely typography and beautiful designs, writers and roleplayers can focus on their writing and have results like this page, without any branding or distractions to the reader.
Owning Your Content
With some websites you need to agree to Terms of Service pages far too long to read, selling your soul, and your creations, to the website operators. Not so with Ego. There are no Terms of Service beyond three simple rules: No Pornography, No Illigal Material, and the unicorns may remove content they feel inappropriate. If your content is removed, this simply means that your account will be restricted from publishing through the ego website, and to host your content you'll need to use the Download Zip functionality to get the html files, and upload them to a hosting service. You will continue to have access to your content regardless of these rules, unless we're legally required to remove it, or we become aware of attempts on your part to disrupt access for other users.
Interoperability
When you publish through Ego, not only is the static html file available, but also a 'JSON' based computer source code file, which can be read in the vast majority of common programming languages, and manipulated with ease. This means that if you provide a link to one of your pages on another website, they can potentially do all sorts of interesting things with the data, like import it in to their own competing publishing systems, add it to a search engine, or combine it with other useful information like maps. If you'd like more information on this, check out our page on Hacking. Additionally, when creating a new page, there are a few othe
I look forward to seeing how it all plays out for Digg. I still see much potential for it. If they just change it to be like a Twitter just for links and make it easy for anyone to post to it, they could get back a lot of users. They do need to reinvent themselves and I think there hype capital from a few years back could still benefit them very much.
I guess this was inevitable, after all the newspaper industry has been called the "dead tree industry" for some time now (dead also indicating it's a dying industry). But as Ms. O'Dell says, "news as a commodity isn't going anywhere" and this only means that the NY Times is further transitioning into a tech company. Interesting times for the news industry.
Once upon a time, Shervin was viewing one of his friend's home timeline, and he discovered a lot of interesting tweets/people that he'd never seen in his own Twitter. So he thought: why shouldn't we allow people to view each other's timeline? It's a great opportunity for extended information discovery and consumption! And a week after collaborating with Stephen, the creator of iTunes Instant, TwtRoulette is live. Add yourself to the directory and start peeking!