Filed under: Web services, Social Software
When Twitter users recently stumbled onto Plurk, it gained a large chunk of new users who like the interface, but want to remain active on Twitter as well. Now there’s a solution, and it’s called Feedtweeter. Right now, all it does is push your Plurks to Twitter, taking out any fancy formatting that wouldn’t come across in a tweet. However, support is planned for feeding other services into Twitter, including Flickr, del.icio.us, and YouTube. Feedtweeter is currently in shut beta.
Plurking to Twitter is attractive because they’re both the same type of service: microblogging. But even though something you write on Plurk might be perfect for Twitter, pushing each link you post on del.icio.us into a Twitter account might be, well, spam. We’ve seen this before with other services that post to Twitter via RSS feeds, and we don’t really need another one of those. What’s useful here is realizing that Plurks might have formatting issues that make them hard to feed into Twitter, and offering a solution to the issue.
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Filed under: Business, Productivity, Social Software
Despite some recent competition from sites like Plurk, Twitter is hanging tough as the microblogging center of the internet. Now stock-market investors are catching on to Twitter, too, with an add-on site called
StockTwits. StockTwits collects tweets that mention a stock symbol, prefaces with a dollar sign. For example, $AAPL was very popular this week, with the Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC.
If you want to see what the Wall Street speculators on Twitter are speaking about, head over to StockTwits and check out the info in tag cloud form, in stream form, or by searching. Each tweet is displayed under a graph of the current performance of the stock mentioned. There’s also a cloud of users, so you can easily locate your fellow investment junkies and connect with them over Twitter. Of course, we can’t vouch for any of the advice you might get, but this looks like an intelligent use of microblogging technology.
[Via Tim Sykes]
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Filed under: Debt, Food, Shopping, Career, Recession
It seems like a day for hubris and comeuppance in the corporate world. Dethroned New York governor Eliot Spitzer might be starting a “vulture fund,” to make investment in distressed real estate projects. Meanwhile, Kenneth Lay’s widow settled some fuss over her distressed real estate, a dispute over condo dues as the Enron debacle continues to have impact on Texas communities. And Donald Trump is also in the news, defending a golf course he wants to build in Scotland.
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Filed under: Debt, Real Estate, Recession
Rising food and gas prices are leaving American homeowners with less money to spend and more concerns about the future. As some homeowners lose credit lines due to a loss of equity, some are looking for ways to stretch a dollar or increase the value of a home.
The perfect place to start might be your insurance. “People have a lot of opportunities to reduce their homeowners insurance premium if they invested in certain equipment and protective services in their home,” states Peter Spicer of Chubb Insurance. And, well, now is a good time to see if you can save money and place your money elsewhere.
You might think about starting with an alarm. Not only can safety save you from physical harm, it can also offer monetary savings. Did you know that your premium can dip by as much as 20% if you install a sophisticated sprinkler system, and a fire and burglar alarm system that rings directly to a monitor station, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
What other tips are there for recession proofing your home? Home renovations or maintenance that don’t cost you an arm and a leg. Think: Curb appeal. “Within the first 30 seconds, people are passing judgment on your house,” says Dan Dunleavy, CEO at Fix to Flip. That means a tiny attention to details like landscaping should be a priority if you’re looking to sell or maintain the value of your home. You can do it yourself or search Craiglist listings for landscapers.
Don’t forget tips for the inside of your home. The first step in recession proofing a home should be reducing the amount of money you shell out each month, which can then be followed by improvements that cost you next to nothing, and keep your home value up. Of course, where your home is located plays a significant role in how effective recession proofing your home will be.
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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Ever find yourself puzzling over an unfamiliar word on a web page? Sure, you could open a new browser tab and look it up at Dictionary.com. Or you could just drag a Lingro bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and hit it to make each word on a web page clickable. When you select a word a definition will pop up, assuming you’ve set the tool to translate from English to English. You can also click on the flag iconts to translate words into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, or Swedish.
The definitions are culled from publicly available dictionaries and user contributions filed under a Creative Commons license. So if you find a word without a definition, a message will pop up asking if you’d like to contribute one. Of course, the odds of your clicking the word if you already knew the meaning are pretty trim (unless you’re state, writing a review of Lingro).
You can also use Lingro the old fashioned way, by visiting the service’s home page and typing in a word or entering a web address to translate. There’s even a service that lets you upload a file from your desktop for translation into another language.
Honestly, we didn’t have much luck translating entire web sites. But Lingro’s dictionary definitions and single word translations seem pretty good.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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