1. Twitter Counter – This tool provides statistics of  Twitter usage and tracks over 14 million users and counting. It also offers a variety of widgets and buttons that you can add to your blog, website or social network profile to show recent Twitter visitors and number of followers.
2. Social Mention – It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
3. Klout – This tool measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others. The Klout Score uses data from social networks in order to measure:
• True Reach: How many people you influence
• Amplification: How much you influence them
• Network Impact: The influence of your network
4. Twitter Grader – Tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded. Just enter your or any other twitter username and you’ll get an instant grade and report.
5. Monitter – It is real time twitter search tool that enables you to monitor a set of keywords on twitter. It also allows you to narrow the search to a particular geographic location, allowing you to find out what’s going onin a particular part of the world.

Touchscreens everywhere: windows, bed, TV screens, smartphones, bathroom and kitchen, car, workplace and all glasses connected. Even the highway. I think it’s probably possible now but it’s still the future.

What do you think? Now or future?

I wanted to share a great Twitter App with you. I want to know who are my most valuable Twitter follower and I’m sure everybody wants to know the same.

Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld made a great app and the name is simple “Who’s Your MVF” or Who is Your Most Valuable (Twitter) Follower. They’ve made it just for fun but I’m sure it’ll be used for business as well.

The app shows your most valuable Twitter follower, based on who in your following has the most followers. It’s simple but very useful. At least you can find your top follower and guess the reason why he/she follows you.

Since Monday, App’s web page had a huge number of visits so they’re having some problem with access, but they told they’re working on it.

Anyway, I think it’s a great and simple idea and I recommend it.

Who is Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower App – www.mvfapp.com

At this moment ROM is pretty stable with a few minor problems with USB mass storage and data statistics but it would be fixed probably very soon.

You can download the Android ICS custom ROM (but use it at your own risk) from the following link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354263

Actually, Android ICS is not available at any device at this moment, but soon it will be available first on Samsung Google Nexus first and after that as update for some of existing devices as well as for new phones, tablets etc.

You can find more information on how to obtain the software on Android Open Source Project web site.

Google has started a new contest about the upcoming Galaxy Nexus and Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Twitter followers will have 10 chances in 10 days to win Galaxy Nexus w/ Android 4.0. A new contest called the “Galaxy Nexus Challenge” officially starts today, November 12th at 9 am PST (12 pm Toronto time), and goes until November 21st.

All you have to do is follow Google via their Nexus Twitter handle (twitter.com/googlenexus), and reply a “solution” to the daily “Google Nexus puzzle, photo or essay question tweet”.

Eligible countries for the contest: Australia, Canada (excluded Quebec), France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands,
Singapore, Spain, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

More information about rules on: Galaxy Nexus Challenge Official Rules

There is an exception for small sites – the first 25,000 map-loads a day are free. The toll has been on the way since Google updated the Maps API’s Terms of Service in April and was scheduled to kick in at the beginning of October. It could be significant cost for developers: an app using the JavaScript Maps API for mobile and clocking in 100,000 users will now have to shell out $300 a day.

The visitor allowance is lower for those with styled maps (visually customised ones), who will have to pay $4 per 1,000 map loads after the first 2,500 – this goes up to $8 per 1,000 loads after 25,000 loads.

Developers who use the Maps API could do one of the following in the future:

• Reduce usage to below the limits
• Opt-in to paying for excess usage at the rates given in the FAQ for this service
• Purchase a Maps API Premier license

The Premier licence has been around for a while, and contains added features such as advanced geocoding, customer support, and full control over advertising. The prices start at $10,000 per year, increasing according to the number of site visitors.

Not everyone who has a Google map on their site will be affected. It’s possible to embed a Google map on a site or blog without using the API – and there is nothing to indicate that that will change.

More information on Google Geo Developers Blog

Ericsson will receive €1.05 billion as part of the deal.

The deal to buy out its Swedish partner will enable Sony to better integrate smartphones and other devices with its array of content, from its music label whose stars include Beyonce and Britney Spears, its movie studio whose current hits include Spider Man and Anonymous and its Playstation video games such as Legends of Norrah.

If the acquisition is approved, it will be finalized in January 2012.

New iPhone 4s looks the same as previous iPhone 4. There are a few differences:

1. New device comes with the A5 chipset, which is the SoC that powered the iPad 2. It comes with a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU.
2. The Apple iPhone 4S also improves on the network data speeds of its predecessor. The theoretical max of the iPhone 4S is a whopping 14.4 Mbps down, a vast increase from the iPhone 4?s theoretical max of 5.8 up and 7.2 down.
3. 4S contains a new antenna system that allows it to switch between two antennas for better sound quality and download speeds.
4. new iOS 5 was installed on new device and Siri – voice commands system in Beta phase
5. Camera was upgraded from 5MP to 8 MP and it’s probably the biggest improvement for the new device

The iPhone 4S pre-orders will start on October 7, while actual sales begin on October 14. Pricing on a two-year contract in USA is $199,$299 and $399 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions, respectively.

Anyway, I want to share this video just a few days before Apple would present the real one.

I would like to see your opinions and comments.