The Web Services Report

Twitter reworks following lists, adds functionality

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:02:00 PDT

Twitter is in the process of rolling out a new user interface update to its users.

This update focuses on Twitter's Following and Follower pages. In addition to a better looking list, Twitter has added more social actions to the page, including @replies, direct messages, and mobile update subscription. An extra collapsed "List View" has also been added to the traditional "Expanded View" and makes for a much more readable and quickly scannable page.

Twitter's new following list UI adds social actions like @replies, DM's, and Follow/Unfollow

(Credit: Screenshot by Harrison Hoffman/CNET)

Due to the lack of a good way to browse, filter, and search through these lists, they are largely underused. This update is the first step in making Twitter's Following and Follower lists into much more usable and functional tools. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if Twitter continued to build out these features more in the future, bringing in some of the functionality that third party applications have long included, such as TweetDeck's groups.

Click through to see what Twitter's new List View looks like.

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Paglo rolls out real-time log search

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT

Paglo (an "IT search engine") has been consistently adding significant new features to their offering since their launch in November, 2007. Today, they bring us their new log management application. Once implemented, this provides for the on-demand searching and analysis of log data whenever the IT pro needs access.

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PayPal's "Do Stuff for Money" puts some cash behind your begging

Harrison Hoffman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:48:00 PDT

PayPal just rolled out a fun little mini-site called Do Stuff for Money. The basic premise is that you can send one of your friends an offer, either through Facebook (using Facebook Connect) or e-mail, to do something of your choosing for some sum of money. For example, a recent ...

Glue sticks to IE too

Harrison Hoffman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:00:00 PDT

Glue, the popular Firefox extension that lets users discuss content all over the web, is releasing a version of its add-on, built for Internet Explorer, today. This is a big step for Glue for a couple of reasons. The first and most obvious reason is that being compatible with IE ...

Paglo fleshes out all-in-one IT management service

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00:00 PDT

Paglo has been steadily building out its feature set as a Web 2.0-style solution to IT management. The latest improvements to hit the service include support for monitoring virtual machines, as well as patch management. Being able to monitor both physical and virtual machines from the same cohesive interface ...

Facebook adds organization feature to Friend Lists in Chat

Harrison Hoffman — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:38:00 PDT

(Credit: Screenshot by Harrison Hoffman/CNET)

Friend Lists has long been an underused feature in Facebook. The feature allows users to split their friends up into different groups, choosing different privacy settings for each one. It is clear now that Facebook has bigger plans for the feature and it's ...

Konami Code triggers Easter egg on Facebook too

Harrison Hoffman — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:34:00 PDT

For the uninitiated or nongamers out there, the Konami Code (UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A) is arguably the most famous cheat code in video games.

It has been used in countless games and has references in multiple forms of pop culture. Lately, some sites have ...

Twitter follower emails, now in HTML!

Harrison Hoffman — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:15:00 PDT

Twitter's notification emails when you get a new follower have been in plain text since the site started. Today, Twitter finally rolled out a richer, HTML version of their follower notification emails. These emails include the number of people that this user is following and how many are following ...

Facebook maps the swine flu hysteria

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:05:00 PDT

Updated at 11:30 p.m. PDT: This blog misreported the percentage of swine flu interest on Facebook member pages in the states of Texas and Mississippi. The correct percentages are 0.82 percent and 0.29 percent, respectively.

There have been a lot of resources that have surfaced to

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Following the great Twitter race to 1 million

Harrison Hoffman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:26:00 PDT

Ashton Kutcher is the first Twitter user to gain 1 million followers.

Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) cracks open a bottle of champagne with friends after beating CNN (@cnnbrk) to 1 million followers on Twitter

(Credit: Ustream)

The race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN to become the first Twitter user to get ...