Starting A Blog? These 50 Lessons Will Help You Succeed. It’s that time of year again: Technorati has started to share content from their annual state of the blogosphere report. They have spared no expense this year: instead of polling bloggers in their network to get data (as was the case in the 2008 state of the blogosphere) they have engaged a research firm to add another layer of authority. Especially telling was some of the data from professional bloggers – that is to say, working professionals writing about their industry (not to be confused with those blogging directly for income, another type of pro blogger). According to the this year’s report, the benefits of this type of blogging are clear as day: 71% have greater visibility in their industry63% said clients purchased products and services56% stated their company was now regarded as a thought leader40% have been asked to speak at conferences These stats support many of the reasons your small business should have a blog. 1.
Speed and agility win, period. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. YouTube - '2012' Trailer HD. 20 Hilarious Twitter Comic Strips | Penn Olson. If the last comic strip we shared about Dilbert’s boss using Twitter wasn’t enough to keep you entertained, don’t fret! We have prepared TWENTY hilarious Twitter comic strips that will definitely make your day a better one. Most of them have depicted Twitter and our everyday lifestyle pretty well! Catch them below! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Verizon lets viewers tweet & update their status on TV - Spr. Gain instant and exclusive access to over 5,000 of the most creative ideas, innovations and startups on our database and use our smart filters to take you direct to those that are most relevant to your industry and your needs.
Not interested? You can still browse articles published in the last 30 days from our homepage and receive your daily and weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas through our free newsletters. We’re Spending More Time with Social Media: Advertiser. InShare0 Source: Shutterstock The attention dashboard is rapidly emerging as the online hub for sharing and discovering information, connecting us to people, content, and events in real-time. According to research, we’re already spending more time in social networks than we are in email. New studies are only fortifying these findings, documenting an increase time spent specifically in Social Media and blogs. In fact, the Nielsen Company reports reports that time spent on social networks and blogs accounted for 17 percent of total time spent on the Internet in August 2009. As a result of our online interaction, advertisers are following our activities attempting to capture our attention where it is focused.
Unfortunately what’s missing from Nielsen’s report is data related to user interaction with ads. Source: MarketingCharts.com Chart 1: Year-over-Year Percent Change in Online Advertising Spend by Industry (U.S., August 2009) Source: Nielsen AdRelevance. Can a Billion Views Help a Billion People? Last week, we announced that YouTube serves over one billion video views per day. It's a pretty staggering number, right? That's also the number of people in the world who don't have enough food to eat. According to the UN World Food Program, for the first time in history, there are over 1 billion hungry people on Earth -- that's one in seven humans. Today, on World Food Day, the World Food Program (WFP) is showing how you, the estimated one billion internet users, can help the one billion people who live in hunger: The WFP isn't alone in their efforts.
Nonprofit Action Against Hunger is calling on Al Gore to create a video about hunger as he did for climate change with An Inconvenient Truth (after all, who better to mobilize the internet community than the man who invented it?) And singer Christina Aguilera is lending her voice to the cause with this video: So internet people, we're challenging you to make a difference today. SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wav. Alexander Dreiling of SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia, has posted on a great prototype called Gravity that uses Google Wave to collaborate around business process. Gravity is a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client.
It lets participants in a wave use the business process modeling functionality of SAP Business Process Management collaboratively, in near-real time. David Cook called it “the best business example of Google Wave, period!” The demo shows the result of a merger of a bank and an insurance company. They now need to restructure their business processes and capitalize quickly on cross-selling opportunities between banking and insurance, and a variety of different expertise across the new organization is needed to model the new process flows, both from business and IT. As they build the model, the additions from each modeler are color-coded, and the process is documented using the Google Wave tools. More on SAP and Gravity: Related posts:
Does your social class determine your online social network? - C. World’s Most Revolting Facebook Status Updates | Psychology Toda. As I was writing Singled Out and gleefully mocking couples who take those sappy love songs seriously, I occasionally stopped to wonder whether I was unfairly caricaturing them. "You are my everything. " "I just want to be your everything. " Does anyone really buy that?
Turns out, the answer is yes. Not only do they sign on to that stuff, they actually post it on their Facebook pages! As is so often the case, I learned about this from two of my favorite sources - Living Single readers who send me links to provocative stories and reporters who ask the best questions. She also pointed me to a site where other people post screen grabs and vent about how annoying this is. . • "OMFG C is the hottest most amazing boyfriend ever. . • "____ feels bad for stealing the most AMAZING man off the market" [Sept 20] • "poofy woof and I love you" [Sept 20] • "David is having a hard time waking up and misses his schmoopy" [Oct 14] • Ashley: "I have the most amazing awesome husband in the whole world!
Does your social class determine your online social network? - C. Flickr Photo Download: Life Chart - Beta. 5 predictions for interactive marketing in 2010 - iMediaConnecti. Why Facebook, Twitter, Google Wave Still Bow to King E-Mail. The Wall Street Journal published a comprehensive feature Oct. 12 on the wane of e-mail's reign, thanks to the rise of Facebook, Twitter and collaboration platforms such as Google Wave. There are many, many fine points in the piece, which fairly covers the increase in adoption of social networks and the proliferation of real-time Web services and the filters and tags that help us govern them.
Unfortunately, it's not a fair reflection of the world outside Silicon Valley, where hype browbeats the public and wills products into popularity. Millions of desk-bound workers and corporate road warriors in offices all over the world rely on e-mail as the de facto standard for communication, often in lieu of telephones. Just ask the folks who run Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus, and even the Google Apps people. Despite all of the fun, newfangled Web services, they are not replacing King E-Mail in offices. "We all still use e-mail, of course. Official Google Mobile Blog: You Ask, We Answer. Go Mobile! The 5 Worst DMs: Which Ones Have You Sent? Tremendous News! New 'Mystery Google' search engine delivers random res. Looking for an Internet search engine that delivers totally random results?
Probably not. But if you are, there's one out there for you. It's called Mystery Google and is located at mysterygoogle.com. No matter what you type into the query box at Mystery Google it serves up the results of someone else's search. A search for "Twitter," for example, delivered links to websites about "cabbage.
" The query "Joe Biden" resulted in pages about "jellyfish. " "Michael Jackson" served up links about "coiffure. " And so on. There is one consistent result. The Mystery Google website has the spartan look of the traditional Google home page but the background is black as opposed to white and features a glowing moon at the top of the page. It also bears the notice "Google is a trademark of Google Inc. " There was no immediate reply from Google to a query from AFP about the site, which makes its appearance about two weeks ahead of Halloween, the holiday of goblins, ghosts and "trick or treating. " (c) 2009 AFP. Cleaning Up The Stream: Twitter Kills Duplicate Tweets.
By now we’ve all likely seen the new “report spam” links on each Twitter user’s profile. Twitter rolled out that feature on twitter.com yesterday, and plans to roll out an API, so third-party apps can use it, sometime today. But Twitter has also quietly rolled out another new feature aimed at cleaning up the stream: Blocking duplicate tweets.
If you try to enter text for a tweet that is exactly the same as a tweet you’ve recently sent, it will block it, saying “duplicate text” in a white drop down overlay (pictured below). It would appear that there is a time window for this, and it may be 24-hours. I tried copying-and-pasting two tweets that I sent a few hours ago, and those were both blocked. Obviously, it would seem the idea here it to stop Twitter users from spamming their followers with multiple tweets. Duplicates (or “dupes”) have long been a problem on other social sites like Digg. [thanks Andrew] The Top 100 Twitter Publishing Tools and Services | Brian Solis. InShare0 Source As I was writing the report on Facebook and Twitter traffic growth, I had noticed that the engagement time at Twitter.com had dropped by 31 percent year-over-year.
September 2009: 18:07 September 2008: 26:12 Engagement Difference = -31% I suspected that the shift in numbers stemed from the migration of those who previously interacted on Twitter.com and now engage via third-party clients such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, CoTweet, HootSuite, et al. Google Wave's Best Use Cases - Wave - Lifehacker. @arekkusu82: Realistically, Wave is just a new implementation of an old idea. You can acheive much the same thing with SharePoint Discussion boards, or Microsoft Groove (which was developed by a different company before being gobbled up my Microsoft), or ShareFlow by zenbe. Wave is extensible, but so is SharePoint. Sure, the real time translation is pretty sweet, but all the "oooh, shiny" stuff in Wave are just features. The idea behind wave isn't anything groundbreaking...people just think it is because it's a Google project (Oooh! Google's doing something new!).
They seem to benefit from the same Reality Distortion Field that Apple does. @arekkusu82: Given that Wave protocol is an open standard, not long. @Bill Clark: Yeah, it first looked to me like a fancy IRC client. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to try it. 10 Very Useful jQuery Plugins for Web Developers I wasn&#821. Web video's fastest growing market. Google Wave Will Be What We Want it to Be — jungleG. College Kids Are the Digital Demo. College students are the most connected demographic group in the US.
They own multiple electronic devices and are a prime audience for online video. eMarketer estimates 18.2 million college students, 95.7% of the total, will go online at least once a month in 2009. As Internet usage becomes ubiquitous, the percentage of students online is growing more slowly, rising to an estimated 96.8% in 2013. “Not only is Internet access widely prevalent, but so is technology ownership in general,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “College Students: Connecting with the Connected Crowd.” “Since students own multiple devices, they want to use those devices to interact with friends and information in multiple ways. They care less about what method they use for their interactions and more about how easy and seamless those interactions are.” Students are heavy consumers of online video—but also regular TV.
“So far, that is not happening,” said Ms. Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The i. Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works on the iPhone. There are two ways to get Google Wave to work on your iPhone. The first way is to simply go to wave.google.com in mobile Safari on your iPhone. It warns you that you are not using a browser supported during the preview, but if you click through, it works pretty well.
But here is where it gets interesting. At least that is what it does for me and one of our readers, Rafael Vargas, who brought it to my attention. And if what I’m seeing is not a bug, it suggests a different approach to making mobile apps on the iPhone. 7 Keys to Hosting Successful Chats With High-Profil. In recent weeks we at De Tijd, a Belgian newspaper, have been experimenting with chat sessions where members of the Belgian government are brought in to discuss politics with our community. I’m very enthusiastic about this because I feel that our newspaper has enabled its community to have a direct, high-quality conversation with policy makers. I reported in a previous article about how we use CoverItLive for our chat sessions, live blogs and moderated live forums.
CoverItLive allows us to have live moderated chats and discussions. We can also launch polls during the sessions, insert images and other files, and stream video. CoverItLive has a lot of features and uses, but I’d like to focus on how it can be used for enabling a dialogue between policy makers and the citizens they serve. Bringing Government Ministers Into the Newsroom De Tijd has held two chat sessions with government members. Each session lasted one hour and over 3,500 people logged in and participated each time. The Future. WordPress for iPhone › WordPress 2 submitted for rev. Get That Vaccine, It's Going to Be a Bad Flu Year - O' Invite a friend to Google Voice.
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