April 29th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I started this post as a review of Spicebird. But my thoughts, here at the end of day, drifted. It happens. But if you bear with me, I actually make a point…I think:
FIREFOX
Recently, I’ve seen a couple of new Mozilla-based applications being discussed in the blogosphere, one of which is Spicebird. Now, to complement the […]
April 28th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I said you had until Tuesday at midnight. I lied. I have plenty of comments now left by people looking for Mesh invites, so I may as well give them out now.
Deciding Who Won
This was a tough decision. I only have five invites, so who can I say is worthy of them? I wanted […]
April 28th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Twitter, social media
Recently, blogger Michael Klier came introduced a Greasemonkey script for identifying Twitter spammers based on the recommendations of a site called "The Twitter Blacklist." The site, which determines who is a Twitter spammer based on a "follow factor" ratio, has blocked 164 spammers to date. Michael’s script looks up the username of the visited Twitter […]
April 27th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in YouTube
Instead of doing searches on YouTube for videos, you can just hit up new site 7ags.com instead. 7ags wants to be your one-stop YouTube shop by offering you a place where you can find videos to watch via genres and tag clouds. The homepage features some recently found videos and a set of tags […]
April 26th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
Live Mesh is just about the hottest thing the tech world has seen in a long time. The product represents Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing, designed to blur the line between data stored on a computer and data stored in the cloud. This game-changing "software plus services" platform promises to synchronize devices, enable collaboration, […]
April 25th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
Oh yeah, I’m in! I’m so excited to be trying out Mesh’s tech preview I can hardly stand it. I *will* be playing with this all weekend, I’m sure. More to come…
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Well, it’s back to Twhirl. In my excitement to finally have my Twitter stream and FriendFeed stream all in one window, (and de-duped!) I temporarily forgot my obsession with having Twhirl pinned on top of my other windows, something which is especially important when I’m on my laptop. So, it’s back to Twhirl for […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Here we go again -the battle of the AIR apps continues. This time, it’s AlertThingy in the lead. They’ve just released version 1.3 of their popular FriendFeed AIR app, which you can download from their new and improved web site.
The new version of AlertThingy is an answer to my prayers: Twitter and FriendFeed […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
There’s a lot of Live Mesh talk going on tonight, and I think I’ve just read just about every blog post about it so far. People are posting introductions, analysis, screenshots, videos, demos, opinions and so much more. But Live Mesh is really too big of a concept to get boiled down to one […]
April 22nd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Apps
You may have seen my post over on Read Write Web about the concept for Twitpitches. I see that some companies are starting to use this system and I thought I would feature a few I thought were interesting:
Tweetlater: This Twitter app lets you schedule tweets for a later date/time so it appears that […]
