Joint brings group chat for Twitter

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About a month ago, Tom Anderson (Myspace Tom, if you prefer) wrote a post on his new favorite social network, Google +, offering a few bits of advice for Twitter. Although many of us enjoy good Twittering now and again, Anderson pointed out that there are several simple features, Twitter could consider if it wants to improve the overall quality of its users. The thrust that could improve social experience Twitter were company to add a "discussion" or chat feature that will, in Tom's conception, to give the Viewer provides a space for you to leave a comment and discuss easy tweets without flooding followers streams from one part of the conversation continues.

Well Tom may simply be interested in a new startup launching today, is called the joint. Okay, well this is not an exact copy of Myspace founder idea, but it attacked the same point the pain of long-discussed Twitter users: in desperate need of better platform to facilitate real-time, private and longer form conversations. Of course there are some differences among users over whether Twitter should be one offering this function, or whether it should remain simple, just like this.

Says joint founder Ethan Gahng (and I tend to agree) that Twitter is better served by staying simple in terms of its user interface and instead allows third party startups and developers to add additional social and chat features from the outside world. (And Twitter in the past few years seems to be largely in line with this philosophy).

To achieve this objective, the joint essentially turns any Twitter hashtag in IRC (Internet Relay channel)-as a chat room, which is integrated with real-time hashtag stream from Twitter. Check it out below. This combo box allows users to participate in a number of different social interactions, including front and center real-time Group chat, which fills with live hashtag channel in the right sidebar.

Users can pull hashtags directly in group chat, or invite people who posted tweets in group chat, right from the chat, or just go and enjoy the synchronous chat, watching as Twitter stream fills. Compared with Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and other third-party applications that let you track hashtags, being able to watch someone Tweet outside and bring them in and chat away this thin borders and differences by joint, what really makes a big difference.

If you're trying to engage in conversation with someone on Twitter, that goes beyond a few @ replies, "you either have to DM or the conversation of other countries. Sharing allows users to easily join group chat, and also to discussing major or popular hashtags. For example, in recent times "# irene" became used as hashtag as Hurricane Irene ready to hit the East Coast. The joint could be a very useful resource for those who want to easily gather and discuss the current situation, such as hurricanes, protests or events, live, from anywhere.

Another cool joint in the aspect that it should function as an informal conversation environment for Twitter users means that if I have a conversation with someone and a third person joins a chat room, they will not be able to see the current conversation. It says, is intended to ensure joint Gahng group chat more interaction in the real world.

That joint in cases of alleged use Gahng said that it is easy to connect to other people on Twitter, but it's hard to really get to know them, so that through the joint, you can meet someone on Twitter that you want to play Starcraft, with many of your followers do not wish to join in on the fun. Which is why open standards Warrior Chris Messina offers a hashtag in the first place, but certainly not so many people regularly follow hashtags in their day-to-day use of Twitter. Joint looks at this change, making it easy to search for different hashtags, discuss and follow them synchronously in real-time. As an example, check out Starcraft feed here.

Not to speak of the fact that, because tweeting with hashtags means that your tweets get archive and live eternally in search engines, etc., many people feel uncomfortable about the availability of public conversations (more private matters, especially) on Twitter. We've all had to delete a Tweet or two and often too late. Giving Twitter users who added benefit social flexibility, joint hopes to give yourself a leg up on other third-party Twitter apps.

And finally beyond just the ability to monitor the hashtag groups, joint also informs the user when a new user in chat room, offers search descriptions and enables users to view main catalogue or even start their own hashtag channel.

Joint solves major pain point, often faced by Twitter users and from my experience at chats and poking around the site, the user interface is simple and chat is a fast and easy to use. A multidisciplinary team of three people working on this since January and run the initialization at the moment, but if the platform can be scaled and continue to work in real-time without glitches, this seems like something that can definitely legs.

Joint and his team is not affiliated with Twitter in any way, but I wouldn't be surprised if social networks comes knocking at the door at some point down the road.

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Twitter founders put their weight behind a new launch: rent

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Twitter co-founders biz stone, Evan Williams and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently have shifted their attention from micro sharing service provider to reset the obvious, the company which originally incubated Twitter.

Yesterday the stone announced the first draft of the obvious: new application development company called lift created by Tony Stubblebine and John Crosby. Obvious said that it would help lift with "strategies, develop, finance and recruitment."

Hoist building remains unclear, but Stone says:

"Tony Stubblebine and Jon Crosby created an interesting new application for unlocking human potential through the positive reinforcements. We love this software for what he does, and since we have tried it and it works.

Crosby said more would be distributed "in the coming months." If you are interested in learning more now: Marshall Kirkpatrick was sleuthing and writes about what he found at ReadWriteWeb.

Stubblebine previously worked at Wesabe, Odeo (where he worked with obvious trio) and O'Reilly Media, and founded the CrowdVine. Crosby boasts concerts on the road, engine yard and Songbird his resume.

The lift will be billed as a company are evident, despite the obvious team clearly sees this more as a partnership in which the lift gets to go his own way, under the leadership of Stubblebine and Crosby.

Its service is currently in private alpha, but the Web site allows people to register to get more details when available. Oh and you can log in via Twitter and Facebook.

As an amusing side: entrepreneur and Hacker Connor Montgomery and/or Stubblebine, apparently added some humor in the code of the Web site of the lift:

(meta name = "description" content = "Cancel. Achieve anything (assuming that we are finishing building this app). ")

I assume that they will. Can't wait to finally be able to achieve anything!

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Twitter starts, moving to a secure HTTPS by default

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In March, after at least one high profile security incident Twitter created the option Enable HTTPS at all times. But a more secure way to view the twitter.com could include only manually by selecting it in your profile (or typing "https://" every time you went to Twitter). Today, the service begins to enable HTTPS by default.

Firstly this will include only a small group of users, says Twitter. Over time they will expand it more. This is a welcome change, which added other services like Gmail, over the years. Google even experimented with it on google.com, and Facebook is able to use it, and after many years of avoiding it.

Many services, avoid it because it means a small performance hit. Others don't like it, because he scrubs the data transfer. And this may mean that some of these third parties may be funky. However, in the era of Firesheep HTTPS becomes necessary.

If you're not in the default test group and want to learn more about HTTPS, you can do so here. Twitter recommends that all lit it at the time as they slowly roll it all.

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Twitter founder Heello launches as a simple Twitter clone

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In August we reported that Noah Everett, founder of the Exchange site, Twitter, Twitter photos has launched a new site called Heello. The site is not yet open to the public, but a year later, it looks like curtains was finally drawn to Heello.

At first glance it seems a lot like Twitter. You create a user name, which is @ username, and you can communicate with Twitter and Facebook. You share what you are doing on the site with the commands, which is an update to 140 characters, where you can attach video, photos and/or your location.

One noticeable difference in Heello is that it offers continuous, Auto updating stream of updates, so you don't have to press refresh for more teams to come to the media is displayed in the stream. Users @ reply you can, as if they are on Twitter. If you want to retweet ping, you can echo it. You can also send personal messages to both the individual and group members.

Strange Heello is that it does not seem really original in addition to a continuous stream of updates, which actually gets annoying. Heello and certainly is not the first company to try to replicate Twitter (Yahoo Meme, Identica and Ekko also play in this space).

Last year, when we asked what Everett Heello will focus on, he told us that this will help people communicate better ad offer internal tools and systems for enterprises, including support tools/resources customer and technology platform. This version is different from this Heello paintings.

Of course Everett may just going after Twitter after the company recently released its own TwitPic competitor. It is no secret that TwitPic was completely blindsided on Twitter go into their territory. Then Everett was noticeably annoyed by Twitter. So maybe there are some revenge in this campaign?

And there is nothing wrong with throwing a little competition Twitter way, but it's surprising that there is not much creativity in Heello.

It is also hard to imagine that Twitter users will feel obligated to start using Heello due to links between Everett.

This is just one big F Heello-do you Twitter?

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Twitter comes alive with activity streams in real time

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Since its inception, the content on Twitter is largely displayed the same key. It is linear, reverse chronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections to be added to the service are going to change that.

In particular, in the @ mention at twitter.com is replaced by two new tabs: "@ username" and "activities". These two threads will add an additional layer of Twitter and Tweets, the layer showing social activity around them.

@ USERNAME (of course, the user name will be replaced with your Twitter name) stream will still show your @ replies, but it will also show things like when someone follows you, someone favorites one of your Tweets when someone retweets your Tweets, or when someone adds you to the list.

In the work flow will show you all these things, but related to all the people you follow on Twitter. In other words, you can see if you retweeted tweet, or if someone new, etc.

If you are familiar with Instagram, this double activity stream is similar to the concept that they use to cover the events in the service after the photos are in the main stream.

All this information into these two new Twitter streams in real time. And what you can do as a reply, retweet and most importantly for Twitter, follow directly from within those threads.

This is the key to this change: this is yet another step to Twitter to mass their social graph. And this one is clever because it will make Twitter feel more alive. At the same time, they're keeping main stream intact as a simple, standard reverse chronological stream. Mixing @ replies of other activities will likely piss some users — most people hate after all the changes, but overall this is a smart move.

This change can significantly change using Twitter the same way. So far almost as old as Favoriting Tweets, Twitter itself is a function that has always been under-represented and under-utilized. This is because Twitter never gave him a purpose, and more importantly, never had a good way to show how others use it. Now they're giving the last exposure.

It seems that most people use the Favorites button for years, or bookmark it or make it really their favorite Tweets. This will lead to an increase in the number of services such as Favstar. In the light of the recent favorite email notifications Favoriting finally got some Twitter social juice. Now these new threads should throw use your loved ones as a way to show someone you appreciate their Tweet — how "button, if you will.

Twitter will start rolling out these changes for a very small number of users today. The introduction will be continued during the next few weeks, if all goes to plan. Again, it's only going to twitter.com now, Twitter is considering how to cover the same information on their mobile applications, but notes that it may be different for different devices.

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REACH bit.LY mines Twitter help Hotels to reach potential visitors in real time

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Riga, Latvia-Reach bit.LY today releases its first product, coincided with the announcement that he raised the first round of seed funding for business.

A service that the company is today debuting a young Web platform that provides hotels with the curator of the Twitter stream and direct conversation tool, so that they can touch base with potential visitors in real time.

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Twitter takes additional measures to protect sensitive documents

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Twitter cooperates with a German company called Brainloop in an effort to more effectively safeguard and enhance its ability to share and collaborate on confidential documents.

Brainloop offers online platform that helps companies such as Twitter, but also clients as BMW and Nokia protect sensitive documents and automatically apply security policies required for the files that they want to protect from strangers.

Needless to say, that we are not too happy with the recent development.

News of the partnership between Twitter and Brainloop comes less than two weeks after it appeared on the former, raising 800 million dollars in financing for investors and employees cash out until the final sale or IPO.

Twitter declined to comment on the reports.

In the statement of the Twitter VP Finance Luca Baratta said the company was "delighted" to work with Brainloop and that companies are protected online workspace solution will help Twitter as it expands its global footprint. Brainloop CEO Peter Weger explains what his company does, in a nutshell:

"We make it easy for employees, partners, investors and other interested parties, whether they are inside or outside the network to carry out their work, knowing that they comply with the rules of confidentiality that their intellectual property is protected and the best thing that they do not have to worry about that."

In short: Brainloop helps prevent sensitive information from leaking for people like us, Twitter.

Some of the features available in the company's compliance management solution include ' nowhere ', Web access, paper, jointly-controlled user access control, two-factor authentication via SMS contacts, 256-bit encryption, and integration with Microsoft and Adobe's rights management to prevent unauthorized forwarding, printing, and saving documents at any time.

Further details of the deal between Brainloop and Twitter were not leaked.

Brainloop is located in Munich, Germany, and has an Office in Boston, Massachusetts (United States). The company raised 2 million euro funding to date.

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