The micro-blogging bug is in the air and is spreading like a virus. As the social networking websites come tumbling down with overweight of “sheep throwing” applications and “which celebrity will you marry” quizzes, Twitter has emerged as the new love amongst techies and people otherwise.

The service has now transformed from just a medium to display your daily status message to more of global information network. We know that everyone including celebrities, geeks and news channels have something or the other to display but here are some uses which you might not have known about.

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Google reader has been the best web-based RSS reader and one of my personal favorites too. Although, upon logging for the first time in the day, I realized that Twitter was able to rub its status update feature on it. In this update, Google lets you choose that which all people you would like to “follow” (doesn’t that sound like Twitter lingo) to get the updates from them.

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Twitter has been growing fast and one of the key reasons is the applications that have been build for and around it. Recently, twitter users were seen requesting for an invite from TweetBoard, a new service that enables a small public forum where website visitors can come and have discussions. Interestingly, the service got great initial buzz and it looks to me that it’ll be able to make bloggers or webmasters to install this little wonder on their web pages.

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While trying to get in a schedule and to ensure that I’ll consistent in my blogging, I went through lots of GTD articles and found this yet another brilliant piece from my blogging guru, Darren Rowse. In this post, Darren has created a hypothetical calendar to help bloggers (like me) to get in schedule. I was pretty impressed with the calendar that I literally copied everything from it and have put it in my Apple iCal and I thought that it’d be a great idea to share it with every one of you!

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What’s common between Firefox & WordPress? They both are open-source, they both are best in their respective markets and they both help you make your blog better! WordTracker has recently released a firefox add-on, SEO Blogger that helps you improve the SEO of your blog posts by giving an overview of the keyword research.

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Twitter has become best friend of marketers, researchers and is also used by various corporates to connect with possibly new clients or to connect with their existing customers and find out the reaction of the users about their product and services. This is all possible through Real Time Search. There have been few real time search engines that are mostly based around Twitter, like Twitscoop, Scoopler, Twingly, Searchmerge, Collecta and very latest CrowdEye. All these real time search engines have some added advantage over each other and with help of these nifty tools, one can surely improve their blog and reach the latest trends and hot topics with super ease!

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I came to know that Adobe Air has been installed over 200 million times across the world and that definitely sounds like a real good news to me. We all have seen the possibilities with Adobe AIR in the form of various wonderful applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop and have seen Yahoo play around with it too! I’m sure that this news will not attract many, however will draw attention of various developers.

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