Fans of the popular Seesmic Twitter client’s web-based interface have some good news today. A major update to the web interface brings in a brand new contact manager, drag-and-drop full Twitter list management, photo uploads with geotagging, Tweetmeme support and a conversational threading feature that lets you call up back-and-forth exchanges you’ve had on Twitter into a collated conversation pop-up view
Meebo has added a Facebook -like notifications feature to the Meebo Bar .
We wrote about Google’s Liquid Galaxy project back in December, one of the more interesting 20% projects in which a series of eight LCD panels surround the viewer in a wraparound view of Google Earth or Street View. We had a chance to get a live demo of the system from its creator, software engineer Jason Holt, who used an off-the-shelf controller device to virtually fly us around the world (and under the sea!).
Veoh, a video-sharing website that raised around $70 million funding and was at one point a quick growing rival to YouTube, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Admit it: after all the rumors about the mythical Apple Tablet, you hate the Tablet and want it to suffer. Well, these images, which finally look like they might be genuine, real pictures of the device, will satisfy your evil cravings, as the Tablet looks to be bolted down to a table. Yep, that’s how Apple makes sure no one steals it.
Are you planning to stroll through the Times Square in New York City in the next couple of days? Even if you don’t, you can still put your photo up on Kodak’s big screen on the Square, and – better yet – you can control when it happens. Kodak is running a promotional campaign in which anyone can have their picture appear on their large screen for 10 seconds
We’ve been following the Drew for Sale Twitter name auction, in which Drew Olanoff ’s #BlameDrewsCancer campaign found an innovative new way to raise money for the LIVESTRONG foundation. TV’s Drew Carey has been continually upping his bid to secure the coveted @drew Twitter name, first pledging $25k and shortly thereafter upping it to $100k if he received 100,000 followers at his current @drewfromTV account by November 9. When the campaign began to spread like wildfire and that limit seemed easily achievable, Carey upped the ante yet again, pledging $1 million to LIVESTRONG if he could reach as many Twitter followers by the end of 2009, with the total donation to be “pro-rated” at a dollar per follower by year’s end.
As the launch of the fabled Google Phone, the Nexus One , has approached, more and more information has leaked out.
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. When a group of people starts discussing social media, it usually takes only a few seconds until it becomes a discussion about the most popular and widely used social media tools
