Tweet Crunch

Destroy Twitter - Adobe Air Twitter App

Posted on 04. Jan, 2009 by John.

DestroyTwitter is the latest in a long line of Twitter applications built on the Adobe AIR platform. It consists of a series of canvases that are constantly updating to keep your tweets current and comes with some nice little hotkey shortcuts for people who use OSX

DestroyTwitter also features complete direct messaging functionality. Messages and tweets [...]

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Generatus: The Social Networking Status Generator

Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by John.

Have you ever sat in front of the computer screen before looking at Twitter trying to think of something witty, funny and original to say? well if the answer is yes a new site called generatus might be able to help you out.

Just type in your name, indicate whether you are a boy or a [...]

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Kakuteru, Semantic lifestreaming on Rails

Posted on 10. Oct, 2008 by John.

A new SweetCron inspired lifestreaming service has emerged on the horizion. Kakuteru which is in the private alpha stage at the moment is a semantic web enabled self hosted lifestreaming service that comes with a boat load of features straight out of the box.

Basic Features

Uses Friendfeed.com as a core lifestream backend (tweets, video, photo and [...]

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Spinvox partners with ping.fm to let you speak your mind

Posted on 06. Oct, 2008 by John.

Ping.fm the social network updating service has teamed up with Spinvox to enable you to update your service via the gift of the voice.
We’re proud to announce a neat little feature brought to you by us and our friends over at SpinVox. Now, thanks to the power of SpinVox’s wonderful voice technology, you can literally [...]

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The Birdhouse is back, well almost

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by John.

Just a quick post to the people who were subscribed to the birdhouse, to let them know that it’s back (well sort of) in a different format. Earlier this week I had to take the site down due to a failed hack attempt which left the site a bit worse for ware. Long story short [...]

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Search Social Conversations with Samepoint

Posted on 08. Sep, 2008 by John.

Samepoint is a search website that will let you find and track conversations and trends over social networks, the site is presently tracking conversations through services like Technorati, myspace, Wordpress, Digg, Newsvine, Reddit, Diigo, Simply, Friendster, Stumbleupon, YouTube, Mister-Wong, Blogmarks, Yelp and FriendFeed.
Here I did a search for one of the most used words on [...]

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updating.me just got interesting

Posted on 29. Aug, 2008 by John.

I’ve been following updating.me for a short while now, and was thinking about trying it out after it came out of beta, until today. The site is along the same lines as ping.fm and updates all your social services in one go such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw and also supports less mainstream platforms [...]

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Sneak Peak at Sweetcron the Open Source lifestreaming service

Posted on 24. Aug, 2008 by John.

SweetCron is Open Source lifestreaming blog software, that allows you to host and customize your own lifestream, a bit like Wordpress meets tumblr. The software will be available to download on the 28/08/08 but for now the lead developer has posted a sneak preview of the back end, sets up and introduces some of the [...]

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OSX Dashboard Widget for ping.fm

Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by John.

Not quite an Air app (yet) but we’re getting closer. This little application called pingboard is only for you Apple OSX users out there and is a small application for your dash that lets you post through ping.fm, which if you don’t know is a service that will let you post to all your social [...]

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Pikchur now supports Plurk

Posted on 11. Aug, 2008 by John.

Just a quick post to let you know that Pikchur, the simple service that allows you to update your social networks and Micro blogging platforms with pictures have now added Plurk to the list. Pikchur already supports many platforms including Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed and identi.ca with promise of more platform integration to [...]

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