TweetDeck could be forced to change name - Pocket-lint.com

30 October 2010 6:53 GMT / By Stuart Miles

TweetDeck the popular Twitter app could be forced to change its name following new guidelines over the use of the word Twitter and Tweet by the micro-blogging site that we've all come to know and love.

In a post titled "New Twitter, new look" Twitter outlines details of the company's new logo (it looks the same), buttons, widgets, and most importantly for third party applications: "Guidelines for Use of the Twitter Trademark".

While the initial post is all of two paragraphs, the Guidelines are considerably more comprehensive covering everything from what you need to know if you are writing a book about twitter to how you can go about promoting your account.

And that's where TweetDeck's woes come in for in the part that discusses "Naming your Application or Product, Applying for a Domain" Twitter says that company's can't use the word "Tweet in the name of your application if used with any other platform."

Users of TweetDeck will know that they can use the desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android application to update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Buzz and Foursquare.

It means that TweetDeck is currently breaking those guidelines now set out by Twitter.

Based on the new guidelines, TweetDeck would either have to drop support for other platforms beyond Twitter or change its name unless it's about to become an exception to the rule.

Software, Mobile phone apps, TweetDeck, Twitter
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Telmap Introduces Location-Aware Twitter Widget - RealWire (press release)

Telmap Introduces Location-Aware Twitter Widget

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LONDON, October 28, 2010 – Telmap, the original pioneers in mobile location solutions, today announces the availability of a location-aware Twitter Widget as part of its mobile search, mapping and navigation solution.

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Where implemented, Telmap solution users will have seamless access to location-based tweets in their vicinity. Users will be able to view public tweets, and tweets by people they follow, that have a nearby location attached to them. Users will simply need to choose the Twitter Widget from the Widgets Carousel, and all relevant nearby tweets will be presented on the map. Users will be able to select a specific tweet, view and reply to it, as well as drive to the location attached to it, all from within the Telmap application. In addition, when searching for a specific location or point of interest, users can view tweets around that specific location.

Telmap provides white label, hosted and managed search, mapping and navigation solutions to mobile operators, and its vision is about serving all users’ needs while on-the-go, while optimizing their user experience. As mobile social networking activity is on the rise, it’s only natural that people would look to integrate their social networking presence and activity with their real-time location. Getting recommendations and opinions of places around you from people you know are also more likely to increase users’ familiarity and comfort with their environment.

“As the digital and physical worlds converge, Telmap, who is a location-based services innovator, is proud to introduce such a bridge between worlds, enriching one’s physical, actual location at a specific moment in time with information about what their online, social network has to say about that location and its vicinity. This provides better content exploration as well as higher level of trust and comfort in the service. Our goal at Telmap is to continue creating such bridges, within the application, which de facto serves as the center of all activity while on-the-go”, said Motti Kushnir, Telmap CMO. 

The location-aware Twitter Widget is already commercially available at Partner Communication in Israel, an innovative company that strives to stay at the forefront of telecommunications technology and end-user trends.   The location-aware Twitter Widget will be available in a variety of additional markets worldwide, in the near future.

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About Telmap
Telmap is a world leader in location solutions. The company has established a solid reputation for providing its customers with innovative, value added mapping and navigation solutions that open new business opportunities and generate new revenue streams. Telmap has a unique end-to-end solution including a mobile location companion, a complementary web companion, robust location platform with a set of APIs to support its customers in delivering a strong LBS strategy. The company’s flagship product, Telmap5 is the world’s first personalized location companion integrating innovative and patented technologies including Telmap Active Interface, Telmap Active Search and Telmap Active Widgets.

Telmap is the #1 choice of location solution and its technology has been selected by leading industry players Orange FT Group, Vodafone, Vodacom, SFR, O2, Telefonica, SingTel, OPTUS, Cellcom, Pelephone and more.

For more information, please visit www.telmap.com, or look for the Telmap page on Facebook

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Telmap unveils location-aware Twitter Widget - IntoMobile

Telmap, the company behind many of the carrier-branded navigation services, launched a location-aware Twitter Widget as part of its mobile search, mapping and navigation solution.

Once implemented, users will be able to access to location-based tweets in their vicinity, whether they come from their followers or not (public tweets). Additionally, when searching for some location, Telmap will also present nearby tweets to the user.

Telmap says that as mobile social networking activity is on the rise, it’s only natural that people would look to integrate their social networking presence and activity with their real-time location. Getting recommendations and opinions of places around you from people you know are also more likely to increase users’ familiarity and comfort with their environment.

The new widget is/will be available from the Widgets Carousel, and once selected it will present relevant nearby tweets on a map.

Right from the bat, Telmap has found a first carrier partner to implement the Twitter Widget – Israel’s Partner Communication with more mobile operators to jump on board in the coming weeks and months.

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