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SocialToo Charging $20 for Emails, Reliability: It’s the "Spanging" Business Model!
In an email sent to users today and in today's blog post, SocialToo CEO Jesse Stay announced that users would no longer be receiving nightly Twitter autofollow and unfollow stat emails on the company dime. Email from SocialToo now costs $20. This comes in the wake of a "no guarantees" policy toward accuracy or speed for Twitter users with more than 2,000 followers and general claims of delays, issues, and inaccuracies. Do we smell inadequate infrastructure? Sponsor As [+]5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools
Twitter has a wealth of data - it’s a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we’ve picked out five great tools to get [+]McAfee: Enabling Malware Distribution and Fraud
McAfee, widely recognized as one of the leading providers of online security software for both home and business, appears to be struggling to secure its own Web sites, which at the time of writing this post, allow anyone with enough tech savvy to covertly do whatever they want on, and with, the site. During tests this weekend, we discovered the company who claims to "keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses [+]Top YouTube Videos of All Time
Visible Measures, the online video tracking platform, has just published their list of the most watched viral videos of all time. The numbers are in and they’re astounding, so astounding that Visible Measures terms these 18 hits the 100 Million Views Club. You won’t see “100 million” on all the view counters on YouTube, however: that’s because the company tracks all the copies of the original video reposted to YouTube, plus other video sites [+]The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What’s Next
Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations. "The open, realtime discussions that occur on FriendFeed," he says, "are going to become a major new communication medium [+]Rate Your Job Interview on Glassdoor
When seeking data on salaries, company environment, and even approval ratings of corporate CEOs, one of the first places many people tend to turn to is Glassdoor, a Web service that allows users to anonymously share information like salary, workplace reviews, and their honest opinions. To give job seekers an even greater advantage in the job hunt, Glassdoor has launched a new feature: job interview reviews. It is launching with about 2,000 reviews from [+]TidyRead Deals Blow to Display Ads, Enables User Tune-Out
Nothing better illustrates the brokenness of the Internet's most traditional revenue model than the recent crop of ad-stripping services. "Users want to have a clean layout to read a blog or news site," said TidyRead developer Matthew Chen. His Firefox add-on creates a sweet, hyper-relevant overlay as users browse through content, blocking out all the noise and distraction while leaving the cream of the content fully intact. Sponsor Like competitor Readability, TidyRead acts as a highly intuitive sifter, [+]World Malaria Day: Tweet to Beat Malaria!
Today, April 25, is World Malaria Day, and the organization Malaria No More is using social media tools to spread the word and raise donations to buy lifesaving mosquito nets. As we did with our successful leukemia and lymphoma fundraiser in March (thanks everyone!), we’d love for the Mashable community to get involved and Tweet out the messages below, letting people know that malaria nets are affordable and save lives. Alternatively, you can [+]
