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Haven’t you heard of Google Voice? It is the best way to manage all your phone numbers via a single number. This phone number rings any phones (work, mobile, home, etc). You can even place a set of rules to restrict who is calling and when. As you can imagine, moving away from the traditional phone numbers is quite difficult for most people. Some have simply ported their mobile number to Google Voice, [...]

Image by jlori via Flickr You all know Sporkings bring you the latest and greatest, as such we’re giving away 5 Google Wave invites for free! Simply email Wave[at]Sporkings[dot]com  with your gmail address to be in with a chance of winning. Keep in mind that this version of Wave is  a bit rocky at times, but fun can still be had. Invitations will not be sent immediately. We will pick [...]

We all know Tinychat. It started like a very simple IRC-style chatroom app and it complemented conversations on Twitter. However, Tinychat is growing fast! It is now a powerful browser-based communications platform. This platform is rivaling some very large tools built by corporations or venture-backed start-ups.  A very good result, I might add! As things and trends change, so does Tinychat. The [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Patrick Barry, the head of Yahoo’s Connected TV group, announced his staff in a mail sent on the morning of October 12 that he is leaving at the end of the month. It looks like he plans to “move on to new projects.” Josh Jacobs is also leaving although there is no apparent connection between him and Patrick. Josh is the head of ad technology platforms. What [...]

We all remember Tweetie 2 don’t we? A great iPhone Twitter client developed by Atebits and launched in the App store. As most people agree, it is the best Twitter client on the market today. However, one has to wonder what’s next? Well, first of all, there are a few bug fixes that really need to come out. However, nothing major, because Tweetie 2 is a 1.0 release and, like all these releases, comes [...]

As you might remember, at the end of August, popular torrent site The Pirate Bay’s main Internet Service Provider (ISP), Black Internet, was forced by Stockholm’s district court to cut it off the World Wide Web. The Pirate Bay is the world’s largest torrent tracker and, as you can imagine, the world’s most wanted pirate. Although the Bay was kicked out of Sweden, it quickly gathered its strengths [...]

Well, it looks like today AT&T launched a direct attack against Google by filing a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In this letter, the telecom giant asks FCC to look into alleged violations by Google’s voice aggregation service, Google Voice. If you are wondering what this Google Voice is, it is a service that allows its users to connect all phone numbers to a common [...]

Image by 7son75 via Flickr We all know Twitter and we are all huge fans of this social media microblogging website. However, few of us are aware of its rise in profits and value. The three-and-a-half-year-old company is expecting to close a deal for $100 million in financing. Wow, this is a lot of money! And they deserve it! Twitter has been valued at $1 billion (this information is from an [...]

Sidewiki is a new system from Google that allows people to comment on any web page at any time. This very helpful new system helps people just like you when surfing the Internet. For example, if you are looking for a hotel or a museum in London and you reach a new web page, you can check to see what other people had to say about it. You can check to see if the information is accurate and up to date, [...]

17th November 2009 at the O2 Indigo, London. [12% discount code: KJCXIDKA or click here] Themes that will be discussed are twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. “Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about  microblogging or the place where people share twitter “tips and techniques” but rather where we explore the effects [...]