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SILVERLIGHT

Silverlight Pulse
By: Joe Eitel
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    2009-04-20

    Table of Contents:
  • Silverlight Pulse
  • A Twittery Pulse
  • Silverlight Pulse Background
  • Who Should Use Silverlight Pulse

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    If you use Microsoft Silverlight, and you also enjoy using Twitter, then you will probably love Silverlight Pulse. It helps you get up-to-the-minute information about Silverlight in one place. The brainchild of Ian Blackburn, we take a close look at this application so you can decide whether it's right for you.

    Admittedly, Twitter-- or "Twittering" as it's come to be known -- seemed kind of ... well, weird to many of us at first. Those of us who bad mouthed or doubted the fact that this type of social networking would become popular are now hanging our heads in shame. It's no surprise that Twitter has taken the world by storm. Not only is it an excellent way to let your family know what and how you're doing, but it's also become very interesting to follow as famous folks as diverse asTony Hawk,Barack Obama, and of courseJoe Eitel(now there's a celebrity!) have begun using the site to update their fans and followers concerning their most random thoughts and mundane actions.

    Just in case you're one of the very few people who have yet to discover Twitter, its background is pretty basic. It's a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates. These updates can be no more than 140 text-based characters, and they are commonly referred to as "tweets." Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them; senders can also restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends. Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck, and Feedalizr.

    This interesting little service has been around since March of 2006 and it took about a year before it began to gain steam. No one -- certainly not its developers Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams -- could have foreseen the service being as wildly popular as it is today. Estimates of the number of daily users vary, as the company does not release the number of active accounts, but a recently released survey certainly puts the numbers into perspective. The survey has ranked Twitter as the third largest social network on the web, with the first being Facebook and the second, of course, being MySpace. It is estimated that the number of unique monthly visitors is roughly around 6 million, with the number of monthly visits hovering somewhere around 55 million.

     

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