The client also lets you upload some screenshots from the game using Twitpic. TwitPic and will then send the tweet automatically when you log in, enter an instance or get an achievement. Tweetcraft also caught the attention of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. He has written a post regarding this. Well watch this video to know more.

To begin download a video say from Youtube, all you need to do is copy-paste the YouTube video URL. Farkie will then let you download the video file to you in formats like MP3, WAV, AVI, WMV, MOV or FLV etc. Similar service is also provided by keepvid.com, javimoya.com etc as well. Firefox users can also use Farkei by installing an add-on that will let them download videos by just pasting URL and hitting a button.

Farkie is also a boon for Myspace users. Entering the URL to a public MySpace profile into Farkie and clicking download, you can easily extract the playlist from the page and display all of the songs found in the list and then download the whole bunch of sungs in MP3 format. You can also use Farkie to download scripts, stylesheets and images from any website, or to scrape Flash games from the online gaming sites. So, Farkie can be the ultimate tool for download multimedia from websites across the world.

The show will include MTV’s standard variety of celebrities and musical performances, but and will include real-time from Facebook and Twitter, allowing users to interact with the show as it airs. Besides, Facebook and Twitter users will be able to upload their favorite videos (including those they’ve filmed themselves) through a RockYou application.

Audience interaction has been a part of MTV since long. Even in the TRL days it often featured messages sent in by fans, and the videos that appeared on the show were dictated by audience voting via phone and online. But Twitter and Facebook offer the network to stay directly connected with fans and followers and let them have their say in real-time, broadcasting frequent updates even when the show isn’t on the air. Lets see if the show really rocks.

The plugin is available for Wordpress, Typepad, and Blogger, You can also do it with a code snippet that you can use on other blogging platforms. LinkWithin does some semantic analysis in the background in order to arrive at its list of related stories.

However there are a few Caveats. Because LinkWithin does most of the computing on its own servers, it can take a little while before its results appear on your blog (usually around one hour). The plugin also doesn't play nice with every theme. LinkWithin is still a bit rough around the edges and so this is not sure to go well with all sorts of themes. It would be great if you could actually customize the display settings. For now, you are restricted to showing three related stories that will appear on both your homepage and on individual posts. If you want to show the related posts on your blog in a cool way, you should give LinkWithin a try.

In the company’s blog post it has been said,

After nearly two years as a subsidiary of eBay, today StumbleUpon returns to being an independent company.   StumbleUpon is now backed by myself and co-founder Geoff Smith, along with several great investors who’ve backed companies such as Google and Facebook.

StumbleUpon had hit 7 million registered users last year, which was at the time 50% higher than the number of Twitter's users. Twitter's users have dramatically increased this year though.

Both Twitter and StumbleUpon, though, are tools of discovery, sharing and social connection. They are different in some ways but similar in others. There's a special kind of magic to StumbleUpon, though, and we're very glad to see its founders back in the driver's seat. A web where Twitter and Facebook are the only social discovery games in town is a poorer web.

In the company’s blog post it is further said that:

This change will help StumbleUpon move quickly and stay true to its focus - helping people discover interesting web content.  Our goal is to make StumbleUpon the web’s largest recommendation engine and we think this is the best way to get us there.
Thanks to everyone for helping make this happen. While there will be some internal changes at SU, it will not impact the Stumbling experience and will help us create the best possible product.  We are really excited about this change, and hope you are as well.

Lets see if the original founders of StumbleUpon will take it to the new heights.

The attack originated early this morning, when a couple of blog posts sprouted up giving details of the worm. It is only now hitting critical mass, with hundreds of related Tweets appearing on Twitter Search in the last few minutes alone. Twitter’s official Spam watching account updated this morning stating that the company was aware of the issue. It also says that the issue had been mostly resolved, and just issued another update stating that it was aware of the worm’s resurgence this afternoon. For the time being, it would probably be better to stick with a third party Twitter client like twhirl, tweetdeck and avoiding viewing profile pages of other people until the company confirms that the issue is resolved. But some say that the attack may have started from one of the third-party twitter applications through which the worm took up the login credentials(username and password).

Twitter has recently claimed that the issue has been fixed. It has tweeted like this:

Update on StalkDaily.com Worm 36 minutes ago
Earlier today we were informed of a malicious site that was spreading links to StalkDaily.com on Twitter without user consent via a cross-site scripting vulnerability. We’ve taken steps to remove the offending updates, and to close the holes that allowed this “worm” to spread.

No passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information were compromised as part of this attack.

After this update by Twitter, the StockDaily website has stated that it has no involvement with the spamming and infiltrating twitter. It says,

For everyone wondering, I did NOT promote and/or was involved with the spamming ON Twitter. All bad things you are hearing about this site is not true. Please reconsider as I am not the person who did this…StalkDaily is a website that follows the same functions as Twitter, except more advanced How? Well, instead of just adding an “update status”, people can add pictures and videos. Then you can stalk them, so when they upload a video or picture, or comment someone, you’ll know!

Lets hope Twitter remains away from these sort of worms in future.

The core thing would be just do something awesome. Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.

A lot of things are evolutionary, and it is easy to get caught up on what the geek subculture thinks. There’s lots of valuable businesses that can be built there, but I think that is where a lot of people tend to spin their wheels, and I’ve been caught up there before. When I’ve had more successful things, I’ve thought, “Back to basics. What do I want? What do I want to see in the world?” And create that.

Twitter’s Evan Williams was also asked for his opinion on Facebook’s Twitter-like redesign. He said that he is impressed and hints that some of the things Facebook did is on Twitter’s own design roadmap. About Twitter’s plan making an easier framework to share videos and photos, perhaps with inline viewing of Twitter, Evan William answered:

Yeah, I think we should support images and video better than we do today, it does not mean we should host them, maybe viewing inline. I don’t want to get into competition with Youtube. Twitter is lubricant for Web content.

When asked about a business model, Evan Williams answered saying that Twitter will be experimenting with different approaches, but that for now it is still a “secondary” concern to building out the service. He though added that Twitter won’t let posting beyond 140 characters in any case.

The new version of TweetDeck (v0.25) will also include a number of bug fixes and new features, including a Digg URL shortener, support for Spotify URLs (so you can play a song from a tweeted link directly in the Spotify player), previewing of TwitPic images inside the desktop app and preview of information about short URLs within the application before opening the link.

The biggest new feature being rolled out to everyone today is Facebook integration, so you’ll be able to view your Facebook friends’ status updates in a new column alongside your Twitter updates. You can also see when your Facebook friends are online and start a chat with them from within TweetDeck, simply by clicking their name. However, you cannot comment on their status message from within the client. This is of course making TweetDeck more a lifestreaming service than a Twitter client, so it might have to change its name if it keeps on adding integrations with other services.

The site has a huge database and the interface is very clean. Users are presented with a handful of featured topics on the homepage, most of which have been ‘played’ through many times before so they have complete sets of questions and answers. Users are also encouraged to answer basic questions regarding themselves and the widget looks very promising in attracting the visitors and enticing them to answer the questions. The questions used to analyze users are very interesting.

You can use Streamy as a RSS aggregator to read your feeds as well. You can follow other users, share posts with your followers, and even chat with them. Streamy is also going to implement Facebook Connect for signing in to Facebook, and all of your friends from other networks will be synchronized as well. The homepage of  Streamy greets you with the updates from your friends from all social media services.

Streamy currently lets you import your Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and FriendFeed accounts, and from within Streamy, you can easily update your status on thse . Streamy is one of the first services that uses authentication through oAuth. Streamy also features a chat function (including group chat), which used to be at the core of the original service, but now it focuses more on what it is supposed to be, a very powerful social media aggregator. The cool AJAX interface lets you drag and drop almost everything even your favorite sites as you would drag and drop to your bookmark bar.

All in all, Streamy is a very powerful social media aggregator and the cool interface is really amazing. Watch this video featuring Streamy.

It creates a persistent iframe bar with tabs for all your online presences (e.g. your blog, Facebook profile, Twitter stream, Flickr profile, blog comments etc.) and link them to a dedicated URL that is like any other URL on the web and can be easily shared with others. For example, i can register a page which would be like, UnHub.com/skydweller or UnHub.com/techattitude. UnHub profiles also come with analytics functionalities of basic types making it easy for you to track down what the most popular tabs for your presence are based on the number of clicks.

Due to a short and easy to remember URL, people can use it anywhere they like, on their blogs, messenger status or elsewhere as many services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc. are integrated into it. The company says that soon one would also be able to use his/her own domain name which will make it even more interesting.

So, why not try it? You can Watch this video from the website.

With Facebook connect for iPhone, developers can easily enable their applications without having to write a whole thing from the scratch. Users can easily share their data with their friends right from the iPhone via the Facebook Connect Application.

Facebook is undoubtedly, the most popular social network on the web. But the problems that Facebook connect would flood might be alarming as spammers or other advertisers may send data to the Facebook and users might be compelled to see it even before they could choose to skip it.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's had also stated realizing the problems it could bring: "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it."

Either it may be while entering or exiting a tunnel or approaching railroads or grade crossings the driver must sound the Trains horn to alert people for their safety. Train horns are also used for acknowledging the signals given by railroad employees.

The trends of blowing train horns differ widely. Generally a train horn is blown twice, one for a short time and one for long. This is repeated in the 15 seconds up until the lead carriage has actually reached the crossing. But the way they are blown differ variously. In France, train horns are sounded only at certain hours of the day. And the horns should also be sounded while approaching other trains.

To find more about train horns, I looked through many sites. This can be bought at many places where you can find train horns, air horns etc. I had come across a site while looking for train horn kits which was really awesome. If you need to buy train horns, train horn kits, air horns etc., then this is the best site to look for.

Well train horns are a great device for ensuring safety of the people.

DropPlay describes itself as a combination of iTunes, Facebook, Pandora and YouTube. You can easily search your favorite music, bookmark them, organize tracks into a playlist and watch them just in a matter of a few clicks. Or if you want to share the songs with your friends on Facebook, you can simply drag and drop the songs into your friends’ name.

The interface is really very cool and the site calls itself a combination of iTunes, Youtuve, Facebook and Pandora. You can create your playlists with the desired songs but cannot export them. The music and playlist sharing can only be done through Facebook and no other social networks. It would have been great if the site added integration with other social networks as well. And one more thing is that, due to lack of the link to the original Youtube video, it might be very difficult if you need to locate the same video on Youtube.

Lets see how DropPlay enhances music listening, bookmarking and sharing on the go.

The codec is available for third party users on a royalty free basis. Skype claims that SILK can beat all of the codecs available in the market like iSac, AMRWideband and the open source codec Speex.

The Mac version of the SILK will probably come in April. SILK is a great codec and if both people calling over Skype have a version of Skype that includes the new codec, the call quality increases. Skype says that it is giving it away to set greater standards in the VoIP services industry. Skype has 400 million registered users worldwide so it doesn’t need to worry about the competitors.

The Skype API allows developers to access only the limited features of the service. If Skype were opens its calling functions as an open service, the number of applications that would come up in future would be staggeringly large in number.

Now as blogs have become so addictive for people, both readers and writers, he predicts that Twitter will be the same to people in the coming days. People are finding Twitter to be a very valuable mode of communication. Everyone from normal people, to professional bloggers and even the giants like CNN, BBC, Google etc. are getting into Twittering. So, I guess it won’t even take 5 years.

Watch this video to see what Evan Williams says about the future of Twitter.

In the organization’s report, Sven Rollenhagen, claims, "There is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part." World of Warcraft holds the highest risk of addiction. The child for the report is a 15-year old Swedish boy who collapsed after playing World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King for 24 hours straight. The boy could have survived had his parents taken some control over his gaming addiction as World of Warcraft has a wide range of settings for parental control. Parents can set start and stop times for any day of the week. 

So, be careful not to get to much obsessed with online games like World of Warcraft.