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Twitter Buys Tweetie: Developers Nervous

by Susana Polo | 12:01 pm, April 10th

In a move that has alarmed app makers, Twitter has acquired Atebits, the makers of Tweetie, the critically acclaimed Twitter app for iPhone and Mac. The $2.99 app has been reviewed in TIME and Wired, and won a 2009 Apple Design award.

Loren Brichter, Atebits founder, weighed in on the Tweetie blog:

It’s been a wild ride since 1.0, and over the last year and a half Tweetie has gone from a no-name app from a little known software company to an app hailed as one of the best mobile experiences around… and I’ve had the privilege of working with the folks at Twitter from the outside as their service evolved.

Now I’ll be working with them on the inside. I’m happy to say that as of today Twitter is the proud owner of Tweetie – and I’m joining their mobile team and starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app, for iPhone and iPad.

This marks Twitter’s first foray into providing an official client for its microblogging service.

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Chatroulette Creator May Be Bound for the U.S.A.

by Robert Quigley | 10:20 am, March 8th

This past Friday, German paper Der Spiegel ran the first-ever in-depth profile of Andrey Ternovskiy, the creator of Chatroulette. It’s a fascinating read — and all of today’s Chatroulette trend piece writers should make a note of Ternovskiy’s stated long-term goal of “keeping the ‘freaks and f***ers,’ as he calls them, off the site.”

The piece focuses on the battle between Russia and the U.S.A. over smart, talented tech entrepreneurs, and makes the point that if Russia loses the Ternovskiys of the world (and, by extension, the Chatroulettes of the world), it’s already lost the next round of the tech war.

All of which is well, good, and abstract, but the writer saves his biggest bombshell for the end of the narrative profile: Andrey Ternovskiy is applying for a visa to come the U.S.A.

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Thumbnail Gallery of Horrors: The Best of the Worst of Chatroulette

by Andrew Cedotal | 10:19 am, February 12th

Chatroulette‘s rise through the various layers of Internet culture has been illustrative — illustrative, that is, of how online phenomena bubble up first in the strangest and most arcane of places before finally dribbling down to the “mainstream” outlets that make up the sprawling majority of media. From the horrific cultural smelters of 4chan and SomethingAwful, out through the sprawling network of topical forums, and finally, onto sites like BlackBook, Buzzfeed, and NYMag, the site — which, in case you’ve been speedrunning Dragon Age or something, randomly connects users through their webcams — has evolved to the verge of Internet behemoth-dom.

Ah, Chatroulette — now that you’re about to go mainstream, let us savor the last lingering moments of your cultural relevance, before your meme-riddled concupiscence goes the way of all flesh. And what better way to do that than with a gallery of The Best of the Worst of Chatroulette!

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Fred Wilson: Soon, There May Again Be Enough Money to Fund Your Awful Startup Idea

by Andrew Cedotal | 4:02 pm, January 25th

An Unseeing Eye, Lidded with FlameFred Wilson, reigning mandarin of the NYC startup scene and possessor of the world’s most unsettling favicon (see left!), is publicly floating the idea that the recession-induced contraction of venture capital markets might soon be over. We here at Geekosystem would like to break down what that means for you, the average citizen of the Internet!

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