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You’re the (Nexus) One That I Want: Confessions of an iPhone Lover Gone Astray
To protect the innocent, names have been changed. In this publication, a once-faithful iPhone lover will be referred to with a fictional Twitter name: @madluv4iPhn. A recent tweet: @madluv4iPhn Dear iPhone - I've met someone new named the Nexus One. I'm strangely attracted to her and need a few days to figure ...)
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Casual Connect 2011: Games Industry Fishbowl?
With Casual Connect, the fish analogy is easy. You're gathered in Seattle, surrounded by the sea, partying in aquariums, and hell, I even roomed with a finned friend this year. Our hotel pet (affectionately and temporarily named Sarah) stayed in her fishbowl out of necessity. But will the casual gaming ...)
Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark
Beginning at kickoff today (6:30pm ET on FOX), Foursquare will open up a special edition check-in point globally to all users - look for the promoted trending venue, "Super Bowl Sunday". If you missed out on the "PA Groundhog Day" badge earlier this week (when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early ...)
Angry Birds Super Bowl Ad's Got Game
Angry Bird players are set for a special bonus this Super Bowl Sunday. The iPhone game's upcoming 30-second commercial is all the buzz today - apparently, it will feature an embedded code to unlock a secret new level. According to AdAge, "the spot will be the first Super Bowl ad ...)
Refunding a Free Admission: Taking Care of Customers in F2P
Last week, on the TriplePoint blog, I wrote a short piece about taking care of angry customers when the service has been poor. I advised providers to be forthright, humble, and to make an immediate reparatory gesture for best results. Karma, it seems, is a real kick in the teeth ...)
Snarky Facebook RPG Fantasy University Now Open to All
Fantasy University, the pop-culture referencing, snarktastic, Facebook-based roleplaying game from TriplePoint client Simutronics (which we previewed), entered open beta today - meaning, unlike before, anyone with a Facebook account can get in on the Harry-Potter-on-acid antics. Here's the press release: ELANTHIA - October 20, 2010 Fantasy University, the premier fallback institution for ...Archive | Twitter RSS feed for this section
Social Media Yearbook, 2011 Infographic Edition
Infographics: the web’s unique way of defining our tech-heavy times, destroying our productivity levels, and giving us the giggles. Flowtown has a fun new highschool-themed shakedown of today’s social media giants. Where do you fit into the 2011 yearbook? Do note the omission of any gaming networks (i.e. Apple’s Game Center, OpenFeint or Xbox LIVE), [...]
Twitter’s New Coat of Paint & New Features Rolling Out Now
15. September 2010
Twitter hasn’t changed much since it launched in 2006, despite a few changes on the way. From the beginning for instance, the focus wasn’t on searching Twitter or its trending topics, but rather on simply just getting you to sign up. This look and feel has changed since then, with more focus on search and [...]
Thursday Throwdown: TweetDeck or HootSuite? You Decide!
2. September 2010
Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose! This week, we take a break from the world of Facebook games to pit two of the largest Twitter clients against one another. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a look at the results of our last Throwdown, which saw two [...]
Twitter Fast Follow & Droid 2 Releasing Tomorrow: Wireless Wednesday
11. August 2010
In the mobile news world, we have some very interesting stories leaking down the pipes like clockwork. Today, we have the new feature announced by Twitter called Fast Follow for SMS and the release of the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon tomorrow. Twitter Fast Follow Twitter has just announced a brand new feature for people [...]
Social Media Monopoly & Promoted Tweets: Social Tuesday
10. August 2010
Social media these days appears to have almost taken over the news world, with news about new revenue streams and creative uses of the companies that make-up the social world. Today, Mashable’s Social Monopoly has us passing Go and buying Digg along with Twitter announcing their support for third party app advertising solutions. Social Media [...]
Social Tuesday: New Twitter Media Feature & CardStar Adds Foursquare Support
27. July 2010
In the social world today there are always plenty of news stories about the services people use to connect with each other, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr or any other platform of limitless possibilities. Today, we have Twitter testing a new functionality of the timeline including in-line pictures and videos and CardStar adding Foursquare [...]
Twitter Publishing Shopping Deals Through Advertising Account?
4. July 2010
There have been a number of questions as to how Twitter might be able to monetize the monstrous user base it has. It has looked at a number of solutions, but this might be the best one yet: Setting up what are essentially advertising accounts that broadcast various shopping deals. It current has an @earlybird [...]
New Futurama Takes Aim at iPhone, Twitter
4. July 2010
Futurama is a former FOX animation comedy that has been resurrected on Comedy Central, and it hasn’t wasted anytime to offer up some topical jokes in its new season. In particular, the show takes aim at the iPhone and Twitter: Futurama Thursdays 10pm / 9c The Twit Worm www.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Futurama New Episodes [...]
How Twitter Responded to the iPhone 4 Launch
30. June 2010
Yes, we know sales of the iPhone 4 are spectacular with the 1.7 Million sold figure being tossed around for just the first 3 days since launch and that lines just to get one in your hands extended for up to 14 hours. How did Twitter respond, however? Mashable gathered a ton of data about [...]
New York Times Editor Rages Against “Tweets”
12. June 2010
According to a MediaBistro report, one New York Times editor isn’t pleased with his staffers using the word “tweet”. Phil Corbett, the paper’s standards editor released the following memo to staffers: Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is [...]
Grab a Hello Kitty Skin For iPhone Twitter App
5. June 2010
If you’re a big fan of the cartoonish and cute Hello Kitty and also a big fan of sending out tweets, you’re going to have to sit down and take a breath. There is a Hello Kitty Twitter client available for download in the App Store right now–all for the low price of $3.99. According [...]
We Rule Brings FarmVille Goodness to the iPad, iPhone
4. June 2010
MediaBistro likes to compare We Rule to Twitter in that it is sticky and addictive, but occasionally unreliable. They also compared it to Facebook by stating that the rules often change without warning which is much like Facebook and its recent and ongoing privacy debacle. The good news is that We Rule is likely without [...]
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