social tool

Etsy is quietly one of the world’s most popular websites.

Buying, selling, and talking about crafts and handmade items is apparently big business. Behind the scenes though, it’s been rocky.

Developers and users rely on the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) to connect the social tool to 3rd party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic.

Thus, when there are changes, people notice -especially developers.

Spam: the despised garbage of the web. Spam on Twitter: A very painful form of spam, since Twitter is a public broadcast social tool.

It only gets worse because there are no spam filters to relieve us of tweets that tell us we need acai berries or list every trending topic imaginable.

Back in March, we learned of an interesting new social tool called Hunch.

Cofounded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, the startup’s goal is to help you make decisions by using its algorithms together with traits it has learned about you.

Ask it a question, and it helps you choose an answer that suits you. It has been in private beta since it was revealed.