The New Social Engagement: A Visit to Zappos This post is co-authored by Soren Gordhamer, author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected, and Paul Zelizer, author of Money Makeover 2.0: 5 Steps to Financial Well-being in Today's Economy. Most Mashable readers have probably heard of the online retail company, Zappos. You may have learned of them via Twitter and count yourself among the 400,000+ people that follow the CEO, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay but who people refer to as Tony), or from a friend after she had one of the best customer experiences in her life. No matter how you heard of them, we wager to guess that you did so through word-of-mouth. And word about Zappos has been spreading. . . . They did $3 million dollars in gross sales the day before our recent visit, and surpassed $1 billion last year.
PHP + Twitter + Google Calendar + SMS Working on a little side project, I wanted to be able to add an event to Google Calendar by text message like our American friends can using GVENT. I figured I could hook my Twitter account up to Google Calendar using their APIs. I tinkered with it for a couple of hours and it works! Background If you don’t know about Twitter, it’s a free service that allows you to share messages with your network of friends by a number of means, which includes via text messages sent to Twitter from your mobile phone. Twitter has this useful feature called direct messages.
Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers This post was originally published for Mozilla Hacks. One thing which has been very important when it comes to creating special end user experiences have been the ability to show something fullscreen, effectively hiding all the other content etc. Remember when web sites gave you instructions how to configure your web browser with hiding toolbars and more, just to get a slightly better user experience? Or maybe it’s just me… Either way, some time ago we got fullscreen support in web browsers where the user could choose to view the current web site in fullscreen.
Twitter passes Bebo and Linkedin while MySpace heads earthwards Though you may think that Twitter gets, oh, far too much attention, the reality is that this is something that is growing fast. Damn fast. So fast that it has recently left not only the New York Times but also Digg - remember Digg? - and social networks Bebo and LinkedIn in its rear-view mirror. Ally that to the falloff in page views at MySpace, which has fallen behind Facebook, and you start to get the sense of the guard changing. Facebook has no problems - quite the opposite - but the screengrabs above from Alexa show how things are changing, and not for the better in the case of MySpace. Software Training Tutorials - by Technology 1. Introduction to C#.NET About this Tutorial – Objectives – Delegates will learn to develop applications using C# 4.5. After completing this course, delegates will be able to: Use Visual Studio 2012 effectively Create commercial C# Web Applications Develop multi-threaded appli … Continue to Tutorial...
TwitterPacks wiki - Groups of Twitter users that you shou... Twitter Packs is a place to get a starting idea of who on Twitter posts about what. Come in, look around! Once we get all of this nasty spam taken care of you can add your name where it makes sense, and help out. Top Twitter Tools to Check Out in 2009 You have probably heard something about the new micro blogging platform, Twitter, and how Twitter has taken the online marketing world by storm. The phenomenon has even spawned a new lingo, with your new tweeps (followers) tweeting (making posts) you and discussing the state of the Twitterverse. While Twitter is pretty easy to use, there’s an overwhelming amount of Twitter tools, plug-ins and applications being developed to support it.
Edmodo is a Twitter for Education Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it's basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms. The Keys to the ClassromOne of the nice features is that students don't even need an email address to join the classroom. All they need is the special sign-up code that the teacher generates when they create the environment.
HOW TO: Go Back in Time, Twitter-style There seems to be an emergent meme (tweme?) going on with those who like to build apps on the back of status micro-blogging service Twitter: seeing the users’ first Tweets. Perhaps it’s a function of Twitter’s seeming maturity, or crossing over into the mainstream. s Blog: Need help managing your Twitter Karma? So, I finally let the cat out of the bag a few minutes ago and announced Twitter Karma publically. So, what is it? The other day, @StephAgresta said, “Twitter desperately needs page navigation on followers / following list. Also sort functionality by type (reciprocated or not) is a must.” I suggested a simple mashup that implements this and started hacking on it. Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools! Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter earlier. When we say fast, we "mean 140+ new tools" fast, and we probably missed some, too. You know what this means: now you have to arm yourself with dozens of shiny widgets you probably don't need, but you can't resist them anyway. Posting Enhancement