Are you ready to ride the Wave on September 30th – when Google will start sending 100,000 invites for the early test of Google Wave

The real-time communication platform has captured the imagination of countless communication, social media, and tech enthusiasts that want to get their hands on its game-changing features. It can import Twitter, provide real-time chat, play back past conversations, and even allows for drag-and-drop file uploads.

There are a lot of features, but it is unlike any other web product yet and thus takes time to learn. That’s why in July we asked an important question: is the world ready for Google Wave? Will there be widespread adoption, or will the ambitious project fall short of expectations? Will developers jump on the Wave bandwagon and build apps for it like they do for Twitter () and Facebook ()?

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FriendFeed was founded in 2007 by four former Googlers: Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh. Before leaving Google, the guys helped design and launch several well-known products, including Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Groups. FriendFeed was their vision for a centralized sharing service — kind of like Facebook, only without all the extra stuff. It’s basically a content aggregator:

And so begins the next step in Facebook’s assault on Twitter.  Is this a marriage made in heaven?

Mark Zuckerberg and FriendFeed Co-Founders Celebrate Deal

Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself along with FriendFeed co-founders Paul Buchheit, James Norris, Bret Taylor to his Facebook account, with the caption “Photo from our negotiation / signing party last night with the FriendFeed founders.

Compared to other mobile phones, iPhone has a lot of amazing features that makes people really like it. It has great advantages because it has many functions and services which is perfectly designed for business purposes. One of the iPhone applications that are highly appreciated by many people is the “Twitter App”.  As we know Twitter has become the perfect social messaging tool for quick communications allowing you to send message to a group of people. It can be used by a family to keep in touch, or a company to coordinate business, or the media to keep people informed.

Today, twitter is growing rapidly and many people are becoming addictive to social network and joining the community each day to send messages, discuss news, ideas and have fun. And because of this high demand of people to social networks, iPhone comprise twitter so that anyone can tweet wherever they are and wherever they go even without facing on their computer. There are multiple iPhone apps to choose from that lets you access and use Twitter.

Here are some Twitter applications for your iPhone:

• Twittelator Pro: one of the best Twitter apps for your iPhone. It offers an incredible amount of features all in one Twitter app.

I have Twittelator Pro on my iPhone 3G. The more I use Twittelator Pro 2 the more I like it. Here are the features <<<<<

• Tweetie: is a fast, full-featured twitter for iPhone and iPod touch. This app has all the features that we’ve come to expect out of a Twitter client.

“Tweetie’s interface is so clean you would think it came straight out of Apple headquarters.” —Wired (magazine)

• Ziibii: a great app that allows you to check your feeds on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and add feeds from the Web.

• Twinkle: allows you to get in touch with your followers easily. Twinkle lets you use the iPhone’s location feature to add location data to your tweets. It has also the ability to add images to your tweets.

• Whrrl 2.0: Whrrl is another cool social networking application that allows you to stay in touch with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

• Loopt: Loopt is another social networking application which lets you see where your friends are, and allows you to update your Facebook and Twitter accounts easily.

• Twitterrific Premium: is a fun application that lets you read and publish posts (called “tweets”) on the Twitter social network.

• Twitterfon: TwitterFon is an ideal twitter client for advanced twitter users. It has all the twitter features you need wherein you can handle multiple twitter accounts very smoothly.

• Fring: Fring is a cool little social networking app that allows you to manage your MSN, Yahoo, and Twitter accounts.

• Twiltr: Twiltr is the only iPhone and iPod Touch Twitter App that allows you to filter all recent tweets of the people you follow on Twitter. It allows you to add and save word filters and search all Twitter for relevant tweets.

• Summizer: a Twitter app that allows you to track trends on Twitter. Using Summizer, you’re able to watch what people are saying about a topic in real time.

• Twittms: Twittms is a great way to send direct messages on Twitter. It keeps track of your conversations so it’s easy to pick up a conversation where you left off.

• TwitterVision: TwitterVision is a cool Twitter application for iPhone that allows you to see where in the world people are tweeting from. With each tweet the map moves, and it shows you just where that tweet came from.

• Gyazickr: a Twitter application that allows you to tweet photos easily on your iPhone.

• SimplyTweet: is another Twitter application for the iPhone and iPod touch. You can read what your friends are tweeting, search the public timeline and follow the conversations revolving around them.

• LaTwit: allows you to read and send posts on Twitter or any Laconi.ca based social networking site.

• Nambu: is a great Twitter offers different ways to see your messages. You can separate people or services into separate groups so you never miss that key tweet.

• Tweetsville: allows you to send tweets and direct messages with ease. This application will also allow you to see the number of unread direct messages in your inbox right in the tab bar.

• Twitfire: is a simple free application that lets you send multiple types of tweets. Send text, photos, web links, current location (Google Maps), and replies.

• JustUpdate: allows you to update your twitter timeline from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

• LifeCast: LifeCast is one of the easiest iPhone apps to use with blogger. You can use this application to post content on multiple platforms (wordpress, blogger, etc).

• Twitterlink: Twitterlink lets you send links with some text to your Twitter account on your iPhone. This is a great application to use when you are browsing from your iPhone and want to share a URL with your twitter friends.

It is very important that you are well-informed about the positive and negative sides of each application before you choose the most ideal Twitter application for you. Every individual has different needs and I don’t recommend using all of the applications on the list, but rather a guide to help you choose the best that will suite your needs.

Last but not least……..Tweetdeck for iPhone? There’s more to TweetDeck than meets the eye. Watch the demo <<<<<<