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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)
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: "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?)
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
Well, it took several days, but I finally got the new Facebook homepage. With this redesign, Facebook realized the battle is for conversation. Conversation makes a site more of a destination for people, and the new redesign is completely targeted towards this. As much as sites like Twitter and FriendFeed have been battling (Read More)
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: I preferred the previous style, but I'm much more of a Twitter/Friendfeed user than Facebook in any case, so for me personally, it's not a big issue, as I don't spend long in there
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The original doc. at http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/2009/02/existence-and-bigbang-theory.html contains hyperlinks to references. Saturday, February 28, 2009 Existence and the Big Bang Theory I am continually confounded by the fact that people continue to ask where existence came from. Actually, they are confusing existe (Read More)
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Mashable!
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat.
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ReadWriteWeb
Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon. Is it (Read More)
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TODAY ON BUZZ3R - Web 2.0 STORIES
I've been sharing articles I've read in Google Reader for the better part of two years. I don't know exactly when I started, but I'm fairly sure I'm nowhere near finished. And while I admittedly started sharing to a link blog without having a clear goal in mind, I'm finding that this massive shared items repository is beco (Read More)
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Mashable!
Twitter this. Tweet that. And every day, hoards of new applications plugging into the micro-messaging service.Twitter, clearly, is the next big thing in social networking. Like any growing trend, it attracts lots of buzz, and extensive coverage on sites like Mashable (see our Twitter archive for hundreds of examples). A (Read More)
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earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a (Read More)
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