Tweetmeme: We follow everyone, we check links, we show popular l. “Everyone is trying to data mine Twitter for the best content. What very few people are doing (because it’s so resource-intensive) is to find out what that content actually is. We know what it is, and we follow everyone.” Nick Halstead, Founder and CEO at Fav.or.it, was quietly authoritative as he described how he’s evolved the Tweetmeme site over the past few months – and he has every right to be. Whether a link in Twitter is to a blog, image, video or audio is a crucially important distinction, and the stark simplicity of the Tweetmeme home page contrasts with the massive computing power that lies behind getting that content up there.
One of the most useful contextual elements is a one-line ‘tag cloud’ which gives the context surrounding the tweets that have linked to a particular resource, so that there is additional context that identifies words and hashtags associated when making these links. A Secret to Writing Posts that Go Viral on Twitter. Memo to TechCrunch: make love not war, because negativity sucks. TechCrunch is one of the blogs that I check on a daily basis. If there's a blog that falls under the category of 'must-read', TechCrunch is it. TechCrunch made a name for itself by covering new internet startups in Silicon Valley and has a reputation of breaking important technology news. But a post on TechCrunch yesterday really bothered me. It was titled 'DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In' and it reported on a change in management at DEMO, the prominent product-launch conference that takes place every year in California.
A bit of background: TechCrunch runs its own product-launch conference that competes with DEMO. Unlike DEMO, TechCrunch doesn't charge companies to launch at its conference. But the past is the past and that's the way it should be. DEMO could certainly use the new blood. But Marshall is going to have to do a lot more than appeal to the chin-strokers in the audience. It is fine by us if DEMO sticks to its model of extorting startups. ImageShack Launches Mediocre TwitPic Alternative.
We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise. Last night, as I do most Sunday nights, I was catching up with all the shows I like to watch on Hulu. I wont bore you with the list, but lets just say that at least one includes a talking rabbit, another a talking robot, and yet another a barely talking human. In between pseudo-Sorkin quips, I, as I often also do, was zooming through twitter. Most of the time, Sunday night twitter is full of football, random links to articles and really bad jokes (still not sure why Sunday is so devoid of humor).
And in the midst of all of the noise was this tweet by John Meada: Now John, who I have never met, is the type of person that you tell people you once ate breakfast in the next room, and were too afraid to ask a very good friend for an introduction (Scott Belsky, it was not me when we ran into... What worries me about Social. Social Media Breakfast Club talk - 11.5% of MEPs are bloggers. August 8, 2008 Some of our regular readers may have remembered that in a recent post, we mentioned that we were undertaking a digital audit of MEPs. The poor FH souls whose job it was audit all 785 MEPs will go down in history for their services to digital (thanks Jez, Ed, and Karen!). Anyway we have looked at every MEP to see how they are doing on websites, blogs, facebook wikipedia and so forth. This post will look at the intrepid MEP bloggers. And here they are the key stats: 82 89 90 MEPs have blogs, which equates to just over 10% 11% of all MEPs.
Anyway, for the record, these are the MEP bloggers we’ve found (and been told about!) Adina VALEAN Alain LIPIETZ Antonio MASIP HIDALGO Åsa WESTLUND Astrid LULLING Benoît HAMON Bernard POIGNANT Bill NEWTON DUNN Boguslaw ROGALSKI Boguslaw Andrzej SONIK Carl SCHLYTER Caroline LUCAS Cătălin-Ioan NECHIFOR Christels SCHALDEMOSE Corina CREŢU Dan JØRGENSEN Daniel HANNAN Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT Daciana SARBU David HAMMERSTEIN MINTZ Dumitru OPREA Erika MANN Esther de LANGE. How to Raise the Level of Your 'Twinfluence' | Marketi. 2009: A year that's looming larger each day for social media.
Or is it? Times are tough. Many people may be looking forward to four years of hope and change, but the realities of a slumping global economy are upon us today. As we conclude budgeting season - or some procrastinating companies are just beginning - social media undoubtedly has received more attention for integration than ever. On one hand, social media tools can be inexpensive and an effective way to create deep customer relationships. Twitter as a Tool for Business: 25 Tips for Going Viral on Twitt. David Finch When I was in elementary school my father took me to the most amazing display of creativity that had I ever seen. I was completely mesmerized by the lights, the acting and the way stories were made to come alive. As a young boy, what intrigued me the most was watching what I thought was impossible become possible with a few words or gestures.
What I had experienced was my first magic show. That single event was so impacting that for twenty years I spent money, read books and articles by some of the greatest performers of all time. It motivated me to travel to obscure locations to meet magicians from this underground society to watch and learn as well as to be challenged all over again. However, as I got older I noticed that instead of becoming a magician, even though I could do a simple routine, I was becoming a collector – A collector of tricks, secrets, books and videos. The Social Media Trap Who’s going to unveil the next Twitter or Facebook?
1. 301 Moved Permanently. HowSociable? - Brand Visibility Metrics. The Illusion Of Transparency In Social Media | Search Engine Peo. Disclosure: Brian is a cofounder of the pay per tweet twitter marketing service, TweetROI. The concept of transparency seems to have universal support in Social Media. What Is Transparency? (Image Transparent and glasslike 41/365 by brewedfreshdaily from Flickr, Creative Commons) There has been a fair amount of discussion about social media transparency in the last few months: The controversy over IZEA's paid blog postingsMore recently, Chris Brogan discussed with his Twitter followers whether when he tweets about one of his social media clients, should he disclose the nature of his relationship with themThere has been little acceptance for Magpie, the service that pays Twitterers to accept ads in their tweetstream, and it uses hashtags to disclose the paid nature of the tweets.This article posits that we are transparent in real life, so why be different in social media?
Transparency sounds good. No, not really. Ooh, Brian Argues Against Transparency? And let's be honest about being honest. FriendFeed Looking at Giving Users More Control Over Who Reads W. February 12, 2009 by Hutch Carpenter At the UGCX conference this week, I attended a session on social media mashups. The session included FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit, along with folks from Google, iWidget, Kyte and Gigya. Someone in the room asked this question (paraphrasing): How do I gain more control over my identity and what I publish across social networks? There was some discussion by others about things like OpenID and OAuth.
That’s when Paul spoke up from the panel. Well how about that? He didn’t elaborate on how FriendFeed was planning to do this. Let’s speculate about what this might be like. A Change in the Consumer-Publisher Relationship FriendFeed has developed a really strong foundation for people to manage the information they consume. The FriendFeed publisher controls are: Decide which services will be fed inThe nuclear option of setting your feed as privateUsing invite-only Rooms for your content Those options tend to be “heavy”. It would be an interesting approach. From Here to Tweeternity: A Practical Guide to Getting Started o. Twitter is clearly the Next Big Thing. In the past couple of months, we’ve seen CNN adopting it as a way of giving living feedback during their shows, celebrities from Britney Spears to Demi Moore opening accounts, and hundreds of thousands of new users join the ranks of Tweeters. Businesses are getting into the Twitter game, too, using it as a way to provide near-instantaneous customer service, to promote their services, or to maintain brand awareness by staying engaged in ongoing conversations about their products and their competitors’.
We here at Lifehack have given plenty of advice about using Twitter effectively. Dozens of other sites have as well. This is that guide. 1. You can’t win if you don’t play. 2. There are lots of Twitter clients out there, and of course you can use the website as well, but for business and branding use, Tweetdeck offers several features that make it the best choice. 3. So put up a bunch of tweets right away. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Good tweeting! TweetDeck v0.21.5 - TweetDeck's posterous. TweetDeck to Add Translations, Tweets by E-mail, StockTwits. TweetDeck has rapidly climbed the charts of popular Twitter clients since its debut last July, and with new capital backing, developer Iain Dodsworth continues to add more features to make the product practically indispensable. In the latest update, to debut tomorrow, Dodsworth adds new features that will help you communicate with a global audience, in multiple languages, monitor stock data, and even send your tweets by e-mail.
And just think, this is one of Iain's minor point releases, not a major update - which is also in the works. TweetDeck, as you recall, is a popular AIR application, easily recognizable by its tight multi-column format, which lets you follow all your Twitter data, be it updates from friends, replies, direct messages, search terms and groups. In fact, the success of TweetDeck has spawned different software products to emulate its interface, including FriendDeck, a tool for following FriendFeed, and most recently, Alert Thingy. OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN | The Art of Generating Buzz. Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from. Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music and videos, to help you quit smoking and lose weight — spontaneously extending the text-based service into one of the web’s most fertile (and least likely) application platforms.
Hardware hackers have set up household appliances to send status alerts over Twitter, like a washing machine that tweets when the spin cycle is through, or a home security system that tweets whenever it senses movement inside the house. Others have incorporated Twitter into their DIY home automation systems. Forgot to turn off the lights? Send a tweet to flip the switch by remote control. Is Twitter Testing Ajax Updates? - ReadWriteWeb. In the last two days, a couple of users noticed a new, Ajax-based interface on their Twitter home pages. Apparently, this new interface will allow users to scroll through their timelines without having to refresh the page.
This, by itself, would not be a major new feature, but it hints at a larger refresh of Twitter's user interface. Making Way for Real-Time Updates and Monetization? Drew B's take on tech PR: A guide to Twitter: 10 ways Twitt. Facebook Launches. Facebook Launches “I Like This” Feature on Wall and News Feed Facebook launched today a new default action link on many types of feed stories called “I Like This.”
It’s a really simple way for friends to give feedback about which status updates, photos, and notes they like, right in the feed. The new feature will make it easier for friends to say “I Like This” with the click of a button when they might otherwise leave a regular comment. It will also give Facebook’s feed distribution systems another explicit user feedback signal to take into account when picking feed stories to show to friends. For application developers, getting a lot of feed stories “liked” may be another way to get more distribution in the feed. Social feed aggregator FriendFeed‘s “I Like This” feature has been very popular with FriendFeed users since it was introduced.
Sponsored Post Hands-On Social Media Training for Beginners. What to do with your boss. So the day comes when you log into your Facebook and see that one friend request you never wanted to see: from your boss. You stare at it for a few seconds, stuck on stupid, trying to decide what to do. There are a trillion things racing through your head: “Should I accept it? … but what about all my incriminating party pictures? Or the extremely personal things written on my wall – I don’t want my boss to see that! How do I politely decline without getting fired? Should I just pretend I didn’t see it?
What if I hit accept and he/she finds out I am sitting on Facebook all day? There is only one answer: Deny. It doesn’t matter if your partying days are long over and incriminating drunk photos are irrelevant to you. However, some people have bosses that follow up on their request. Deny, then swiftly change the subject: “Oh, you did? Or, you can simply follow AllFacebook’s guide on 10 steps to ensuring your privacy. Business relationships are tough. Like this: Like Loading... How the Web is killing my ability to communicate | Webware - CNE. Thanks to the Internet, I can't communicate effectively anymore. Before I immersed myself in the world of blogs and vlogs, I communicated with others well.
We'd talk about the weather, why the Yankees didn't have the pitching to turn things around last year, and the meaning of life. I'd make an argument, others would listen intently, and understand every word I said. It was great. But now, things are different. I still have those conversations, it's just that now nowadays, I find myself shortening phrases like "I'll be right back" to "BRB" and using words that the majority of people just don't understand. It has become so bad that my wife (my own wife!) "Honey, you won't believe this," I told her, brimming with excitement. She stopped chopping the celery, looked up for only a second, shook her head, and went back to chopping the celery. What happened to me?
Here's a list of all the words I've used on an almost daily basis for the last six months. "Huh? How can I be so sure? Ouch. Yikes. Introducing Google's new Social Web Blog. Embrace All Of Your Passions. Gmail: 90 Tools And Tips To Make You A Gmail Pro. Frank Caliendo Seinfeld 2027 - Frank TV starts Nov 20 on tbs. Twitter: The how to get started guide for businesspeople. Will Twitter integrate Search this week? Firefox: Friendbar Makes Twitter and Facebook Updates Easy in Fi.