“twaction is a simple and useless, but fun, tool that turns tweets into action”
Tyler Reed launched a Twitter api application today called TWAction. Like SuperPoke for Facebook, TWAction can be used to send a variety of actions to your Twitter friends through any Twitter client. Your actions can be anything from giving your friends something to a Facebook style poke, all featured in a public stream on the homepage. Also placed on the homepage are two flash charts showing recent and most popular TW-Actions. Tyler managed to code the application in less than 72 hours and went from alpha release to ‘launch’ in one day. I asked him some questions about TWAction -
Why did you create it?
Just to mess around with the Twitter API. It’s given me a lot of ideas to create useful applications build on the Twitter API in the future.
What’s next for TWAction?
It will be updated continiously throughout the week.. we’re going to focus on intelligent actions and statistics …
A list of all the Twitter apps can be found here.
Carry on reading for a list of all the actions you can use
e.g.
@twaction @TylerReed kick for ignoring me
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Paul Jacobson reported earlier this week about the launch of the new Zoopy. The social media site has expanded its functionality and wrapped it up in a new rounded corners look (I love Vimeo). The ability to post blogs and podcasts have also been added which all aggregates onto your Zoopy profile showing all your published media.
Other changes include the flash video player being rebranded in a black sleek look and tabs for navigation and content search. On each content area - blogs, videos, photos, podcasts - you can discover content through a few filters - recently viewed, most popular and recently commented. These filters also flow throughout the site’s tabbed navigation.
We recently reported about MyVideo’s interface upgrades and exciting new content channel ‘iViews‘ - its good to see healthy competition amongst competing startups in the video sharing market locally.
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An office is the mirror of the company and what’s going on inside, the perfect way to communicate with your employees, customers and investors. Hence why so many say, your office is your face. Knowing it, we decided to make a list of the most known internet companies and see what they have to offer on the inside. Here’s a list featuring 10 internet company’s office photos -
Blip.tv, images by Scott Beale
blip.tv is a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. blip.tv provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. blip.tv focuses on “episodic content” or “shows,” rather than viral video. Their wiki entry
Jaiku, images by Jyri Engeström
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 200.7. Their wiki entry
Songbird, images by Jonathan Koshi
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
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The Scoble Show went inside Twitter HQ recently to chat to co-founder Biz Stone and his dev team about scaling issues, upcoming features and how the idea initiated. Some very interesting insight and super slick offices. Enjoy
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, email, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. It asks the simple question, “what are you doing now” ?
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