Twitter acquires lightweight blogging service Posterous
Twitter announced today that it acquired Posterous, a company providing a popular lightweight blogging platform. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to the announcement, Posterous product managers and e...
Apple’s iPad Keynote As Seen Through The Eyes Of Twitter
Do you know what was the most tweeted about thing yesterday? No, it wasn’t Peyton Manning. It was the iPad 3, the new iPad. Twitter just released the chart shown above to show just how bonkers the Twittersphere went during the iPad keynote. Sure,...Can News.me become the Instagram for news?
With its newly launched iPhone app, News.me wants to become a "purpose-built" social network for sharing -- and discussing -- the news. One of the big hurdles for the New York-based startup is that this is pretty much what Twitter wants to be as well.
Get Ready For Ads On Twitter For iPhone
If you’re a fan of the official Twitter for iPhone app, get ready for ads. As an app that remains in the App Store’s top 10 list for social networking, Twitter for iPhone is used by millions of people. Twitter is monetizing those eyeballs with...On Voicefeed Makes iPhone Voicemail Personal [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — On Voicefeed is a neat new iPhone app which takes over your voicemail account and turns it into a kind of personalized everything box for your communications. The headline feature is being able to record personalized voicemail greetings...On Voicefeed Makes iPhone Voicemail Personal [MWC 2012]
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — On Voicefeed is a neat new iPhone app which takes over your voicemail account and turns it into a kind of personalized everything box for your communications. The headline feature is being able to record personalized voicemail greetings...Ban.jo’s New Update Gives You Exact Whereabouts for Even More of Your Friends [Daily Freebie]
Spectacular and a little spooky; Ban.jo, an iOS/Android app that launched last summer, is startling in what it’s able to give the user: the realtime whereabouts of any friends who have location services active for any of (now five) different social media platforms. Ban.jo...Bungie co-founder starts new mobile studio
You know Bungie, the game studio that developed Marathon and Halo? Well, one of its founders, Alex Seropian, is now working on a new mobile-focused project. He's one of the brains behind Industrial Toys, a start-up development studio that intends to f...
Twitter for iPhone update brings back swipe, copy and paste shortcuts
Twitter has updated its iOS app with long overdue usability enhancements and a host of little improvements and bug fixes. Twitter for iOS version 4.1, a free download from the App Store, brings back the handy swipe shortcut: Just swipe a tweet in your home timeline to reply to, retweet, favorite or share it, or view...
Storify for iPad Review
Since its release in April 2010, the iPad has been widely regarded as a “consumption device” not really suited for “content creation”. Whilst we have already examined the issue with dismissing the iPad as a device that’s not capable of doing the same things a computer can — and my friend Shawn has a good...
Twitter app, Cut the Rope, SpellTower, SpellCraft School of Magic all updated
We don't usually cover every single update that arrives on the App Store, simply because there are so many apps out there and so many developers working hard all the time. But a number of very popular apps have updated recently, so here's a few big a...
