Twingly launches micro-blog search
Blog search engine Twingly has announced the launch of their micro-blog search service.
This search engine indexes content posted by users of micro-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Pownce, Bloggy and Bleeper.
Pownce is of course discontinued now but the archives are going to be available for the next six months. They [...]
Yahoo Fire Eagle out of beta
Internet media giant Yahoo has announced that their Fire Eagle service is now out of beta testing.
Fire Eagle basically is a location-data platform which accepts data from devices like mobile phones or from users themselves.
This data is then made available to third party services as per user’s requirement.
Tom Coates, [...]
Pownce enables public sharing of files
Pownce has updated its service to add new features for their users.
Pownce users can now make available their shared files to public.
Till now, shared files were only made available to friends on the service.
Pownce is also providing some special settings for controlling the broadcasting of audio files.
In addition, the [...]
Six Apart launches Blog It application on Facebook
Six Apart is the company behind the popular blogging tools Movable Type and TypePad.
The company has now introduced their blogging tool named Blog IT on the Facebook social network.
This tool enables the users to post blog posts from within Facebook.
The tool supports various blogging applications including Blogger, TypePad, [...]
LinkedIn suffered downtime after feature update
LinkedIn is a popular online social networking service which enables a web user to post his career details online to connect with colleagues and friends.
The service came out with an updated edition with more features and suffered a downtime of around an hour.
The company said that the traffic on the [...]
Pownce service opens itself to all
Pownce is a social networking service designed to make it easier for a group of people to share thoughts and content with each other.
The service has been in beta (invitation only) since quite some time and the developers have now opened access to it for all.
Pownce enables a web user [...]
