TwitsMag Canada

source: pcworld.com by:Ian Paul

Twitter users will soon be able to make short phone calls for free directly through the microblogging service. JaJah, an Internet telephony company that allows you to make VoIP calls using your landline or cell phone, today is launching the beta version of its new Twitter calling service, named @call.

Jajah says its service will work whether you’re using Twitter directly via its site or are logged on using a third-party client like Seesmic. Jajah says you’ll even be able to make calls when using Twitter clients like Tweetie and TwitterBerry on your smartphone.

How it Works

To place a call via Twitter, you and the person you are calling must be Twitter users and Jajah users (you can sign up for both services for free). The person you want to call must be following you on Twitter, and you both have to sign up for the @call beta.

Let’s say someone I follow wanted to call me using Twitter. All they would have to do is type into their Twitter client “@call @ianpaul” and Jajah would connect us for a free, two-minute call using the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). At launch, @call will connect only to U.S. numbers.

Jajah says it is keeping phone calls to two minutes because that amount of time is the “equivalent of a verbal tweet.” Jajah says your phone number will never be revealed when using @call.

Jajah’s new service sounds intriguing, but I wonder how cell phone carriers will react to this news. The iPhone, for example, forbids VoIP calls using AT&T’s 3G network. To get around this, Jajah has offered a Web application for the iPhone for some time. Now, however, making a VoIP call will be as easy as sending a tweet.

I also wonder how useful this service will be. Most people you actually want to speak to can already contact you through a variety of ways such as Skype, Google Chat, MSN Messenger, or even Jajah. The new @call program lets any of the hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of people you follow on Twitter to give you a call. Is that something you really want, or need? Let me know in the comments if you plan on trying the new service.

To sign up for Jajah’s @call Beta program, you must first register with Jajah and then send an e-mail to twitter@jajah.com. You can also follow Jajah’s @call program on Twitter.

Ian Paul doesn’t plan on using @call, but you can still connect with him on Twitter (@ianpaul).

What is OrSiSo?

Orsiso is a multi- platform next-generation social networking tool that brings a rich browsing experience direct to your desktop and mobile.

Orsiso stands for Organize, Simplify and Socialize, which is exactly what we intend to help you achieve with your social life on the net.

Manage your presence across different social networks

• Update your status across multiple networks from one location
• You can choose different status updates for different networks, to give you complete control of your online persona
• Interact with your friends on their respective social networks, send chats, make comments on their updates and photos directly from one unique interface.

Connect to your Friends

• Access your friends on multiple networks; we currently support Facebook, Flickr and Twitter with RSS updates from LinkedIn.
• Chat with your MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger contacts from one place.
• Merge your friends’ identities on various networks into one unique contact card, rather than having to remember what their nicknames are and what networks they belong to.
• Personalize : Display the contact information you want to display from each network.
• Organize your friends, assign different levels of closeness from Inner Circle to Outer Circle so you prioritize the numerous contact cards from multiple networks.

Display Photos from several networks in one place

• Display all your friends’ photo albums in one place using the FriendWall™.
• Start a Slideshow of the photos from your networks, directly on your PC!
• Easily post comments and updates on your friend’s profiles

Control your Friend Feed

• Receive instant notifications from your friends and reply in real time to them directly, regardless of the network they are on.
• Manage the levels of notifications you receive from different networks, with the ability to filter and block information you receive from your network of friends.
• Control the updates using our Social Firewall™, so you can only receive alerts containing the information you want to see.

Easy install and upgrade to the latest releases

• Runs on any platform: PC, Mac or Linux.
• Automatically update to the latest version, ensuring you always have the latest functionality at your fingertips.

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Friends Wall

Kutano is a multi-platform, multi-browser utility that makes it possible to discover and connect with others on Twitter through the webpages you browse. Alongside each webpage, read and respond to tweets and discussions about that page.

Watch the video below and download it from here

Features:

Instant Messaging

Email

Social Networking

Personalize

Other

• Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.
• You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
• Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager.

Download it

Screenshots:

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Digsby

JATA stands for just another Twitter App. Jata is a Google Talk like Twitter Application which was developed using VB.net and Twiteroo Twitter API framework. This application automatically checks for new messages periodically. You can post your status right from jata post message screen. You can also reply to tweets using this windows application.

Download JATA from here

Jata Login

Tweets

tweetparty.com

As twitter is becoming a mainstream way of communicating with your friends, tweetparty fills the gap when you only want to send a message to a group of people as it helps you organize your twitter friends into parties and send direct messages to them.

You don’t need to share a certain topic with all your twitter followers when you only need to share it with specific people. That’s why tweetparty is created. Don’t hesitate to navigate through the following website to figure out how it works… it’s so easy:
1. Take a tour
2.Login using your twitter account
And from there you can put your friends in groups and message them all at once using twitter.

twittermoms.com

Moms are always the center of the universe and there is no difference between moms and their concerns regardless of their status in society. Whether you are a single mom or not, a working mom or a stay at home mother, welcome to a twittery world created just for you!!!
All what a mom is concerned about is available on this website … Don’t forget to navigate through it to find out what people with similar interests are talking about.

ask.mosio.com

Tired of Research and want direct answers to your Questions? Like to help others find answers to their questions? Interested in sharing your knowledge with other twitters and followers? Twitter Answer is the solution. It is an application created by mosio, a twitter fan, that enables you to ask any question using Twitter and have it answered by real people like you. If you are familiar with how Twitter works, after signing up with Mosio and Twitter both, you simply follow QNA (twitter.com/qna) and when you want to ask a question, you send a direct message to QNA. To learn more about how this application works check out the link below http://www.mosio.com/twitter/how.php

phweet.com

A Phweet is a shortURL that makes conversations and conference calls possible between Twitter friends and across other social networks. Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from your Twitter page or Twitter clients.  Phweet is a simple service where you don’t need to download or share anything more to talk. The call is contained within a PhweetUrl;  a smart link that calls you. You can send or receive a Phweet on the web, on a SIP phone, or on your mobile phone.  And you can share who you are talking to in real time without having to reveal or exchange phone numbers or other identities…

For more details and info visit Phweet.com

Invite your Twitter friends to talk. Nothing more to share. No need to exchange numbers. Create conference calls too.

Shall I or shall I not? If yes why if not why not?

Here’s five reasons why you should and another five why you shouldn’t have a Twitter Account:

1. Stay up-to-date: Follow your local news channels and you’ll stay updated all the time for any breaking news, closed roads, constructions, events, etc… the best way to do that if you don’t have data subscription on your phone (internet) is to activate the sms notification option on Twitter. This way, you’ll receive the news by sms.
2. Mutual Interests: you’ll always find people having common interests, it’s easy to look for them by simply searching for what you need, ex: Webdesigners, programmers, etc…
3. Get answers quickly: stuck in a new area, hungry, not knowing what to eat? Easy, tweet where you are and let your followers lead you.
4. Marketing: what’s a better way to promote your business than Twitter? Free advertisement to be seen by thousands of followers
5. Fun: Yeah! Why not, we all need some entertainment, meeting new people and enjoy sharing ideas with followers

Why you might not want to be on Twitter:

1. Time-Consuming: Definitely! Didn’t you’ve had enough with facebook??? Now Twitter??
2. Useless Updates: Yeah, why would I need to know what time you had your coffee or when your appointment with the hair dresser is?
3. Real Social Interaction: don’t you miss the old days where you used to hang out with friends instead of communicating with them online? I am sure you do.
4. Give yourself a break from the PC: as if we don’t have enough being behind the monitor the whole day at work, it’s time to get away from those 101 keys.
5. Lower IQ: Well true, we’re not using our brains… we’re losing it! Our memories are becoming bad, very bad….

Any other “with” or “against” you can think of? The list has a potential to grow!