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I just came across TwittAd, a new service aimed to help you to monetize your twitter page by showing ads on it.

My first thought was: is it a joke? There are many elements which lead me to think that this service will likely fail. Firstly, unless you have many (I mean many, many, many) thousand followers, your page will never be attractive for advertisers. It means “normal” Twitter users like me (almost 620 followers) are kept out from the game (99% of Twitters?). Secondly, do you know anyone who pays attention to your twitter page? I rarely open the twitter page of someone I follow, but I rather prefer to get my friends’ twits on my favorite Twitter client.

On the contrary, approaches like that adopted by Twitterrific, the popular Twitter client for Mac, are more effective IMHO. They basically shot an advertisement tweet among the other tweets, highlighting it so that users can easily see it and hopefully click on it.

TwittAd, so what? If anyone can help me to understand this service better, please leave a comment to this post.

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I still have to get my brand new iPhone 3G (tomorrow is my bday… who knows…) but I don’t have any doubt on which iPhone apps I’m going to install first. Here is my Top Five (+ 1) list.

1) Google Mobile App

How many times do I use Google to find everything? Always. So this app will definitely be on my iPhone.

2) Twitterrific

Are you a Twitter addict? I’m becoming it, more and more, and Twitterrific for the iPhone looks really cool. Definitely a must-have.

3) Wordpress

Blogging on the go has always been painful for me, never found the right app for my Nokia phones. This seems to be the definitive solution. It’s not available yet, but should be in the following weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this video.

4) NetNewsWire

After many trials, NetNewsWire has been sticky for me and it’s my everyday companion to go through my over 200 RSS feeds. It’s now available for the iPhone, so why not?

5) Facebook

The Safari version is already very hot, but this one looks like even better.

Special Mention (SIX): (6) Truphone

Truphone has been the first ever VoIP application working on the iPhone. Now everyone can get it from the iTunes App Store and it looks like a clear winner in this space. Congrats to all the Truphone team for this great goal. We had to wait but it was worth it.

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I get one of this every… 5 minutes ?

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