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0 Admob buys mobile ad aggregrator AdWhirl — takes out major threat

updated with comments from Quattro and Mobclix

Admob, a leading mobile advertising service, is acquiring AdWhirl, a service that aggregates ads from...

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0 Roundup: Jobs hard at work on new tablet, Wikipedia to review revisions on living people, and more

Here’s the latest action:

Steve Jobs is really honestly definitely back at work, driving people crazy and working on that tablet you’ve read about —...

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0 SocialCord creates payment platform for Twitter; now what will people pay for?

Let the monetization begin: SocialCord has created a platform for musicians, writers and brands to build a “freemium” model delivered over Twitter or...

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0 Four Tools for Crowdsourced Funding

If you're familiar with the overseas micro-lending space, then you're familiar with Kiva. In 2008 ReadWriteWeb readers chose Kiva as one of their...

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0 Should Twitter clone the TipJoy idea?

I really hadn’t been following the whole TipJoy thing since I never saw the point to it, and still don’t, but something in a post by Peter Kafka at...

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0 Facebook Hires TipJoy Co-Founder Ivan Kirigin After Backing Away From A Full Acquisition

It turns out there is more to the story behind the sudden demise of Tipjoy. The micro-payments service was trying to sell itself, according to a...

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0 TipJoy: Twitter Startup Fails Despite Major Blessings

There's a seemingly infinite list of startup companies based on adding one form of value or another on top of Twitter. One called TipJoy closed its...

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0 Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool

Tipjoy, a startup that allowed users to easily collect 'tips' from their readers and fans in the form of small Paypal transfers, is closing up shop....

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0 5 Ways Twitter Can Save You Money

Twitter is much more than just a platform for idle chatter. Many people are getting real utility out of the service, using it for things like being...

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0 How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)

Twitter has captured peoples' imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It's growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media,...

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0 Tipjoy Makes A Useful Premium Twitter App To Test Its Payments API

Say you have a group of individuals who all want to tweet from one account -- right now, that's a pain. You have to give everyone the password to the...

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0 Charities on Twitter

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0 Tipjoy.com, a possible home for CraigBucks

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. I spent a bit of time trying to convince Craig Newmark to develop an alternative currency with me for use,...

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0 What's The Deal with OAuth?

OAuth is an open protocol that Twitter is experimenting with along with other companies such as Yahoo, Netflix, and Google. The idea is that folks can...

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  • Date: Apr 22, 2009
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0 Twitter Applications can now use Tipjoy API with Twitter OAuth credentials, instead of Twitter Passwords.

We recently pushed an exciting update to the Tipjoy API. Twitter Apps no long need to store passwords for their Twitter users to access our API - they...

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0 Tipjoy API Idea #2: Paid Protected accounts

People use Twitter to spread links to cool things. Some of those links could be really valuable: - Early access to blog posts, before they hit the...

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0 Social Media Hub: Boston

This post is part of Mashable’s Social Media Hub Series, which shines the spotlight on local social media communities, companies and personalities....

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0 Tipjoy Twitter Payments Idea #1: Gifting virtual goods

Gifting and virtual goods are exploding. They're a fun and social way to tell your friends you care. Social networks and apps that build on top of...

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0 Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API

Social micro-payments enabler Tipjoy is releasing an API today that allows charities but also companies and individuals to handle relatively small...

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0 Twitter Payments API contest - win a MacBook Air!

Tipjoy has opened up an API which can power payments for Twitter applications. Now you can sell goods and services over Twitter. We can't wait to see...

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