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• As Twitter Regains Footing, Competitors’ Growth Stalls

  According to Compete.com, Twitter saw more than 2.6 million visitors in the month of August, a 500% increase over its December 2007 number, representing a 17.7% increase month over month. The high level of growth since June for Twitter followed a two-month near plateau from April to June, when the service’s struggles were at their peak.

  tags: getanewbrowser, twitter

• Twitter Plus Digg Makes Dwigger, and it Tastes Great!

  Dwigger is, in short, both a useful and playful application. How it operates: You can paste a pre-published Twitter message URL and submit it to Dwigger, to be voted and commented on. You can also write a fresh post directly within Dwigger, 140 characters long. And if you want to write items exclusive to Dwigger, you may add info as needed. Just keep in mind the character limit, which carries across the various post options. Also, if you happen to be in the city of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York or London, you can designate your message like so. If only just for kicks.

  tags: getanewbrowser, dwigger, twitter

• The Beginners Guide to Yahoo Pipes: Part 1

  Yahoo Pipes allows you to take data from multiple sources on the web (typically from RSS feeds) and manipulate it - you can merge (mash) data together, split data up, get more details, or get less details. You get to pick and choose what is displayed in the end result, a finalized feed.

  tags: getanewbrowser, pipes

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