alexbain:

dbreunig:

GMail’s down, so Google uses Twitter. People talking about GMail takes Twitter down, so Twitter uses Tumblr. When… uh-oh.

What happens when Tumblr’s down?

… & Tumblr was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon.

Tumblr - the internet’s last line of defense™

bit.ly Sidebar

I’ve been sort of mixing and matching between tr.im and bit.ly for link shortening for a few weeks. I like bit.ly’s analytics, and their VC funding and recent integration with the Twitter webapp bode well for their future. As for tr.im, they have some impressive analytics themselves, but I mostly use them via Nambu.

bit.ly’s (new?) sidebar feature, however, is going to sway me even further in their direction. Seeing the discussion around a link on Twitter, Friendfeed, and I’m assuming others (Facebook, Disqus, ?) is a killer application of this data, especially when it’s overlaid over the page itself.

How long until Twitter acquires bit.ly the way it did Summize? The name itself is relatively unimportant, but the function is as vital to Twitter’s growth as search was at the time of that purchase.

Loren Brichter, the great developer of Tweetie (via marco) (via davidkaneda)

EXACTLY….and it just feels wrong to run TweetDeck or Twhirl on OSX. Tweetie’s interesting, but I’m pretty hooked on Nambu at the moment.

(via my twitter at pfmartin)

I was surfing through some TwitPic photos yesterday when it occured to me to check the domain http://flic.kr. Sure enough, Flickr/Yahoo owns it (.kr top-level domain for South Korea). My immediate thought was that it would be an excellent way to integrate Twitter functionality into what’s already the best photo-sharing site…and only moments after posting that thought, I discovered that they’re already on top of it…or at least they’ve integrated the code into the source. Someone has already taken the initiative to write a simple “Tweet this Photo” bookmarklet, which works great.

What makes it really strange, though, is that this has all happened in the past week. I suppose it’s just another indication that (a) Twitter is dominating headlines and attention recently, and (b) the internet is such a vicious echo-chamber that my seemingly original idea also occurred to people who actually have an impact in the very near past. Weird.