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Technology
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Polldaddy has launched an interesting service called Twitter Polls which lets you create polls and post them as status update on Twitter. The service allows for creation of polls in various languages and provides support for multiple answers as well as letting the voters add their own answer to the set of provided answers. Once [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Twitter, the most successful startup in 2007, has changed the way people talk and communicate with the world. It has made the world talk and pass on the message in just 140 characters. This post is a collection of videos from the web for about using Twitter for various useful tasks and having fun. If [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008

In the last week, everyone was talking about Google’s brain drain and that startups by ex-Google employees will be the one to give competition to Google. The picture below shows all the big names leaving Google to join companies like Facebook, Meetup, Kiva, Polyvore etc and the others who turned founders of startups like Twitter, [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The famous and my favorite lifestreaming service, FriendFeed, has announced the launch of its API (Application Programing Interface). FriendFeed has been making lots of announcements these days like the integration of search and the ability to respond to Twitter messages from FriendFeed itself. With the API, developers will be able to extend and integrate the [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

TechCrunch reports that Friendfeed has added a new feature which lets the users post their FriendFeed comments back to Twitter. This feature will solve the problem of duplicated efforts of commenting on Twitter messages on FriendFeed and then doing the same on Twitter. With the new feature, users can post a comment on FriendFeed and [...]