Mashable: Latest 6 News Updates - including “Tweet Viewer Worm Crawling Around Twitter [WARNING]” |
- Tweet Viewer Worm Crawling Around Twitter [WARNING]
- Charlie Sheen’s Recorded Ustream Video Now Available [UPDATED]
- Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook
- HANDS ON: Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard Made For iPhone, iPad [VIDEO]
- Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
- Dog: Man’s Best Facebook Friend, Too? [INFOGRAPHIC]
- 6 Successful SXSW Startup Launch Stories
| Tweet Viewer Worm Crawling Around Twitter [WARNING] Posted: 05 Mar 2011 03:33 PM PST      Be careful what you click on when you’re using Twitter, because there is a “Tweet Viewer” worm afoot. Under the guise of revealing who’s been visiting your Twitter profile, when you click on its link it asks for your Twitter authorization, and then tweets that same message to more unsuspecting users. Keep in mind that merely clicking on the link is not going to automatically authorize anything — that only happens if you click the Authorize button after clicking the link. So, like many viruses, worms and scams, you have to actively give it to yourself, rather than having it attack you as you stand by innocently. The worm appears like this (notice the tweetviewer link): What to do if you’ve been caught up in this? It’s easy enough to go to Settings/Connection/Revoke Access, and then you’re free of it. Here’s the help page if you need more info. And now, link shortener Bit.ly has stopped the unpleasantness for now by blocking domains hosting those scam links. However, if the app you’re using to access Twitter still has permission to do so, it could keep spreading this nuisance with a different shortened link. The burning question now: Why? According to TechCrunch, “It’s not clear that it’s doing anything behind the scenes.” So all morning, it was spreading like wildfire, at the rate of about 159 tweets per minute, just because it could. More About: Tweet Viewer, Twitter scam, virus, worm For more Social Media coverage:
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| Charlie Sheen’s Recorded Ustream Video Now Available [UPDATED] Posted: 05 Mar 2011 01:40 PM PST   Update 2: Charlie Sheen’s live show on Ustream has concluded, and now you can watch the video recording here. See the embed below. Twitter sensation Charlie Sheen appeared live Saturday night at 10 Eastern (7 Pacific) on Ustream, an online video channel. He called his Ustream netcast Sheen’s Korner. Here’s Sheen’s tweet that announced the Ustream video netcast:
According to Sheen’s tweets, he settled a legal dispute with his wife with a verbal agreement, so maybe it was time for him to celebrate. Commenters, what’s next for Charlie Sheen? More About: appearance, charlie sheen, Live Stream, recorded Ustream, recording, Sheen's Korner, trending, twitter, ustream, video For more Social Media coverage:
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| Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook Posted: 05 Mar 2011 01:26 PM PST   Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says the immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that just haven’t been experienced in any other platform.” According to All Facebook, Hed used the word “collaborative” to describe aspects of the game, adding that “the pigs will have a more prominent role.” Take a look at the Angry Birds page on Facebook, and you’ll see that something is up. If you “like” the page, Rovio promises to keep you posted on all the latest news about the upcoming Angry Birds migration to Facebook. Other game developers must be envious of the meteoric rise of Angry Birds. First it starts out as an iPhone game, then it’s ported to Android, Palm and Nokia, then suddenly there are multiple versions of the game, and it’s showing up on PCs, PSP/PS3, Windows 7 Phone, there’s a movie tie-in, an animated series, and there’s even a 3D version in the works. And next month we’ll be playing it on the largest social network in the world. Please tell us in the comments how you think Angry Birds will do on Facebook, and what you think that collaborative aspect of the game might be. More About: angry birds, facebook, games, Mikael Hed, rovio, trending For more Social Media coverage:
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| HANDS ON: Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard Made For iPhone, iPad [VIDEO] Posted: 05 Mar 2011 12:38 PM PST Here’s a foldable portable keyboard from Verbatim that’s specifically designed for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. How well does it work, and what must be sacrificed for this amount of portability? I took this little Verbatim Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard out of its swanky leather case, and with the push of a button, it opened with a satisfying click. Locking the keyboard into a flat position with a sliding tab, soon it was paired up with my iPhone 4 without incident. Sliding out the built-in stand for the iPhone (the stand’s too small for an iPad), I first tried propping the phone onto it in a vertical position. No dice. The iPhone was too top-heavy for that, and constantly slipped off its perch. Moving the phone to the horizontal position, it stayed put, and made more sense for typing documents, anyway. Looking at the keyboard, it reminds me of the old favorite Palm 3245WW folding Bluetooth keyboard that some people still like so much they’re willing to pay upwards of $200 for it. But this Verbatim model goes one step further with a feature that differentiates it from all others: its transport controls let you tend to your music on iPod, iPad or iPhone. It even works with Pandora Radio. You can start/pause, skip to the next or previous track, and control volume from the bank of buttons along the left side. This proved to be a handy feature indeed. The keyboard’s typing action is like most laptop keyboards — rather shallow, but still usable. Touch typists might not like the varied size of the keys, where, for example, the “G” key is slightly smaller, while on the other hand, the “V” key is larger. It’s also strange to have two small space bars, but I got used to it quickly. Still, you’ll have to make slight compromises for this portability. Its Bluetooth capability works with other mobile phones, but it really shines with Apple devices, with its full set of keyboard shortcuts that worked well with my iPhone. Although this keyboard is slightly larger than some other portable keyboards, I think it’s a solid piece of kit for those who need portability and would rather type on physical keys than an on-screen keyboard. So what must be sacrificed? Very little, unless you can’t get used to the varied size of the keys, which I found easy to do. The one sticking point for me was its offputting $104 price on the Verbatim website. For that price, it’s not worth it, but then I was relieved to find it for $53 on Amazon. For that, it’s a good deal, deserving of a place in your carry-on bag. Take a look at the Verbatim keyboard in action in the video above, and get some close-up looks in the gallery below: Carrying Case   Nestled Inside Here It Is Push This Button Voila! Close Look at the Left Close Look at the Right What's This Popping Out? It's a Stand for Your Mobile Phone Spring Loaded Place Your Phone on the Stand Horizontally Stand Doesn't Work In Portrait Mode Nice Keyboard More About: accessories, input devices, ipad, iPad 2 Accessories, iphone, iPod Touch, trending, Verbatim Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard For more Tech & Gadgets coverage:
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| Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] Posted: 05 Mar 2011 11:09 AM PST   Charlie Sheen just keeps #Winning. After a frantic media blitz, launching a Twitter account and breaking a Guinness record for his speedy rise to 1 million followers, he became the strongest trending topic of the week. Entertainment continues to trump, with Bieber’s 17th birthday launching the young poplet back into the number two slot, and the Oscars taking home the bronze on this week’s chart. For the full list of top trends, check out the chart below, compiled by our friends at What the Trend. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section, and read more about this past week's trends on What The Trend. Top Twitter Trends This Week: 2/25 – 3/3 Image courtesy of iStockphoto, 123render More About: charlie sheen, List, Lists, Oscars, social media, Top Twitter Topics, trends, twitter, twitter trends For more Social Media coverage:
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| Dog: Man’s Best Facebook Friend, Too? [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 05 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PST   Okay dog-loving Facebook users, have we got an infographic for you. You did realize that people are setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts for their dogs, didn’t you? Apparently our infographic-creating friends at Lab 42 were startled when they got a friend request from a suspiciously single-named individual who wasn’t a famous rockstar. With a little digging they discovered they were being befriended by Man’s Best Friend. Aha! This could be fodder for an infographic, they said. And so the survey began, taking place online via social networks between February 28 and March 2, 2011 among 407 adults with even distribution across age groups and income levels, aiming to explore the relationship between Facebook, dogs, and those who love them. Image courtesy lab 42 More About: dogs, facebook, infographic, trending, twitter For more Social Media coverage:
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| 6 Successful SXSW Startup Launch Stories Posted: 05 Mar 2011 07:24 AM PST
But it can’t be engineered with snazzy swag and marketing dollars — you have to have great credibility and a great product. “As a marketer, I’m happy to call out other marketers who think that SXSW launch success can be engineered or bought — it has to instead be earned with so much elbow grease and good will,” explains Josh Jones-Dilworth, who has worked on SXSW’s PR and serves on the SXSW Accelerator advisory board. “If anything, SXSW-goers are marketing-averse, super-savvy and able to triage credibility (or lack thereof) with a sniff.” Without further ado, here are five companies (and an author) that have effectively leveraged the multi-industry conference into a launchpad for their success. 1. Twitter Although Twitter is the company most-often cited in lists of successful SXSW launches, it actually launched nine months prior to its debut at SXSW 2007. “Contrary to common belief, we didn’t actually launch Twitter at SXSW — SXSW just chose to blow it up,” wrote Twitter co-founder Evan Williams in a Quora response to the question, “What is the process involved in launching a startup at SXSW?” The conference did, however, help the micro-blogging platform gain momentum. According to Williams, Twitter paid $11,000 to put a visualization of the service on flat-panel screens in the hallways (“We knew hallways were where the action was,” he says), and created an event-specific feature that allowed attendees to text a message in order to sign up automatically and follow a handful of “ambassadors” at SXSW. 2. Foursquare Foursquare is another of the most well-known SXSW launches — but unlike Twitter, the location-based service actually did launch at the event. “We started building Foursquare in late 2008, but we really kicked things into gear in early 2009 so we’d have something ready to launch at SXSW — it gave us a deadline to shoot for,” says co-founder Naveen Selvadurai. “We weren’t sure if people were going to embrace us or laugh us out of the room for features like badges and mayorships, but everyone in Austin really seemed to get it.” The startup raised its first round of funding six months after its SXSW launch. 3. PhoneBooth Free Phonebooth sent a team of 11 and shipped five phone booths to SXSW 2010 for the launch of its free small business calling service, Phonebooth Free. “The booth itself drove hundreds of people to sign up for Phonebooth Free on the spot, and they told their friends about the product, too,” says Phonebooth Senior Vice President and General Manager Jim Mulcahy. “The launch at SXSW got us several thousand users within the first two days and a ton of visibility with press and influencers. By the end of March, we were still seeing the effects of the SXSW launch on new-user acquisition.” 4. GameSalad Free game creation tool GameSalad participated in the SXSW Accelerator in 2009. At the time, it had just five employees and was searching for funding to expand. The Accelerator, which is sponsored by Microsoft Bizspark, is a two-day competition in which selected startups pitch to a panel of VC and angel investor judges for a grand prize of a “most innovative” title. But it’s more than that. “The night before the Accelerator presentation, all participants were invited to an event called Tech Cocktail, where Accelerator startups were given the opportunity to mix and mingle with the very same VCs and angel investors they would be pitching to 24 hours later,” says Jonathan Hunt, GameSalad’s director of communications. “Within one hour, GameSalad had secured its first investment check.” Hunt attributes more than $1 million in investments over the next five months directly to the Accelerator contest. Since then, the company has tripled in size, and more than 2% of the games currently available on the Apple App Store were built on its platform. 5. Foodspotting Foodspotting was a finalist in the 2010 SXSW Accelerator. The company, which makes it easy for foodies to share photos of dished, launched its iPhone app just before the event. It is taking the same approach this year with its Android app. “We found that the most important thing for us was being present at SXSW and having people see our “I Camera Food” t-shirts — gaining that brand awareness and exposure is key,” says Fiona Tang, Foodspotting’s Community Lead. 6. Tim Ferriss Author Tim Ferriss gave a presentation about his first book, The Four-Hour Workweek at SXSW 2007 in an overflow room that could seat a mere 100 people. But that talk, combined with some minor marketing efforts, was enough to launch his career. “If I had not gone to SXSW, I almost definitively can say that I would not have been able to build the writing career that I did, nor the startup, investing and advising career that I did,” he says. “I really view that first SXSW as a pivotal inflection point for me.” Ferriss says size doesn’t matter when it comes to audience. What matters is that you talk with the right people and make a strong impact on those people — which he did for his 100-person crowd. “If you hit the right 100 people at SXSW with Twitter and so forth, you can effectively hit everyone there if you have a strong impression,” he says. [Disclosure: Microsoft BizSpark is a Mashable sponsor.] Join Mashable at the Mashable SXSWi HouseIf you’re going to be at SXSWi, join Mashable at the Mashable SXSWi House. Located at Buffalo Billiards, the Mashable SXSWi House is hosting a variety of public and private events such as VIP dinners, the Geek Games, open networking opportunities and parties, including the third annual MashBash SXSWi party on Sunday, March 13, with music by DJ Chicken George. Register for public events at the SXSWi Mashable House on Eventbrite. The event is open to all SXSWi badge holders who are older than 21.  Thanks to our sponsors Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on Twitter for the daily schedule for huge concerts, happy hours, BBQs, games, and giveaways! And, well, lots of free soda..  Sony Electronics is a leading provider of audio and video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony is noted for a wide range of consumer audio-visual products, such as the BRAVIA® LCD and 3D high-definition televisions, Cyber-shot® and α (alpha) digital cameras, Handycam® camcorder and Walkman® personal stereo. Sony is also an innovator in the IT arena with its VAIO® personal computers; and in high-definition professional broadcast and production equipment, highlighted by the XDCAM® HD and CineAlta™ lines of cameras and camcorders, and the SXRD™ 4K digital projector. Join the Sony Conversation at Sony.com/Blog.  Skifta is an app-based media shifting service that turns your Android phone into a global remote control. Easily access your digital media from virtually any source and stream to connected electronics in the home. With the DLNA Certified® Skifta app on your phone, you can easily access music, photos and videos from your phone, the cloud, or remotely from your home and stream that media to connected DLNA and UPnP consumer electronics including TVs, IP-stereos like Sonos systems, PlayStation® 3 consoles, Windows 7 PCs, and thousands more. No wires, downloading or side loading. Check it out at skifta.com.  If your website has a play button, it belongs on .TV. Stand out from the crowd with a .TV domain name; tell people you create and share great video content on your site even before they visit. Come visit us in the Mashable House at Buffalo Billiards on March 13-14 for a chance to register a FREE .TV domain name. And, mark your calendars: the .TV AUCTION starts March 9. Bid on desirable, sought-after domain names including air.tv, stocks.tv, who.tv, and more at moniker.com/tv or register the .TV of your choice for while you're there. Photos courtesy of Flickr, alexdecarvalho More About: foodspotting, foursquare, GameSalad, launch, mashable, phonebooth, startups, sxsw, tim ferriss, trending, twitter For more Startups coverage:
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