Alles meins? Von wegen! Ich will es gar nicht beschönigen, auch wenn es glimpflich ausgegangen ist. Einmal – ein einziges Mal! – habe ich einen Twitter-Account eines Kunden “abgeschossen”. Ein kurzer falscher Klick, der eine regelwidrige Aktion ausgelöst hat (ich war zu vielen auf einmal gefolgt). Jedenfalls hatte Twitter den Benutzer stillgelegt. Wir haben das geklärt.
Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset's 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background.
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Der Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter ist nach der Wachstumsdelle im Herbst zurück in der Wachstumsspur. Im Februar stieg die Zahl der Besucher in Deutschland auf Twitter.com um 18 Prozent gegenüber Januar auf 2,55 Millionen an, hat das Marktforschungsunternehmen Nielsen errechnet. Seit Dezember bedeutet dies einen Anstieg um 40 Prozent, seit April 2009 um gut 160 Prozent.
Verizon Wireless Bringing First 4G Phones To Market In Mid-2011 | mocoNews
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The Slate PC, from French multi-touch company Stantum, is essentially a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with the keyboard chopped off and a multi-touch screen grafted on. It runs Windows 7. It is also proof that a desktop OS should never be forced onto a tablet computer. The Slate PC got things wrong from the moment it left the box.
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Hexacore-Mac Pros kommende Woche Laut ZDNet stehen alle Zeichen auf ein Update für die Mac Pros in der kommenden Woche. Intel wird dann die neuen “Gulftown” Core i7-980x-Prozessoren vorstellen. Die neuen Prozessoren kommen mit 3,33GHz und 6 Kernen und sollen nach Informationen von ZDNet für die nächste Mac Pro-Reihe verwendet werden.
Das Sprachproblem vieler Reisender im Ausland dürfte dank dem iPhone und der App “Weltübersetzer” bald der Vergangenheit angehören. Mit diesem Programm wird das iPhone oder auch der iPod Touch zum persönlichen Dolmetscher für 23 Sprachen. Die App, für einen stolzen aber gerechtfertigten Preis von 7,99 EURO im Store erhältlich, bietet sowohl Illustrationen, als auch direkte Sprachausgabe!
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. One of the most powerful aspects of social media and the web is the fact that it isn’t specific to any location. So long as you have an Internet connection, you can be halfway across the world Skyping, tweeting, and communicating with your friends.
Was, bitte, macht ein Nackter im Düsseldorfer Polizeipraesidium auf Chatroulette?
(Cross-posted with the Google Merchant Blog) Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated last December a preview version of Product Search for mobile with local inventory, which lets you see right in your search results whether items are in stock at nearby stores.
If you’re a Facebooker who’s lusting after the Apple iPad (so much so that you’ve joined a Fan Page), then chances are you’re aged between 18 and 25 and have an interest in popular culture — or so says RapLeaf, a company that analyzes social media stats to draw meaningful conclusions from the likes of Facebook Fan Pages.
A judge has taken Pink Floyd’s side in a court battle between the band and its label, EMI, and digital downloads are at stake. The band says its 11-year-old contract only permits EMI to sell complete albums, not individual tracks, but the label has been offering downloads of individual songs through online services like iTunes. The word “record” was used in the contract, which EMI believes implies physical media.
Für alle Formel 1 Fans gibt es pünktlich zum Comeback von Michael Schuhmacher alle Renn- Termine per App. Kostenfrei können zudem die Termine durch einen Mausklick ins Outlook übernommen werden. Somit entgeht dem eingefleischten Fan kein Termin mehr. Der Wohnzimmerplan kann somit bereits im Vorfeld schon erstellt werden. Die Saison ist diesmal wieder besonders spannend.
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In February 2010, Americans conducted 14.5 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent search market share.
Who Fatally Wounded Microsoft? It Was Bill Gates. « Mike Cane's iPad Test
Random video chat site Chatroulette is a pop culture smash right now, and while it’s easy to assume its days are numbered, it’s a lot of fun to immerse yourself in the little subculture building around it. Despite the increasing negative press, there’s almost as much heart on the service as there is genitalia. Well, maybe not quite. But there’s some heart, really! These videos are proof.
Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter. The strict instruction makes it clear that even though news continually breaks on Twitter first — especially in disaster scenarios — Reuters journalists are to break their stories first via the wire and not on Twitter.
As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap your head around all this location data? SimpleGeo has an awesome way.
Last November, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it’s now up to over 1.6 million). A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which has become a web portal for the online newswire.
Live TV can be tough, especially if you’re in a cranky mood. Case in point: WVLT TV Volunteer News reporter Gordon Boyd, whose on-air freak-out has gone viral this week. Reporting from a courthouse in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, Boyd seems to be having a bit a trouble wrapping up a story about a harrowing sentencing.
The rise of social media has brought journalists some powerful new storytelling and information-gathering tools. However, with these new opportunities have come some new risks. At Reuters, we have just published some social media guidelines that lay out some basic principles and offer recommendations that should prove useful as journalists navigate what can sometimes seem a chaotic landscape.
Seesmic Blog: Seesmic Web – Now Offers Adjustable Column Size, Sounds, Location Trends and Many More
With iPad preorders officially starting tomorrow, attention has shifted to iPhone 4.0 software and what features it might bring to both the iPad and future iPhone models. Apple Insider is now adding fuel to the long-standing rumors that the next big update to Apple’s iPhone OS will feature support for multitasking — that is, the ability for third-party apps to run in the background.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Obama to give Nobel Peace Prize award to 10 charities « - Blogs from CNN.com
A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active. The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter.
Continuing with a very source agnostic digital book strategy, Barnes & Noble has announced it will soon be offering an e-reader app for the Apple iPad. The app will be designed specifically for the iPad’s tablet form factor, and will join B&N’s existing e-reader app family already available for Mac, PC, iPhone , iPod touch, and BlackBerry.
With over 26,000 followers, West Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre is the most popular club on Twitter. Just short of half a decade earlier, however, the fortunes of the historic venue and many of its neighbors on LA’s infamous Sunset Strip were waning and in need of serious attitude adjustment.
Since I've been working on Google Reader, I've told a lot of my friends about how great it is. And while some of them try Reader and find it really useful, many of them aren’t interested in taking the time to get Reader set up.
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S.
Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often "So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?" We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now!
The Web is huge. And growing. Faster everyday. It's almost like an ocean where there's no evaporation (the data on the Web stays there virtually forever), but yet, it's always raining in it. The rain is the new content that's added into the ocean. Every tweet is a drop, every blog post is a drop, every check-in is a drop that falls into the ocean.
Social networking site fears reputation permanently damaged by false claim that it let older men pressure teenage girls for sex Facebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published on Wednesday that 14-year-old girls who create a profile on the social networking site could be approached "within seconds" by older men who "wanted to perform a sex act" in front of them.
YouTube Biz Blog: YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile site
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With the impending launch of the Apple iPad, the Cupertino-based company's shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions.
Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer | The Economist
If you're reading this, then you're probably on the Internet -- via your laptop, your mobile phone or other handheld device, or maybe even through your television. But in 2010, millions of Americans still do not have access to the wealth of information made available on the Web. Even though the Internet was invented in the U.S.
I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Google Reader, and while some of them love it, others don’t want to take the time to set it up. For those of you who fall into this second category, we’re announcing Google Reader Play, a new product that makes the best stuff in Reader more accessible for everyone.
