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Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop - It's an offline capable client so you can take your data with you whenever you don't have internet access powerd with Ajax technology. Working offline is major feature integrated with Zimbra soon after Google adding offline access through open source gear projects. You can access Zimbra Mail. Yahoo! Mail. Gmail. AOL in one common place. Even Outlook and other business e-mail account can be accessed using POP or IMAP.

Twitter is going to shut down Basic Authentication Twitter API access tomorrow (August 31st).Hereafter Twitter will support only the oAuth API access.

Power.com, a Web start-up from Brazil with some prominent backers, aims to become the portal through which people access their online social lives. It's up against no less than the world's biggest Internet companies.

The Multimap twitter bot helps you to access the same maps, directions and local information that you find on multimap.com by simply sending direct messages via twitter. You can send a message to fetch local information such as the closest ATM, tourist attraction, park, cinema, theatre or even find entries on wikipedia about what is nearby.

Jesse at Socialtoo discusses implications of Twitter's recent announcement to cap access to the API for whitelist services. Comments are illuminating.

"Because social-networking tools are forums for personalized, socially focused conversations, the communities that spring from these tools are person/people-centered. As Porter explained, this person/people-centeredness results in the value of participation being opaque for anyone who is not participating. To address this problem, we made sure that students who chose not to participate (because the value of participation is opaque for them) had access to our tweets by incorporating an RSS feed-like Twitter widget in our LMS. (See Figure 5.) Many widgets like these can be found online, although we should note that this particular widget has limitations. As seen in the example in Figure 5, the widget only displays Joni's posts, not the back-and-forth exchanges between her and members of her network. Students might incorrectly assume that the interaction is one-sided and less than dynamic. Besides keeping students apprised of the resources we shared via Twitter, however, this widget allowed them to vicariously discover Twitter's value. Some students later chose to join us in Twitter because they had a better understanding of what they were getting into because its value was less opaque. Ultimately, we found that Twitter helped us achieve our student-engagement objective, but we also quickly discovered that students' Twitter participation led to other notable instructional outcomes."

"@lincolnenergy As part of our Electro-Magnates projects we are exploring as many channels as possible to make our energy data accessible. We are currently experimenting with a social media channel - Twitter - to provide information on the University of Lincoln's energy usage. To see more information on a particular building just send a tweet to @lincolnenergy (tweet must start with @lincolnenergy) with one of the below building codes (in bold green). An incorrectly formatted tweet will default to a response for the Main Admin building."

There's a new study out this week that claims employees are actually more productive at work when they can take short breaks throughout the day to to surf the Internet. Should companies drop Internet access restrictions and let employees Twitter away their coffee breaks?

Brilliant combination of Twitter, RFID, Twitpic and some glue to control and document access to a cat door (c/o rww).

A new 3rd party service that will charge for helping manage access to celebrities and vice-versa through the direct messaging system.

A great and thorough explanation of how the hacker "Croll" accessed key Twitter business documents and accounts in the cloud. Comes down to human practices, chance and security holes.

Locking down work computers has a psychological effect on employees that reduces productivity.

Good article about the hazards of locking down your employee's computers and keeping them from optimising them for their own needs.

Stuart has created Twitter accounts that automatically tweet NZ tide information. The data is accessed from publically available services.

On this site, you'll find a list of tweets with the keywords: US News, World News and Tweet News. This page will automatically update every 180 seconds, so you'll always have access to the latest tweets.