Archive for: November 3, 2008

Choosing to follow your friends Twitter posts isn't a bad thing, but it can be annoying when they tweet so much that you can't keep up--or don't even bother. If you're worried that someone you are thinking of following is a compulsive Twitterer and will flood your feed with dull updates about what they're eating or how they're feeling, Follow Cost can tell you what you're in for before you click that Follow button.

Just type in the name of a Twitter user, and Follow Cost looks at their post history and posts for the past 100 days and tallies the average post per day for you. The site displays both the average updates and the average for the last hundred posts side by side.

Follow Cost uses the Twitter and Twitter Search APIs to collect information about Twitter users and their posts. You don't have to sign up to use the service; all you need is the name of the Twitter user you'd like to learn about. The service offers a bookmarklet to add to your toolbar that you can use to check someone's post frequency as you browse their Twitter posts.

In addition to displaying the number of posts per day, the service shows you the average number of posts in terms of "milliscobles": fractions of how frequently Robert Scoble posts to Twitter. (That coinage alone makes us love Follow Cost.) For example, AppScout has posted about 10 times each day since we started posting to Twitter, which is the equivalent ...

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It’s tough to say whether Amazon’s recent fire sale of the Dash Express was an indicator of all that, but sprint is making some serious changes, regardless. Reportedly, the outfit has slashed 50 employees — or around two-thirds of its workforce — which will leave 30 workers who wi…

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We’ll be totally straight-up with you: we don’t believe that for a moment. Okay, perhaps for a nanosecond, but not a full-on moment. An unnamed source shut to Motorola has reportedly informed Register Hardware that in order to preserve the AURA’s appearance of exclusivity, bu…

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The world can use a lot of things right now--honestly, a new social network isn't really high on its list. So, how about two small social networks merging into one slightly larger social network? That's the game plan over at Reunion.com and Wink.

The social networking sites announced today that they will merge into a single new brand which is set to launch early next year. As is the trend these days, the site will also pull in people search results from other sites as well, according to PaidContent.org.

Reunion.com, as its name implies, was launched as an alumni search. Wink was initially launched as a standalone people search.

Election Day is only a few days away, and regardless of how you may plan to vote, it's important that you get out and vote. However, with turnout expected to reach record highs, long lines, malfunctioning electronic voting machines, or other unexpected roadblocks may make your voting experience difficult. With Twitter Vote Report you can get the word out about the conditions at your polling place and share your experience with hundreds of other voters.

Twitter Vote Report is a non-partisan project supported by a number of non-profit organizations designed to provide insight into what the voting process is like for everyday Americans on Election Day. The news is full of stories about people who face challenges when going to cast their vote, like waiting in long lines, facing faulty electronic voting machines, or getting to the front of the line only to learn that there aren't enough ballots. Twitter Vote Report gives voters a number of ways to report the conditions or challenges at their polling place to the public.

You have a number of ways to send your feedback to the Twitter Vote Report when you visit your polling place on Election Day. If you have a smartphone or a mobile device with Internet access, you can simply log into Twitter and post a Tweet with "#votereport" somewhere in it, and the service will pick it up. If you're going to post directly, Twitter Vote Report has a number of tags that you can include that allow you to provide location information or ...

Filed under: Transportation
Yachts are generally pretty environmentally unsound, so the SDe Hybrid just debuted by Island Pilot at the Fort Lauderdale universal Boat Show should be a real breath of fresh air (literally) whether green is your thing. And apparently it’s really about as eco-friendly as…

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Call it Nintendo Darwinism: the evolution of the Wiimote by duration due to survival pressures (or the simple desire to kick increasing amounts of undead ass). As a further example of the phenomenon, AcidMods’ Wii RapidFire kit adds full-auto functionality to either …

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Call it Nintendo Darwinism: the evolution of the Wiimote by date due to survival pressures (or the simple desire to kick increasing amounts of undead ass). As a further example of the phenomenon, AcidMods’ Wii RapidFire kit adds full-auto functionality to either your…

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As many of us can undoubtedly tell you first-hand, the print business is not exactly the safest place to be in this declining economy, and few know this better than the New York Times. The newspaper is currently in debt for more than $1 million, and it's scrambling for cost-cutting measures that don't involve massive layoffs.

The company denied in January that it was looking to sell About.com--after all, the Web company is one of the few truly profitable sectors that falls under the Times' umbrella. Naturally, things have changed a bit since January, and, as Gawker points out, while it would be hard to shed a truly profitable wing, the fact that About actually makes money, makes it easier to sell.

The cash acquired in the sale could be used to take the paper private--something the Times has apparently been looking to do as of late.

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals
Remember those delectable photos of the supposedly official 9-cell MSI Wind batteries we saw a few weeks ago? The ones we were told to expect in November? Well, only two days in and November’s apparently brought some of us something besides that rain we’re always he…

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Evolve Foundation today announced the launch of VoterStory.org, a non-partisan Website aimed at letting voters voice issues with voting on Election Day. The site can also be utilized as a widget embedded on third-party sites.

VoterStory.org can be accessed via PC or mobile device. When users "Share My Story," their issues are sent to a local voter protection organization, who will look into the issue and follow up with the voter via e-mail or phone. A number of groups are already signed up with the site, including, VoterAction, Committee of Seventy, NAACP Voter Fund, and the National Lawyers Committee for Election Protection.

Evolve Foundation also runs 1-866-MyVote1 and 1-866-OurVote, to help voters file complaints over the phone and locate polling places.