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Klout: Measure Your Twitter Influence
Klout is a service that provides all sorts of fascinating metrics about you—and the people you interact with—on Twitter. It measures things like the number of users who are actively engaged by your...
View ArticleAdding and Tracking Social Buttons
It seems like every website has social media buttons on them now. The ones leading the pack of late seem to be Twitter, Google +1 and the Facebook Like widget. This introduces one problem: loading...
View ArticleReddit Becomes Reddit Inc.
Reddit is being spun-off from Condé Nast and will be a distinct corporation (Reddit Inc.) owned by Advance Publications, the conglomerate that owns Condé Nast. This means they’ll have a lot more...
View ArticleTwitter to Wrap All Links with t.co Starting in October
According to the Twitter developer documentation, Twitter plans to start wrapping all links with their t.co shortener starting in October. Currently, only ones over a certain length are wrapped. So if...
View ArticleGoogle Adds +1 Button to AdSense Banners
Google announced on one of their blogs that their AdSense network will be getting +1 buttons on display ads. So not only can users “endorse” products or services by clicking on a +1 button, but it will...
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Twitter Launches “New New Twitter” and Ruins iOS App
Starting Thursday, Twitter began rolling out their latest redesign, dubbed “New New Twitter” by users. The new design looks okay, albeit a bit heavy on the boxes, but some of the changes it brings...
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Blogs are the Next Big Social Network
Why do people use Facebook? What does it offer, besides an enormous user base, that makes it such an attractive internet destination? At it’s core, it’s just a tool for sharing short posts. Twitter and...
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Digg is Back, with a New Take and New Ownership
Remember Digg, the social news titan that tanked when a new update chased off its user base? It’s back, under new ownership, and with a different strategy. After a six-week sprint to reinvent the site,...
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Twitter API Terms Revision Ignites Controversy
Twitter recently announced the next version of the REST API that powers the many apps that hook into the popular social media service, a move which sparked much criticism among users and developers...
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Why Twitter’s New “More Visual Tweets” Are a Bad Idea
Starting this week, your Twitter feed is going to look a lot different. In their infinite wisdom, the social media titan has decided that their media previews should now be expanded by default in their...
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