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Whether you use WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger in order to get the most out of your blog it helps to have some tools by your side. Even just to manipulate images or upload files, some are downright essential to maintain a functioning blog. I’d be willing to be bet you use a few of these already but I hope to show you some new FREE software that could potentially make your life easier and your blog even better.
20 Extremely Useful Freeware Apps For Blogging - The Link Medic - Free Blogging Resources
After launching a new search feature yesterday, and rolling out a new interests-based homepage today, Twitter has been acting mightly strange for the past hour or so, with people reporting seeing random chunks of other user’s tweets in their timelines, including retweets while using the Twitter web client and browsing. Twitter is aware of the problem and tells me it’s not a security issue — and that it’s working on getting it resolved. The solution apparently involves disabling #NewTwitter, which has lead to retro jokes galore on where else, Twitter. As of yet there’s no word on when it’ll bring the redesigned site back. Maybe the should revert their name back to twttr while they’re at it?
Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else’s Timeline, Disables #NewTwitter To Fix
Twitter prepares for European expansion
Microblogging serviceTwitter is preparing to open its first office outside the United States, with company representatives meeting with London property agents last week, according to British newspaper The Telegraph . The San Francisco startup is already an international service in the sense that it has a growing user base outside the US . (That was a major reason Twitter struggled to deal with the heavy usage brought on by the World Cup .)If you think Twitter trends are all about tween pop sensations and low brow hashtagery, you're — well, you're mostly right. But not this week. Twitter once again showed its international breadth and taste for breaking news with the top topic of conversation being the release of Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest after what many reports claim has been nearly 15 of the last 20 years. Suu Kyi has opposed her country's ruling military junta, and her steadfastness has earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, among other recognitions from the international community. Her release was discussed and celebrated around the world, earning the number one spot on the trends chart this week. Other hot topics included the announcement of a royal wedding in the UK, and some contentious bouts in the world of boxing, a sport that rarely hits the trending charts on Twitter, but came in at number three this week.
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
The Biggest Brands on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
Facebook started out as a way for friends to connect and interact online. Yet, as the startup grew from a few thousand users at New England colleges to hundreds of millions around the world, it quickly became a place where businesses could interact more intimately with their customers. In the past few years, big brands have started taking social media seriously, and Facebook marketing is a big part of the plan for many companies. However, even big brands struggled to amass a Facebook following or extract value in the beginning. Coca-Cola, one of the world's most recognizable brands, for example, had 800 Facebook fans in November 2007. It has 16.5 million now.
Christian Arno is founder of Lingo24 , a global translation company specializing in website localization and optimization. Christian has more than nine years experience working with some of the world’s biggest global brands. Additional research and writing by Paul Sawers from Lingo24. All signs point toward an increasingly multilingual future for the web. It’s estimated that over a billion people will be using PCs in the so-called BRIC countries alone by 2015, and the opportunity is even greater when you factor more people accessing the web using mobile devices than computers in many emerging markets . It’s time businesses of all sizes embraced the foreign language Internet.
Why Your Business Must Embrace the Foreign Language Internet
71 Percent of Tweets Are Ignored
October 12, 2010 04:54pm EST Most Tweets are ignored. A study by market research company Sysomos reveals that 71 percent of tweets fall into the abyss, receiving no response at all. "When a tweet generates a reply (aka @) or a retweet (aka) RT, it suggests the tweet has resonated enough with someone that it sparks a conversation or encourages someone to share it with their followers," the company said on its Web site .
At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism
Evan Williams: “Twitter Will Get to a Billion Members”
Twitter Co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams shared the stage today in a rare joint appearance where they addressed criticism about Twitter's usefulness in activism, its impact on news and its overarching vision for the future. The co-founders participated in a lively fireside chat moderated by Businessweek's Brad Stone at a sold-out event for the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The conversation started with a discussion about whether Twitter has become mainstream. Evan started by asking what "going mainstream" exactly meant, but he did say that Twitter gains more new user signups every week than the entire population of his home state of Nebraska.
View Twitter Through Other People’s Eyes With TwtRoulette
Intrigued by the experience of viewing a friend’s Twitter timeline, angel investor Shervin Pishevar collaborated with 15 year-old iTunes Instant creator Stephen Ou to create Twtroulette.com after a week of work. With Twtroulette, users can now visit what industry notables like Mike Arrington , investor Brad Feld , and YouTube’s Hunter Walk see when they open Twitter i.e. what it’s like to follow the people they are following. People can also volunteer their own timelines by adding themselves to the directory. And, like Chatroulette, there’s a random function so one can shuffle through profiles if they’re feeling lucky. Twitter actually used to have this feature (called “With Friends” ) but took it away because relatively few people accessed it. Apparently some users still wanted to have the option to sneak peeks of what other Twitter users see — Pishevar describes his motivation behind the project;