If you took Super Mario and Twitter, threw them together in a room, in to which they conceived a child, Super Twario would be it. It’s a “social game” of sorts — your tweets are turned into platforms for your character (a rabbit) to jump on. But it gets more involved. When you jump on/hit the platforms, you have the option of reading and replying to tweets. Bolstering your score comes by way of other, Twitter-esque events: tweets, gaining new...
If you’re been searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in hopes of scoring a sweet social networking app, you can finally be at rest. Seeismic is here. It’s nice that such a robust app is available on a platform that drastically needs some big launch titles to boast about. Although, I’m not sure this particular release of Seesmic for WP7 is brag-worthy — the list of unsupported features goes like this: Notifications (new tweets, @, DMs),...
Last week we highlighted a post from TechCrunch that foreshadowed a Facebook redesign being rolled out following their keynote. Well, the new design didn’t happen. Instead, Facebook talked about “lockdown” — their sudo code word for long hours — and how new features and a redesign would be slowly launched over the coming weeks and months. Apparently their “weeks to months” means “a few days”. I fired up my Facebook a...
At first, Apple’s announcement of a social network of sorts built inside of iTunes was kind of exciting. The basic idea of tight iTunes integration and social networking features made a pretty decent product on paper. Furthermore, there’s millions of people using iTunes to download music from tens of thousands of artists. But reality thus far hasn’t been quite as nice. Currently, Ping employes a pretty shoddy (and slow) sign up process for artists,...
It seems as if it was only just yesterday that Facebook rolled out their latest user interface refresh, leaving plenty of people divided on it’s new look. Apparently, the always working team of Facebook staff don’t sleep much — this according to various TechCrunch sources inside Facebook. They mention specifically that the last couple of months things have been on “lockdown” (there’s even a Facebook page for it) with employees being...
