Jul 27
If you’re a heavy TweetDeck user—we are bloggers, and thus, we are heavy TweetDeck users—you might’ve noticed that notifications got way crappier this week. It turns out, it’s not Twitter’s fault, it’s Google’s. Hmph.
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Jul 26
Gosh! I wonder which emoji is trending on Twitter right now! I wish there was some sort of online tool that tracked such a thing! Oh, there is! Praise jeebus for emojitracker.com!
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Jul 26
Brace yourself for embarrassment or nostalgia. BioIsChanged is a site that will show you every single time someone has edited their Twitter bio and avatar.
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Jul 25
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
I was listening to someone, somewhere, on something — not really sure where, and it doesn’t matter — but someone said that they’d rather be alone than have friends who make them feel alone. It’s probably been said by many people in many different ways, but for some reason, that saying has attached itself to me as I engage in my twice-daily social networking while comparing it to what I’m actually doing in my downtime that doesn’t qualify as “work.”
Social networks make us feel alone. I’m not claiming to be the first to notice this, but now that there’s a social network for pictures, for videos, for 140-character updates, for business networking, for food, for our pets…
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Jul 22
In spite of iOS and Android’s quest towards world domination, it’s easy for us overprivileged first-world residents to forget that the spread of the smartphone doesn’t affect everyone. In fact, only half of all mobile phones shipped in 2013 are expected to be smartphones. The rest are the slower, clunkier, and exponentially cheaper devices officially known as feature phones but more commonly dismissed as dumbphones. Careful, though. They’re smarter than you think.
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Jul 20
You are what you wear. Sometimes, you can send the loudest of messages without saying a single word. You can let your clothes do all the talking instead.
For example, take the Twitter Dress developed by creative agency Deportivo. This isn’t the first dress that displays tweets, although it’s the first one that’s political in nature.
The dress was created to help Sweden’s youth get their voices heard at Almedalen Week, which is an annual political summit where thousands of politicians, celebrities, and PR people will converge to attend seminars, discuss issues, and talk politics. Deportivo worked with youth organization Crossing Borders in the creation of the dress, which you can see in action in the Vine animation below:
Crossing Borders recruited 30 “ambassadors” to wear the dress before the summit began. Their goal was to get the organization’s concerns out there by catching the attention of people who can actually do something about it – in this case, the people in attendance at Almedalen.
After the summit, Deportivo’s Stefan Ronge reported: “The Twitter Dress got a pledge from the minister of equality, Maria Arnholm, on addressing the issue of mandatory education on gender equality for Swedish teachers.”
[via The Daily Dot via C|NET]
Jul 19
Zeebox update adds ‘replay tweets’ feature, brings time-delayed social commentary
Posted in: Today's Chili
Twitter already put forward the idea of a social media “DVR,” that might let you “playback” tweets, and see what was being talked about at a certain time. It seems Zeebox wasn’t about to wait around for that to happen and took the initiative, bundling a similar feature into its latest update. The second-screen app will now recognise when you’re watching something after the fact, and resurrect the tweets that went along with it, as if it were live. Great for seeing what your tweeple were thinking at the time. Still won’t protect you from any Downton-eque spoiler debacles, sadly.
Source: Zeebox (iTunes)
Jul 18
Twitter’s latest Android update automatically censors “nudity, violence, or medical procedures” as y
Posted in: Today's ChiliTwitter’s latest Android update automatically censors “nudity, violence, or medical procedures” as you sift through your feed. Which is either good or bad, depending on your tastes.
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Jul 17
Twitter for Android update brings in-line replies, sharing through direct messages
Posted in: Today's Chili
Twitter fans on Android just got a pair of small features that could go a long way toward streamlining conversations. An update to the app now lets socialites reply directly from a tweet’s detail page, skipping a minor but sometimes annoying step. The refresh also permits sharing tweets through direct messages — you won’t have to broadcast your intentions to the world. If time or privacy is of the essence, Twitter’s Android upgrade is already live at the source link.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile
Source: Google Play
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