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As I posted recently, Twitter is making it easier to find friends on the service. Something I think will help continue to grow. Now they’ve added the Gmail Lookup that allows you to search for friend via your Gmail contacts. A lot of sites are starting to include this feature and it’s an excellent way to let people spam invite friends to join a site or service.

H/T to Nicki, who follows Twitter as much or more than me! ;)

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Brabbler is a pretty slick mashup of microservices like Twitter, Jaiku etc. It’s pretty nice looking, but though they have a sign up form you can’t actually sign up, you have to have an invite code. My main complaint with the site is that some of it is in English, and some isn’t. Pick one ;)

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Yappd, or should it be yatc (yet another twitter clone), is like Twitter with pictures, or really more like via

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Biz Stone sent out the latest newsletter from Twitter just a few minutes ago and they’ve added a feature I’ve been looking forward to: People Search. Now you can find out if someone you want to follow is on there or look up friends and collegues. Glad to see this much needed feature to make connecting on the service easier. From Biz:

It’s new feature season and we’re starting with People Search. This new Twitter feature is great for finding more people to follow because it searches profile information such as name, location, bio, and url. Come on by and find out if your friends are already Twittering and you just didn’t now it! The search field is on the right side of Twitter when you sign in: http://twitter.com

Pinger is a new service that works like Twitter but instead of text it uses voice mail. For me, voice requires more focus than text, as odd as that may seem. I can’t do anything else when I’m doing audio or video stuff. However, I can see the appeal of something like this for the commute, during exercise or generally on the go. Audio is ideally suited for those activities and is a big reason I subscribe to podcasts.

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The main reason I am asking for your input is one of the more requested things is the ability to access more than one Twitter account should you have such a setup. In order to do this I will be having to do a bit of a major re-write of parts of the program so I figured this would be a good time to get you all to chip in with your ideas - after all it is you that is using the program :).

Head over to WinExtra’s Site and let Steven know what you want from the TwitBox client. Now is your chance to help shape the future of the tool.

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With the idea from my last post, I did some searching and found MoodSwing and MoodBlast, which is Quicksilver plugin that aims to let you update your status on quite a few of the major “social” type sites. The focus is on pretty much any of those sites that have a working API, so for now things like MSN and Pownce are not on the agenda. Hopefully Pownce will get around to releasing an API and considering that even Digg has an API Pownce cant’ be far behind. MoodSwing and Moodblast are pretty new but show a lot of potential.

via Chaos’n'Coffee.

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Great little hack: Publish your Facebook status on Twitter.

It makes me think that we need some sort of global format for this kind of thing, some new protocol for these kinds of sites that lets us use an xml-rpc typer interface that we can send updates to all the sites are are plugged into. Each site (facebook, twitter, myspace, linkedin, etc.) could support any or all of the “hooks” they wanted. For example, they could all support the “status” hook and you could post your status via your blog or web client and then it would ping all the services you’ve configured and update your stats. Maybe I should be working on such a concept instead of giving it away here ;)

Thanks to Nicki for the tip!

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