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Weekend Reading (03.26.2010)

March 26th, 2010 / Web Geek / No Comments »

For those of you who couldn’t keep up with the webby happenings this week, here’s a quick digest! Since it’s the first week it’s a little light, but look for something more comprehensive next week!

Hunch Twitter Predictor

Mar 20 – Hunch launched a Twitter Predictor: Enter your Twitter name and based on who you follow and are followed by on Twitter, combined with aggregated and anonymized Hunch data, it tries to make predictions about how you’d answer questions about yourself.

Mar 25 – 5 days later over 20,000 people had played the Twitter Predictor Game with an average accuracy of 85%. Hunch posted a neat analysis of how people used the game on their blog. With this data they developed some stats about popular twitterers’ followers. It’s only for “popular” twitterers right now, so if you have more than 1,000 followers, give it a shot and see who your audience is!

Try Hunch’s Twitter Predictor Game and Follower Stats for yourself and share your results down in the comments! You don’t need a Hunch account, but sign up anyway, it’s nifty! If you’re looking for some background on Hunch, here’s a great interview TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington did with Caterina Fake, one of Hunch’s cofounders who also cofounded Flickr).

Digg Launches iPhone App

Mar 23 – Digg has released a much-anticipated iPhone app that takes the essence of Digg right to your phone. The app is available here. It was developed by taptaptap, who is hosting a ColorWare-customized Limited Edition Digg iPad giveaway to celebrate the release. There are still 13 available!

Check.in opens invite queue

check.in, from the makers of Brightkite, has opened up the invite queue for the beta of their one-check-in-to-rule-them-all service. Sign up for an invite at check.in.

Facebook Likes the Internet

Word on the rumor mill is that Facebook will soon launch a button that will allow you to Like things all across the internet. Given the popularity of the feature on Facebook’s Newsfeed and other lightweight curating tools like Tumblr’s Heart and Flickr’s Fave, expanding beyond the network seems like a wise move on Facebook’s part.

Tumblr Launches Premium Themes

Mar 24 – Tumblr announced its new Premium Themes gallery, a nod to its already active theme-developer community and a step toward monetization. Themes range from $9-$49. Check out the gallery.

Check back next week for more Weekend Reading!

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