TechCrunch
There’s some excitement around the web today among a certain group of high profile techies. What are they so excited about? Something called WebFinger, and the fact that Google is apparently getting serious about supporting it. So what is it?It’s an extension of something called the “finger protocol” that was used in the ea (Read More)
Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums -
Big changes are in the works for Twitter and their realtime search features, says new Twitter VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, changes that may spell the end of the status quo both for the microblogging platform in particular and the entire concept of organic searching in general.Jayaram, who previously worked on Google's (Read More)
: This new plan of Twitter could change search in many ways. Of course, the average person looking for information is still going to want more than a 140 character mini-reply. But still, the enormous popularity of Twitter is certainly going to be astounding. I've been resisting Twitter but this is all the more reason to learn how to use it - NOW!
: Some of the changes planned by Twitter look useful like indexing content in the tweets, it may pay to use a link shortener like a.gd as this allows you to edit link URLs with words.
: Twitter is still new for many. I can't believe their going to change it again. I imagine google will asimilate any changes to it just like the Borg. Go twitter!
Marketing Mystic
If it’s one thing folks in the valley and elsewhere in the blogosphere like to pick on is Twitter’s revenue model or lack thereof. Techcrunch enlightened everyone today on the hoax by BBspot about Twitter’s purported premium accounts,The author of the post mocks Twitter’s lack of an apparent business model after 3 years in (Read More)
TwitLinks
Over the past few months, the Twitter bandwagon has been getting increasingly crowded. This has caused an exponential amount of noise - good and bad - within the Twittersphere, and a growing amount of chatter about Twitter.
While more . (Read More)
: "All these problems are nice to have because they’re growing pains. The challenge will be creating tools that meet these pains. Two areas that might get a lot of attention in 2009 from third-parties may be noise filters - services that intelligently eliminate inane updates (e.g. remove any mentions about lunch or coffee”) or smarter, easy-to-create groups."
CNET News.com | Tech news blog
AUSTIN, Texas--By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles. But here at SXSW 2009, the notion of the perfect match among community, service, and event seems flipped on its head. Many people are discovering that a monumental oversaturation o (Read More)
: "This year, however, because of the conference's impressive growth and Twitter's broader mainstream appeal, there are so many people sending tweets with the "#sxsw" tag that it has become almost impossible to find the same value as in the past. I did a search for the tag on Saturday afternoon and found that there had been 392 tweets with the term in just the previous ten minutes. That number mushroomed to more than 1,500 in the previous hour."
: Twitter model: yes there are many marketers amassing followings. I am not sure how they are going to use this multiple demographic user base? Surely this ethos will render what was potentially the best social media immediate search and research app? If all the marketeers are doing is hashtaggin then maybe the new spam is the hashtag?
EAs will move to a more defined and niche adaptable service ( identi.ca?)
Mashable!
Advice only goes so far. The way we really learn is through real experiences. In this piece, I sought out stories of people who listened to the advice of experts, ignored it, did what they wanted to do, and then succeeded. There was only one rule they followed: They were convinced that what they were doing was right. (Read More)
: Exemplary piece of work, David. I've always had an affinity for folks who are a bit stubborn, off-the-beaten path, and cling tightly to their convictions. I enjoyed reading each and every word of your article. Two thumbs up, for sure!
Silicon Alley Insider
The New York Post followed up Rupert Murdoch's apology for the Obama-monkey cartoon by sacking Liz Smith, the 86-year old gossip columnist. Scratch $125,000 from the Post's money-losing bottom line.Greenwich Diva: The 86-year old columnist said she received a letter from the newspaper stating that they were not going to ren (Read More)
TwiTip
Having reached 750 followers earlier today and wrote over 6,000 updates, I’m a big fan of Twitter. But over the last week I’ve found myself becoming too much of a fan. Defending Twitter to the death has become a part of my daily life. (Read More)
TwitLinks
Thousands of Twitter messages carrying the words “gmail” or “gfail” will teach you that Google’s free web-based e-mail platform is currently down around the world. A Google spokesperson told Pocket Lint that their engineers are working on it but have no clue why the errors are turning up. (Read More)
TechCrunch
That leaked U2 album is causing all sorts of trouble. The unreleased album, which is due out on March 3, found its way onto BitTorrent and was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. That, apparently, sent music industry lawyers over at the Recording Industry Association of America into a fit. As a result, word is go (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from Twitter:
amazed still some people I know, ages 25-35, professionals, who are not on either Facebook or LinkedIn. What world do they live in? #sm #fb. (Read More)
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: try explaining this stuff to my wife. Facebook, yes - just about.. LinkedIN - anything else - nada, no go, not a hope... we were chatting about it for hours last night. Her conclusion its industry related and us (the tech crowd) find it more useful that here (PhD, Academia... crowd).
Delicious/codehound
Facebook is five. Maybe you didn't get it in your news feed, but it was in February 2004 that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some classmates, launched the social network that ate the world. Did he realize back then in his dorm that he was witnessing merely the larval stage of his creation? For what began with c (Read More)
: @jasongoldberg Yes Facbook ist still to grow and as the last prsidential ellection used internet and web as election tool we will wait and see the growth.... nice day
: there are things that Facebook does for me that the others can't, the same with @socialmedian and @noovo - you know, it's kind of like buying a DV camera or choosing a spouse- none of them have all the options. I'll wait patiently for "the one".
Submitted by Wpbasti
from Google Reader:
Facebook have made alterations to their Terms of Use which now states that anything you put onto the site at any point in time - they can do with as they please.Previously, when you closed your account, any rights to your own content would expire - now it still all belongs to them. It means the site can legally sell your c (Read More)
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ABC News
StumbleUponABC News: What Did the Banks Do With Your Cash?Wednesday at 7:37 am -Comment -LikeTyson Key and Greg (GuitarBuster) liked thisFrom the page: "As the country's recession deepened, the government provided hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to rescue the nation's floundering banks. Now, lawm (Read More)