Investment. HIV/AIDS. Openid. Messenger. Twit. Mentoring. Meme. Cranks. Twittelator. Ragan. iGoogle. Advert. Whatsnext. Socialnetworking. Messengers. Donations. Graphics. Letterman. Personal. Pics. Louisgray.com: Are Your Writing Your Headlines for Google or for. While RSS still plays a very important role for practically all online publications to get their news out to subscribers, and Google plays a critical role for the stories to get picked up by casual visitors, Twitter is playing a middleman role and growing in the minds of many publishers, who see the microblogging service as a significant traffic driver.
Facebook Now Promoting “Suggested” Public Pr. Facebook Now Promoting “Suggested” Public Profiles on the Home Page It was one year ago that Facebook started suggesting “People You May Know.”
Now, Facebook has started suggesting businesses and brands you may like as well. Public profiles (formerly known as Pages) are now appearing in the “Suggestions” module on the top right side of the home page. In addition, business and brands are now mixed in with suggested friends on the “People You May Know” page. For example, today I’m getting suggestions for popchips, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Warren Miller, Sarah Palin, George Lopez, and Depeche Mode. Getting included in Facebook’s suggested public profiles list could give a big boost to your public profile’s traffic. As always, you can track the popularity of growth of hundreds of thousands of public profiles on Facebook at PageData. What Twitter Search Can Mean for Businesses.
While many still struggle to find a purpose for using Twitter, and Twitter ceases to generate revenue for itself (though it’s coming sooner or later), the social network continues to take the world by storm.
Naturally there are plenty of opportunities there or businesses to capitalize on. Are you finding Twitter effective for business? Tell WPN readers. Before we get into that though, let’s look at some research and statistics regarding Twitter. Let’s get a feeling for just what we’re dealing with this popular communication tool. The Twitter Explosion. How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying - ReadWri. What are you doing?
No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Twitter streams using the new pay-per-tweet service Magpie. Twitter search is broken. In the Webware 100 this year, both Twitter and Twitter Search are finalists, in separate categories.
(Vote here and here.) I added the search feature of Twitter as a product because it's a research tool quite separate from the social/publishing network of Twitter itself. In some ways I think it's even more important. But Twitter Search has been failing me. New in Labs: Inserting images. Posted by Kent Tamura, Software Engineer Well, it's about time.
You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this: Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs. Keep in mind that Gmail doesn't show URL-based images in messages by default to protect you from spammers, so if you're sending mail to other Gmail users, they'll still have to click "Display images below" or "Always display images from ... " to see images you embed.
Got feedback on inserting images? Commercials Come to Twitter Courtesy of 12seconds.tv - ReadWrite. What do you get when you combine a platform for creating user-generated video content with the micro-blogging sensation that is Twitter?
According to 12seconds.tv, you get a viable business model for your company, a platform that allows brands to leverage Twitter for communication, and a way for everyday Twitter users to have fun and earn prizes. Microsoft Europe: Internet Usage Will Overtake Traditional TV In. Microsoft, in a new report about Internet usage in Europe, predicts that the Internet will overtake TV as the most consumed form of media in Europe by the middle of next year.
Broadband connections in Europe have grown by 95% in the last five years and the average European now spends about 8.9 hours per week online. Microsoft also predicts that over the next 5 years, usage patterns will shift away from traditional PCs to other web enabled devices like game consoles, IPTV, and mobile phones. Online Penetration in Europe There is still a clear North/South divide when it comes to Internet penetration levels in Europe. While all the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands are highly connected, with penetration rates over 80%, countries in Southern Europe like Greece, Turkey, or Portugal hover around 40%.
New Digg Search Launches. Tiseme brings Facebook-style feeds to the rest of the web Ventu. Tiseme bills itself as a ‘browser-based conversation platform.’
In practice, what it does is bring all the social parts of Facebook and Twitter — news feeds, comments, status updates and all — to regular old web surfing. Digg the Blog Blog Archive Google Juice & Page Views: O. We’re happy to report we have released an update to the Digg iOS app with full iOS 7 support, including a couple of interesting new features: Dynamic Type and Background App Refresh.
We’re super excited about this release, as it brings the app up to date with the latest technology Apple has incorporated into iOS. With Dynamic Type, you can set your text size preference once in iOS Settings, then watch it take effect across all of your favorite apps. So, if you crave teeny tiny text or want more content on your screen, we can help you. On the other hand, if you prefer huge text or want to read Digg on the other side of the room, we can help you there as well. When to NOT Use Social Media - ReadWriteWeb. These days, everyone is talking about social media and discussing what services and tools to use, how to use them, why you should use them, etc.
In fact, if you listened to all the advice out there, you would probably think that no matter who you are, whether an individual wanting to build a personal brand, or a large multinational corporation intent on communicating with customers, you should be using social media. The LinkedIn Blog Blog Archive Grab recruiters’ att. [Editor’s Note: This post is a part of a series on LinkedIn users sharing tips, tricks, and tweaks on getting the most from your LinkedIn usage. Today’s guest blogger, Matt Schwartz, President of MJS Executive Search, describes ways to stand out in a crowd when recruiters look for candidates to fill a job opening.]
Communication Overtones, Social Media and Public Relations Strat. Seth's Blog: Intentionally building communities (More hallw. If you think about the tribes you belong to, most of them are side effects of experiences you had doing something slightly unrelated. We have friends from that summer we worked together on the fishing boat, or a network of people from college or sunday school. There's also that circle of people we connected with on a killer project at work a few years go. These tribes of people are arguably a more valuable creation than the fish that were caught or the physics that were learned, right? And yet, most of the time we don't see the obvious opportunity--if you intentionally create the connections, you'll get more of them, and better ones too. 6 Ways Ford Is Finding Its Own Voice. Yesterday evening I co-hosted a tweetup in New York City where Ford was unveiling the new Ford Fiesta and a brilliantly conceived social media program to get 100 influencers to take the car on an extended test drive for 6 months as part of the Ford Fiesta Movement.
The event was a gathering designed to help put a more human face on Ford and talk about a new Ford car that many of the 20 and 30 somethings who showed up (and are the target market for the Fiesta) may not have known about. The effort is just one example of a greater shift that has been taking place at Ford over the past year as the company has worked to not only reshape its image in the eyes of the American public, but also to change the way that they tell the story of Ford.
It is a rich story to tell, one that is linked to the history of America in a way that few companies can authentically claim. Having a strong story to tell. Don’t Have Time for Goals? Simplify Your Commitments. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. It’s a problem that most people face: they want to work on Amazing Things, but with all the things they have to get done in their lives, there just isn’t time. My usual response is: make the time. Example of a Perfect Personal Blog Lorelle on WordPress. Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Designin. Photo by Thiago. A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works. How Big is Facebook? - ReadWriteWeb. Facebook announced this morning that it will welcome its 200 millionth user today. TweetDeck v0.25 - Memory Leak Fixes, Facebook Integration &. Exclusive: Backtype Connect brings ‘Social Commenting&
Backtype, is a YCombinator startup that has shined from get-go, focusing almost exclusively on tracking comments across the web. A month ago, Backtype announced Backtype Connect a method of tracking comments across the web about a specific URL. Today, they announce an extension to the feature, a WordPress plugin that brings discussion about your posts from across the WWW directly into your comments section. Ten Twitter search tools. IPREDator, the Terrifyingly Awesome Privacy Tool Prepares to Lau. Set to launch tomorrow, if the homepage can be believed, IPREDator is a new virtual private networking service (VPN) created by those behind The Pirate Bay.