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Google Releases Google Buzz

Zack — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:13:50 +0000

You may already know about Yahoo Buzz, and now Google is going to release Google Buzz, a new social networking feature of Google, which will be integrated into Gmail and available for mobile phone.

One thing attracts me is that Google Buzz will automatically follow 40 people for you. These 40 people will be ones that you contacted most frequently.

For more information, you can visit the Google Buzz official page: Google Buzz.

And this is a introduction of Google Buzz from Google official blog: Introducing Google Buzz.

The following two videos are from Google blog to introduce Google Buzz and how it works on mobile phones.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Twitter Testing Local Trends

Zack — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:07:13 +0000

Twitter is testing a new feature on 1 percent of users, it’s called Local Trends. Local trends helps you to find out trends around the location you selected, it only supports 15 U.S. cities. If the testing goes well, local trends will be released to the public next week.

[via: Mashable;TechCrunch]

Beautiful Illustrated Twitter Themes Showcase

Zack — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:34:40 +0000

@mikebithell

Twitter is a very powerful tool, so many people are using Twitter, and more and more great Twitter themes being created. We found some great illustrated style Twitter design which may inspire you. Feel free to let us know you found better ones. (You can find me here on Twitter)

[via: WebDesignLedger]

iTech Theme: Free WordPress Theme for Gadgets and Tech Blogs

Zack — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:23:00 +0000

I just started a new gadgets blog Gearor.com, so I design a new theme for it, iTech Theme. This is a high quality, low graphics, Lightweight, fast-rendering and professional WordPress Theme, inspired by SixRevisions, especially good for technology and gadgets blogs. A tabbed block is added to sidebar for displaying Recent Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments. Built in control panel(Theme Options), you can set customized RSS feed, email subscription, twitter subscription and header logo. Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and above(including 2.8.6), support threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages.

Tabbed block is added to sidebar for displaying Recent Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments in a small amont of space.

Subscriptions of RSS feed, Email and Twitter is placed at the top navigation bar and can be customized in admin panel(Theme Settings):

There are total 6 setting you can customized:

RSS Feed Title
Custom RSS Feed: URL of customized RSS feed, you can put your Feedburner Feed here.
Email Subscription: For Feedburner users, you need to enable this function in Publicize settings in Feedburner. And then change ZackLive to your Feedburner id. If you have any troubles with this settings, feel free to contact me by commenting below.
Twitter Subscription: Enter your Twitter name here.
Logo URL: Enter the URL of your logo, your can upload it to your server or image hostings like Flickr, and then copy and paste the link here.
Show Description or not: Sometime you don’t want your description to be displayed, while you are using image logo, just check this, your description will not be showed.

Download iTech WordPress Theme

iTech theme in action on Gearor.com

iTech WordPress theme is released under GPL License.

Please let me know if you found any bugs.

Thanks to Dan Breslau for helping me with bugs. I’ve learned a lot from Dan.

Technorati Launches Twittorati: Top Tweets from Blogosphere

Zack — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:15:03 +0000

ReadWriteWeb: Technorati, the world’s first blog search engine, just unveiled Twittorati- a site where the top 100 bloggers’ tweets are featured and analyzed. The service allows users to view the links most tweeted as well as displays Technorati’s original concept of showcasing the Internet’s top trafficked blogs and content from its contributors. One interesting component of the site is the fact that users can view the pictures shared by today’s Twitter and blogging elite.

More detail…

Twitter is Blocked in The White House

Zack — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:07:42 +0000

ReadWriteWeb: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned casually to CNN today that Twitter is blocked on official White House computers. Gibbs clearly doesn’t appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it as if it is a tool for personal exhibitionism…

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GeoChirp is a Cool Local Twitter Tool

Zack — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:34:28 +0000

Mashable: GeoChirp, is a Twitter and Google Maps mashups, doesn’t even require to register. It helps you search tweets for keywords in a certain geographic area which means you can easily see who is tweeting around you.

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TwitCam: Tweet Live Video on Twitter

Zack — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:00:31 +0000

CNet: The folks at the video broadcasting service Livestream have a new tool out for Twitter users called Twitcam that lets anyone with a Twitter account start streaming their own show, complete with live chat…

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FriendFeed New Version Beta: Copycat of Twitter?

Zack — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:49:06 +0000

New Version Beta FriendFeed

FriendFeed released new beta, as you can see above, the interface looks similar to Twitter. Check out the new version of FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com.

The most important update of this version should be the real-time update feature. You can see your friend’s update right away at the top of your feed, no need to refresh the page.

Click here to view the embedded video.

FriendFeed supports Direct Message in the new version, you will be able to send message to your friends directly on FriendFeed. And the new Direct Message will support auto-complete function, which can display user names while you are type in the user name box, just like doing the searching on Google.

FriendFeed Direct Message

If you are using FriendFeed, I would like be your friend, add me to your friend feeds: ZackLive.

Update Your Blog Posts to Twitter Automatically with TwitterFeed

Zack — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:39:05 +0000

Sometimes we share on our own blog, and sometime on Twitter. It’s easy for us to show our tweets on our blog using WordPress plugin, you may also want to share your blog posts with tweeters, TwitterFeed is designed to help you to do this automatically.

Our server will check your blog’s feed at the specified interval and post any new items to your twitter account. You just sit back and relax!

You got your blog updated on Twitter by just providing the RSS feed of your blog, you don’t even need to register, if you have a OpenID already.