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Twinkle: Location Aware Twitter Client

Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes link)...

Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds

How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over corporate boardrooms around the nation,...

Google Gears Coming to Gmail and Google Calendar Soon

According to Andrew Fogg from kusiri, Google will start rolling out offline support for both Gmail and Google Calendar through Google Gears within the next six weeks. Google enabled offline access to...

Joint Contact: First Business Tool To Integrate Twitter?

Enterprise 2.0 is a rapidly growing trend that takes the concepts and tools of social media (social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs, etc.) and re-purposes them for business use, wrapping them up into...

Twitter Testing a New Design - Getting Ready to Integrate Summize?

There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new design as it prepares...

Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally)

Today online music service last.fm released the new design they've been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in the beta in June. However...

The Story of the Fail Whale

How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been...

Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?

Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data. Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is...

No More Downloads, Amazon Moves Its Online Video Store To The Cloud

Amazon's original video store, Amazon Unbox, is a lot like iTunes - you shop online and the files must be downloaded to your computer in order to view them. For many people, the service wasn't worth...

An Ode to the Details, or, How to Sabotage your Success

Unless you know EXACTLY what you want, you might as well just shoot yourself in the foot, because hobbling towards success is all you are going to be doing unless you get 100% clear on exactly what...