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The Times and Bit.ly Roll Out ‘nyti.ms’ Short Links

wow. everyone is creating their own short links.

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The customized links are powered by Bit.ly, a New York-based start-up that has become the de facto service for trimming unwieldy Web addresses into bite-sized, easily shareable links.

The partnership is part of Bit.ly’s new Pro service, which creates custom URLs for a number of Web sites and publishers, including Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Associated Content, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Onion, among others.

The Times service is still in beta and is only available through TimesPeople, a tool for sharing news articles and other material on NYTimes.com and through social networks. Eventually the company plans to expand the use of the links to other sites like Facebook, said Stacy Green, public relations manager for The Times.

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Tweeting Comes to Times Square

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For the first time, viewers around the world will be able to access a 6 1/2-hour Web cast of the event and post comments about it on Twitter and Facebook.

The Web cast is being organized by The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, co-organizers of the Times Square New Year’s Eve events. During the Web cast, five separate story lines will be streamed throughout the night, discussing the international participants, the history of Times Square as told through photos, the story behind the bloggers and other information. Viewers will be asked to post pictures from their own New Year’s Eve parties from around the world that will be included in the Web cast.

To see it all, viewers can go to TimesSquareNYC.org; Livestream.com/2010 or Facebook.com/TimesSquareNYC. IPhone users can visit their own special site. And any site can embed the Times Square video player onto their own page.

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FeedBurner now supports automatic publishing to Twitter

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Google just announced that its FeedBurner RSS publishing service now supports automatic publishing to a Twitter account. If you’re among the many people who use the service Twitterfeed (like CNN, the WhiteHouse, ReadWriteWeb, etc.) then you may very well find that startup expendable starting now. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this and a series of related announcements over the past few days.

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Consider this announcement side by side with the WordPress announcement this weekend that WordPress blogs can now be posted to and read from Twitter clients, the rumor today that Facebook is experimenting with its own URL shortener, this afternoon’s announcement that the ability to expose your geographic location is now live in Google Toolbar and now longer a Labs product and last week’s go-live of real-time search on Google. All of this combined says one thing to us: the web is getting a whole lot faster and much more free of friction, quickly.

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Ten Things You Need to Stop Tweeting About

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A Twitter Seance??

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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Tweeters are being invited to submit questions for the spirits of departed celebrities including Michael Jackson and William Shakespeare as part of the world’s first Twitter seance.

A psychic medium will then try to contact the stars — who were chosen along with actor River Phoenix and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain from nominations sent in by the public — at the London-based seance Friday, the day before Halloween.

Other prominent dead figures nominated by tweeters keen to pose questions during the “tweance” included John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Abraham Lincoln and Houdini.

Twitter users will be able to follow the seance live on the micro-blogging site, which psychic Jayne Wallace will use to relay any responses she receives from the spirits.

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Pingg Now Adds Real-Time Twitter Convo’s to Your Event Invites

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The Pingg Event Stream lets hosts aggregate real-time Twitter conversations related to their event alongside other comments, photos, and videos on the event’s web page.

The site lets hosts select a custom hashtag when creating event, which is included in the online invitation. The site will then aggregate all Tweet’s onto the event site with the given hashtag. And of course, if you choose a more general hashtag like #Oscars for your Academy Award-focused party, you’ll aggregate a general stream of Tweets about the Oscars. The stream will also feature news and updates about the event, including changes of details, other guest RSVPs, photos posted and comments.

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UK’s High Court orders writ to be served via Twitter

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Britain’s High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.

Solicitors Griffin Law sought the injunction against the micro-blog page www.twitter.com/blaneysblarney arguing it was impersonating right-wing blogger Donal Blaney, the owner of Griffin Law.

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Twitter’s Latest Valuation: $1 Billion

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Twitter, the fashionable microblogging service, is set to close a round of financing of around $100 million that values the three-and-a-half-year-old start-up at $1 billion, according to a person briefed on the company’s plans.

The investors include Insight Venture Partners, a New York venture capital firm, T. Rowe Price, the mutual fund company, and the current Twitter backers Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners.

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Jajah Lets You Make Phone Calls Directly Through Twitter

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Twitter users can now make voice calls directly to each other simply by clicking on links on the microblogging service, thanks to a third-party application from Jajah.

The Jajah@call service will let Twitter users create a voice-over-Internet voice chat session by typing @call@username where the username is the callee’s Twitter identification. The calls can only last two minutes during the beta test, but that may change over time.

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Startup Mixx releases ‘TweetMixx’ to comb through Twitter postings

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Mixx is a sort of online news service where users vote on the day’s most interesting stories. Those stories come mostly from Web sites such as CNN.com. Starting Wednesday, however, Mixx will offer a new service that combs through Twitter postings, as well.

In a demonstration earlier this week, McGill pitched the service, called TweetMixx, as a way to keep up with online topics without having to read all the more mundane stuff people feel like typing and sharing in bursts of 140 characters or less.

The site’s software is clever enough to avoid repeating Twitter posts; if 500 people post a Tweet to the same online news story, TweetMixx will make sure your account posts the story only once. If a Twitter user posts a link to a news story that TweetMixx thinks you’ll find interesting, the service also pulls in the article’s headline and a leading sentence or two from the article.

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