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Twitter changes the question
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Twitter Will Launch Paid Corporate Accounts By The Year’s End
Turn your computer into a radio station

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 02:33 PM PST

“What are you doing?” is the hallmark question with which, Twitter entered the internet and created a revolution in the way, people communicate. However, today, Twitter has changed the basic question from What are you doing? to “What’s Happening?”

The reason that seconds the decision of twitter to do so, is largely said to be the change in social stuffs. The previous question was limited to you and your personal life. And according to the twitter blog, “What are you doing” is no more, the relevant social question. When you’re sipping a coffee, and someone asks “What are you doing?”, the answer comes, I’m sipping coffee. While, there are zillions of activities going around you about which you can tweet.

Ok. Fine. But will it make a difference to me?

In a way, it will. Before the new idea, all the tweeting was about personal statuses. But now, it will be more dynamic. Now the idea is not only to tweet about you but also about your surrounding and the events happening around you.

The future?

Presently, there are limits on content what you can pour over twitter. And most importantly, the 140 character limit. Maybe, in near future, Twitter may lift that limit. That will open the gates for new ideas to bloom. We can only wait and watch!

So, that was the idea behind changing the basic question from “What are you doing?” to “What’s Happening?”

Enjoy Tweeting

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Send encrypted messages with Norbt

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:59 AM PST

Norbt is a web tool great for protecting text on the web. It basically encrypts and allows you to store text online which cannot be accessed by web crawlers. That is where the web-tool gets its name Norbt which stands for No Robot.

Norbt is a perfect tool for any one to give out email address on the web without worrying about crawlers picking it up and sending you spam. Norbt has in a way has mixed encryption with the concepts of reCaptcha.

Why use Norbt?

This is ideal if you do not want to send certain text over email or allow everyone to read it on a website. Just encrypt it with a question. The answer makes the text appear.
If you want people to reach you on email but avoid web crawlers to copy your email id and hit you with spam. Just make the email address appear to people who can type the correct answer.
Playing riddles is also a lot of fun with Norbt. Make friends solve a riddle and if they get it right, desired text appears.

How to use Norbt?

Just visit the Norbt website and start creating norbts. This will give you a URL on which the question and text is stored on. Answer the question correctly and the text is shown.

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You can access the norbt show in above image at https://norbt.com/Z6CE46

Another thing about creating norbts is that it does not require anyone to register to their website. What do you think about Norbt? Do you think this could be a fun but useful way to encrypt text online? Let me know through your comments.

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Twitter Will Launch Paid Corporate Accounts By The Year’s End

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 03:22 AM PST

It’s official, Twitter is set to introduce premium accounts for brands and businesses by end of the year, this according to co-founder and CEO Biz Stone. While speaking at an event in London, Stone said Twitter plans to charge for corporate accounts, and in exchange, would offer enhanced features and analytics in return. twitter-Corporate

It is important to note, however, that if you are a current brand or business, you will not be forced to pay, but this will more be added on as a value to your account, which will tie in the rich features & analytics, in addition to some other kind of targeting, is my guess, when plans are unveiled in a few weeks.

Reactions to Paid Accounts

At the event, according to ClickZ, celebrity Tweeter, Stephen Fry criticized the move, saying it would be “anti-commercial” and there was a “sense of being guided by a big corporate brother.”
Fry also pointed out that this could now be the beginning of banner ads on the site, and Stone quickly dismissed that saying "the plan has always been to create a [revenue] model that would be native to Twitter."

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Turn your computer into a radio station

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:28 PM PST

How many times have you encountered the situation that you really wanted to listen to a song and that song isn’t in your iPod? Rather, it is lying in that lonely computer back at your home. If that has happened to you anytime, we are presenting a solution for that. Today, we will tell you how to turn your computer into a radio station so that you can reach your music database from just anywhere in the world.

There are many possible sharing solutions you may think of, like file sharing etc. but have you ever thought of streaming your media? Streaming is the technology which enable people to hear your music over the internet without downloading anything. Another plus point of doing this is, there can be a single PC storing all the music and there can be multiple PCs connecting to it. This way, this technology can prove to be a massive disk saver.

All this can be achieved by downloading a free Java-based application called Sockso

Features of Sokso

No installation required. Just unzip and go.
Share any file format.
Java platform.
Allow or block any user from downloading your content.

Simple process for setting up Sokso on your PC

Download and unzip Sockso to a folder.
Connect your computer to a home network / the Internet (depending on where you want to serve the music files).
Click on the "Run Sockso" shortcut to launch the program.
Select the music files / folders that you want to share.

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Share your computer IP address and Sockso port number (default:4444) with your friends e.g. http://<ip_address:4444> . They can use this address and listen to your collection using their web browser.

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