Aug 18, 2009

Mashable! Ever wanted to see Twitter the way someone else does, with all the Tweets from the people they follow? Now you can.The tool cTwitterLike doesn’t look particularly impressive – with its quirky logo and rough interface – but the service is strangely captivating in the way it lets you view Tweets from those being followed by a (Read More)

Aug 17, 2009

Awake At The Wheel | Personal Growth | careers | entrepreneurship | health & happiness There’s been a lot of focus on follower counts, friend counts, subscriber counts, viewer counts and readers as of late. And, those are important metrics the from the standpoint of expanding your impact on the world…and potentially, your income.But, sometimes I wonder if we’re spending too much time on the wrong metric…Here’ (Read More)

Aug 12, 2009

Scobleizer Caroline Halliwell asked a question I’ve frequently been asked “how can anyone honestly follow 10s of 1,000’s?”She was talking about Twitter. I made fun of Chris Brogan because he follows almost 90,000 people on Twitter and today wrote an blog about friending and reputation.Chris autofollows everyone back. I did that until (Read More)

Aug 10, 2009

TechCrunch Just hours after we broke the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed comes Facebook’s announcement that it’s deploying its improved search product to everyone. This improved search functionality, which has been in testing since June, gives users the ability to search through their friends’ status updates, and shared m (Read More)

Aug 07, 2009

BBC Of course, it wasn't a full day that the world went without the amazingly successful microblogging service (see 'Massive attack' strikes websites). It was just a few - crippling, to some - hours. But the distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that hobbled Twitter and its 45 million worldwide users - and which also suck (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

Submitted by Richardderwentc from blog: As a Change ‘expert’, this shouldn’t be news, but as a human being it is always hard to recognise that not all progress is forwards.  Just as in the marathon at a certain point you ‘hit the wall’, in life and in business one sets out on a journey and sometimes it is not [...]. (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Earlier this year at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group showcased a wearable computing system that allows users to display and interact with the Web on any surface - including the human body. The video embedded below shows the system's main developer, Pranav Mistry, taking photog (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

MichaelFruchter.com ——–It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I would focus on one, Dairy Queen.—Dairy Queen, for those of you who are not familiar with the brand, is an ice cream (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

Submitted by Jnegretti from Twitter: explaining Facebook and Twitter to some newbies, they're loving it. :). (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

Submitted by Doug Caldwell from Twitter: there are a number of ways you can find people on Twitter. Here are ten sites you can use http://bit.ly/HVfdr #twtnow. (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Mark Edwards' shared items in Google Reader “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.Worry is a great destroyer of happiness. It is a totally unproductive thing to do, and yet most of us engage in it with great enthusiasm. I’m always amused when I hear things like ‘is this something we should worry a (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Mark Edwards' shared items in Google Reader Image by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abnelgonzalez/ / CC BY 2.0“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, mo (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

CNN Many saw the renaissance of American golfer Tom Watson at the recent British Open in Turnberry, as clear evidence that romance is alive and kicking in one of the world's most ancient of games. (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

readwriteweb A new study released by enterprise wiki provider Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group shows that the brands most engaged in social media are also experiencing higher financial success rates than those of their non-engaged peers. To determine this relationship, the study focused on 100 companies from the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interb (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Did you recently stumble upon an increased amount of little audio message on FriendFeed?A while back we introduced you to Vooices.us, a company driven by two extremely innovative fellows, Paul Rawlings and Paul Kinlan. A little bit later we pointed you to VooiceBoo, a service which aims at bringing speech based profile veri (Read More)

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