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We have just unleashed a new version of FollowThing online which comes with a number of enhancements and bug fixes, particularly in the area of speed and posting links to Twitter.com.

What’s new in FollowThing 0.1.1

• 1-Click Twitter posting is now a lot more stable. OAuth connections are now stored permanently and not in cookies.
• You can now disable a connection to Twitter (and re-connect to a different account if required). You may need to log out of your Twitter account if you wish to re-connect another.
• Pagination now works more effectively, only appearing where it should do, operating correctly where it does
• Many database queries are now cached, so loading should have improved for commonly repeated queries.
• User comments are now correctly filtered user (e.g. http://followthing.com/matt/comments)

We are pleased to announce that the first wave of FollowThing Alpha accounts will be going out later today.

With this release (v 0.1.0) we have the first prototype of the FollowThing filtering engine in place. This essentially condenses your list of sources and all of their posts from the last twenty-four hours into a manageable ’24hr Snapshot’. We do this based on your personal viewing activity – so only the most relevant items to you appear in your view. This means that you can scan an entire day’s news in just a few minutes.

If you need to see more detail than the Snapshot, you also have the option of viewing stories as they come in via the FollowThing Real-Time streaming engine, which gives you everything, as it happens, in real-time. This of course will give you more ‘noise’ than the snapshot, but it will allow you explore almost everything.

If you would like give FollowThing a try, please register your details over at FollowThing.com and we’ll be in touch. During our Alpha phase, all accounts will be free.

A big thank you to the Bootlaw team who hosted a great Summer BBQ last night in South Kensington, London.

We had chance to catch-up with Mitzi (Mitzi TV), Ken (Qontix), Josh (Mino Monsters), Andy and Alaric (GenieDB) and a few other forward thinking entrepreneurs. As usual, Moo cards were out in force, although not to the level you’d normally see in a tech only gathering. I’d love to see some new products coming out of Moo to help at networking events – they seem to have gone a bit quiet this year compared to the summer of 2007 when everyone ‘had’ to have, and had, a Moo card.

Last night we launched our new sign-up page for those of you wanting to get advance access to FollowThing. Simply leave your name and email and you’ll be one of the first to know about future releases of FollowThing.

The new page features our new product mascot, ‘Thing’, who will be appearing throughout our promotions over the next few months. We’ll talk about Thing a lttle more in future posts, but for now, please leave a comment and tell us what you think!