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HelloTxt has Ping.fm beat

Ping.fm is a way you can update your status on multiple sites with one a few steps. But HelloTxt has a simpler interface, and interacts with mobile better.

I like it better because I can easily choose which services I want something to go to. Ping makes you goto another page, and make groups. Just make [...]

A first look at Plurk

If you want an invite, click here.
Leo Laporte sent an invite to his Twitter audience to try a new service called Plurk.

It’s a lot better looking than Twitter, and it hasn’t gone down yet. Maybe because they are filtering their users from the start instead of launching for the world when you are not [...]

Short attention span theatre

Micromedia is addicting to me. I can’t live without Twitter. At Web 2.0 Expo, the speakers of the “Short Attention Span Theatre: micromedia and microblogging”, you could follow @micromedia, and your Twitter updates would show up on the screen.

The audience controls the session. You could also suggest topics or update the background image on the [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]