Socialomate Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites Silicon Valley, profils Twitter et googling Etes-vous présent sur Twitter ? Pour les personnes dont l'environnement web est important dans leurs rôles professionnels, la question se poserait moins, aujourd'hui, en 2011. Un moyen simple et direct de rechercher des profils Twitter via Google ? Voici quelques exemples (ci-dessous) avec la Silicon Valley. Nul besoin d'utiliser des outils tels que Twellow ou encore Tweepsearch pour piocher dans les bio, Google vous fournit ce que vous recherchez. Pourquoi s'intéresser aux profils Twitter aussi ? The Brutal Decline of Yahoo [Infographic] digg Infographic by scores.org and byJess.net Sources: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10, 11, 12 Add this infographic to your website for free! 600 pixel wide blog & news site friendly size :) <p><a href=" src=" border="0" alt="The Brutal Decline of Yahoo!" 697 pixel wide full-sized version <p><a href=" src=" border="0" alt="The Brutal Decline of Yahoo!" Have Feedback or Other Ideas?
HOW TO: Launch a Successful Twitter Contest Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter. Everyone loves a good contest, and Twitter is a valuable platform on which to run one. If your followers already like your brand, they’ll typically be willing to enter a contest in exchange for the chance to win your products, recognition or prizes. Launching, running and measuring a Twitter contest takes specific social media marketing skills. You’ll need a deep knowledge of contest laws in your state, as well as the right tools to measure participation, viral sharing, brand impact and bottom line sales resulting from the contest. If you want to launch a Twitter contest that boosts sales and brand recognition and helps your company reach specific social media marketing goals, there are a few proven strategies you can implement. Step One: Determine the Rules and Regulations Step Two: Iron Out the Details Step Three: Promote Your Contest
Technological singularity The technological singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity.[1] Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.[2] The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann. Proponents of the singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion",[5][6] where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, that might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human. Basic concepts Superintelligence Non-AI singularity Intelligence explosion Exponential growth Plausibility
How To: Get More Qualified Followers on Twitter One of the first questions I hear when I talk about Twitter is: "How can I get more Twitter followers?" At which point I shake my head, because the question I'd like to hear first is "What kind of people should I want to follow me on Twitter?" On Facebook, Twitter, or any social media site, the quality of engagement is more important than quantity of followers. However, the more qualified followers, the better. After all, you can write the most witty, useful, amazing tweets ever known to mankind, but if the right people aren't tuned in, what's the point? You shouldn't expect to join Twitter and have 1,000 potential clients or customers following you the next day, but there are some strategic ways to build a follower base on Twitter: 1. Before you start looking for followers, think about what you're trying to get out of Twitter, and what kind of followers you want. 2. 3. 4. Instead of tweeting updates from your life, which is probably relatively mundane (sorry), tweet about others. 5. 6.
7 YouTube Alternatives & Why They Make Sense YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. If you want to upload a video on the Internet, pretty much anyone will default to the web's standard. And why shouldn't they? YouTube has been the platform for viral sensations, from huge brands (Old Spice) to kid musicians (Justin Bieber). The wisdom: "Go where the people are." We picked out seven of those options with a brief breakdown of what it is, and why you should use it. 1. What it is: Online video with a strong slant toward webisodes, web series, and other serial content. Features: Supports most video formats and has 1 GB of storage per video. Why Blip.tv? 2. What it is: Vimeo is the artsy cousin of YouTube. Features: It comes with the standard suite, plus the ability to create and share videos to groups or channels. Why Vimeo? 3. What it is: Didn't see this one coming, right? Features: Basic users can upload two 90-second videos a month. Why Flickr? 4. What it is: On the flip side, Veoh lets you upload enormously long videos. Why Veoh? 5. Why Viddler? 6.
Quand Twitter dévoile d’où vous venez - Europe1.fr - Médias-Télé Du mondial au local, et vice-versa. Twitter, réseau social hyper international, aurait finalement pour effet de renforcer les dialectes régionaux, les expressions hyper locales, soutient le site , pour qui "tweeter, c’est dévoiler d’où l’on vient". Trahis par l'argot reprend, ainsi, une étude de la Carnegie Mellon University de Pittsburgh aux Etats-Unis. Autre exemple : quand les internautes parlent de sandwich sur le site de micro-blogging, ils utilisent le mot "hero", "sub" ou encore "hoagie", selon l’endroit où ils se trouvent. Les marques très intéressées par cette étude How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code - Technology The programming website Project Euler provides a plan for how to learn anything in fun, discrete steps When Colin Hughes was about eleven years old his parents brought home a rather strange toy. It wasn't colorful or cartoonish; it didn't seem to have any lasers or wheels or flashing lights; the box it came in was decorated, not with the bust of a supervillain or gleaming protagonist, but bulleted text and a picture of a QWERTY keyboard. It called itself the "ORIC-1 Micro Computer." The package included two cassette tapes, a few cords and a 130-page programming manual. On the whole it looked like a pretty crappy gift for a young boy. It's not hard to see why. In less than an hour, the ORIC-1 manual took you from printing the word "hello" to writing short programs in BASIC -- the Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -- that played digital music and drew wildly interesting pictures on the screen. No wonder Colin got hooked. More than all that, though, he learned how to teach.
50 of the Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general. 51% of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks. Twitter users frequently exchange information about products and services.” 71% of business users now say Twitter is a useful tool, up from 59% a year ago. So what are the best ways to use Twitter for business? Twitter Facts, Figures & Stats New Data on Twitter Usage Can Strengthen Your Twitter Outreach by Search Engine Guide The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS] by Mashable I Tweet Therefore I Am by Brian Solis