Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan. Twitter. Self-promotion: Where do you draw the line? - Teach42. Update: The email which I mention in this post was intended to have its address list BCC’d and hidden. Please bear this in mind when reading, and definitely read through the comments people have left. I’m a big fan of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. I think she does a fantastic job of generating conversation and I consider her to be an expert in community building. However, that being said, something she did recently kinda sorta rubbed me the wrong way and brought to my attention an issue that has been on my mind increasingly lately. We all want our online activities to be successful, and most often ‘success’ is defined by traffic (visitors/reads) and interaction (comments). In order to increase those numbers, it’s not unusual at all for people to do some level of self-promotion, which often includes promoting oneself on other social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
In fact, there are several plugins that have been created expressly for this purpose. I understand why the email was sent. » The Stupidest Guy in the Room of 140 Characters Life In The Fast Lane. This my response to Jen Wagner’s post on Friendship and 140 Characters Fascinating conversation. My reaction? OK, once again, I venture into the realm where people write sonnets and I am going to sound all – blah, bub-blah, bub-blah, me-too, bub-blah, me-too. How do I sort through all the thoughts posted, reconcile the conflicting themes in my heart and head, and tease from the conversation the nuggets of brilliance that resonate with me and mold them into coherent response? Here goes: 1) Sorting The Constant Flow. 2) People Like Me / The Stupidest Guy in the Room. In my pond, I am often seen (with respect to technology), as the “guru wizard” who reveals the “magic things” that happen inside the box and out on the web. 3) Twitter Manners / Friendship.
However after you are following somebody, and a bunch of folks are following you what is the correct behavior for tweeting? Should I then limit my tweets to educational matters? It is a curious mix in the twitterverse. It is a distraction. The Twitterization of Blogs. Most bloggers prefer mundane tidbits to deep thoughts, and backed by voice transcription and video sharing, the cell phone may soon be the tool of choice There are dozens of Weblogs that seemingly anyone who is anybody in the technology industry reads regularly. Lisa Hsu's blog isn't one of them. A doctoral student in computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Hsu occasionally pens a post about topics like "secure shell protocols," a software standard for protecting data on a computer network.
More often than not, however, she's just musing about mundane things that only her friends would care about: details of a trip to the dentist, random Web discoveries, or maybe a new movie. Hsu guesses that only five people tune in regularly, while occasional readers may number 25. But she's far from disappointed about not having the mass following of the blog TechCrunch. Hsu's not alone in blogging for her buds. Most bloggers wouldn't have it any other way. Say It with Video. Twittering for 1 Year - A Retrospective | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English. Twitter y el boom del microblogging. Lanzado por la statup californiana Obvious Corp. en octubre de 2006, Twitter comenzó a convertirse en el nuevo boom de la Web 2.0 en marzo de 2007 cuando obtuvo un Web Award en la categoría blog durante la conferencia South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals (SXSW) celebrada en Austin, Tejas.
Como suele ocurrir, para definir cada nuevo medio de comunicación y perfilar sus funciones, es necesario recurrir tanto a las metáforas (comenzando por el nombre: twitter significa gorjeo), como a los medios anteriores (Twitter es un aplicación web de microblogging, una mezcla de blogging con red social y mensajería instantánea). Ya se han hecho habituales en la web social las explicaciones simplificadas en tres pasos para presentar cada nuevo medio.
Las inauguró Blogger para explicar cómo poner en marcha un weblog (1. Crear una cuenta, 2. What are you doing? En lo que respecta a perfiles de usuarios, el mismo estudio señala tres categorías principales: The Personal Network Effect. The presumption in the design of most networks is that the value of the network increases with the number of nodes in the network. This is known as the Network Effect, a term that was coined by Robert Metcalfe, the founder of Ethernet. Image source It is therefore tempting to suggest that a similar sort of thing holds for members of the network, that the value of the network is increased the more connections a person has to the network. This isn't the case. Each connection produces value to the person. But the realtive utility of the connection - that is, its value compared to the value that has already ben received elsewhere - decreases after a certain point has been reached.
The reason for this is that value is derived from semantic relevance. Semantic relevance is the result of a combination of factors (which may vary with time and with the individual), according to whether the information is: new to the receiver (cf. For example, suppose someone tells you that the house is on fire. The Big Juicy Twitter Guide | Caroline Middlebrook. Twitter and the intermingling of our streams of consciousness : Rashmi Sinha’s weblog.
I looked at my Twitter webpage yesterday and it occurred to me that I was seeing the streams of consciousness for several of my friends mixed together. Its somewhat strange, because a stream of concsiousness is such a personal thing. But inhibitions have droppped sufficiently, and technology has made it sufficiently easy that people post short updates about whatever is happening with them. And I do mean “whatever”. One person might be partying while the other is deciding what to eat and a third person is simply bored. And Twitter presents it as a linear stream organized by time. It makes some sense when one is in the same place: e.g., at SXSW it was often activities related to SXSW. I have just been using Twitter for about 5 days now, so its too early to say more. Like this: Like Loading... Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful?
The Next Email - Twitter - Jaiku - Pownce. Mobile Technology in TAFE » Blog Archive » Is Twitter shifting blogging to a new phase? 1. twittervision, 2. Twitter Meta Moo! Too far? , 3. Twitter via Blackberry, 4. While going through my comments history of my blog to select old time readers for Day 6: Email an old Timer reader of the Blogging Challenge I realised that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are shifting the nature of blogging to a whole new phase.
This means I communicate with many of them, in some form, on a daily basis so to actually email an old time reader and thank them is ……? I asked the Twitterers their thoughts on if blogging shifting to a new phase Here are comments by different people: How it has impact on me Twitter and Facebook has created more connection with my readers and subscribers to my podcast but in doing so I feel that I have become less inclined to comment on their really good posts.
Here is my explanation of why I am: What are your thoughts? BTW in case you are wondering if I have failed the Blogging challenge task – nope – have emailed a few old timer readers. Twitter Collaboration Stories. Injenuity. Becoming ‘digitally literate’ via Twitter in the 1:1 classroom at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk. Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom : Apace of Change. What makes Twitters Tweet? Ok, yes, I admit: I finally joined the Twitter fever, and I am in fact enjoying it. All for higher research purposes only, of course. Ahem. Anyway, in this post I'd like to share with you some of my first findings/impressions about being a (still newbie! :) ) Twit. So, as you probably know by now, Twitter is a simple web sites that keeps asking you and everyone else one simple question: What are you doing? And yes, people from all over the world answer this same question (in 140 characters or less) several times a day, and read answers their friends, acquaintances, or strangers (it's the Internet after all!)
Here are some of my ideas of why Twitter works. But of course, these "Tweet topics" were constrained to a certain web place - the forum - and people get restless if they are limited to one, same old, same old place. Speaking of differences between Twitter and IM: people often ask why is Twitter different/better than IM? What the Tweet? “So let me get this straight…you’re just letting people know what you’re doing when you do this?”
“Right.” “And you call it ‘Tweeting’?” “Well, uh, yeah. It’s kinda like a bird letting you know where he’s at, I guess.” “And you do this how often.” “Depends. Maybe 4, 5…10 times a day. “Like how much time?” “Dunno…maybe 10-15 minutes, total.” “And all you’re doing is letting your friends know what you’re doing, right? “Right. “And they let you know what they’re doing.” “Even people you don’t know.” “Right” “Why?” “Dunno.” “Like that guy teachanlearn is ‘Reading RSS’ and he wants you to know that?” “Um, I guess. “Well, where does that go?” “Dunno…let’s find out…it’s a blog post about a new WordPress theme.” “And he felt the need to ‘tweet’ that?” “Apparently.” “Uh-huh.” “I know. “You know all these people…how many?” “Twenty-eight right now. “The network.” “Right.
“Right. “Um, 209 right now.” “209! “I guess so, though I can’t imagine why.” “But you only follow 28.” “Does that upset them?” “Who?” “I dunno. “Um…no. Twitter: another look. A while back, I posted on Twitter and how I didn't "get" it. In short order, I got several comments advising me to stick with it and telling me that the secret lay in the matter of friends. So I have stuck with it and I have made some friends (only now the terminology has changed, so I'm following people and little over half of them follow me in return). I began to see a few benefits and encouraged my colleague Mark Berthelemy to sign up. His immediate reaction was about as negative as mine had been. I have been reflecting on these because I will need to write about my Twitter experiences for my dissertation.
Picking up useful pointersMany of the twits will include links to interesting things they have seen or read online. Getting me thinkingSome of the conversations that take place stimulate my thought processes, resulting in material added to my MA submissions or this blog. Choosing whom to followSome of the folks I have encountered follow literally thousands of people. EID : Webcreatividad. ELI7027.pdf (application/pdf Object) Twitter Me This. Twitter.....Tito Puente, albóndigas en salsa y ... geekada sin igual? Estos son de esos post que no salen nunca del borrador...así que tenéis a continuación los distintos pasos por donde fué circulando.... (13-04-07)Llevo mucho tiempo resistiéndome a escribir sobre Twitter (de hecho este post es de hace casi cinco meses que está en la cocina del borrador -eraser- blogspot), la última moda geek y no tan geek del momento, pero hoy no he podido resistir más....También me he resistido a inscribirme, pero el otro día no pude más.
En principio, todo me sonaba a otra "geekada" más (me matarán... pero como decía el otro, nos matarán, nos matarán a todos,) pero no...ni siquiera sé si es peor. En fin, como casi siempre que escribo algo en lo que aporto mi visión personal, mi habitual desbarre me impide continuar escribiendo sobre lo que en principio me motivó escribir, voy yendo de un lugar a otro...sin saber dónde voy a terminar. Para contextualizar el post valga lo siguiente: What You And Your Friends Are Doing tags: e-learning , aprendizaje , web2.0 , social software. TwitterMail.com - 492 people sent 1675 messages to Twitter! Christopher D. Sessums :: Weblog :: Twitter Me This: Brainstorming Potential Educational Uses for Twitter. Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li's Blog): What Twitter is good for.
By Charlene Li Twitter has been hailed as "a total waste of time" to "the next generation IM". The site allows users to easily and frequently update what they are doing, through a Web browser, IM, or text message. It's been quite the buzz among early adopters -- Hitwise has some data on Twitter's growth. Robert Scoble calls it "blogging mated with IM" and is a frequent user. I've set up an account too, but I find it darn hard to remember to Twitter (I've set it up to nudge me every 24 hours, but I usually ignore it, my bad). And Mat Balez has a great post on why he thinks Twitter will be dead before the end of the year. Here's our take: Twitter is going to be overused, overload people, who will then get turned off. TweetVolume : Home. Daniel Dura » TwitterCamp.
Update: As of November 24, 2008: TwitterCamp has been updated. The latest version now uses the Twitter search API, so users no longer need to authenticate or follow the target user to see their messages on the screen. Also, I added a configuration panel so that you could easily re-skin the application without having to recompile or modify configuration files. Please use the instructions below to install the application or to download the source visit TwitterCamp is a desktop application that allows you to monitor tweets from your friends using the popular Twitter service. The application was built for the ApolloCamp mini-conference and uses the Adobe AIR runtime and Twitter Search API. The application is especially suited for running on large displays such as plasmas, LCDs, and projectors at conferences.
It is simple to customize the interface so that you can use the application for your conference. Requirements Installation Usage Customization. Twitter Is Jabber ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes. Research, Promote And Monetize Your Online Writing: A Blogger's Guide To Twitter - Robin Good's Latest News. Twitter mediated co-presentation at StigmergicWeb. Technology Review: Is Twitter Here to Stay? Last week I wrote about Jott, a useful tool for capturing thoughts that occur to you when you’re away from your computer and unable to write them down. You call Jott’s toll-free number from your cell phone and leave a brief voice message; workers at an Indian call center transcribe your message into text and e-mail it to you or to specified friends or coworkers. Jott made its first big splash at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, in early March, and it has already gained thousands of enthusiastic users, who “jott” everything from shopping lists to song lyrics.
But in the competition for consumer and media buzz, Jott has been up against another free service that also uses cell phones and the Internet to capture moments in time, this one with a social twist. It’s Twitter, which essentially turns the one-to-one channels of instant messaging and phone-based SMS text messaging into broadcast media. Twitter: ¿chorrada soberana o killer app? Leo en Smart Mobs una entrada acerca de si Twitter está aquí para quedarse, que cita además un artículo en MIT Technology Review sobre el mismo tema, y pienso: ¡qué demonios! Después de veinte días de uso intenso de Twitter, de convertirme involuntariamente nada menos que en el tercer usuario de habla hispana con mayor número de followers, y de leer las opiniones de cuarenta y tantos bien seleccionados y entrenados MBAs de todas partes del mundo a los que examiné con un minicaso escrito por mí referente a este servicio, ya va siendo hora de que me pronuncie acerca de si creo que esto de Twitter es una soberana chorrada o, por el contrario, hablamos de la próxima killer application.
Si será una supernova explosiva que brillará un instante para después desaparecer, o si efectivamente está aquí para quedarse. Y mi opinión es que si no lo estropean de alguna manera en la ejecución, el servicio no sólo está aquí para quedarse, sino que además se popularizará seguramente muchísimo. ¿Razones? Software : Twitterrific. Ludicrous › Firefox Search Plugin: Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar! A Twittering Hypocrite. MadTwitter — Twitter for Windows — Main page. Power Twitter: metti il turbo al tuo Twitter. Blog Archive » Twitter, la aplicación de moda en la blogosfera. Update on the <a href=" Experiment.