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Twit Links

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Twit Links, dubbed as “Tweets for Busy Peeps” is a site that aggregate tech tweets. On the site, you’ll find all the cool stuff that the tech people talked about, and latest links from the world’s top tech Twitterers. Twit Links was in fact launched in this year, using the API of Twitter, and the purpose and display of the tech news of this site meaning that it is an alternative to another automated tech news aggregator site called Techmeme.

For some people that subscribed to a lot of feeds, but do not find the time to read all the tech news, this site will serve as a centralized site for them to find all the latest tech news that are of interest to them. However, the tweets they’re pulling from are not the real-time tweets, all of which are in the lag time of minimum ten (10) minutes.

Nevertheless, though the purpose of this site sounds great, it is still not manage to gain enough traction to be noticed on the Web.

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PingMyCompany

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PingMyCompany is a site where you can find a particular company listed on the site is an employer of choice, though different people would have their own viewpoints about the company. It is currently offered for free, without any registration, and let you share your love or hate for the company you’ve worked, or want to work, as well as never want to work for.

In order to rate the company, you either can add the company to the database if the company you’d like to rate isn’t available on the site. You can rate a company by acting as a pinger, and ping in favor or against about that company, with a sub-category provided such as products/services, career growth, office culture, salary & increment, interview experience, as well as customer service. For each ping you sent, approval must be allowed by PingMyCompany before the ping can be publicly shown on the site.

With special attention on a company’s reputation on the Web, PingMyCompany acts as a sort of middleman between you, the pinger, and the companies that seeking workers and in its own way to improve the hiring and branding efforts. If you’re a human resources manager and you find the company you’re working for, the comments are simply nasty, it’s time to work on it in order to improve the work environment.

If you want to use PingMyCompany simply as a site to share your hate about your current employer, you may. However, a better choice is that you can use the time you ping to the site by simply log on to some job search service sites and look for the next job that you’d love to do.

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Prohmote

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Prohmote, an event planning tool that built on top of Google App Engine, using the Python and Django Templating is a no-registration required service that allows you to plan your own event. It has a very clean and simple one-page interface, and by simply type in the details of your upcoming event, you can create the event in seconds. However, you’ll need to provide your email address during the event creating process, so that you can keep track of your event, and share it with your members, friends, and family. After you creating the event, the event profile displays the basic info of the event, and the event URL is carried with an unique URL name, comprised of number and character letter.

Prohmote also features privacy option, which allows you to determine the event you created is publicly be seen or in private invite only. Additionally, there is also a RSVP system to allow guests to confirm if they will attend or no, and a mini feed so that you can keep up with the latest update of the event.

To know more about Prohmote, it is an event planning tool that went into beta in March this year. And it seems like Prohmote planned to launch a Pro version that allow enterprises to pay for their paid accounts with Google Checkout in the near future.

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Tweetrush

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Tweetrush is an analytics product that launched in this year. Its existence is served as a tool for a much larger and full-scaled analytics product called Rush Hour. With Tweetrush, it lets you analyze the total tweets happened in Twitterverse everyday over a period of one (1) week, your own tweets, as well as the hourly average of tweets at all time.

It is not surprise that the popularity of Twitter is attributed to its micro-blogging features. Many users used it for the intent of sending notifications to their followers, and you know, probably by next month November 13, according to this little Twitter tool called GigaTweet, Twitter will reach a new milestone of a billion tweets to be posted by all the Twitterers.

However, it amazes me that in reality not all the tweets are considered as the genuine messages equating with something about “What are you doing?” and it even not coming close to the notifications, in a situation where a Twitterer can use it as an IM tool to notify her followers what is happening in some city street, and one can keep herself in a better position to the conversations. Many Twitter messages are posted from the Internet bots, these bots are just keep on sending messages which is automated in the back-end to the Twitterverse.

With Tweetrush, now we can prove it that the growing amount of messages occurring in everyday from these spammy and commercial accounts. Imagine everyday all these accounts have the capability to post the average 600 to over 700 hundred messages a day, while we only have 1,440 minutes per day, and these accounts will likely to post a message in every two (2) minutes, the spam messages seemed to be out of control now. While I checking the top tweeters listed in Tweetrush one by one, their accounts are simply nothing but full of spam or marketing messages, advertising and links dumped.

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Searchcube

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Searchcube, a project of Symmetri that built on Google AJAX Search API, now has options to create an unique, three-dimensional cube interface of your search results that fetched from Google. Each time you enter a query, and the search results to be shown are add up to thirty-two (32) results per cube, and since it renders a three-dimension cube interface, the maximum total number of results return is ninety-six (96) results.

Searchcube’s primary aim for users is search in graphical format, and the results show up on the Web browser is in a visually attractive, and appealing 3D fashion. The search results rendered is a mashup from several third-party programming tools, such as thumbshots.org, Sandy 3D Engine Actionscript library and Tweener Actionscript library. Each tool is deployed for a specific purpose, respectively.

This type of 3D display is becoming quite popular nowadays, mainly because it allows you to sift through stacks of search results. With a simple mouse or keyboard click, you can flip cube, drag and rotate or turn the cube, and etc. You also can mouse hover to one of the results; a brief information about that particular result will be shown in your right-hand side of the Web browser, see example below.

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