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Have you ever wanted to make any word you want into the same style as the Twitter logo? Well then Twitlogo is the place for you. Twitlogo makes it easy to turn any word or phrase into a simple Twitter like logo.
Here is one I prepared earlier.
Features:
- Generate Twitter like logos.
- Generate as many logos as you like .
- Customize logo colors and text size.
- Save created logo on your computer.
The tool itself is very simple to use and easy to use, but im not really too sure how many uses it can have.
Smashing Magazine has released some free icons for Twitter. The set is available in both pixel and EPS vector format so the icons can be rescaled to any size while retaining their original details. As usual, the icons are free for both personal and commercial projects. This set was designed by IconEden.
TwitterKeys is a small tool developed by (@boris & @sandervdv) The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. These are the symbols we currently provide:
Drag this link to your browser
bookmarks toolbar: TwitterKeys
I thought I would put together a quick list of the top three tools you should be using to measure your Twitter activity.
Tweetstats -Tweetstats measure your raw twitter data including tweets per day, tweets per month, retweets, time of day, density, replies, etc. It is a great tool to just see how much you have been tweeting compared to previous months and who you have the most conversations with.
Twitter Analyzer -Twitter Analyzer shows the same kind of information as Tweetstats but in a completely different style and is more focused on tweets per day and retweets. It is a great site to see a very quick overview but I think the site needs a bit of a more professional design.
Twitter Grader – Twitter Grader is a new tool from the team at Hubspot who also bought you Website grader. Twitter Grader analyses the basic of your twitter account and suggests any issues your account might have. It is a very basic tool that is always worth checking out.
For a long time now I have been a Tweetdeck user since it was first released. However, in the last few months I have been using Seesmic Desktop because it seems to integrate multiple accounts in a more streamless way. Seesmic just released their 0.3 software and I upgaded to give it a try, but I think it was a step backwards for Seesmic, so now Tweetdeck has announced a new release which might be worth my time.
Tweetdeck has upgraded their service and also released a new iPhone application. The iPhone application includes:
- Column based friend groups (like TweetDeck desktop)
- TweetDeck desktop syncing (make a change on the iphone and it’s reflected back on the PC)
- Facebook toolbar like status updates
- Multiple account support
- Flicking to move between columns
- Shake to refresh
Recently I’ve posted about an interesting stat of the blogsphere: Over 95% of current blogs in Internet are abandoned, and one of the reasons that I’ve mentioned is the existence of Twitter. Well, I guess similar stats always comes in two. A study made from the Harvard Business revealed a lot of stats regarding to Twitter users, including one related to their users and how they abandon twitter.
10% of the Twitter accounts hold the 90% of the tweets available every day, and most of the users that register themselves usually uses one or two tweets and leave the account completely. Here are some other stats from the report:
So, what we can say about this inconsistency in blogs and twitter? People that start a blog and/or a twitter account but they never update it again… well I’m sure that the answer is one thing, perseverance it’s not a quality for most of us. Specially when we have some expectations and we don’t see a quick result, like I mentioned about blogs and how people relate to that as a “financial independance” and rapidly get disappointed.
Do you persevere with your blogs and twitter?
Blellow burst onto the scene a few months ago, and after winning a few awards paired with an explosive launch at SXSW, the social networking site is experiencing explosive growth. For any self starters, entrepreneur, freelancer, or contract worker, this network has been the hub for meeting new people, finding job leads, and joining project teams seeking specific talents. Companies are welcome to also post their job listings for a reduced nominal fee to attract some highly talented professionals.
The unique name is an extension of its unique community. Putting together some of the best aspects of popular social networking sites, it fosters creativity, innovation, and looks to be the dominant force in finding work for the self starters around the world. While Elance and Odesk serve as bidding job boards, Blellow looks to use its extensive network to rely on recommendations and friendly introductions to new people to pair people with the right project.
If you’re looking to expand your contacts, find unique job postings, and converse with people in a specific industry or topic, then Blellow is the place to network!
I have spent a long time lately trying to find unique tools that will help me simplify certain tasks in my day to day activity. I have put together a list of 15 web apps that have really help me to save time online. All these applications are different markets but they all have one thing in common, they are cool, new and very useful!
Driver-Generated Live Maps and Real-Time Road Information. Driving with waze mobile client lets users passively and actively share real time data and receive the optimal route to their destination.
Spacky is a free keyword research tool. Spacky lets the user type in any keywords and then lets them know search volumes in Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Curculator is a very simple currency converter and calculator that has been design to save users time. The currency converter uses daily mid-market rates from various trusted sources. All rates are refreshed daily. However, I would really like to see them announce their source for the financial information
Itumz is a powerful web application that lets you make lists, access them from any web browser, and share them with your friends and the world. The rich user interface is simple to use and makes it easy to create to-do or task lists.
To-do’s are too simple, calendars are overly complex, sometimes you just need to be reminded. Superminder is a micro-application that will make sure you don’t forget.
Springo is a visual search engine like no other. Currently Springo lists some of the main search results but is still yet to get very detailed.
Tatango, the ad-supported group SMS service. The service is dead simple to use, as it should be. I made the jump from accountless bum to en masse messaging mogul in all of about 2 minutes.
Amplify is a service for sharing clips from articles, blog posts or anything else you read on the web with your friends on Twitter.
Topsy is a search engine powered by tweets. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say.
Create your own website with ease. It’s fast and it’s free! You can have your own website in less than ten minutes and begin using it right away!
Snipi uses drag and drop technology that will change the way you browse, organize, shop, share, and discover the Internet.
Charts.fm is the ultimate tool to create your personal music charts by (re)mixing the charts of more than 2650 radiostations.
FeedMingle makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. It mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog.
Fotopedia is breathing new life into photos by building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.
Twitcaps is a directory of images inside twitter messages by arranging into list that refreshes as new images are tweeted. Twitcaps is a great stream of twitter images and you can even see which are the newest and most popular.
I find it funny how multinational companies still get the littlest things wrong. Ask is really trying to find it legs in the search engine market, but they obviously have a huge amount of competition to stand out. Today I followed Ask on twitter with my own personal twitter account.
Now I hate automatic direct messages on twitter at the best of times, but this is what Ask sent me.
Now if ask can get something as basic as a reply message wrong the why the hell do they think they can get me to use their search engine! Jeeves its “look forward to answering your questions!” Sort it out.
It has been a while since we promoted our own Twitter account on site so I thought I would just drop a message to everyone to make sure they follow us. Any Retweets are also very much appreciated.
Crenk Twitter Account = http://twitter.com/crenk
Steven Finch = http://twitter.com/steven_finch
Luis Sandoval = http://twitter.com/pandaran
Augusto Alvarez = http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez
DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.
Destroy Twitter was developed in a similar way as Tweetdeck, with only having one guy come up with the idea and then develop the whole project. Jonnie Hallman is the designer and programmer behind Destroy Twitter, and he has definitely developed a lightweight Twitter client that is both very slick in design and functionality.
I have been playing around with Destroy Twitter and it is a great service that can just run in the background and not take up too much CPU usage. I think Destroy Twitter has a great interface with a nice slide action between replies, direct messages and other windows. It is easy to see why this product is used by a huge amount of the twitterati
You can download Destroy Twitter here.
I would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for the May. May has been a very exciting month here at Crenk. Crenk released a new theme for the site in which we are constant working on providing the features that our readers want to see and use. Our traffic has really stepped up and we have seen some great results for this and our RSS readers. Plus Twitter is at an all time high and on the rise.
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At Crenk have also hired a fulltime writers to the site who will bring in a lot more quality content faster. Welcome Luis and Augusto.
Luis is a writer who has been working on Crenk for a long time and now he has taken the plug into fulltime journalism. Luis is based in the USA and will be bringing our readers some of best and newest startups from that part of the world.
Augusto is a computer geek and fan of the latest technologies, specially those within IT. Augusto has worked as an IT consultant and operations manager for a couple of years. Microsoft Student Partner, MCTS and MCITP.
If you are interested in writing for Crenk then please get in touch and we can see if you fit the bill.
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