Joffrey’s Introduces “Coffee 2.0” for Bloggers; Free Brew for Mashable Readers (6)
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Earlier this year, we profiled Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company, a caffeine supplier that was giving away free brew to 10,000 “beta testers,” a group that included bloggers, programmers, gamers, and otherwise sleep-deprived professionals. This week, the company is debuting “Coffee 2.0,” a new flavor based specifically on the feedback of the beta testers, with “upgraded flavor and taste featuring smooth caramel and smoky overtones” and “increased focus power for less distraction.” You can learn ...
Steve Jobs Health Scare: Citizen Journalist Costs Apple Shareholders Billions (10)
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A rumor purporting that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, published on CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport, briefly sent shares of Apple in a freefall this morning. While Apple quickly moved to quell the rumor, telling Silicon Alley Insider that the news was simply “not true,” in light of the recent concerns over Steve Jobs’ health, the news was enough to spark a rapid sell-off of the company’s stock. While it will remain to ...
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"A rumor purporting that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, published on CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport, briefly sent shares of Apple in a freefall this morning. While Apple quickly moved to quell the rumor, telling Silicon Alley Insider that the news was simply “not true,” in light of the recent concerns over Steve Jobs’ health, the news was enough to spark a rapid sell-off of the company’s stock."
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Alberto said:
Rumors legitimation by the media is part of the current lack of general credibility. Everything can be true or false, no matter who tell that.
Twittercounter: Show Off Your Following with a Chiclet (1)
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Given the huge overlap between bloggers and Twitter users, I suspect this simple new site might take off. Or, at least I’m sure we’ll be seeing its end product on a lot of blog sidebars. Twittercounter is a new service that creates a chiclet showing off your Twitter follower count. It’s styled almost exactly the same as the Feedburner chiclet that shows your blog’s total number of RSS subscribers, except it uses Twitter’s white and ...
Facebook Applications Now Portable to Friendster’s Developer Platform (7)
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Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase totaling more than 60 million across the continent. Today, the company is announcing that Facebook applications can now be easily ported into Friendster – who already has its own developer platform and also supports OpenSocial. This could be attractive to Facebook developers for a number of reasons, especially considering ...
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hi5 Leverages User Translations to Launch in 10 New Languages (1)
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hi5, a social network that already enjoys much of its success abroad, is continuing its international expansion, launching in 10 new languages today. Similar to Facebook, hi5 has been asking its users to translate the site into localized versions around the globe. This approach allows the social network to enter just about any market it desires, without spending major cash on attempting to effectively reach different cultures. For hi5, translations are also made available to ...
Slide to Distribute Content from CBS, Hulu, and Others on Facebook (4)
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After attracting nearly 20 million active users, what does the application formerly known as FunWall on Facebook do for an encore? Add professional content from the likes of CBS, NBC, and Warner Bros, according to The Wall Street Journal. The application’s creator – Slide – has signed a deal with a number of media companies that will allow users of FunSpace to embed clips of various TV shows on their friend’s profiles. While the deal ...
Google Blog Search Deals Technorati a Knockout Punch with New Homepage (20)
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Blog search engine Technorati recently tried to re-invent itself as a memetracker of sorts, changing its homepage to reflect the most popular blog posts at a given point in time. Today, Google Blog Search – long just a blog-focused version of the company’s core search engine – has followed Technorati’s lead and launched a destination site of its own. Much like Technorati, Google Blog Search now organizes posts into a variety of topics – such ...
Oddcast’s Talking Avatars Have a New Virtual Home with AvatarSpace (4)
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Oddcast is taking its talking avatars to the next logical place: virtual worlds. The company is launching a new product called AvatarSpace, a Web application that enables custom avatars to talk to one another through voice or text. However, as opposed to massive services like SecondLife or Club Penguin, Oddcast is targeting individual brands, allowing them to launch their own mini-virtual worlds as opposed to either developing their own or buying ad space in an ...
Imeem Retools as MySpace Music Looms (2)
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As the first website to offer free, full-track streaming music from all four major record labels, Imeem has quietly been able to grow into one of the most trafficked social networking sites, with nearly 28 million (self-reported) visitors per month. But now, with MySpace Music offering a similar catalog to its enormous audience, Imeem has some serious competition on its hands. Today, Imeem is launching a re-design and several new features that attempt to make ...
Timely Nigerian Money Scam Parody (7)
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It’s been a tough week to be a tech blogger. Between the financial crisis and tonight’s Presidential Debate, it’s been hard to gather much attention for comparatively mundane news like the launch of a new website that tracks the Internet’s biggest drama queens and kings. But alas, finally an Internet twist on the major news of the past week: a parody of the notorious Nigerian email scams, set to the tune of the $700 billion ...
Don’t Like Twitter’s Election Site? C-SPAN Has a Way Cooler Alternative (Really!) (9)
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We were pleasantly surprised last month when C-SPAN launched an innovative website for covering the Democratic and Republican conventions. Today, as the nation prepares for the first Presidential Debate, the cable network is launching an even more impressive effort with a number of interactive features for keeping up with the proceedings as they happen and analyzing them after the fact. Named Debate Hub, the site includes the same Twitter integration as the Convention Hub site ...
Twitter to Launch Special Site for Tracking the Presidential Debates - Mashable (3)
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Back in January, some developers built a mashup called Politweets to display live Twitter messages relating to the candidates during the Republican and Democratic primaries. At the time, I asked “Why didn’t Twitter build this?” Apparently Twitter isn’t going to miss the opportunity this time around, as the microblogging site will launch a special site for tomorrow’s Presidential Debate between Senator’s McCain and Obama. According to Saul Hansell of The New York Times, the site ...
MySpace Music: It’s All About the Activity Stream (5)
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MySpace Music launches officially this evening, featuring an enormous collection of free streaming music from all four of the major record labels (EMI apparently signed on at the last minute) and several intriguing features for music discovery and monetization. While there is much to get into in describing the new service, the end product is what you see above – integration with users “Friend Updates” – the MySpace equivalent of the Facebook News Feed. Why ...
Trendspotting at BlogWorldExpo: What’s Next in Blogging and Social Media? - Mashable (7)
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This past weekend, much of the Mashable team descended on Las Vegas for the second annual BlogWorldExpo. The conference, which brings together hundreds of bloggers and the companies that provide services to them (platform providers, widget makers, and ad networks) is a combination of dozens of discussion panels, exhibiting companies, and of course, parties. Along the way, much was gleamed about the current state of the blogosphere and social media, and where it all might ...
Drama Level Tracks Social Network’s Drama Queens and Kings (2)
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Drama queens (or kings); we all know at least one – and if we spend a lot of time on social networking sites, probably at least a few dozen. As its name suggests, a new website called Dramalevel is looking to provide a ranking of the amount of drama that individual users bring to more than a dozen different online communities, including MySpace, Twitter, Digg, and YouTube. The service is pretty simple. First, select the ...
Google’s G1 Isn’t Pretty, But Is Impressively Disruptive (10)
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As expected, Google and T-Mobile announced the G1 handset today, the first cell phone to use the Android operating system. At a press conference in New York, executives from Google, T-Mobile, and HTC – the device’s manufacturer – showed off the device and detailed its features. My initial reaction: the phone isn’t pretty, but the software and strategy shows enormous vision that is just as disruptive to the mobile industry as many of us thought ...
Yahoo Buzz Looking More like Digg (5)
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Yahoo Buzz, the search giant’s foray into social news, has added an “Up & Coming” section that makes the site even more similar to Digg. The new tab features stories that are gaining momentum – in the form of votes (“Buzz Up” in Yahoo terms) and other factors like search volume and how many times the story has been emailed to people. From there, just like on Digg’s strikingly similarly named “Upcoming” section, you can ...
