Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising. Feb 3 Submitted by @melissas_cloud. Jan 31 Submitted by brandy gill. The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures. Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. This is not a trivial distinction. A decade ago, the ascent of the Web browser as the center of the computing world appeared inevitable. But there has always been an alternative path, one that saw the Web as a worthy tool but not the whole toolkit.
“Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. Who’s to Blame: Them Chaos isn’t a business model. Let’s Activate the Way Back Machine: The History of Twitter in Pictures. All thanks to the excessive media coverage and the influence of several notable celebrities, Twitter has emerged from a simple start-up that has less than 100 users to one of the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform on the world wide web with over 22 millions unique visitors from the United States in June.
Despite the fact that 60% of users quit after using a month, Twitter’s ever-reaching growth still continues on an upward trend. In this post, I’ve gathered information from various sources around the web such as the official Twitter blog and Wikipedia to present you guys The History of Twitter (March 21 2006 – Today). Let’s activate the way back machine!
Jack Dorsey first introduced the idea of a service that used SMS to tell small groups what an individual was doing, partly inspired by TXTMob to the other employees at Odeo, a podcasting company. Private Accounts were born. Twttr beta was launched to the public on July 15 2006, Evan Williams’ birthday. First Trojan Hits Android Phones. A local outbreak of a mobile trojan in Russia has shown us something new: The Android operating system might need an antivirus. The malware was detected by security firm Kaspersky, who confirmed the file is named "Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a" and is downloaded as a typical .APK Android app. The company stated this is the first known Android-specific trojan. The malware works by posing as a media player app. Once the app is installed on the mobile device, the trojan begins to send SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the device owner's knowledge.
Since the trojan's creators are usually the ones on the other end of those premium numbers, they end up profiting from the scam. This SMS-based type of malware is currently one of the most common forms of mobile viruses. Kaspersky Lab is currently working on Android-specific antivirus technologies; the company plans to release Kaspersky Mobile Security for Android early next year. [img credit: laihiu] Twitter Launching Official Tweet Buttons This Week [EXCLUSIVE] Twitter is launching an official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared, according to documents Mashable has obtained. The Tweet Button could launch as soon as this Thursday. We're still diving into the details, but from what we can tell, the Tweet Button is designed to be the most comprehensive counter of retweets and shares across Twitter's network. It is a single line of code that can be added to any website. There are three versions of the button (110x20, 55x20, 55x63) with five different settings for customization.
In fact, we have embedded the default Tweet Button below. The company that is most likely to be affected by this development is Tweetmeme, which powers most of the retweet buttons you see on websites and blogs across the web, including Mashable. Twitter could be directly competing with Tweetmeme, but we think it's unlikely that Twitter would just spring this product on the world without talking to Tweetmeme first. What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? Venn-r3. An Open Letter to all of Advertising and Marketing | THESCRAPBOOK. 5 Fab Twitter Follower Visualization Tools. We've brought you a few roundups of some pretty cool Twitter visualization tools in the past, and now we're back with five more for your Twitter-lovin' pleasure. The selection we've curated here concentrates on graphically presenting your followers, contacts and various snippets of information related to them.
If you're interested in seeing what your Twitter followers look like as a keyword cloud, on parade, or even on a mug, then have a look at the tools below and let us know your thoughts in the comments. 1. TwitterSheep This is a really simple, but super fun way to look at your Twitter followers. TwitterSheep generates a keyword cloud based on the text in your followers' bios. 2. 5k Twitter Browser Neuro Productions' Flash-based Twitter browser is a spacey way to "see" connections on Twitter, something that is nearly impossible on the site itself. 3. 4. 5.