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Twitter Grader Ranking Agorigthm Explained

karmadude — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:57:27 +0000

Twitter Grader explains how they calculate twitter rankings.

Fake Steve Jobs Take on Google Chrome OS

karmadude — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:20:03 +0000

First of all, nobody seems to appreciate how goddamn hard it is to make an operating system. You don’t just wake up one day and fall out of bed and make one. Not even the smarty pants kiddies at Google can do that. These things take years. Decades, even. Ours started out 20 years ago, at NeXT.

Tweet Reel: The Twitpic of video

karmadude — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:39:41 +0000

Tweet Reel lets you shoot pictures and video on your iPhone, upload them to TweetReel.com, and share them on Twitter!

33 Firefox 3.5 Plugins for Web Development And Social Networking

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:01:51 +0000

Web development, Social development related plugins and handy plugins for better browsing.

3GS Jailbreak Released

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:56:50 +0000

iPhone Dev Team’s redsn0w is now capable of jailbreaking iPhone 3GS.

Last night we released updated versions of our redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock. These versions are now compatible with the iPhone 3GS running at 3.0. Welcome aboard, 3GS owners! (The tools of course remain compatible with all of the other platforms too.) Also last night, saurik released 3GS-compatible versions of MobileSubstrate and WinterBoard, components that enable many different add-ons and themes.

Illustrations of Optimus Prime

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:28:14 +0000

Amazing illustrations of Transformers popular character, Optimus Prime

Feedburner Founder Leaving Google

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:23:03 +0000

Feedburner cofounder and CEO Dick Costolo to leave Google within the week.

Costolo has no plans for his next job/startup. But something tells me that in a few months we’ll be hearing about his next venture. He turned $8 million in venture capital into a $100 million payday. More than a few venture capitalists will be taking him to lunch at their first opportunity.

ReTweeting: What makes tweets spread

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:18:33 +0000

Social & viral marketing scientist, Dan Zarrella, analyzes retweeting, and provides and provides the characteristics that make them viral.

ReTweets are the first entirely observable and analyzable viral content spreading mechanism in the history of mankind and as such they offer an unparalleled window into what makes humans spread ideas.

Screenjelly: A screen recorder for twitter users

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:04 +0000

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.

Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.

YouTube losing millions of dollars

karmadude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:06:24 +0000

Looks like YouTube has been a cash guzzler for Google(purchased for $1.76bn), and losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.