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Clean up and manage who you follow. Find out who isn't following you back. Find out which inactive accounts you follow. Easily search inside your Twitter stream.

micromobs is a group messaging service and is the easiest way to manage and communicate with multiple groups. micromobs presents your group messages as a stream of content which means you can chose which messages to respond to and which messages to skim over or ignore. This means your group messages will no longer clutter your inbox, and you wont need to go to different websites to interact with your various social groups.

While Twitter is a great online social network, there is a lot of room for improvement in its search interface. If you want to find an old Tweet or entry, then you have to go through many search pages before you find what you are looking for. Twitter search is made much more convenient by SnapBird, an absolutely free Twitter client that lets you easily search the Twitter stream.

Streaming Video from the conference over 3 days in Austin, TX, Oct 4 - 6, 2011. Follow Twitter tag #sxswECO

ASAE and Center for Association Leadership annual meeting August 14 -18, 2009 in Toronto. Presentations and handouts. The site also illustrates a new hub tool for conference participants bringing together info streams to one location.

Curate and Data Mine the Real Time Web with DataSift. Aggregate, filter, record, and analyse real-time data from a variety of social sources using Curation Stream Definition Language (CSDL). Particularly relevant to sorting Twitter data by allowing you to aggregate value with sentiment, authority thereby making Twitter data more useful and searchable.

"Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days. At first, Twitter held onto your tweets for around a month, but as the service grew more popular, this "date limit" has dramatically shortened. According to Twitter's search documentation, the current date limit on the search index is "around 1.5 weeks but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow."

"The Raspberry Rover is a small RC car with a Raspberry Pi for a brain. It is controlled over a Wi-Fi network through a TCP/IP socket, and streams back live video from an on-board webcam. It even sports 'Night Vision' for navigation in the dark."

"Ever wonder why Google is installing extremely fast gigabit internet infrastructure when the average person needs 200x less speed? It is because of the future of the Internet of Things. In less than 10 years, the internet will not just be for your phone or laptop, everything will be online. I'm talking about your car, fridge, tv, blender, air conditioner, front door, and even your wallet. This inevitable future is why google is starting today with affordable gigabit internet. This new wave of device overload will open up revenue and advertising streams to a whole new level."

A Dick Smith slip up suggests the magic Google stick is in the pipeline for Australia. $49 Google Chromecast IS Coming Last week, the retailer mistakenly published a sku online detailing Google's 'Chromecast HDMI streaming Device' which indicates it will go on sale next week, May 28th for A$49. The sku was pulled down not long after. - See more at: http://channelnews.com.au/av_pro/XSDVRFDH-49-google-chromecast-is-coming.aspx#sthash.NGJmHYUR.dpuf

This offers some research-based evidence about how Twitter can be useful to educators. "In order to convince teachers of the possible benefits of using a new technology, such as Twitter, we decided to look for evidence of its qualities. What in particular, does Twitter offer educators? Is it worth getting involved?" 30 leading educators (with an interest in educational technology) were identified. They were the ones who were currently using Twitter. The study analysed samples of their tweets in order to determine their purpose and the possible benefits of the tweets to their followers. Also examined were a sample of tweets from the twitter streams of two popular educational hashtags: #edchat and #edtech, in order to determine what 'followers' may gain."

A great site for capturing the Twitter stream without scrolling through EVERYTHING

"Siftlinks is a service that monitors your friend stream on Twitter, pulls out the links and creates an RSS feed for you to peruse at your leisure"

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Use Time Shift on TV | Use Parental Control on TV | Add Channels to Favorites - Need to pause or rewind live TV? Time Shift lets you do that! Simply activate Full Screen mode and use the left/right arrows to control playback. To exit, press Back. - To set up Parental Control, press Settings, choose Parental Control, set your password, and lock channels by holding OK. - Make your viewing experience smoother by adding channels to your Favorites. Press and hold OK for 2 seconds to save a channel, and access it from the left side of the screen.

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"ROLAND Gesthuizen describes himself as a social media evangelist. His passion for social media and Twitter in particular extends beyond the global power of tapping into and sharing ideas. For his students it has brought the outside world to his classroom in a way that could never be imagined."

Thanks to the Evernote-Twitter integration, you can easily capture the tweets you like: your own or those showing up in your stream. Plus, as an added bonus, you can now send yourself a quick note right from Twitter -no need to do any of that pesky app switching.

A class education account is free. Works with Kaltura and Snag-It! and Moodle.