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Twitter goes for the big 10 million

Social Networking services are on fire, and it looks like there’s no immediate slowing of the trend. According to Media Metrix data ComScore released today, the number of Twitter.com visitors went up by 131% in March and reached 9.3 million visitors. That is an astonishing five million visitors more than in February. Twitter is going up the ranks…but more and more users are getting "the flying whale" error, as servers are hitting the limits… Twitter’s "Big 10M" goes in-line with the recent announcement that Facebook is growing by 25 million a month, and last week reached its 200th million user account. When it comes to

Cloud Computing

ConvoTrack ? latest addition to the social networking craze

If you are tired from the amount of websites and applications that are bombing the social networking space, there is a way for avoiding visiting all those pages or installing those apps. Why not try to find something written about "wanted" site or article. From one side, its an ideal tool for webmasters and bloggers, from another – it is just convenient. For instance, if you have a widescreen display and visit a non-widescreen adjusted site, ConvoTrack won’t change your browsing experience, but rather decrease at boring whiteness or blackness on the background. ConvoTrack as seen from a screen resolution of 676 pixels [Daniela, you’re

Cloud Computing, Software Programs

Trillian Astra cometh, squashes TweetDeck and others like bugs

After much waiting, Cerulean Studios released a public beta [to the tune of a few thousand downloads] of the IM client Trillian Astra. This application is a much needed update to the Trillian application that we all came to know and love. The Great Wait lasted for quite a bit of time, as the regular version [3.1] was not very Vista friendly and featured a very bland user interface. The new Astra retains many features of the old Trillian IM client, but also adds support for more IM based applications in order to stay in tune with the times. Up until now, because of all

Cloud Computing

TweetDeck strikes back

Just few hours after Seesmic launched its Seesmic desktop application, the authors of TweetDeck made a new beta version. Is it just us, or does this remind us of the Radeon HD4890 and paper-lanch of the GeForce GTX 275? Regardless of the similarities with the world of consumer graphics cards or microprocessors, this unscheduled move will undoubtedly heat up the competition between various social networking desktop applications. TweetDeck claimed that they fixed the problem with memory leakage – but not completely. How lovely to have corporate talk messing up the brutal honesty of social networking. Anyways, TweetDeckers claim that they are working with Adobe

Apple, Cloud Computing, Companies, Software Programs

Google introduces improved Gmail for Android and iPhone

The new version of this cloud-based application should be faster in opening e-mails, quicker navigation and searching through your Gmail account. New Gmail app brings several much wanted features such as selecting more than one message [you can Archive, Delete, Mark as read/Unread or Spam, Bacon and Sausage], floating tool bar [moves as you move/scroll through messages], and the search button is now moved on the top of the page for easier usage. This version brings improved caching as well – when the internet connection is bad/nonexistent you can still open recently read messages and write new ones and when the connection is restored, the

Cloud Computing, Software Programs

Seesmic desktop goes after Twitter fans

Until this morning, Seesmic did not reveal any specific details, sans the fact that this should be based upon enhancing and rebuilding Twhirl. The previous version of Seesmic Desktop was downloaded 1.2 million times, so the authors think they’re on the right path. The Publisher’s site only contains a form for your name/e-mail; you are getting a download link in the inbox, rather than a download link on the site itself. Posted screenshots give a glimpse of the new UI [User Interface]. As the developers say, Seesmic Desktop will not be something spectacular and revolutionary, it will not change your life, but rather may improve the

Cloud Computing, Software Programs

YouTube player Muziic passes 1 Million downloads

A 15-year-old programming whiz from Iowa and his father created the world’s first YouTube music player, after taking the most of 2008 to develop the application. Muziic Player looks and works like iTunes, taking advantage of the content ID software built into YouTube to detect video submissions not supported by YouTube’s contracts for removal. This also allows for compensation of artists and record labels that do hold contracts with YouTube. Unfortunately for the UK and from today German users, YouTube’s withdrawal of music videos from the UK and German site after a failure to reach a new licensing agreement, applies to the Muziic Player as

Cloud Computing, Internet

UPDATE #2: Gmail goes down… again.

Gmail is without any doubt, a critical service for success of Google as a marketing tool. It got people used to the idea of cloud computing, e.g. leaving your e-mail somewhere else but your computer. But for some odd reason, Gmail is currently (12:19PM CET) experiencing its second large outage in the past 30 days. The service is unavailable for the third hour in a row. Outtage began somewhere around midnight California time (09:00AM CET), and continued through the whole morning into a lunch break. I received several e-mails from California and various European countries, and the problem isn’t local, but global. Affected users are

Cloud Computing, Internet

I love new Gmail themes!

Earlier this week, Google released several enhancements to its Gmail and Gtalk services. The company rolled out several “Google Labs” features, such as video functionality to their IM client, or the latest – themes for Gmail/Googlemail service. This brought life into old Gmail interface, and I have to say, I am still undecided on what team is the best. I went with Planets, even though Summer Ocean has its good sides. Unlike Facebook’s revamp (that yielded a lot of controversy), you can simply choose to ignore the themes, or try to find something for yourself.

Cloud Computing, Internet

Cloud computing firm laughs off Microsoft’s announcement of an announcement

Cloud computing firm laughs off Microsoft’s announcement of an announcement Just as news from PDC 2008 are coming in, the companies are reacting. I’ve received word from Rodrigo from Zoho, a company that deals with cloud computing productivity. In his blurb, Rodrigo welcomed “Microsoft’s announced that they will be announcing a web-based version of Office suite”. In his comments, Rodrigo welcomes Microsoft’s surrender and abandoning the FUD that the company’s reps were spreading around in regards to cloud computing and SaaS market. Head of Zoho also laughed off “the dinosauric” business model of Office, and mentioned CAL licensing in more way than one. All in

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