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Three cool services you should try out as a Twitter fan

srikanth Written on 3rd February 2009                                                                                                              11 COMMENTS some text
Srikanth AD, Web Designer, Search Engine Optimizer and Google Devotee

Twitter services seem to pop up on a daily basis now. There are so many of them there. There are websites thriving on just keeping up a list of Twitter services. Go figure. This week we learned of three services that were more than just a little amusing. Check em out and let us know which one we missed:

140it

Three cool services you should try out as a Twitter fan

140it shrinks your Twitter messages down to 140 characters by:

  • Reducing words, removing extra spaces
  • Shrinking URL’s with bit.ly
  • Exchanging company names with their StockTwits symbol

It also provides you with a ‘click and drag’ button for your browser toolbar, so that you can shrink your tweets directly from Twitter

Twitter Mosaic

Twitter Mosaic generates a mosaic of your Twitter Followers,

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You can create your own Mosaic here

TwitterSheep

TwitterSheep creates a colorful tag cloud of the bio profiles of your followers. You can also enter search terms to see a word cloud of what people are talking about. This is a word cloud generated for the search term ‘the next web’.

Three cool services you should try out as a Twitter fan

Oh yes, you can even tweet your search :)

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Mosaic created from 1001 of those shiny 2.0 logos

Ernst-Jan Written on 27th June 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS some text
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Mosaic created from 1001 of those shiny 2.0 logos
Yeah, you saw that right: I’m vain enough to hover over our logo. And no, I’m not gonna tell you how long I looked for it.

What you see above this text, is a smart marketing tool by two Dutch guys who want to be the next KillerStartUps.com. Sytse Sijbrandij and Jelle de Bruin have built AppAppeal, a review site for web apps. They’ve created 27 categories – from aggregator to word processing -, containing very short to-the-point reviews. Like this one, about Gmail. I’m not sure it will be useful for you, but AppAppeal can definitely help out people who want to start moving their digital office to the online world.

Anyway, to promote their new site, Sytse and Jelle have spent probably too much time on this world mosaic. The idea is pretty nice and I guess it’s on its way to the Digg frontpage. Yet the execution is somewhat pointless. It would have made more sense if they had placed the logos on the countries they were originally coming from. Then it would have a meaning. Now it’s just a bunch of logos on a pile, looking like the world. Or maybe I’m just a bit pissed of because The Next Web, THE (self-proclaimed) European tech blog is placed somewhere in the Pacific. You be the judge…

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