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تويتر يفتح شراء الإعلانات لجميع المستخدمين في الولايات المتحدة، ويجلب أدوات جديدة إلى سيلفبروموتيرس

ad, ads, advertising, twitter, twitterads 5/01/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="mttextarea" dir="rtl" id="TranslationOutput" style="direction: rtl;"><div name="div[0]"> <img alt="Twitter opens up adbuying to all US users" data-src-height="385" data-src-width="500" height="492" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/twitter-ads.jpg" width="640" /></div><div name="div[0]">التغريد قد تم ببطء توسيع عروضها الإعلان لبعض الوقت الآن--مع المزيد من الإعلانات في أكثر الأماكن أولاً، ثم مع المزيد من الناس قادرة على شراء الإعلانات. الآن وقد اتخذت خطوة كبيرة الأشياء واحدة إضافية وفتحت لها منصة "التغريد إعلانات" الخدمة الذاتية لكافة المستخدمين في الولايات المتحدة. هذا يعني أن أي شخص يمكن الآن التسجيل وشراء ترقيتها تويت الخاصة جداً، مع كل نفس الخيارات وتحليلات الممنوحة سابقا للشركات والأفراد المدعوين للمشاركة في البرنامج. هذا لا يعني بالضرورة سوف تجدون المزيد من الإعلانات على التغريد، ولكن أيضا قد تبدأ في رؤية بعض منها غير متوقع أكثر. المهتمين بقصف بعض النقود يمكن العثور على كل ما يحتاجون إليه للبدء في الروابط أدناه.</div></div></div>

تويتر يفتح شراء الإعلانات لجميع المستخدمين في الولايات المتحدة، ويجلب أدوات جديدة إلى سيلفبروموتيرس

التغريد قد تم ببطء توسيع عروضها الإعلان ل بعض الوقت الآن -- مع المزيد من الإعلانات في أكثر الأماكن أولاً ، ثم مع المزيد ...

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كشف بطاقات تويتر للمنتجات، وتطبيقات ومعارض الصور

cards, mobilepostcross, SocialNetwork, SocialNetworking, twitter, TwitterCard, TwitterCards 4/03/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"> <a href="http://greenzoneregypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter Cards for apps, products and photo galleries unveiled" data-src-height="410" data-src-width="526" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/twitter-cards.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://greenzoneregypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">تويتر</a> اختتم أعماله مؤخرا في حفلة راقصة مطور فرانسيسكو في سان HQ وهرول الى ثلاثة معاينة محتوى جديد البطاقات. عندما الروابط المستخدم إلى صفحة تويتر الخاصة مع العلامات، وسقسقة تتميز اسم أحد التطبيقات، رمز، والوصف، والتصنيف السعر داخل بطاقة طازجة دمى وكشف الرابط إلى <a href="http://greenzoneregypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Play</a>، أو دمى صفحة المتجر، للتمهيد. بطاقات المنتج من ناحية أخرى، وتسليط الضوء البضائع مع تقييمات صورة والسعر وحتى. عندما يرتبط المثال تويت معرض الصور على شبكة الإنترنت، فإن شبكة اجتماعية استخدام بطاقة معرض لعرض مجموعة من أربع صور، مشيرا إلى أنه يشير إلى مجموعة الصور، وليس مجرد صورة وحيدة. تقريب الشركة من التحديثات مع "جول العميقة التي تربط" وهو ما يعني أن الرياضة يمكن تويت على رابط لتحميل التطبيق الذي تم استخدامه لنشرها. وفليكر، شخصيات قصص الابطال الخارقين، مسار، فاين وغيرهم الاستفادة من الميزات الجديدة عندما الاطلاق، التي ينبغي أن تكون غدا وفقا لكلمة من المبرمج لقاء.</div>

كشف بطاقات تويتر للمنتجات، وتطبيقات ومعارض الصور

تويتر اختتم أعماله مؤخرا في حفلة راقصة مطور فرانسيسكو في سان HQ و هرول الى ثلاثة معاينة محتوى جديد البطاقات. عندما الروابط ...

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Twitterrific 5.2 brings push notifications, one handful of testers at a time

app, droplr, ios, ipad, iphone, minipost, mobilepostcross, mobilepostmini, PushNotification, SocialNetworking, twitter, twitterrific 3/28/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" itemprop="text" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Twitterrific 52 brings push notifications, one handful of testers at a time" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/twitterrific-5-iphone-5.jpg" /></div>More than a few iOS-based Twitter users were happy to see Twitterrific 5 appear late last year with a fresh design, but were less than thrilled to go without the push notifications that many take for granted in other apps. Equality has come through Twitterrific 5.2 -- for some, at least. The upgrade at last pops up interactions as they happen, with a symbol to indicate whether it's a conversation, favorite or retweet. Push delivery isn't guaranteed at this point, however. Iconfactory is currently rolling out the beta-level feature to users in batches of 1,000 to avoid oversaturating its servers; you may have to wait awhile. The impatient still get some upgrades to sate their appetite, though, including user banners on profiles, discussion sharing through email and Droplr content thumbnails. If you're willing to pay $6 ($3 on sale) for more than what Twitter gives away for free, the new version may be a good excuse to try something new. </div></div>

Twitterrific 5.2 brings push notifications, one handful of testers at a time

More than a few iOS-based Twitter users were happy to see Twitterrific 5 appear late last year with a fresh design, but were less than th...

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Twitter releases official Windows 8 app

app, microsoft, twitter, video, windows8 3/14/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">  <img alt="Twitter releases official Windows 8 app" data-src-height="377" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/blogwindows8.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Thanks to Twitter's API changes that cut off the number of users for third party efforts, official app support has become more important and now there's one built for Windows 8. Available in the Windows Store now in 22 languages, it brings the Home / Connect / Discover / Me tabs found in other official apps, plus support for Windows new UI features like snap view, the search charm and Live Tiles. Support for the share charm means you can tweet from any Windows 8 app by swiping from the right edge, which also provides access to search. Windows Phone 8 users should recognize much of the design from the recently updated mobile app, especially in the minimized snap view. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Despite the inclusion of social networking feeds in the People Hub, a dedicated app should make accessing the service much easier, although Twitter's design has left quite a bit of blank space to work with. Hit the Windows Store link below to load it up on your x86 or ARM Windows-powered device and let us know how it's working for you, or check out the video demo embedded after the break.</div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xLmN-40P_X4?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Twitter releases official Windows 8 app

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Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

Editorial, google, Google Glass, Google+, GoogleGlass, Project Glass, ProjectGlass, twitter, wearable 2/28/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> 	 	 	 	 		 		 		 		 		<div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">	<div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Editorial Google Glass contest underlines mediocre uses for brilliant tech" data-src-height="350" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/ifihadglass.jpg" /></div>Google's #ifihadglass contest advertises for "bold, creative individuals" to start carrying pre-production builds of Glass later this year. Since most people flatter themselves as dauntless and inspired, Google's challenge casts a wide net and applications are piling into Twitter. The contest apparently also seeks prosperous individuals willing to pay $1,500 for the prize, plus travel expense to pick it up. There might be good fiscal reasons for Google's parsimony, but I can't help noting that the $12 million of revenue generated by eager beta testers represents five-thousandths of 1 percent of the company's market cap, or one-tenth of a percent of its liquid cash. Putting aside whatever demographic-shaping is in play, the more interesting question is whether Google will find its desired 8,000 bold creative types. The applications do not foretell blazing originality among foaming early adopters. If there is a depressing strain of mediocrity in the #ifihadglass Twitter stream, perhaps it speaks less to human limitation and more to intrinsic constraints of the device as it is currently understood. 	 A survey of #ifihadglass Twitter applications (which, by the way, are formally called "essays" in the contest rules, and wouldn't Thoreau be pleased) reveals two things. First, most people aren't trying very hard. Google encourages photos and short videos along with the tweets, but those media enhancements are rare. Applications of fewer than 50 words may also be posted to Google+, but I restricted my research (hey, if tweets are essays, my trolling can be research) to Twitter because I don't know where Google+ is, and am not certain it truly exists. The second facet of the Twitter supplication stream is its categorical quality -- not unlike the Academy Awards, so neatly do the creative works order themselves into groups. The contest challenge is to describe how you would use Glass. The answers fall into broad divisions: Record Everything: This is the obvious use case for a media device that you don't have to pick up or put down. It imagines Glass as a dash cam, where the user's forehead is the dash. I did not break out response types by percentage, but variations on this theme occurred frequently in my sample. Applications of this sort will probably not meet the jury's guiding criterion of "the most compelling possible uses for Glass." Unless the judges get desperate. Share My Unique Life: A subset of the Record Everything bucket, these tweets presume the applicant to be uncommonly interesting, especially when engaged in undisclosed daily activities. One tweet promised (threatened?) the world would "live in my shoes." Another committed to "share an incredible life with the world." Travel: Many submissions pledged to organize global jaunts if Glass were bestowed. Starting with what, for some people, will be a long journey just to get their hands on the prize. One Special Moment: Short-term thinking is evident, sometimes to good effect. One pre-nuptial couple promised on video to us Glass during their wedding ... and the honeymoon. Praise Google: This is the suck-up category in which applicants promise to be viral marketers for Glass. Put Glass On Things: Especially animals. I do hope the judges pick some of these. I know I would not be able to resist clamping Glass on my dogs. Gushers: The core thesis here is, "I should get Glass because I think Glass is the most awesome thing ever." Humorists: Clearly not trying, except to make their followers laugh. Examples include, "I would put my phone down, get some friends, video car accidents and show my new friends." And, "I would stare at my hamster eating and save every precious moment." And, "I'd look like elves had given up building a monorail to connect my ears." GTD: Productivity-minded hopefuls are among the best candidates in my opinion, as they lift the device's floundering use-case prospects. One tweet envisioned surreptitiously taking pictures in class instead of notes. (That was possibly a joke; see the Humorists category above.) Another student bent on real self-improvement thought it would be valuable to let his archaeology professors watch his work on digs in the field. That guy has to get one. Another interesting appeal: "I would caption everything (I am deaf) using a speech recognition software and language processor that I am helping to develop." (Not to be cynical, but I wonder about copycat submissions, and whether fact-checking is baked into the contest.) Demonstrations of Skill: These rare and mighty submissions inarguably illustrate creativity that must be attractive to the judges, even if the applicability to Glass is uncertain -- as in this Android wrist mount, and this 15-second movie. Those are the people Google should give Glass to. (Forget the $1,500 crap. Why is Google willing to risk excluding a rare creative individual who can't afford an expensive and probably buggy gadget?) In a recent interview, a Glass developer explained that the product concept came to life for her when she observed a long line of people waiting for a bus. Every head in line was buried in a screen, and all hands were busy holding those screens. The product vision solves that scenario by simultaneously bringing technology closer and moving it out of the way. I'm not alone in loving that vision, and standing ready to eagerly adopt wearable computing. But the mundane underlying truth is that Glass is a smartphone with a new form factor. In fact everything that observers know now, a year or so before launch, tells us that Glass is less functional than an average smartphone. (That could change.) Removing hands from mobile computing provides an incalculable usability gain. But let's remember this about hands. They distinguish us as humans, and hands do most of the creativity in the world. Genius without hands goes nowhere. Human civilization was built with opposable thumbs. Is it a mystery that #ifihadglass contest applicants can't think of anything interesting to do with a handless device? Pics, vids, mapping, texting, sharing. Notwithstanding functions I might be leaving out, at this point it looks like a rudimentary mobile feature set. Nimble as hell, but not very capable aside from that. I expect the business and product impact of Glass to be tectonic. I will want one. But its usefulness points rather to the ordinary than the extraordinary. <hr /> Brad Hill is a former Vice President at AOL, and the former Director and General Manager of Weblogs, Inc. His planned use of Glass is turning on the video and staring blankly into space. 	 	 </div></div>

Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

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Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter

closure, internet, posterous, posterousspaces, sharing, shutdown, SocialNetwork, SocialNetworking, twitter 2/17/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter " data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" height="218" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/posterous-rip.jpg" width="400" /></div></div>It's almost inevitable as breathing: a tech powerhouse acquires a clever yet small startup solely for its talent or technology, and lets any leftover services wither away. Posterous' decision to shut down following its 2012 acquisition by Twitter is very nearly a textbook example. The 4-year-old firm will close its Posterous Spaces service on April 30th to shift all of its attention to Twitter, giving customers just over two months to back up their content. There is an unusual twist to this seemingly predictable story, however. Those still using Spaces will have a place to go -- along with Squarespace and Wordpress import tools, Posterous founders Brett Gibson and Garry Tan are planning to launch Posthaven as a (not entirely intentional) refuge. Diehards will still have reason to mourn the end of an era, but the closure at least won't be the end to their creations.</div></div>

Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter

It's almost inevitable as breathing: a tech powerhouse acquires a clever yet small startup solely for its talent or technology, and let...

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Editorial: Facebook vs. Vine is another chapter in the book of 'We Own You'

Editorial, facebook, instagram, social networking, SocialNetworking, twitter, vine 1/29/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr /> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Editorial Facebook vs Vine is another chapter in the book of 'We Own You'" data-src-height="386" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/brad-hill-pic-1359380274.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Oh man, Vine is fun. It is already apparent that with creativity and planning you can produce something approaching an epic experience in a 6-second video. Vine is a perfect enhancement of Twitter's casual "what's happening now" social base. With stop-and-go videos that resemble animated GIFs, Vine puts greater movement and reality into life-casting. I showed it to my wife, who is not remotely a Twitter user, and she immediately began storyboarding microvideo adventures for our Serta sheep. So my message to all seven people who follow me on Vine: You've got a lot to look forward to.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Speaking of followers, let's consider the tectonic unfriending that transpired in the ongoing skirmish between Facebook and Twitter, the serfdom of social media users and the historical risks of walled gardens.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> A bit of background. Vine is a Twitter-owned mobile startup represented by an iOS-only app for iPhone / iPod touch (it works on iPads too) that turns the device's video function into a rudimentary real-time editing machine. The sweet-and-simple interface keeps the video rolling for as long as your finger is touching the screen, for six seconds. You can lift and replace your finger (stop and start) as fast and often as you like, creating jumpy, time-crunched stories like an entire commute to work or cooking an elaborate dinner dish.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Don't get haughty about this before trying it -- unless you're an Android user, in which case haught away. There's been a fair amount of "So what?" user commentary posted since Vine launched last Wednesday, along with generally positive critical reviews for the app. Surfing Vine as a stand-alone service is rewarding, but as you might expect, quality and substance are spread unevenly, as in Twitter. The cute brigade is bulking up with cat and dog clips, foodies assume we have an appetite for 6-second visual timelines of dinner devouring, and stop-motion specialists are reborn in the new format.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> After joining this thing I started seeing Twitter photos differently, as underpowered Vine potentials. I am not a disciple of the internet's tidal migration to video, and I worry about already debilitated attention spans in the online citizenry. But Vine is too much fun on its own to quibble, and it's a perfect Twitter accessory.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> The people I stalk on Twitter don't seem to be rushing in: of the 385 individuals I follow, only 12 had signed up (via their Twitter accounts) by Sunday night. If I could expand my fledgling Vine community with Facebook friends ... oh, never mind. In a well-publicized maneuver, Facebook cut Vine's access to Facebook's friend-finder API which external platforms use to connect their members to Facebook friends.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Facebook cut a path through confused and generally negative media coverage by revising its Facebook Platform Policies for developers. The chief explanatory addendum related to the Vine cut-off says this: "Replicating core functionality: You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission."</div><div style="text-align: left;"> You might not think that Vine's quick-vid, point-and-shoot app replicates a core function of Facebook, since uploading a video directly to FB can be a soul-tormenting experience that ends in failure and dismay. Facebook is in the media-sharing business for sure, and in that broader context the new clause apparently applies. A parallel context is an assumed reciprocal animosity between Facebook and Twitter -- when Facebook acquired Instagram, which was and is rabidly used in tweets, Twitter cut the same friend-finding cord to Facebook.</div><div class="image-container" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Editorial Facebook vs Vine is another chapter in the book of 'We Own You'" data-src-height="350" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/vine-on-phone.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> The truest context is the largest, and shines light on the role of social media users in ecosystem battles. Facebook and Twitter are both naturally motivated to keep visitors magnetized to their respective platforms. Facebook doesn't mind its users stepping into the larger internet for unrelated activities. But the company fears losing its grip on addicted users who might be lured onto a platform that has out-innovated Facebook in a certain space. It's not really that Vine is "replicating core functionality" now, but it is anticipating what Facebook might want to launch and monetize in the future.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> These argumentative feints seem painfully trivial since anyone can join Vine at any time. For Facebook, maintaining scale in a relentlessly competitive environment involves plugging possible usage leaks. For users, the complaint is about an artificially fragmented social graph.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Many people who are socially active online enjoy the variety and contrasting features of different platforms, and are happy with multiple residences and communities with more or less overlap. My three main hangouts -- Facebook, Twitter and SoundCloud -- are distinct from each other. Twitter is the most virtual; I haven't met most of the people I follow. Facebook is better for extending offline relationships onto the screen. My SoundCloud connections are kindred around music creation.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Even with this degree of separation, users are right to expect porous boundaries when liquidity is wanted. Sharing content across walls is part of it; I can extend tweets to Facebook, and share SoundCloud tracks everywhere. The more important user need is accessing friendship connections in different networks. The desire might not arise often, but when it is blocked, the ensuing friction feels artificial and hostile.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> The issue arose in both the Instagram acquisition (by Facebook) and the Vine launch (by Twitter), for a reason that will become more common with new waves of mobile apps. It is about the creative quality of those apps. When we create something above and beyond the bedrock social function of connecting to friends, we naturally want to gather together a large community for sharing. It is when sharing a creation, even a photo or 6-second video, that we want to flip our conception of our social graph from several independent networks to one integrated network. It's like a 3D painting that suddenly becomes deep when you look at it in a certain way.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote class="quote right"> If there is one giant lesson of the last 20 years in the online community industry, it is that walling the garden never succeeds in the long run.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"> When Facebook or Twitter cuts the cord which integrates our friendship circles (the friend-finding part of their API), it becomes frustratingly clear that we are owned. We don't freely own our social connections across the internet. Social users are owned assets, like dollars in the bank, guarded by platform policies and hedged by developmental roadmaps that seek to cut off competing apps at the knees. I'm not the first to speculate that Facebook might develop a Vine-like function pronto. If so, Facebook users might be delighted with it, and settle ever more comfortably into the walled garden. That's fine.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> But if there is one giant lesson of the last 20 years in the online community industry, it is that walling the garden never succeeds in the long run. AOL was the case study during the web's emergent period. Hugely successful during a span of years when mainstream confusion about the internet was neatly solved by carving out a comforting oasis, the company was eventually brought to a point of reinvention by better knowledge and better access. When you're a galaxy you can't hide the universe forever.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Facebook has attained much greater scale than AOL ever did. This business with Twitter / Vine is just a snarky play in a continuing poker game. But as an ongoing strategy, disabling users from calling back to their friends from another social destination depersonalizes Facebook and contradicts the social ethos that it was founded on. No secrets, Mark? Then the users of whom you demand that standard should be allowed to tell their friends about Vine, and the next one, and the next. Beat your competitors if you can. But don't obscure them from your users.</div></div>

Editorial: Facebook vs. Vine is another chapter in the book of 'We Own You'

Oh man, Vine is fun. It is already apparent that with creativity and planning you can produce somet...

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تويتر يفتح شراء الإعلانات لجميع المستخدمين في الولايات المتحدة، ويجلب أدوات جديدة إلى سيلفبروموتيرس

كشف بطاقات تويتر للمنتجات، وتطبيقات ومعارض الصور

Twitterrific 5.2 brings push notifications, one handful of testers at a time

Twitter releases official Windows 8 app

Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter

Editorial: Facebook vs. Vine is another chapter in the book of 'We Own You'

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