Five years later, Twitter rolls out image galleries

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Over the past few months, Twitter is rolling out some key improvements to their users by adding an improved search functionality and the ability to upload images directly from your Twitter stream. Photo update came through Photobucket hosted and appeared as pic. twitter links and images for the user's followers, as we reported in June and again two weeks ago, when this function was officially available for the full 100% of Twitter users.

Today Twitter keeps rolling by adding image galleries to everyday Twitter users update photos. Huzzah! According to the new Twitter support page of the image gallery users will gather the most recent 100 images that you downloaded to his or her Twitter stream during their recent Twittering career, organizing them all on one page and display them in chronological order.

The images included in user galleries can come from Twitter, yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and other image sharing services is supported on Twitter Details» Twitter said through the Help Center. Twitterers are likely to be grateful for this opportunity, as this means that users no longer have to click over to a third party sharing application for viewing photo twit friend photos. This new feature is also a Twitter well in their quest for stickier users. Users on the site for all of their photo sharing needs without doubt will be great for Twitter stats and a useful addition for users.

To technical limitations of image galleries display (as mentioned earlier) will include 100 most recent photos and, unfortunately, video thumbnails will not be enabled there will be Tweets with links to videos. Moreover Tweets with images that were sent before January 1, 2010 will not be included in the image gallery.

For those looking for new galleries users they can be found on your profile page. According to the Twitter Help Center by clicking the "show all" open gallery in the current window. There are two options for viewing as a grid view and remote from the first and the last is show you the latest images, complete with the body of the tweet is displayed below and sketches for the other images above it, Twitter said.

Personally, it's hard for me to believe that Twitter is just rolling out this feature in the August of 2011, but that being said, I am glad that here. It would be nice to have the same photos, view the version of the above "similar to you at our Facebook above our wall channels.

For those who are not seeing new photo option in the user profile is more lenient, galleries of images should be popping up within 24 hours if they have not already done so. I do not see the galleries for the Web client or Twitter desktop applications for Mac, but I'm sure they will soon be surfacing. In the end we waited several years for this, what is a few hours?

Photos courtesy of Twitter support page.

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My old friend, AT&T, yet what Scumbaggery after all these years

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19 January 2011. It is a day when I will always remember. This day, I finally got to destroy the Horcrux, lead poverty in my life: AT&T.

This day, I finally canceled my AT&T service after years of missed calls, non-existant Service gross over charges and all around. I even did it before I knew exactly what Verizon getting the iPhone. I have had enough. What should I undo it in Google voice, adding insults, just icing on the cake.  Looking back, it was one of the best solutions, technology-wise, I've done in the past few years. And now he looks even better.

You see, after several months of AT&T time of sight, out of mind, they broke into my brain last night when I read at Engadget that they will eliminate the separate text messaging plans for several days. In AT&T marketing jargon this is called "Optimization". In my jargon this is called "bullshit".

In particular AT&T is cheaper than $ 10 per month option, which provides users with 1000 text messages. All that remains is only $ 20 per month unlimited parameter. Or you can have a predetermined plan and pay $ 0.20 for each SMS and $ 0.30 for each MMS.

Of course, that "Optimization" in that they are now two three options. However, the important reasons for the move.

Here's what's really happening. Naturally AT&T would never allow this, but they are scared shitless fully attacks currently in SMS. You see, these short messages have reached income stream of billions of dollars for carriers, with profits rising to 100 percent for each message. In other words, it has a long history of plagiarism. And carriers milking it dry years.

But now startups as GroupMe, which allows users to bypass the SMS and use the data to send short messages, are gaining popularity. Meanwhile, the massive players like Google and Facebook have introduced their own solutions to bypass SMS. And with the launch of iOS 5 this fall, Apple is going to bake a work-around in every iPhone there as iMessage.

AT&T "Optimization" is purely a defensive maneuver. It is true that neither GroupMe or Facebook Messenger is going to kill SMS per night. No iMessage. But what these services are going to do is slowly but surely people to understand that they should not send nearly as many text messages. I look at my use. In the past six months I sent seven message SMS. 7. all the rest of my short messages are passed through the Beluga, GroupMe, Google app voice or now Facebook Messenger. Each of these messages have been sent or received free of charge (they just use a tiny amount of data you already pay if your 3 G). This is the future.

So now with the services out there to make people less rely on SMS, what happens? People were going to want to drop their plans. Who wants to pay $ 20 a month when you use only a small number of messages? Why not pay the $ 10? Well now you can not. You can either pay $ 20 for unlimited, or have no plan and AT&T funny messages.

AT&T knows that most people are not going to chose the latter. Again we have no point yet where people will be comfortable letting go of SMS. Features all the services I have mentioned using it as a backup in one way or another.

Think of it this way: no SMS is heroin. $ 10 per month limited plan was methadone, which you can use to get rid of. AT&T simply cut off the supply of methadone. They're bold you go cold Turkey. Most will not.

I am sure that this is purely a coincidence that this move is happening right now, just weeks before the start of the iOS iMessage with 5. Of course AT&T "arrange" their SMS plans several months ago, but why not do it again? I am sure he has nothing to do with the fact that Apple unveiled the iMessage without telling carriers. AT&T just felt like the clients you want to change right now.

No, do not miss one bit, AT&T.

Update: not even 2 minutes after I publish my old foil, Seth Bloom wrote in to point out that this change applies only to new customers. In other words, this affects only millions of new users who sign up for AT&T get an iPhone (or any new Android phone, etc.) soon. No biggie.

In other words, part 2: "go ahead, sign up for SMS plan, we dare you."

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The Web is 20 years old today

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It was twenty years ago today/Tim Berners-Lee has taught the world to play/while 20 years ago he'd sworn/have not been so much porn. That's right – world's first Web site page prototype, written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee way back on 6 August 1991 the then emerging hypertext markup language, celebrates 20th birthday today. And, on this important anniversary, we ask that the Internet wrought?

In the past two decades, we have received in e-commerce and spam we tore down the music, news and publishing industries, and we already have CATS LOLed more than we can count. We've seen empires rise and fall, collapse the distinction between public and private sectors and the end of an enforceable copyright. We have seen new means of communication to push unwanted regimes at home and abroad, and we have heard endless wail million voices calling out immediately, most of them in the comments on this site.

We have also seen a lot of above porn.

Original (original?) page is here and it's a fascinating look at the seed crystal, which is a catalyst for change in the world, we know that in the days of heady travel agents. As porn.

Happy birthday to the Internet. Here are 20 years of happy, healthy.

Update-you guys win. Mea Culpa.

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Keen on ... Howard Hartenbaum: "in a few years, every business will be Mobile"

Andrew Keane, Anglo-American entrepreneur, writer and public speaker. He is the author of the international hit "the cult of the amateur: how the Internet is killing our culture" which was published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the Heim business technology book of the year award. As a pioneering Silicon Valley-based Internet entrepreneur, ... ? Read More

So said Howard Hartenbaum, partner at August capital, when he sat down with me last week at our first CrunchUp Mobile event in Palo Alto. For Hartenbaum, who admitted to "tired" be smashed "social" beginners mobile inevitable future digital business – so it was inevitable really that he thinks that the word eventually disappear, because he will become so everywhere.

Hartenbaum clearly optimistic Monetizing mobile. He believes that mobile will revolutionize traditional desktop advertising industry by replacing the banner advertising with a much more intimate and targeted advertising. He is also bullish on mobile entertainment provider and as a driving force for development of trade. The most gratifying Hartenbaum believes that mobile leads to consumers pay for their content, what writers, musicians and filmmakers, again the opportunity to monetize their work.

What is mobile

Why is he tired of the "social"

Monetizing mobile

Howard Hartenbaum joined August capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as general partner of Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and. ..

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