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TweetDeck 0.30 - adds support for Facebook and Myspace

TweetDeck - Twitter desktop and iPhone application.
With TweetDeck You can update and manage your multiple twitter account,
preview short URL's,
keep your TweetDeck safe with sync and back-up on multiple computers,
record, share and watch video clips within TweetDeck.
To make TweetDeck a better accessory for social media TweetDeck 0.30 now supports two more major social networks Facebook and MySpace as TweetDeck says "Bring your Facebook and MySpace friends closer".


Facebook - Now you can update your Facebook Pages, view or add comments and likes, updating the user’s wall, sending the user a message, etc form your desktop. And stay organized with groups.

MySpace - Update your MySpace status and mood from TweetDeck, and new MySpace columns to stay up-to-date with your friends’ status and moods, comments on your profile and view the full activity stream choc full of photos, events, videos and apps.

TweetDeck Directory and more... TweetDeck Directory makes it easier to find and follow your favorite subjects. Select the subject you are interested in and click 'Add column' to add column in TweetDeck app.
More...
* Minimise to tray.
* Drag and Drop photo sharing
* Post photos to Twitter via TweetPhoto.
* Ability to add a Bit.ly account.
* Quick Profile – Simply enter a Twitter name to view profiles in TweetDeck.
* Better follower management.

Twestival Local : Thurs 10th Sept

Twestival - Twitter Festival.
1st Twestival Sep 2008 - Amanda Rose - an Canadian entrepreneur and some social media graduates in London started an event to raise money for charity and social cause. And collected donations and canned food for charity The Connection for the homeless. The event which was intended for 30-40 people ended up with a waiting list and all 250 attendees wearing @name stickers to identify themselves to others they had met online.

12 Feb 2009 - 202 cities with 1,000 volunteers and 10,000 people participated globally and raised over $250k through these events and online donations for Charity Water, resulting in 55 wells for more than 17,000 people served in Uganda, Ethiopia, and India.

2nd Twestival Sep 2009 "Twestival Local" - aimed to support a local cause on one day during weekends of 10-13 September 2009. It is hoped that it will raise $400,000.

"The aim is to give people a chance to feel they are contributing to a larger social initiative, but bring the cause a little closer to home." - Twestival Local

So Get Involved and volunteer in your city

Mozilla Weave 0.3 : Sync your experience


Weave 0.3 Realeased
Mozilla lab's Weave project aims toincreasing user control over their data and personal information. Meaning synchronize your Firefox experience across multiple browsers including Fennec, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. Synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs will provide you the same experience across all the browsers.

Sync your experience to :
* Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers.
* Open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers.
* Keep the same list of bookmarks on all of your Firefox browsers.
* Easily sign in to all your favorite sites using your saved passwords.
* Do it all securely: Weave Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla’s servers, so that only you can access your data
Weave 0.3 adds
* Increased reliability and performance
* Support for mobile browsers via Fennec
* Support for the new 0.3 server architecture
Get involved Install Weave 0.3 (requires Firefox 3.1 beta 3)

Adsense : Email notification preferences keeps you update

How about - Google Adsense team members are sending you personalised account suggestions and messages like event invitations, information about webinars?. Yes that's true, Today, Inside Adsense the Google Adsense blog made such announcement. The announcement says that to reach to the publishers - adsense users, Google Adsnse is going to add a feature called Email Notification Preferences.


In few days this feature will be added to your adsense account where you can select which types of messages you would like to receive from adsense team. And anytime you can choose not receive such emails by visiting contact references.

VOTE EARTH : March 28, 2009 Earth Hour

On March 28, 2009 about 1 billion people from all over the world will turn off their lights for one hour, from 20h00, for Earth Hour 2009 to VOTE EARTH, against Global Warming. Definitely they are not saving electricity.
Earth hour began in Sydney in 2007, with the support of 2.2 million homes and businesses by switching off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square also participated in this event and all stood in darkness.
In 2009 Vote Earth is next level of Earth Hour, holding election between Earth and Global Warming. You can Vote Earth by simply switching off your lights for one hour so it's your choice to whom you vote?.
VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Participate in the event at-
Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.(India)