Tweetrush is based on the rushhour engine and aims at providing information on the volume of tweets that are sent every hour of the day. At the present 800,000 tweets are sent a day. That’s an average of 33,300 an hour. I only tweet at about 86 (not 200) a day depending on conversations. You can see user’s tweet rate as well. It’s a fun litle app that can help picture how twitter is growing at present.
I like to seesmic but there’s no way I want to be stuck in one place without moving around. It’s more fun when you see people aren’t in a desk situation. Here are four places from which to seesmic and make things more interesting. Seesmic from here. The Lake Side Yet another nice view The Mountains Nice view And where to have lunch :-)
Gmail, google Calendar and google maps are part of our daily workflow. As a result of this we have them running in two or three tabs at all times. Switching between tabs within a browser can be time consuming but not between applications. That’s where Adobe Air and GMDesk come in. Adobe Air is a multiplatform solution to make running the same app on multiple machines easy. GMDesk is an application that allows you to use the applications I have mentioned above easily.
Whilst it has been over two years since I last had a windows laptop today I took hundreds of pictures to play with Photosynth, a photo combining piece of software that runs on your machine before being uploaded to the web. The idea is a simple one. Take as many pictures as you can be bothered and have at least three pictures overlap the same detail. I tried this in three different locations.
Jaiku is about as old as twitter but rather than expand and get two million users it was bought by google some months ago. This weekend the service has been unavailable and the reason for this is that they’re moving from the old finnish server to the google App engine. Pat pointed me to this blog post. Now all is clear. The question is how soon will it be until Jaiku is opened up for the masses to start using it?
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Two weeks after twitter gave up on Europe here are a number of services you can try out. TweetSMS This service should be launching this weekend and some people are already testing the service 3jam It’s up and running but requires for you to pay via paypal rather than Visa or other widely accepted cards Twitmobile So far not much information on the service but advertises 5p per message. Let’s see when they’re online Hootsms Hootsms are already up and running but as with other services you are required to pay via paypal.
fred2baro - Aug 6, 2008
Excellent catch Richard one the mos interesting i’ve seen and a real proof of concept for qik + seesmic
[qik] Incendio en fábrica cerca de mi casa Fire coverage from Qik to Seesmic, interesting to see this particular video. It’s showing the power of the new media model. The original footage.
richard - Aug 5, 2008
Of course you had to know about the @ feature. It took some time for me to understand it though. As to the influx of people it simply meant that I moved from the public timeline to the private one, where you see those you follow rather than the hundreds of thousands of other users. I like that there are so many people and that’s the reason I haven’t moved to another service.