May 27th, 2008 — Launched, Twitter

With all the people trying to make money by piggy backing on Twitter, here’s another cool app that might make a million bucks using that strategy.
TwittURLy is a real time tracker of popular URLs on Twitter.
It looks like a good idea and if they can implement a “category-based” updates, it might even do better.
Twitturly operates similar to Digg.com, however instead of users voting sites up or down on our site, we monitor the Twitter public timeline for links inside the Tweets and consider each tweet with a link in it as a vote for that URL.
A major benefit of Twitturly over other popular news outlets is that Twitter often has the information first, thus anyone watching Twitturly will usually see news break before any other outlet has it.
We use a proprietary algorithm to sort the links on our homepage so the most popular and recent ones appear closer to the top.
via mashable
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May 11th, 2008 — Launched, Twitter, web2.0

It seems like everyday we see more web apps geared toward Facebook and Twitter.
Well, it should be obvious to everyone in the Web2.0 world that there’s a lot of money to be made by piggybacking on those bigger “whales”.
LiveTwitting brings you conference twitting at its finest with their launch.
Say you’re at a conference about the latest and greatest Twitter experiment and you want to tweet to your friends about what’s going on as it happens. Live Twitting will record all your tweets and assemble them into a single page for easy reading. It works with web, IM, SMS, twhirl, or twitterific.
via KillerStartups
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May 10th, 2008 — Launched, Open Source, web2.0

Here’s an impressive open-source Twitter Desktop Client that was just launched called Spaz. I do love open-source platforms and soon SiteHoppin will be going open-source too.
For what I can tell, this site has potential to grab some “free” developers for its open-source platform as it supports Mac, Windows, AND linux. Great stuff guys, keep ‘em comin’.
Newcomer Spaz is a cross platform desktop Twitter client based on Adobe Air. Not only is Spaz open source, it’s also quite slick. It simply looks good. Users will appreciate its simple yet elegant design. They’ll notice that it’s ad-free too. Spaz is completely customizable as well. Users can design their own themes with a little CSS. There are several views—you can see your own tweets and also the tweets of your followers, along with direct messages and the public timeline. Users can add favorite messages and delete old messages. You can be notified of new messages via Spaz’s Tokyo Train Station sound set. Spaz is free to download—you will of course need to load Adobe Air first, if you haven’t done so.
via killerstartups
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