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Tipjoy is a social micro-payments service which is releasing its API to the world to allow handling of small payments with Twitter.

As Twitter becomes more of a well-known phenomenon, more research is starting to appear. Here is some from an MBA student at Harvard that contains interesting stats.

Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing.

Author Steven Johnson's view on Twitter, particularly how the service is evolving thanks to the community (c/o MKP). BTW: This is the print version.

People today read latest topics and updates via mobile phones. Reading the tweet, Facebook updates and your favorite Digg is possible in phone, but still share the information is still challenging for for phone app makers. Recently i read about Smub.it, it offers simple social sharing and bookmarking tool that proves especially useful for iPhone and other smart phone users.

"CoTweet is a new tool being developed to meet the unique needs of businesses on Twitter. It is currently being used by Microsoft, JetBlue, Ford, Pepsi and other leading brands. After reading Mashable's post on it, we wanted to try it for ourselves. We've been testing it for the past month and we're pretty excited about the potential."

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Seems every where you turn these days that little blue bird is staring you right in the face. But how did it all start? Where is it

Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As Clay Shirky said at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem isn't "information overload. It's filter failure."

A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application.

"Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama. Stweet is an artistic project dealing with the appropriation of geographical, photographic and real-time data from the Web. It offers a real new way enriched representation of information created on internet by two major players of the web, Twitter and Google."

'The Physical Internet' as a buzz phrase has been thrown about a fair bit recently and only really recently have I seen things start to get interesting. I really like the idea of making the internet tangible and a flipside to this is taking a real world interaction and broadcasting this onto the net. A few things have made this much more attainable -> 1) Twitter and other systems have opened up to let other systems interact through them via an API to send/retrieve data. 2) Electronics such as arduino or ioBridge have made the geeky electronics bit much easier. 3) Programming interfaces such as Processing or Openframeworks have made the geeky programming bit much easier. Here is a little recap of some interesting/useful/useless/fun interfaces.

Tweetmic is a new iPhone app that allows you to upload audio to Twitter. I guess you'd call it 'Tweetcasting'? Slowed down by all that time consuming typing and spell checking (it is a whole 140 characters, after all)? This app combines two things loved by almost everyone: Twitter and

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website. Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.

Twitter been widely used micro blogging services for instant sharing with friends and followers. Since Twiter is updated instantly users can easily share information such as links, images, video and now you can share files instantly with all your friends on Twitter. FileTwt is a simple file sharing service on Twitter. Lot of us use Rapidshare for file sharing, but now FileTwt let Twitter user to share files up to 20MB maximum instantly. At present all files are hosted on Rapidshare, but FileTwt will soon start hosting the uploaded files themselves in a few days!

Any capitalist knows that for any business the ROI is crucial as well as the "revenue approach" with any great startups. When a startup is "growing extensively" as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today, they tend to get a lot of attention from across the financial markets.

For a service that is remarkably simple, Twitter is often difficult for new users to understand and to quickly turn into something useful. In fact, the simplicity of Twitter can actually be a barrier in the beginning, because there's not much to help a new user get started. So, we've put together this guide, which will help you understand the basic jargon of Twitter, find a good set of Twitter add-ons to streamline and strengthen your Twitter experience, and give you a list of 100 technology experts who are active on Twitter and are worth following.

Herer is a detailed discussion by MG Siegler (@techcrunch) about recent new Twitter features, including the much talked about "retweet" button.

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