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If you are like me and use social media on a regular basis you are probably obsessed with stats from your various different networks, sites, blogs and sharing tools. Finding out all those stats is usually quite a manual process of logging in and out of several accounts and most people I know check their Google Analytics account about 10 times a day. I’ve always craved a dashboard that would pull in all that information in to one central hub where I could get a quick overview of all the my activity online andTwenty Feethas just launched that tool....

Twestivalis a movement that uses social media for social good by connecting communities offline on a single day to highlight a great cause. Ideas start as a tweet and as it spreads, becomes a movement that has the power to make things happen. This year, Twestival is going ‘local’ in cities around the world onThursday, 24 March 2011. All local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go directly to local non-profits that organizers have identified for having an incredible impact within their own community....

Swedish startupTwingly‘s Channels product (whichimpressedus at launch) is essentially a “FriendFeed for the enterprise market” and now the company is stepping onto Salesforce Chatter’s turf with the launch of a Twitter-like corporate microblogging service. Although he describes the move as a “pivot”, Twingly CEO Martin Källström says that this change in focus isn’t down to a failing business model. In fact, he says that the startup is now breaking even, after having made a major sales drive during 2010....

We know what Twitter looks like but did you ever wonder what it sounded like? Sam Harman, an applications developer and audio enthusiast is developing a synthesiser for Twitter to generate sounds from live tweets. He calls his project Twinthesis the “sonification of Twitter”. Twinthesis, exclusivelyavailableon Mac OS X is a MaxMSP patch that allows you to hear the sound of Twitter and aims to “sonify the human randomness being generated on the service”....

Live streaming has become a staple of the modern Internet, with video feeds of conferences, events, concerts, and everything else under the sun constantly sent around the world in real-time. Justin.tv, a consumer-facing provider of live streaming services, was one of the original companies that focused on giving proper tools to anyone who wanted to broadcast their own streamed digital content online. The service exploded, and now serves video to over15 million people every month....