Twitwee Clock brings cuckoo clocks to version 2.0
Haroon Baig’s Twitwee Clock has been updated to keep up with the times, where it will deploy the cuckoo and show the tweet on a tiny LCD display whenever there is an incoming tweet – we assume that is made possible thanks to a combination of an Arduino and Chumby innards to get its game [...]
BlackBerry for Twitter 1.0.0.37 leaked
BlackBerry for Twitter 1.0.0.37 has just leaked out, and whoever is curious to find out how it works can easily invent a go at the download link. You will get native messages folder integration and push-grade direct messages alongside a Lists tab that will let you view and edit your lists of followers. The Lists [...]
Sobees For SXSW and MIX10
[SXSW] I saw Sobees for the first instance at DEMO 09, it is a social sites networks aggregator that looked pretty good when I saw the demo, it offered a monetization model via sort sponsorship. Today, the company launched Sobees for SXW and MIX10: the Sobees event applications aggregate Flickr photo stream, Google news, Twitter [...]
Twitter hits 50 million tweets per day
Here’s some trivia – contrary to folks who claim that Twitter has leveled off in terms of users and tweets, some interesting number crunching has resulted in Twitter users sending out by 50 million tweets each day – basically translated to 600 tweets going through Twitter’s network each second. At what figure do you think [...]
Sneakers tweet about your walking (so you don’t have to)
New "Rambler" shoes connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth, and send out tweets to your Twitter feed about what's going on with your feet. The input takes the mold of the words "step" and "tap," and a period when nothing is happening. So when you're sitting at your computer tapping your feet, tweets look [...]