Tumblr has today announced that it is rolling out a new feature called Fan Mail, an interblog messaging service that users of the popular blogging platform can use to communicate...

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The world, it seems, can't get enough social check-in service variants based on such services that launch on a regular basis. The latest calls itself Clingle by MyCityWay. Its "Clings" are bits of media (text, audio, photos) that users can leave for friends (other Clingle users) that are unlocked when these friends check-in to the location. It is a bit like a private geo-cache. Information can also be broadcast to friends in real-time. And, of course, like other social-geolocation services, deal [...]

Read More: Clingle Lets You Leave Private Text, Audio and Photo Messages for Friends at Check-in Locations

The Facebook Messages system is currently out of service globally and “will be back up shortly”, according to the error message on the social networking website. The full message reads...

Read More: Facebook Messages is “Temporarily Down for Maintenance”

Twitter turned on the ability to share a photo on Twitter by attaching it to the an SMS text message.


Read More: Twitter Adds Support to Send Tweet Photos Using Text Messages

To celebrate the opening of their new AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto, AT&T is talking about some of the ambitious projects that they and their partner developers have been cooking up. One of the most interesting so far is AT&T Messages, which attempts to make all of your messages, voicemails, and call logs accessible from multiple devices.

Their cloud communications concept sounds quite a bit like the messaging half of Google Voice, but AT&T Messages has a few distinct advantages. On [...]

Read More: AT&T Messages Moves Your Conversations To The Cloud

A man stands accused of publishing threats against senior Google executive Marissa Mayer on Twitter.As the San Francisco Examiner reports, prosecutors say that Gregory Calvin King sent over 20,000 messages in the form Twitter mentions to Mayer. The tweets were allegedly published between November 2010 and August 2011.As what's alleged to be King's Twitter account (which contains NSFW language) demonstrates, the tweets ranged from insults ("Your body isnt very sexy either, cellulite is a huge tur [...]

Read More: Man accused of posting over 20,000 abusive Twitter messages to Google's Marissa Mayer

Do you have a start up company that could use some funding from investors? Or maybe you're trying to figure out how to attract more customers. You might want to look into what Naked Pizza has been doing and try it for yourself. What are they doing exactly? Showing some attitude and personality on Twitter, ...

Read More: Naked Pizza’s Witty & Fun Twitter Messages Attracts Investors

Google released a new free iPad app that sounded very interesting. It provides mobile versions of well-known retailers' catalogs. These retailers include Anthropologie, Bare Escentuals, Bergdorf Goodman, Crate and Barrel, L.L. Bean, Lands’ End, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Pottery Barn, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sephora, Sundance, Tea Collection, Urban Outfitters and Williams-Sonoma,


Read More: Google Catalogs for iPad: Possibly Interesting. But, All I See Are Network Error Messages

We previously wrote about an upcoming change from Twitter that allows you to send private messages to larger/celebrity accounts even if they weren’t following you. Now there’s a new app (not from Twitter) that allows you to send a private message to anyone, regardless of whether they’re following you or not. This is done through Twitgram, which you can use to compose your message without a 140 character limit, to send directly to the user you want. It’s all possible through the web interface for [...]

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Unfortunately, Londoners who wanted to help with the post-riot clean up weren't the only ones using social media and technology to spread the word. The rioters themselves sent encrypted messages via BlackBerrys, says the Associated Press. A woman walks past a damaged supermarket in Ealing, west London, after a night of rioting, Tuesday, Aug. 9, ...

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If you receive text messages while sitting in front of a personal computer, you might find it more convenient to reply to those messages using your PC rather than typing a reply on your phone. DeskSMS is an Android app currently in beta that redirects text messages sent to your phone, to your Gmail or Gtalk accounts, where you can then type a reply on your PC.


Read More: Receive Text Messages On Your Desktop PC With DeskSMS