Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter ( including us ). What this says about Twitter’s native functionality we aren’t sure, but we know we’ve had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times. All that is going to end, at least for the next little while, as we have just found the GM script that does everything (and we mean everything ).
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Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All
Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store. Here at ReadWriteWeb, quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a good time to feature some of our favorite apps. We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of time for us.
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1 Billion Apps Later – Here Are Some of Our Favorites
Most blogging platforms now feature a number of third-party plugins that can display a list of related stories on your blog, or even on other blogs on the Internet. Typically, these plugins will look at how a story was tagged and then display a short list of similar stories that use the same keywords. LinkWithin is the newest contender in this market
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LinkWithin: A Prettier and Smarter Way to Feature Related Stories on Your Blog
Posters on the wall, teen magazines, boom boxes playing the same stupid songs over and over again (automatically!) – that’s not a sustainable situation, by definition. That’s teenage living and that’s what MySpace built its huge site on. Just like being a teenager, MySpace is something that most people grow out of
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MySpace is Dead – The Internet Is Growing Up
We know that Oprah Winfrey’s brought a lot of new users to Twitter in the U.S., but according to Hitwise , the popular microblogging service is currently seeing some of its most impressive growth outside of America. In Australia, where Oprah Winfrey doesn’t command the same kind of daytime television audience, Twitter grew over 1,000% since the beginning of 2009, and its annual growth since last April tops 3,200%
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Twitter Keeps On Growing – Especially in Australia
Despite the number of add-ons available in the Firefox ecosystem, it can still sometimes feel like there are only a few truly good ones out there.
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Pixelpipe’s New Uploader is a Must-Have for Firefox Users
Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace.
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The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide
When Google has an idea for a fun or useful project based on one of their established properties, they will often categorize that project under the heading of Google Labs .? Google Labs have been created on everything from search, to Gmail , to Picasa .? And today, a new Labs opens its doors : Google Toolbar Labs . Limited to the Internet Explorer 6 web browser (for now), Google Toolbar Labs debuts with two toolbar variations with different goals. One toolbar includes enhanced location detection and the other optimizes the toolbar for the Chinese character set
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Google Labs Cooks Up Two IE Toolbars
Digg , which has spent four years trying to level the playing field and democratize media, will soon receive a facelift. According to Kevin Rose , Digg’s founder and chief architect, the site, which hasn’t changed much since its inception, will be putting a “stake in the ground this year and making some big changes.” Speaking to the Ad:Tech audience in San Francisco today, Rose talked about Digg’s future saying ads need to be more interactive, print can’t be saved, online publishers are in an incredible position and the importance of power users may be underestimated. Sponsor Rose on Digg and Advertising Digg’s advertising needs have changed
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Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters
WordPress , on their official blog, made a short announcement that Wordpress.com blog owners could now enable reply by email support for comments made to their blog. With a couple of simple configuration changes, blog owners can get the convenience of being able to directly reply to new comments via their preferred email address instead of through the Wordpress admin interface
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WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support