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The Tent side of the real-time social network war

This is the final of a three post series on the developments of Twitter, App.net and Tent.io. Changes at Twitter are shaping the future of real-time social sharing. Here are the posts on (1) Twitter and (2) App.net. Tent is a tool not a side In his post about App.net Dave Wineman also pointed out what might [...]

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The Twitter side of the real-time social network war

I wanted to write a three part post that covered the developments of Twitter, App.net and Tent.io. Changes at Twitter are shaping the future of real-time social sharing. Twitter’s Decision This didn’t start a couple months ago, all of this started back in the beginning when Twitter made their decision. They decided rather than a [...]

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With a new CEO, what does Yahoo! have in its future. Bonus: Did you notice the Yahoo! integration in iOS 6?

Yahoo isn’t going to be an easy nut for Marissa mayer to crack. The company needs solid products to bring it on par with competitors. Mayer hopes to hire engineers. She wants to emphasize products rather than media. Maybe Mayer ‘gets it’ and the future of Yahoo is more than closing down Flickr. A picture [...]

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New Facebook Feature To Compete Against Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability

The obvious typo by Gizmodo mixing up Instapaper and Instagram aside (an easy mistake to make), The Verge and iMore have reported that Marco Arment’s Instapaper has a new big competitor: Facebook. Mobile Saving On the mobile app, you simply need to hold your finger down on the post you want to save and a [...]

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Bump App makes it easy to send photos from your phone to your computer (via @jkohwland)

We all know about Bump. It’s an app that makes things easy to share. When it first launched it was all about sharing your contact information. Now Bump for both Android and iOS is updated to give it a bit more sharing power. Sharing Simple and Fun Bump doesn’t just make it easy to share, [...]

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Flipboard’s Latest Move Reveals More About Twitter’s Future (by @calebhicks)

According to AllThingsD, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue is about to tender his resignation from the board of Twitter. After a long history with the company, McCue believes that the two companies may be on a collision course in the news-sharing space. There are guesses that this may mean that Flipboad may end up [...]

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Snapguide gets the first shot at in-app pinning to Pinterest (via @jkhowland)

Have you used Snapguide? It’s a slick iOS app that makes it easy to create, view and share guides online. The app is addictive and gorgeous. One of the best designed apps on the store. Pinterest addition I’ve pointed out before that Pinterest isn’t an overnight success. The service has been around for years. They [...]

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So… Will Google Acquire Pinterest?

Pinterest is amazing. It really has just exploded. But don’t think of it as an over-night success. Pinterest began development in December of 2009. The didn’t have a prototype until March of 2010. Today, they are one of the most talked about social networking sites. Instagram was bought up in only three days. If anyone [...]

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Google+ Reveals Ripples: Sharing Something Has Never Looked So Cool

Social media has been a wonderful place to go to find what people are talking about. I have always been interested in where pictures and links originated from and how they ended up on my stream or wall. Facebook has recently made it so when you share something it keeps who originally created the post [...]

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International Torrent Crackdown

Recently over 50 torrent sites were shutdown in an international sting. The crackdown was headed by the Motion Picture Association of America, in cooperation with another Dutch company. This was not the biggest crackdown on torrent sites in history, but was a substantial step in halting the process. The websites may have been shutdown, but [...]