The Beta News

Is Twitter Killing Hollywood Movies? I Say No

Over the summer we’ve seen a bunch of presumed blockbusters falter after their opening weekends. Brüno was no success (if you’ve seen Borat, you’ve seen Brüno), Duplicity with Julia Roberts cost $60 million to make, but made only $40 million in the US. Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell’s $100 million adventure-comedy, made $49 million [...]

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Twittermania 8 New Twitter Services

The twittermania continues. “Every time a bell rings, a new twitter service gets it’s wings” - You may use this quote freely.
It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new twitter services that are constantly launched. I’ve created a list of the most recent services.
The list goes from Tweetmarks and spamplets to Hiimok and [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

I’ve found a new batch of really interesting links.

Plurk is the new microblogging service that everyone is talking about. It can be a very addictive. RevenueRobot has gathered a few Plurk tools. I can recommend the Plurk tracking tool.
Ping.fm let’s you post to all your microblogging sites at once or update your statuses. Sign up [...]

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Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce

It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users.
But what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

In the nature of this blog’s name I’ve gathered a bunch of applications and services, that are in beta.

StumbleRank - Are you one of the top stumblers? You can add yourself and see who has the most followers. Rank is calculated on number of fans and reviews.
Spanning Sync 2.0 - Sync your Gmail contacts with [...]

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A Day In The Life Of Twitter

This is only my second video, so please be gentle.
Using summize.com I’ve gathered some of the tweets from desperate, disappointed or even angry twitterers after twitter.com’s nasty downtime last Wednesday.
Which program and on which hardware I made the video is not important, at least not now, but it’s a part of my quest for the [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

It’s time for another batch of very useful links:

Twitter.com is down a lot and the latest statistics from Pingdom confirms this. From January to April twitter has been down 37 hours and 16 minutes. That’s 18.5 minutes a day.
Mahalo VLOG Idol continues and The Beta News favourite, Lisa Brewster is still going strong. All I [...]

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Linking By The Beta News

Windows 7 milestone is ready next year. According to many rumours, some sort of release milestone of Windows 7 will be ready in a year. (I guessed that in January). Paul Thurrott has a screenshot gallery of Windows 7.
Twingly, the spam-free blog search engine, launched it’s private beta last week. I’ve got my hands on [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-31

Last day @ my old job is over. Had to return my laptop :-/ Anyone happening to travel to Denmark from the US? I need a new laptop #
If you haven’t seen the TV Spot for Indiana Jones IV then see it here: http://tinyurl.com/3×5nsw/3/v33 #
Celebrating 10 years of Mozilla today. 10 years already…Time flies…sometimes [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-05

@duncanriley lol what a hilarious site. Who comes up with this?! #
@lisabettany Is this bunny pic something that requires you to send me a link? #
RIP Gary Gygax. I didn’t know that until I saw the latest lolcats. What a way to find out… #
Free wbebrowser for Nintendo Wii http://www.wiibrowser.com/ #
Finally a search engine for [...]

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