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Video: Twitter, a New Google?Original at YouTube
• Tue, Mar 10
By rss@youtube.com (Newsydotcom) Author: Newsydotcom Keywords: Twitter Google micro-blogging search engine Added: March 10, 2009
Video: What is Twitter?Original at YouTube
• Thu, Feb 12
By rss@youtube.com (TruthFN) CNBC asks What is Twitter? Will it become more popular than Facebook? Get 15,625 new Twitter followers in 30 days http://tweetergetter.com/truthfn Author: TruthFN Keywords: twitter twit tweet facebook twitdeck twiter techcrunch technology web 2.0 truthfn gold silver
Video: Make Money with Twitter OnlineOriginal at livevideo
• Wed, Jan 14
http://twitter.com/matthewloopMake money with Twitter and other Web 2.0 social media platforms.http://mlmcrusher.comtraffic secret mlm goldmine ... www.livevideo.com
Video: Steve Louie (@watfordgap) at nfptweetupOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Nov 25
By rss@youtube.com (HowardLake) Steve Louie (@watfordgap on Twitter) shares his thoughts on Twitter at the UK's first nfptweetup for charity sector people using Twitter and keen to share ideas. (London, 24 November 2008) Author: HowardLake Keywords: watfordgap twitter nfptweetup charity fundraising social media
Video: LIVE MOR Vacations Presentation (Part 1)Original at Google Video
• Thu, Oct 30
5 min - 2008-10-30 http://www.HavingFunVacations.com Old School or New School? MOR Vacations Mastery team does it ALL. We team, SEO, Adworld, Web 2.0, Twitter and all the tools you need to be successful with MOR Vacations
Video: Twitter Chiropractic Marketing (Part II)Original at Google Video
• Sun, Oct 12
8 min - 2008-10-13 http://Twitter.com/MatthewLoop Part II - How to get targeted New Patients from Twitter using the newest, cutting-edge Chiropractic Marketing. Social media / Web 2.0 is the future for chiropractors.
Video: Make Money with Twitter OnlineOriginal at Google Video
• Mon, Sep 22
3 min - 2008-09-22 http://twitter.com/matthewloop Make money with Twitter and other Web 2.0 social media platforms. http://mlmcrusher.com traffic secret mlm goldmine make money online matthew loop video marketing
Video: MLM Training. Learn To Use Web 2.0(Social Media)EffectivelyOriginal at Google Video
• Fri, Sep 5
2 min - 2008-09-05 http://www.socialmediawithjoe.com Social Media Web 2.0 Marketing can be confusing and frustrating. It is fun and profitable when used effectively. FREE Training for Twitter. Utterz, Youtube, Facebook.
Video: Network Marketing Leads Generation with TwitterOriginal at Google Video
• Sun, Aug 17
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http://Twitter.com/DiyanaAlcheva http://DidiAlcheva.com http://NetworkMarketingSmart.com If you are in the network marketing business and you are using internet "attraction" marketing strategies then you know the importance of building an audience of followers. In the Interne...
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Video: Network Marketing Leads Generation with TwitterOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Aug 4
• 5 related articles
By rss@youtube.com (DiyanaAlcheva) http://Twitter.com/DiyanaAlcheva http://DidiAlcheva.com http://NetworkMarketingSmart.com If you are in the network marketing business and you are using internet "attraction" marketing strategies then you know the importance of building an audience of followers. In the Interne...
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Video: IST 195 Project 2 Web 2.0 ReviewOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Mar 24
By rss@youtube.com (0kamikaze0) Review on the site Twitter Author: 0kamikaze0 Keywords: メディア Added: March 24, 2008
Three Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
By Dana Oshiro Posterous: Posterous is the original email publishing microblog. Users can email posts, publish them via the web editor or upload them from the PicPosterous iPhone app. The service allows users to set up auto posting to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, Blogge...
HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday DealsOriginal at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Susan Payton Blogs and Websites Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: black friday, deals, List, Lists, shopping Blogs and Websites Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto
Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution
Original at TechCrunch
• Fri, Nov 20
Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that's not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a 'WordPres...
Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerryOriginal at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Barb Dybwad As compared to the current leader on the Android platform, Twidroid, Seesmic compares quite favorably to the free version. The app display is high-definition (the first high-def Twitter client on the platform, according to Loic Lemur, CEO and founder of Seesmic) which makes it more vis...
Listen to ‘World’s First Twitter Album’
Original at Wired
• Fri, Nov 20
By Eliot Van Buskirk SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era Musebin: Twitter-Style Music Reviews with Reddit-Style Ratings Unpronounceable Search Engine Plumbs Twitter for Tunes7 Ways to See the World Through Twitter’s Eyes
3 Creative Ways SMBs Can Use Social Media for Holiday Discounts
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Jennifer Van Grove 2. Facebook Freebies Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: business, Holiday, List, Lists, small business 2. Facebook Freebies 3. Social Media Sharing HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iStockphoto
New Moon Reviews: What Twitter Thinks [CHART]
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Christina Warren 41% can’t wait to see it 24% loved it 10% expected more It will be interesting to see if these figures line-up with overall fan reactions or if this is any sort of indication as to how well the film will do this weekend as a whole (aka – “The Twitter Effect“)
Twitter: “Really Cool” Ads and Commercial Accounts Coming Soon
Original at GigaOM
• Fri, Nov 20
By Liz Gannes Achieving the seemingly impossible task of building up more hype about Twitter’s business model, Costolo promised Twitter’s advertising will be “fascinating,” “non-traditional” and “really cool.” Some partners already pay Twitter to use certain parts of its APIs, he added, though...
Mac Twitter Client Socialite Adds Twitter List Support
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Christina Warren Reviews: Brizzly, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google Reader, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter Tags: realmac, Socialite, twitter, Twitter Lists Reviews: Brizzly, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google Reader, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter
Infoaxe’s Search Engine: More Current Than Real Time
Original at GigaOM
• Fri, Nov 20
By Liz Gannes Updated: Infoaxe is revealing to the world today its alter ego: a search engine. Unlike other real-time search engines such as OneRiot, Infoaxe doesn’t depend on Twitter streams and the like (Update: OneRiot emailed to note that it also uses a panel in addition to social sharing streams)....
Sponsor Post: Build a Better Personal Brand With Your Own Domain
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
The concept of personal branding online has become a part of many conversations about social media and social networking recently. The popularity of social sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and various smaller niche sites has continued to skyrocket, offering individuals a cha...
#openwebawards: The Full List of Finalists
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Pete Cashmore Social Media Ad Campaign Social Media Agency Social Media Gadget Facebook Specific Best Facebook App Best Facebook Fan Page Best Facebook Game Twitter Google Maps Best Social Network iPhone App Facebook YouTube Video of the Year Twitter Specific Best Twitter App
Yahoo! wants in on Twitter: No money involved
Original at BloggingStocks
• Thu, Nov 19
By Tom Johansmeyer Yahoo! (YHOO) is the latest company that wants to optimize its search results for Twitter. This follows moves by Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) to integrate Twitter data into their search results. Unlike its competitors, however, Yahoo! wants to do this without spending a dime (well...
Facebook, Twitter open new doors
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Thu, Nov 19
MONMOUTH – Internet tools such as Facebook and Twitter have created a type of instantaneous, in-the-moment communication "we didn't know we needed," said Bryn Lawrence Monmouth College's Coordinator of Web services.
Twitter Launches in French
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jennifer Van Grove Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French. Here’s a translated version of what Twitter wrote of today’s news: Reviews: Twitter
Location, Location, Location: SimpleGeo, Twitter, FlookOriginal at GigaOM
• Thu, Nov 19
By Liz Gannes While Boulder, Colo.-based SimpleGeo may have moved quickly in its short life, big social sites aren’t necessarily waiting for little startups to come fill their location-based needs. Today Twitter launched a geotagging API, at first only available as an opt-in feature for outside app...
Twitter Founder to Murdoch: Blocking Google Will Fail Fast
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Barb Dybwad Speaking at an event in London earlier today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed Rupert Murdoch’s plan to wall off his sites and prevent Google from indexing News Corp’s online properties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he characterized the plan as a bad idea, saying that the speed of cha...
Oprah Ends Talk Show: Twitter Erupts with 8,000 Tweets Per Hour
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jennifer Van Grove As you may have heard, Oprah is scheduled to announce during tomorrow’s show that she will end her talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in September 2011 to focus on her upcoming cable channel. The news came out earlier in the afternoon and it’s now spreading through Twitter at an astonishi...
Twitter API Gets Geotagging; Web Geotagging Coming Soon?
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jolie O'Dell Earlier this spring, Twitter announced it would soon be adding location-based information to tweets. The added information provides valuable context when reading your friends tweets and allows you to better focus in on local conversations," writes Twitter platform/API man Ryan Sar...
Now You Can Tell Twitter Where You Are
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Barb Dybwad Along with enabling the geolocation support, Twitter tweaked its privacy policy to explicitly include geotagging and to remind users that what they post to Twitter is (unless protected) public in nature. In a world where tweeting can get you robbed or sued, it’s a not superfluous remind...
Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Thu, Nov 19
Free Software Magazine: "I was intrigued by Raindrop and having used other Mozilla lab experimental software I was determined to see what all the hype was about. If you like the idea of combining a tool for aggregating Twitter, e-mail, RSS and other social Web 2.0 stuff with free and open sta...
Retweet This: Twitter Retweets Now Live For Everyone
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Twitter Tags: retweet, trending, twitter Sandwiched in between monumental feature releases like Twitter Lists and the geolocation API has been Twitter’s most controversial feature yet: native support of retweets. Reviews: Twitter
Foursquare Goes Global With Launch in 50 New Cities
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jennifer Van Grove See Also: Next year’s Twitter? It’s Foursquare (Pete Cashmore for CNN) See Also: Next year’s Twitter? It’s Foursquare (Pete Cashmore for CNN) Tampa, FL EUROPE AFRICA ASIA Reviews: Australia, Foursquare, Mashable, Twitter, iStockphoto
Twitter Drops “What are You Doing?” Now Asks “What’s Happening?”
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Barb Dybwad The change acknowledges that Twitter has grown far beyond the more personal status updates it was originally envisioned to convey, and has morphed into a sort of always-on, source-agnostic information network that is wholly unique. Twitter says they don’t expect the change to at all in...
The Twitter of 2010: Foursquare as Next Year’s Breakout Hit
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Pete Cashmore The web’s evolution is wildly unpredictable, but occasionally a startup shows such strong early promise that we wouldn’t dare to bet against it. That’s certainly true of Foursquare, the mobile social networking service with eerie parallels to the rise of Twitter.
Jalen Rose’s Fab 5: Athletes Who Would Have Been Social Media Mavens
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jalen Rose Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, SEX, Twitter, ustream Tags: fab five, jalen rose, List, Lists, social media, sports Images via Walter Huang on Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons. Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, SEX, Twitter, ustream Tags: fab five, jalen rose, List, Lists, social media, sports
Twitter Fever! Yahoo Search Adds Twitter News Content
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Ben Parr It seems like every search engine has gone gaga for Twitter. Last month, Microsoft’s Bing inked a search deal with Twitter to integrate tweets into search results. Only a few hours later, Google shot back with its own search deal and announced Social Search as the cherry on top.
What to read on the GigaOM network
Original at GigaOM
• Thu, Nov 19
By Edit Staff What does a user cost? (OStatic) It’s not about the gadget — it’s what you do with it (jkOnTheRun) Cut the drama: private APIs, the App Store & you (TheAppleBlog) Flip cameras to get Wi-Fi (NewTeeVee) Seesmic for Windows: an AIR-less Twitter client (WebWorkerDaily) John Doerr: Had w...
Create social media guidelines to engage your customer
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Thu, Nov 19
The new frontier of Web 2.0 is not just about informing your customers; it’s about communicating with them. Today’s Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the many other social media options, are all about customer engagement.
MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alternative to Sharepoint and Salesforce.com?
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, Nov 19
By Alex Williams Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch Cloud is meant for a business community to create their own dashboa...
Top 10 US Cities Where Twitter is Mentioned in Craigslist Jobs
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Nov 18
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Employers all around the world are wrestling with whether employees should be able to access Facebook and Twitter at work - but some businesses are explicitly requiring that job applicants feel comfortable using Twitter. Mentions of Twitter in Craigslist Job Postings November 1st-18...
Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs Oh My!
Original at Articles From WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
• Wed, Nov 18
The morning of December 4th is a breakfast not to be missed with the Utah Technology Council (UTC), (www.utahtech.org) Utah’s premier professional organization. This year’s PR event focuses on social media marketing tips for growing a business. “It’s not enough anymore to simply know abo...
Another Powerful Use of Social Media and Twitter
Original at Articles From WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
• Wed, Nov 18
Another powerful use of social media and Twitter. LeapFish has teamed up with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to empower Twitter users with the ability to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland. A Tweet-A-Cause that just hit the wires and is beginning to climb through the Twitosphere. Ja...
Expert Labs: Blogging Pioneer Anil Dash's Tech Incubator for the .Gov
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Wed, Nov 18
• 2 related articles
During his presentation today at the Web 2.0 conference, Six Apart cofounder Anil Dash showed a before-they-were-famous photo that included the founders of Twitter, Flickr, and other well-known startups. They've learned plenty of lessons as Web 2.0 companies, he said. "What if we could b...
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The Battle for Tweet Dashboard Supremacy: Brizzly versus Br.st
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Nov 17
By Dana Oshiro In late August Br.st was nothing more than a URL shortener service with link stats and malware filters. While the company allowed users to cross post to social networks like Twitter, Myspace and Digg, it was simply too late to the space to be considered a contender. As of today the caterpillar...
TypePad Makes Blogging Easier and More Connected Than Ever With New Social Features and Free Microblogging
Original at Articles From WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
• Tue, Nov 17
A new form of blogging is emerging -- somewhere between the status updates of Facebook and Twitter and the full-length posts of classic blogs -- focused on being easy, fun, and connected. TypePad Micro is built for this growing form of blogging, making it easy for people to curate compelli...
Web 2.0 Expo LIVE On Twitter
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Tue, Nov 17
Watch the Web 2.0 Expo live through our curated Twitter lists. Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com !
Watch out, TwitPic: MMS to Twitter now in U.K.
Original at CNET News.com
• Tue, Nov 17
Orange UK subscribers can now upload pictures from their mobile phones to Twitter through MMS. That could deal a blow to third-party Twitter picture sites.
Watch out, TwitPic: MMS to Twitter now in U.K.
Original at Webware.com
• Tue, Nov 17
By Don Reisinger Orange UK subscribers can now upload pictures from their mobile phones to Twitter through MMS. That could deal a blow to third-party Twitter picture sites.
Factery Labs Makes Other Search Engines Look Incomplete
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Nov 17
By Marshall Kirkpatrick The company's test demo searches Twitter and Yahoo Boss - neither search is as exciting as I'd hoped 100% of the time, but it's often remarkably good. Factery is also testing an interesting integration with Silverlight stream reader Sobees, in which linked pages from Twitter or Facebook...
Unfriending: Are People Online Shedding Friends? (Debate)
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Nov 16
By Marshall Kirkpatrick I think that's an odd choice for word of the year, as all the trends indicate there has been more social networking activity this past year - not less, as 'unfriend' implies. Facebook and Twitter have both rocketed in popularity in 2009. I'd suggest that more people have left MySpace and migr...
Twitter to abandon 'politically biased' suggested user list
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Mon, Nov 16
Twitter reportedly will be abandoning its suggested user list following some unfavorable attention it received last month. When a new user signs up on Twitter, the site offers him a long list of suggested users he may be interested in following.
Twitter To Drop ‘Suggested Users’ List
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Mon, Nov 16
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on Monday announced the company’s plans to follow through with eliminating the “suggested users” list from its microblogging Web site."That list will be going away," Stone told reporters during a young entrepreneurs meeting in Malaysia."In its stead will...
Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck a Distant Second
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Nov 16
By Frederic Lardinois Compared to Sysomos' last study of Twitter clients in June, Twitter.com's share fell from 55% to 46%. As Twitter's growth is slowing down, then these numbers make a lot of sense. New users tend to use Twitter's web interface at first and then migrate to a third-party client. If Twitter.com's ma...
BigOven Bakes Recipes in the CloudOriginal at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Mon, Nov 16
By Adam DuVander Murch anticipates developers taking advantage of the content to create new cooking applications for Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices as well as new food-related mashups with Twitter and Facebook. Murch also sees the content possibly being used to develop appli...
Twitter Definitely Ditching "Suggested Users List"
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Nov 16
By Sarah Perez For a service favored by marketers, businesses, and other self-promoters, placement on the SUL was a surefire ticket to Twitter stardom. New followers meant more traffic to the websites linked in the Twitter updates and more traffic meant more money could be made through on-site advert...
Obama: "I Have Never Used Twitter"
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sun, Nov 15
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Got that? The President went to China, was asked about Twitter and it was streamed live on his Facebook page. How the world has changed. Sponsor He's never used Twitter! Shocking, given that his account with 2.6 million followers has even been "verified" by Twitter headquarters!
Cartoon: Social Media Aliens
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sun, Nov 15
By Rob Cottingham But others aren't nearly as welcoming. And if you're working for such an organization, you've probably felt a little like a space alien when you try to advance even the most modest of social media projects: "See, if we had a Twitter feed, then we could monitor customer service issues and res...
19 API Used in 7 Days: Google, Gov 2.0, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Wikipedia
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Sat, Nov 14
By John Musser Facebook used in Facebook Friends Map Google AdSense used in Turkish Earthquakes Google AJAX Libraries used in Turkish Earthquakes Google Ajax Search used in Transmission News Google Maps Flash used in Lobbyist Activity Tracker Wikipedia used in Transmission News
Twitter valuation off by half: NeXt Up Research
Original at BloggingStocks
• Sat, Nov 14
By Tom Johansmeyer Michael Moe knows how to make headlines: Talk about Twitter and predictably people will bite (I'm proof of that). He led the team at NeXt Up Research that calculated the value of the micro blogging service and arrived at $526 million to $674 million -- half what Twitter is generally believe...
@comcastcares Dishes on His Top Twitter Apps
Original at GigaOM
• Fri, Nov 13
By Stacey Higginbotham Since he’s such a Twitter power user, I asked him what his favorite applications for the micromessaging site were. He said the original Twitter web site is his favorite, but he’s also a fan of Simply Tweet on his iPhone because he likes the push notifications. PeopleBrowsr, an app that helps...
Twitter Data Dump: InfoChimp Puts 1B Connections Up For Sale
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Nov 11
By Marshall Kirkpatrick We asked technology journalist Robert Scoble what he thought of the dilemma and his opinion was pretty clear. "If Twitter wants to be a platform they have to behave like a platform," he said. "Don't be King-makers, let the marketplace choose the winners. If they are going to say nobody should...
Is Infochimps’ Aggregated Data a Boon to Researchers or a Privacy Nightmare?
Original at GigaOM
• Wed, Nov 11
By Jordan Golson At the end of last year, Infochimps posted a heftier version of its scrape of Twitter, which was taken down at the behest of the micro-messaging site over user privacy concerns. By releasing curated, anonymized chunks of data, the company may avoid most of the user privacy concerns that a...
Palo Alto Networks: Twitter Usage Soars in the Enterprise
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Nov 10
By Alex Williams In face of a report like this, it makes sense that Enterprise 2.0 technologies would be a fit for companies. Employees understand how social technologies function. Collaborative applications make sense for getting the work done. Sponsor
Web 2.0 should still prove its worth among I.T. professionals
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Tue, Nov 10
The question whether social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Twitter, YouTube and others are really here to stay or are they simply a fad? To ordinary users, social networking sites are a big hit, but how about to professionals - more specifically the I.T. profession...
How Much is Twitter Worth? Less Than You Think
Original at GigaOM
• Tue, Nov 10
By Om Malik Nevertheless, the report points out that Twitter has a special appeal for marketers. Twitter can share in the revenues generated by big brands. There are some other tidbits in the report about Twitter that might be of some interest to you.
WiFi Body Scale Auto-Tweets Each Time You Step On ItOriginal at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Jennifer Van Grove Here’s an older video demonstration of how the scale works to track your progress over time online: Reviews: Twitter Tags: auto-tweet, twitter, wifi body scale Here’s an older video demonstration of how the scale works to track your progress over time online: Reviews: Twitter
Who’s Your Favorite Twitter User of 2009? #openwebawards
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Stan Schroeder Reviews: Brizzly, Digsby, Echofon, Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, MySpace, Power Twitter, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitpic, Twitter, tweetie Tags: open web awards, owa, twitter, twitter apps, twitter users Twitter User of the Year Best Twitter App Power Twitter Twitter Karma
How Social Media is Taking the News Local
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Leah Betancourt Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: journalism, local blogs, local news, media, social media More social media resources from Mashable: Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: journalism, local blogs, local news, media, social media
New Twitter API to Include Location-Based Trends
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Tue, Nov 10
By Andres Ferrate The marriage between geographic context and real-time communication continues, as Twitter has indicated that its new “Trends API” will support queries for trends in a particular location. According to Raffi Krikorian of the Twitter Platform Team: Hat tip TechCrunch].
Enterprise Twitter Use: 250% Growth in 6 Months [STUDY]
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, aim, iStockphoto Whether you’re working on Twitter and Facebook related initiatives, or avoiding work with the same social media sites, one thing remains certain: social media has infiltrated the workplace.
Elf Yourself Returns for 2009 With Easy Twitter and Facebook Sharing
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Christina Warren You can now tweet a link to your Elfish-creations on Twitter, post them to your Facebook wall, or e-mail or embed the videos onto your own website. You can also sign-in with Facebook Connect and use your Facebook photos in the “Elfing” process. Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, twitter
Taptu: Real-Time Social Search On Your Mobile
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Google, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: mobile search, OneRiot, taptu Taptu, which already focuses on mobile-friendly search with their iPhone app and mobile interface, has just announced a partnership with real-time search engine OneRiot.
40% of People "Friend" Brands on Facebook
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Nov 10
By Richard MacManus Another illuminating statistic is the number of people who now get their news from Twitter and Facebook. While nearly 80% of respondents still access "traditional news web sites," 33% get news from Facebook and 19.5% from Twitter. Only 27.3% get news from "alternative news web sites" - by wh...
Docs Faceoff: Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Ben Parr Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome Twitter vs. Facebook Reviews: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Docs, Mashable, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad, WordPress
Twitter and LinkedIn Status Updates Are Now SyncedOriginal at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Ben Parr Now there’s a new Twitter partnership launching tonight. This one is between Twitter and LinkedIn, the popular business social network. Starting tonight and tomorrow morning, users of both services can sync their status updates. Yes, you can tweet from Twitter and it will update your Lin...
From Twitter to TV: Sh*t My Dad Says Gets CBS Deal
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Barb Dybwad Joining a growing list of social media memes turned mainstream media deals is the hilarious Twitter serial Shit My Dad Says, that we recently featured as one of the ten funniest Twitter accounts around. Joining a growing list of social media memes turned mainstream media deals is the hila...
TWITTER SACKED: Larry Johnson Released by Chiefs After Inflammatory Tweets
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Adam Ostrow Johnson isn’t the first person to lose a job over his actions on social media sites, but he would certainly seem to be the most prominent. Hopefully, the news doesn’t lead other players who are using the medium in effective ways to reconsider.
7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Sharlyn Lauby Reviews: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter Tags: business, linkedin, Lists, trending 5 Advanced Social Media Marketing Strategies for Small Business 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business Reviews: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
Twitter and Penguins: How the San Francisco Zoo Uses Twitter [VIDEO]Original at Mashable!
• Sun, Nov 8
By Ben Parr Here’s Anthony’s explanation of how the zoo uses Twitter. Enjoy! Reviews: Twitter Tags: penguin, San Francisco Zoo, San Francisco-San Jose, twitter, zoo Here’s Anthony’s explanation of how the zoo uses Twitter. Enjoy! Reviews: Twitter
Google Wave: Better than Twitter for Conference Chatter?
Original at Mashable!
• Sun, Nov 8
• 1 related articles
By Pete Cashmore Google Wave debuted in a whirlwind of buzz and expectation, and yet few of us have managed to make it part of our workflow. What is Google Wave good for anyway? Those use cases are still emerging, it seems. Reviews: Google Wave, Twitter
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New Twitter features suggest ad-based financial future
Original at BloggingStocks
• Sun, Nov 8
By Tom Johansmeyer The Twitter ecosystem may be changing constantly, but most of that comes on the back of individual developers and outside companies. They beat on Twitter APIs to create new products that may win them glory, recognition or cash. Over the past month, though, Twitter itself has gotten into th...
The 10 Biggest Social Media Stories This Week
Original at Mashable!
• Sat, Nov 7
By Pete Cashmore Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Google, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: social media 7. The Top Internet Memes of 2009 – What were the top Internet memes of the year? We look back at a year in Internet culture. Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Google, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto
#OpenWebAwards: 300,000+ Nominations, One Week Left!
Original at Mashable!
• Sat, Nov 7
By Pete Cashmore The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications. Reviews: Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, Twitter
The Top 10 Facebook Apps [Poll Results]
Original at Mashable!
• Sat, Nov 7
By Barb Dybwad 4. Twitter Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iStockphoto, pet society Tags: facebook, facebook apps, facebook platform, poll, social gaming Top 10 Mashable Reader Facebook Apps 4. Twitter Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iStockphoto, pet society
BUG: Twitter Investigating Elevated Errors
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Barb Dybwad This is potentially minor as none of us at Team Mashable have spotted any, but Twitter reports looking into the source of elevated errors on the site currently. This is potentially minor as none of us at Team Mashable have spotted any, but Twitter reports looking into the source of elevated...
LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Twitter Photo Sharing Service?
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Barb Dybwad Jennifer Van Grove: Posterous: I use it in lieu of anything else for Twitter photo sharing, because I can also share all media types – video, music, text – with Twitter (and Facebook/YouTube/Flickr), and it’s all collected in one place. It’s the perfect extension of my Twitter account and...
15 Social Media Twitter Lists to Follow and Expand
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Pete Cashmore Social Media Linkers: social media experts, thinkers and linkers. Reviews: Mashable, Twitter Tags: twitter, Twitter Lists Twitter Lists from Mashable Social Media Linkers: social media experts, thinkers and linkers. Reviews: Mashable, Twitter Tags: twitter, Twitter Lists
Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Tamar Weinberg Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Internet Explorer, Mashable, MySpace, Safari, The Conduit, Twitter Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Internet Explorer, Mashable, MySpace, Safari, The Conduit, Twitter
Teens Don’t Tweet (on the Xbox 360)
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Barb Dybwad Reviews: Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter Tags: facebook, gaming, Last.FM, microsoft, parental controls, social networking, twitter, Xbox 360, XBox live Tags: facebook, gaming, Last.FM, microsoft, parental controls, social networking, twitter, Xbox 360, XBox live
Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social ResponsibilityOriginal at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 6
By Melissa Jun Rowley Reviews: iStockphoto Tags: business, corporate social responsibility, csr, justmeans, social good, social media HOW TO: Do Good on Twitter HOW TO: Do Good on Facebook Tags: business, corporate social responsibility, csr, justmeans, social good, social media
Brizzly is the Next Twitter Client to Support Lists
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Barb Dybwad Currently in closed beta, Brizzly is a Twitter and Facebook client built by many of the same folks who built Google Reader. Its maker, Thing Labs, is headed up by Jason Shellen — a former veteran of Blogger, the startup Twitter’s Evan Williams sold to Google in 2003.
Google CEO: We Won’t Repeat the Mistakes of Microsoft
Original at GigaOM
• Thu, Nov 5
By Om Malik He also talked about Twitter and Facebook, the economy, the recession and a whole bunch of other current events during his interview. Actually this clip is worth watching and Cavuto is rational in his questions. So if you do have time, check it out. Photo courtesy of Charles Haynes via Flickr.
BUG: Twitter Currently Dropping Some Mentions and Replies
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Barb Dybwad Twitter reports that they’re currently working on an issue in which certain @username mentions or replies may be missing from your timelines. In particular, older mentions may be affected, and you may not even be able to page back to view previous mentions and replies at this time.
CONTEST: We Want You to Pitch Your Killer Mobile App
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Ben Parr Microsoft | Todd Brix, Senior Director, Mobile Services and Platform Product Management Samsung Electronics | Donald Pitt, Sr. Director Business Development Verizon | Jennifer Byrne, Director of Business Development Reviews: Flickr, LinkedIn, Mashable, Twitter, ustream
Fort Hood Shootings: News Orgs Put Twitter Lists to the Test
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Twitter Tags: fort hood, twitter, Twitter Lists The Huffington Post: The popular news blog is putting its real-time curation to the test with a three column display of Twitter lists on its site – Fort Hood Locals, Breaking News, and Central TX News. Reviews: Twitter
Listiti: Google Alerts for Twitter Lists
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Hacker News, Mashable, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: listiti, twitter, Twitter Lists Google Alerts, once the secret of savvy online marketers and social media experts, have become the de facto way for the masses to keep one eye always on the web.
MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million
Original at Wired
• Thu, Nov 5
By Eliot Van Buskirk If the strategy works, it will likely involve MySpace leveraging video in addition to music. MySpace Video currently boasts over 20,000 music videos, television shows and other videos, but faces entrenched competition from YouTube that could be even fiercer than Facebook and Twitter...
Amazon gets social with Twitter integration
Original at CNET News.com
• Wed, Nov 4
Online retail giant is helping associates use Twitter to sell more products. Will Twitter ever become more than a marketing tool?
Following Lists
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Wed, Nov 4
By Brian Ahier One of the interesting things about the new Lists feature is the expansion of the asymmetrical nature of relationships on Twitter. I use Twitter Lists to control the flow of the fire hose of my data streams into manageable list streams. But another important aspect is the ability to create l...
Twitter Offers New Lists API to Developers
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Tue, Nov 3
By Michael Manoochehri In a move sure to be popular with developers, Twitter has added list manipulation features to their API (see our Twitter API profile). Last week, Twitter founder Biz Stone wrote about the significance of the Lists API on the Twitter Blog:
Really, Peek? We Need a Dedicated Twitter Device?
Original at GigaOM
• Tue, Nov 3
By Colin Gibbs The problem, of course, is that plenty of phones at that price point and below integrate Twitter services very well (and Twitter’s novelty factor may be wearing thin anyway). Twitter apps are available on $99 smartphones such as the iPhone 3G and Palm Pre, and even cut-rate feature phones...
Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS
Original at Profy
• Tue, Nov 3
By Svetlana Gladkova The tech blogosphere tends to be very happy when we see new signs of how various governmental authorities go social and adopt various social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Of course it is obvious that we want every single government regulator to be on Twitter and for citizens to be able to g...
Twittering or not twittering, that is the question
Original at Jeff Clavier's Software Only
• Tue, Nov 3
By Jeff Clavier What struck me, or at least surprised me, what the speed at which Twitter got its mention in the New York times, was called the blogging killer, had its first mashups, and created a passionate debate between fans and opponents. Talking about mashups, Twittervision is really way cool, and c...
Turning Twitter into an application server
Original at CNET News.com
• Tue, Nov 3
Engine Yard's contest featuring Twitter as app server is interesting from marketing and technology angles. Maybe there is a way for Twitter to make money after all.
Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name - Yet ?
Original at Jeff Clavier's Software Only
• Mon, Nov 2
By Jeff Clavier And if you marry that with the iPhone platform, it gets even more interesting. But that's another story... in 5 months or so. Photo Credit: PinarOzger. Don't ask me why I felt that this picture of Tim O'Reilly bowing to Dave McClure was relevant to the story, but it did ;).
Twitter Lists
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Mon, Nov 2
In short, if done right, Lists will provide the Twitter ecosystem a third dimension that might just propel it beyond the hype curve and into a long term platform play. Combined (intelligently) with the new traffic coming from Google and Bing, and this could mean Very Big Things for Twitt...
The Emerging Twitter List Arms Race
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Mon, Nov 2
By Mark Drapeau I'm joking a bit, of course. But when getting retweeted has been boiled down to a science ("Adding 'please' increases retweets by 12.3%!"), every maven is in search of a social media metric that shows who has "authority." Being on someone's Twitter list is a difficult thing to game because it...
20 APIs Used This Week: Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Flickr, and Amazon
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Sat, Oct 31
By John Musser Facebook used in Friendcup, Relocator LyricWiki used in MIKEsearch - Karaoke search engine Yahoo Site Explorer used in Yahoo Site Explorer in 3D YouTube used in Doodle Source, MIKEsearch - Karaoke search engine, Sobo.la - Everything about Soocer Yahoo Site Explorer in 3D
Twitter Users Most Followed by the Web 2.0 Summit Crowd
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Sat, Oct 31
By Ben Lorica UPDATE: Pete Warden has been doing similar analysis to help conference organizers and attendees. He goes a step further and monitors conversations (one twitter user mentioning another user, and vice-versa). Here is Pete's network graph of the recent Web 2.0 Summit.
Miley Cyrus: Twitter should be banned
Original at CNET News.com
• Fri, Oct 30
The teeny singer declares "Twitter should just be banned from this universe." Meanwhile, a Twitterer says she will kill her cat if Miley doesn't come back to Twitter.
Excuse Yourself Early With ‘Escape My Date’
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Thu, Oct 29
By Adam DuVander When you’re ready to escape, you send a direct message to the site’s Twitter account. Then Escape My Date sends direct messages to your selected friends, asking for a little help. If your friends keep a contstant ear on Twitter, there’s a good chance you’ll receive a phone call from one of the...
4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Oct 29
By Bernard Moon More social media resources from Mashable: - 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business 6 Incredible Twitter Powered Art Projects 5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives
Pandora now shares with Facebook, Twitter
Original at CNET News.com
• Wed, Oct 28
Pandora pushes out an update that allows users to share their stations on Facebook and Twitter, as well as create and send Pandora stations as a gift.
What’s Your Favorite Media Site of 2009? #openwebawards
Original at Mashable!
• Wed, Oct 28
By Christina Warren Best Breaking News Site CNN BBC Twitter TMZ Best Local News Site Best Political News Site BBC CNN Best Site for Publishers The Twitter Tim.es Best Site for Journalists Best TV Network Online BBC Reviews: Facebook, Gmail, Hulu, MeeHive, MySpace, Newgrounds, Twitter, iStockphoto, video
TwiBack – New Twitter Application to Use Multiple Backgrounds and Profile Pictures and Rotate Them
Original at Profy
• Tue, Oct 27
By Svetlana Gladkova What do you pay attention to when you visit a profile of some new Twitter follower? I am quite sure you do notice the Twitter background and this is what sends you a certain message in addition to that in the bio and the latest updates. I myself have a few observations regarding what a backgroun...
Ok, Facebook Updates Will Be Searchable but How Valuable Are They?
Original at Profy
• Fri, Oct 23
By Svetlana Gladkova I really don’t want to spoil the celebration for everyone but I hope no one will doubt it very much if I share my concerns over the entire idea here. I don’t even want to mention the tiny things like tons of duplicate content on Twitter and Facebook - like those numerous retweets of interesting...
Search experts weigh in on Google and Bing's real-time deals with Twitter
Original at E-consultancy
• Fri, Oct 23
By Patricio Robles Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch: Go where the search engines do. Link to your content from Twitter. Publish excerpts and link-backs. Monitor real-time search trends, using Google's Hot Trends and trend data tools, such as TweetStats. Supply content to match demand.
Social media: the best and worst of 2009
Original at E-consultancy
• Thu, Oct 22
By Aliya Zaidi 3) Zappos on Twitter We’ve had the good news. Now for those social media campaigns that fared less well in 2009… 1) Motrin Twitter moms What do you think were the highs and lows of social media in 2009? Photo credit: Adapted from tsand via Flickr.
Why Google and Bing's Twitter Announcement is Big News
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Wed, Oct 21
By James Turner This is not only a huge thing for Twitter, it is also well past due. Until now, Twitter really hasn't been a first class web citizen, because you're not really part of Web 2.0 until you're searchable by Google (and, I suppose, Bing). Sure, you can read someone's tweets from Twitter, or get a thre...
Opinion: UX Pros on Bing/Twitter: It's a Start, But Awkward
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Oct 21
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Bing now has real-time access to the full fire hose of Twitter data, that's a really valuable flow of data. It's clear that Twitter can provide some real opportunity for Bing, but what can Bing do for Twitter? Would Twitter users be better off just using Twitter search?
Not much to tweet about in Twitter CEO talk
Original at CNET News.com
• Tue, Oct 20
Evan Williams takes the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit but didn't disclose anything new about its revenue plans or new features--just the revelation that he used to have a really bad haircut 15 years ago.
21 APIs Used in 7 Days: YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, FriendFeed, Google, Facebook
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Sat, Oct 17
By John Musser del.icio.us used in Simple Del.icio.us Spy Facebook used in Vodafone Update App for Android Google AJAX Libraries used in Search Wiki Google Ajax Search used in Search Wiki Google Homepage used in Twitter Trends Explained Twitter Trends Explained
Opinion: The Human/Machine Continuum of the Real-Time Web (Chart)
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Oct 13
By Marshall Kirkpatrick On the far left we've got services that facilitate human-to-human communication, like Twitter itself, Instant Messaging and a new service called Olark (our review). Olark integrates with your existing instant messenger client to facilitate real-time chat with visitors to a particu...
Opinion: From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Oct 12
By Jolie O'Dell A new offshoot of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Education Connection (SMCEDU) is a Chris Heuer-led organization intended to promote social media in higher education curricula. Sponsor 1) Use Twitter to find your network. 3) Build your website. 4) Create content.
Weekly Wrapup: Countdown to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Oct 9
By Richard MacManus See also Part 3: Business Models of The Internet of Things - An Analysis of Pachube's Open Source Platform Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business Facebook Now Tracking Gross National Happiness; Continues Hoarding Data
Opinion: Spiffbox Says it Pays to be Social - No Really, They Pay You with Cash
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Oct 6
By Sarah Perez A Social Network to Complement the Others Instead of trying to establish a new userbase from scratch, Spiffbox integrates with the social networks Facebook and Twitter. They even have their own Facebook application so you can interact with other Spiffbox members while logged into Face...
Help Me Interview Evan Williams, CEO Twitter
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Wed, Sep 23
Thanks to those of you who chimed in, via email, Twitter, Facebook, and comments, on our first interview at Web 2 next month with Brian Roberts. Next up on day one is Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. I've had the pleasure before (at FM's CM Summit), and posted...
Opinion: Nomee combines AIR with social information
Original at Webware.com
• Wed, Sep 23
By Don Reisinger According to Nomee, you can add profiles to your cards from more than 120 sites. They include Twitter, Facebook, Google News, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, Picasa, and more. The selection is quite nice. You can also add RSS feeds or links to your blogs.
The real-time baby (what this means for media absorption)Original at Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
• Tue, Sep 22
By Robert Scoble First, came email. That’s how we let our family know the event was close. What did I say in that email? “Watch Twitter.” Why email? Because most of my family and friends still like email the best for getting notified of things. They don’t get Twitter and FriendFeed. Some have gotten Facebook, tho...
Podcast: Four short links: 18 September 2009
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Sat, Sep 19
By Nat Torkington Echofon -- novel take on Twitter apps: sync your unread list between phone, browser, and (ultimately, they promise) desktop Twitter app. (via auchmill on Twitter)GLAM Tech (MP3) -- Radio New Zealand new technology slot about the use of technology in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives...
On Complements and Showdowns and TweetSense
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Wed, Sep 16
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose Twitter’s eventual dominant business model is putting ads by search results. Who gets the revenue when a user is searching on a 3rd party Twitter client? Even if Twitter gets a portion of revenue from ads on 3rd party apps, there will always be an incen...
Resistance is futile!Original at pwcom (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 15
By Paul We may see the same happen with some social media. Judging from feedback among some of my AEC contacts (see also Blogs, Twitter, social networking: your new business tools), LinkedIn is growing in importance as a means of professional networking, as are some AEC-oriented networks, blo...
HP Launches an App Store for Your PrinterOriginal at Mashable!
• Tue, Sep 8
By Christina Warren Reviews: Google, Google Maps, Mashable, Twitter Tags: Hewlett-Packard, HP, hp app studio, hp photosmart premium, printers HP has partnered with companies like Disney, USA Today, Google and Fandango to make accessing content and printing it instantly seamless.
5 Rules for Better Web Writing
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Sep 8
By Josh Catone Reviews: Facebook, Mashable, MySpace, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: Lists, social media, web, writing HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business Reviews: Facebook, Mashable, MySpace, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: Lists, social media, web, writing
Opinion: Back to School: 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Sep 7
By Josh Catone Reviews: Google, SchoolRack, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: back to school, education, Lists, school, teachers, web apps 4. Edmodo 5. Shmoop 8. Bookgoo 9. DOC Cop 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media Reviews: Google, SchoolRack, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto
Sharing on Facebook Now More Popular than Sharing by Email
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Jul 20
By Adam Ostrow According to AddToAny, Facebook now dominates sharing, with 24 percent of shares from the widget consisting of users posting items to the social network. That handily beats out email (11.1 percent) and Twitter (10.8 percent), making the world’s most popular social network also the most p...
Twitter’s 1,928 Percent Growth and Other Notable Social Media Stats
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Jul 16
By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Facebook, MySpace, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: facebook, social media, twitter Reviews: Facebook, MySpace, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: facebook, social media, twitter
Verizon FiOS TV Integrates Facebook and TwitterOriginal at Mashable!
• Wed, Jul 15
By Adam Ostrow In addition to this functionality, Verizon FiOS customers will be able access what are essentially big screen, simplified versions of Twitter and Facebook. For example, with Twitter, you can search and view currently hot topics, and with Facebook, you can view friend’s photos. There ar...
Sunday Tit-bits
Original at brendanhughes.ie
• Sun, Jul 12
By Brendan Coke do social media; blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook the lot. Sure who doesn’t at this stage? (rhetorical question) Gradpool.ie is a new website for, yes you’ve guessed it, grads where they can upload their profile, cv, video clips and podcasts. Presumably not video clips of their summ...
Blogs, Twitter, social networking: your new business tools
Original at pwcom (WordPress)
• Tue, Jul 7
By Paul Capita Symonds – who have a digital marketing manager Louise Reed leading a team devoted to blogging, Tweeting, and posting on Flickr and YouTube (”We don’t want to be seen as another faceless company.”)Hull-based contractor Hobson & Porter – who use free blog site Blogger.com to set...
Opinion: Contemplation: How Much of the Web 2.0 is too Much of the Web 2.0
Original at generallordisimo.com
• Wed, Jul 1
By Nathaniel I was thinking about this in regards to Twitter earlier today. I use Twitter and in general find a degree of enjoyment in said use. Ultimately though, Twitter is not a necessity in my life, because it really has failed to offer much more than a look at brief snippets of other people’s lives as...
Top 10 Twitter Tools for Business
Original at brendanhughes.ie
• Sun, Jun 21
By Brendan A nice way of getting more people involved in your Twitter conversation is to make the conversation available elsewhere. Twitter provides a widget (a mini version of Twitter) that you can plug into your website, blog or Facebook page so that anyone who visits those sites can see immediat...
Opinion: HootSuite 2.0: Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites]
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, May 28
By Jennifer Van Grove 1. Follow @hootsuite on Twitter Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both 1. Follow @hootsuite on Twitter More Twitter Resources from Mashable 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both Reviews: Mashable, Twitter
Opinion: 6 Superb Ways to Shop Using Social MediaOriginal at Mashable!
• Fri, May 15
By Ben Parr Reviews: Facebook, Shopseen, Twitter Tags: online shopping, shopping, social media, social shopping Best for: Delivering physical gifts without an address via social media Best for: Using social media to understand and shop fashion
Opinion: Twitterrific 2.0 Makes Twitter Terrific on the iPhone
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, May 7
By Pete Cashmore Twitterrific 2.0, the new version of the popular Twitter App for the iPhone, is now live in the iPhone App Store. We covered the release last week before it became officially available, posting a video (below) and outlining the key features: Reviews: TweetDeck, Twitter, Twitterrific
Web 2.0 for Healthcare Providers – Q and A Part 1
Original at edgewatertech (WordPress)
• Mon, May 4
By Ori Fishler Getting started is ridiculously easy. Facebook has a good starter guide . Setting up Twitter is even simpler as there is not much to do other than selecting a name. You have only 15 characters so it is not always an easy task. Twitip has a good guide to best practices in twitting and a list of useful...
Opinion: 5 Ways Traditional Media is Going SocialOriginal at Mashable!
• Mon, May 4
By Woody Lewis Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Tags: journalism, legacy media, List, new media, newspaper industry, old media, publishing, social media 3. Newspapers on YouTube Finding Your Social Media Purple Cow Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
As It Inflects, Twitter Must Add Value to New Users, Faster
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Sun, May 3
And leaving they are, if this report from Nielsen is to be believed. Widely picked up last week in the Twitterverse, the report does the math and finds that 60 percent of those who try Twitter abandon the service within a month. That means no matter how steep the inflection, Twitter will soon b...
Facebook Opens User Activity Stream to Developers
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Mon, Apr 27
By Michael Manoochehri For the past few months, the API of microblog site Twitter has been used as the basis for many popular and creative mashups. Now Facebook, with the launch of its highly anticipated Open Stream API, is attempting to gain some attention as a platform for social networking applications.
Opinion: The New Social Engagement: A Visit to Zappos
Original at Mashable!
• Sun, Apr 26
By Soren Gordhamer Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos More social media brand resources from Mashable: Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos
Podcast: Twitter on the Radio: Hugh Jackman Reveals $100K Charity DonationOriginal at Mashable!
• Fri, Apr 24
By Pete Cashmore The remaining $50K went to Charity:Water, a New York-based initiative that brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. It’s a cause that’s very familiar to those in the social media space: in September 2008, Mashable, our Twitter followers and Twitter users Paul...
The Best Ways to Discover Music Through Twitter
Original at Wired News
• Wed, Apr 22
By Eliot Van Buskirk Twitter Music Search Services Because Twitter started as a way for people to alert other people about what they're doing, more worthwhile tools exist for broadcasting music than for finding music on Twitter. That said, we did track down a few good services that let you scour the network fo...
Playable Music Chart Lets You Hear What's Blowing Up on P2P, Social NetworksOriginal at Wired News
• Thu, Apr 16
By Eliot Van Buskirk We do this by continuously sampling the noise from news, blogs and social media," said co-founder Stephen Phillips, lead programmer for Wotnews. "We monitor the mainstream press, blogs, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, iLike, bit torrent, Limewire, and more."
Socializr Launches 'FriendFeed for Events'
Original at Wired News
• Wed, Apr 15
By Chris Snyder What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New StartupNew FriendFeed A Mashup of Twitter/Facebook/GChat Socializr, the Evite competitor from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, launched a new service in public Beta Wednesday called Socializr Event Connect that aggregate...
From Gambling to FriendFeed - 30 APIs Used This Week in Mashups
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Sat, Apr 11
By John Musser Google Ajax Feeds used in My Footy Grounds Google Custom Search used in Ham Radio Search Engine Twitter used in Twitter2FF Wikipedia used in Birds of the World Yahoo Search used in Ham Radio Search Engine YouTube used in SXSW Artist Catalog Flickr pinboard
Where 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Fri, Apr 10
• 3 related articles
By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...
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Where 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life
Original at oreilly/radar/atom (Feedburner)
• Thu, Apr 9
• 3 related articles
By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...
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TweetDeck Fights Back: Plugs Memory Leak - Launches Facebook Integration
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Apr 8
By Frederic Lardinois Freely moving from one service to the next is clearly part of the nature of the Internet today. On Twitter, Twhirl was the de-facto standard desktop client just a few short months ago, but now, TweetDeck has taken this position. The last version of TweetDeck, however, had some serious memor...
Opinion: A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Apr 3
By Elliott Kosmicki Blog & server maintenance iPhone, or whatever phone 70+ Free iPhone Apps for Social Media Mavens Reviews: Evernote, Facebook, Google Reader, Safari, Skype, Toodledo, Tweetie, Tweetsville, Twitter, Twitterfon, WordPress, iTunes
Opinion: Weekly Wrapup: Web 2.0 Expo, Skype for iPhone, Local Web, And More...
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Apr 3
By Richard MacManus NEW! Follow ReadWriteWeb on Twitter Status.net Could Point to the Future of Business Intelligence Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era Web Trends RWW Live: The Local & Mobile Web Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
Opinion: Digg This URL Grey: Tea Is the New Coffee
Original at Wired News
• Thu, Apr 2
By Brian X. Chen Rose often tweets about new teas he's trying out to his nearly 400,000 Twitter followers and even created a separate Twitter account — @goodtea — devoted to tea. He also started a Facebook page about the ancient beverage, where he posts videos and information. To top it off, Rose links to Sam...
Glue Lets You Browse the Web With Your Facebook and Twitter FriendsOriginal at Mashable!
• Thu, Apr 2
By Adam Ostrow When we first reviewed Glue, the browser plugin that connects people looking at similar Web content, I wrote that “even moreso than many other services, to be really useful, Glue is going to need to have a big-time user base.” Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Twitter
OneRiot Launches Twitter-Powered News Search
Original at Wired News
• Thu, Apr 2
By Chris Snyder OneRiot’s Twitter-based service is very similar to TweetNews, which was built by Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh as a pet project to rank Yahoo News search results based on Twitter chatter. Our mission is to organize the real-time web," says Peggs. "Twitter is obviously a large part of the r...
Opinion: Palm Promises "Pre Update" At Web 2.0 Conference
Original at Everything Pre
• Wed, Apr 1
We do bring a legitimate piece of good news, as Palm (via Palm's blog) has promised an update from the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The company also confirmed the news will find it's way to Twitter, so we'd encourage our readers to follow ... Barron's Blogs - CNET News
How To: Five tips to maximize Twitter, LinkedIn for corporate use
Original at Examiner.com
• Sat, Mar 28
According to social media expert Nathan Egan, a former linkedin manager who has built a business training executives how to use social media and Web 2.0 for the enterprise, “there is an art and a science to optimizing your presence without getting ...
Podcast: Weekly Wrapup: Ghost Twittering, Last.fm Charges, Future of Firefox, And More...Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Mar 28
By Richard MacManus Web Trends The Twitter Platform: 3 Years Old and Ready to Change the World Enterprise Salesforce.com Integrates Twitter Email us if you're interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb's Enterprise Channel. SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE IN 3 SIMPLE STEPS! Myspace Facebook Twitter Youtube $200000 YearlyOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Mar 24
By rss@youtube.com (Jonatqws) Author: Jonatqws Keywords: how to make money online for free home based business work job computer internet cash income opportunity Myspace Facebook Twitter Youtube make-money-online Added: March 24, 2009
Browser Hacks: Last Week's Top Five Greasemonkey Add-ons (Firefox)
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Mar 21
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Thanks to Screencast.com for hosting the video above. (Here's a Flash version, if you prefer it.) Twitter Search on Google Results Pages - add real-time search to Google. 3. Google Search Sidebar with Youtube , Wikipedia, Dictionary.com and Flickr Results
New Bulldog Reporter Webinar Tells How PR Can Successfully Harness ...
Original at TMCnet
• Thu, Mar 19
to show how Web 2.0 campaigns targeted to consumers can build brand and the bottom line -- Secrets of Killer Content: Tips for telling an effective story online -- plus how to use that knowledge to create viral campaigns that drive ROI -- Twitter ...
Another Reason to be Skeptical of "Analysts"
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Wed, Mar 18
1. Tweetsense - AdWords and AdSense like platform for Twitter. This has major scale potential. Whoever buys Twitter, they wrote, “will likely have to operate it at a loss in perpetuity, or until the next cool Web 2.0 social networking concept comes along and Twitter tweets no more.”
"Search Is A Pencil"
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Mon, Mar 9
Why not? Well, if you could use Facebook as an instance of Twitter, well, that would feed the Twitter ecosystem, would it not? It'd validate Twitter and drive Twitter adoption and traffic. Just like Yahoo's adoption of Google did back in 2000-2002, or Netscape's adoption of Yahoo did back...
Opinion: Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More...
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Mar 7
By Richard MacManus Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model Enterprise Have Code, Will Travel - Sabre Chooses Open Source to Power its Business SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL
Opinion: Five Sites that Let You Experience the Real-Time Web Today
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Mar 6
By Frederic Lardinois The search function that Twitter acquired from Summize is probably the most commonly used real-time search engine on the Internet right now. Sadly, the results page doesn't automatically update as new updates come in. Starting Next Week: Your Facebook Homepage
How To: Set Up Your Twitter Account and Integrate Your BlogOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Mar 2
By rss@youtube.com (SearchMar) In this tutorial we will go through some quick steps to teach you how to set up your twitter account and integrate with any RSS feeds. This is a good video for people who wants to open a Twitter account but are not sure what to do with it. Author: SearchMar Keywords: Twitter blog integrate
One of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Moi?
Original at Jeff Clavier's Software Only
• Fri, Feb 27
By Jeff Clavier While I am at it, many people have complained to me, over and again, that I had abandoned my blog. As I explained in this post a few months ago, I sort of have - in an extended sabbatical kind of way - but you can always find my rumblings of all kinds on Twitter.
Twitter = YouTube.
Original at John Battelle's Searchblog
• Wed, Feb 25
What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google "getting into the video business," and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all...
How To: SEO Training | Signing Up for TwitterOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 25
By rss@youtube.com (callowaygreen) http://www.callowaygreen.com Is the place for top notch SEO training and SEO Services! This video will show you how to login to Twitter - dead easy but some people wanted to know! IF Author: callowaygreen Keywords: SEO Twitter sign up SEO training Added: February 25, 2009
How to follow Twitter Tuesday in Julie Wolf's Skype room.Original at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 24
By rss@youtube.com (juliewolf4assurance) By coming to Julie's Twitter Tuesday Skype room, you can learn to network with other Twits. Learn how to follow your new twittering friends. There are two things that Julie Wolf shows you in this video.... 1) How to follow your new Twitter friends and 2) How to refresh your page to see their new twee...
Opinion: ReadWriteWeb Guide to the SXSW Web Awards Finalists
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, Feb 19
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Business On Twitter: Mintdotcom Flickr On Twitter: Picnik On Twitter: JinniMedia On Twitter: Pmog On Twitter: Gigotron On Twitter:Pikchur On Twitter: Soundcloud On Twitter: Felskia On Twitter: Revyver On Twitter: JQueryUI On Twitter: Skydeck On Twitter: Tarpipe
How To: Twitter turtorial - Generating Leads / Traffic Using TwitterOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 10
By rss@youtube.com (GenesisRead) http://www.GenesisRead.net This is a Twitter tutorial on how set your profile up and start generating leads or traffic to your website the right way. I show some tools as well for twitter support.
Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs. TweetDeck
Original at Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
• Mon, Feb 9
By Robert Scoble Last night Loic Le Meur released a new version of Twhirl. TweetDeck appeals to those who have to watch Twitter all day long. Journalists. Customer support people who’ve been tasked with making sure that everyone on Twitter is happy. And addicts like me.
Opinion: SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Feb 4
By Rick Turoczy When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you wit...
How To Use Facebook & Twitter To Promote Your Business in 2009Original at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 4
By rss@youtube.com (BillVannot) http://www.BillVannot.com/DSM Revealed: Secrets to Increasing your Profits in 2009 using Facebook and Twitter! Leading Social Networking experts share their Top Strategies in a step-by-step, Digital Home Study Course Keywords: what-is-a-twitter twitter-defined using-twitte...
Opinion: 8 Tools to Track Your Footprints on the Web
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sun, Feb 1
By Lidija Davis According to the site, Spy can "listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in." This clean visualization search tool watches Twitter, FriendFeed, blog posts, Google reader shares and Flickr for any term you want. An RSS feed is available. 4. Serph: The Social Web Right No...
Podcast: Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Jan 24
By Richard MacManus Web Products Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API? Email us if you're interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb's Enterprise Channel. SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL
How To: Presenter Profile: Leslie Fisher
Original at thejournal.com
• Thu, Jan 8
CA - Jan 8, 2009 and learning how to add themselves to the world of Web 2.0 by using blogging, social networking sites (like Twitter and Facebook), and other tools. ...
How To: First on Mars Launches Personalized Web 2.0 Guide to 12500 Free on ...
Original at MarketWatch
• Wed, Dec 10
- Dec 10, 2008 share links to network TV shows with friends using social web applications such as Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon; -- change the look of their ...
The Emerging 2.0 World: Three Book Reviews
Original at mostlynf (WordPress)
• Mon, Dec 8
By Steve Campion —- *Web 2.0 technology provides gadgets and software tools that allow easy and widespread interaction and collaboration. Examples include (but are certainly not limited to) social networking sites like Facebook, text messaging like Twitter, and mobile devices like the iPhone. **Meta...
EIC podcast: Yahoo trial balloons; Mumbai and Twitter;
Original at zdnet/BTL (Feedburner)
• Thu, Dec 4
By podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) In this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Yahoo rumor mill, the holiday shopping season on tech land and the Mumbai terror attacks and Twitter. First the Yahoo rumor mill. The latest is that former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise a few billion to take Yahoo private. Y...
Opinion: Mint vs. Rudder: Two Online Finance Managers Compared
Original at Mashable!
• Wed, Dec 3
By Wendy Boswell Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. Pros: Cons: Pros: Cons: Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. Pros: • Free! Cons: Pros:
Twitter Advertising ROI Revealed: $10 CPM, Way Too Expensive
Original at Profy
• Wed, Dec 3
By Svetlana Gladkova At that Sayso claims that traffic to the network’s website more than doubled during the campaign on Twitter. But I think it is no surprise since if something is very low (almost 0 - and neither Alexa, nor Compete show anything for SaySo Mobile website - which is an indication of a very low traf...
Opinion: HOW TO: Send Top Secret, Highly Classified Email Over the Web
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Dec 2
By Adam Ostrow Hushmail Offers Feds a Peek at Users’ Data Postful Sends Snail Mail from Email Wanna Send Emails Into The Future? Now You Can. Wallop Invites Wamily Invites Yappd is a Visual Twitter Clone Fav.or.it: 200 Invites for Mashable Readers Send Send is a free, easy-to-use email encryption service.
Twitter's bad news is a bad business
Original at Valleywag
• Tue, Dec 2
By Owen Thomas In its business affairs, too, Twitter is proving incompetent. Most Web 2.0 startups run cheaply, but Twitter faces large bills from cell-phone companies which charge it for forwarding text messages to cell phones; the more it grows, the more it pays. And it has yet to announce publicly a way...
Podcast: Perspectives From Guy Kawasaki: On Twitter, His Book: Reality Check And Life
Original at PodTech.net
• Wed, Nov 26
By Jennifer Jones Guy Kawasaki is one of the most well known marketers in the world. His new book Reality Check is making its way to the best seller list. Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones caught him at his home and discussed the new book and Guy’s favorite chapter on entrepreneur’s lies. Jones and Kawasaki a...
TweetValue: Will Selling Your Twitter Account Help You Survive the Recession?
Original at Profy
• Thu, Nov 20
By Svetlana Gladkova Continue Reading »Similar PostsTwebinar Combines Summize, Twitter, Acrobat, Hashtags And More Twitter Has Been Officially Fighting Spam for a Week. Results? So You Thought Nothing Could Be Worse Than Fail Whale? Now Get Your Followers Back Trick or Tweet Proves Twitter Users Are Rare...
Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 855: The iPhone changes everything
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Tue, Nov 18
By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) Facebook App Verification Fee Draws Criticism http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154099/facebook_app_verification_fee_draws_criticism.html The Australian Prime Minister had joined Twitter. http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM LTS. Cheers, Tim.
How To: Lodging Interactive Offers Free Web 2.0 Social Media User's Guide ...
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Tue, Sep 23
industry's first Web 2.0 Social Media User's Guide. The guide serves to educate hoteliers on how to proactively establish and manage hotel profiles on the leading Social Media websites Facebook, Wikipedia, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter, ...
How To: Five tips for a Web 2.0 start-up
Original at Computerworld
• Thu, Sep 18
By John Brandon I've talked to a lot of Web 2.0 companies in the past month, some big and some small. A few themes have developed in how to make a successful Web 2.0 company - here's a few ideas. read more. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Twitter ...
How To: Episode 1: The Twitter Episode
Original at blip.tv (beta)
• Sun, Sep 14
This is the pilot episode of What's it all about: Web 2.0. the show where Sarah Cooley brings Web 2.0 to the masses by breaking down those scary Web 2.0 services into simple and easy to understand tutorial podcasts!
How To: What’s Twitter All About? Let Sarah Cooley explain.
Original at the rob blatt
• Sat, Sep 13
By rob.blatt Here’s the info from the “about” page:. What’s it all about: Web 2.0, is a podcast about Web 2.0 sites and services and how to use them. The podcast was created by Sarah Cooley as a way to help people get more involved on the web.
Podcast: H Block Social Media Programs Success
Original at PodTech.net
• Mon, Jun 9
By Jennifer Jones Tags: H&R Block, h block, Jennifer Jones, Marketing, Marketing Voices, paula drum, Second Life, social media, Twitter Who would ever think that a financial services company would be innovative about marketing? But Paula Drum VP of Marketing of H&R Block explains how their pr...
Is social networking counter-productive?
Original at Webby's World
• Fri, May 9
By Joe Anderson So why do people keep turning to social networking? I imagine for the simple reason it is fun. I have resisted joining MySpace or Facebook so I do not get addicted to them preventing me from doing work, and so MySpace doesn’t deform my HTML, but I must say I get sucked into Twitter (but I try to on...
Jakob Nielsen says “don’t be like Scoble”
Original at Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
• Mon, Jul 9
By Robert Scoble 8. Don’t add Web 2.0 mechanisms to your Web site like Scoble does. Definitely no “del.icio.us” or “Digg” voting graphics. 11. Definitely don’t get close to Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce/Facebook like Scoble does. If you can say it in 140 characters you shouldn’t say it at all.
Podcast: Twitter vs. Pownce and the value proposition of social media
Original at Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth
• Fri, Jul 6
NBC camera man and Web 2.0 guru Jim Long compares Twitter and pounce from the perspectives of social media and human interaction. read more | digg story