louisgray-com
You can hardly walk through a few pages on the Web these days without bumping into some variety of URL shortener, sharing bookmarklet, or aggregation site that tries to show the most popular data. Bit.ly has become the shortener of choice for Twitter, with StumbleUpon and Digg having their own offerings in sharebar land. A (Read More)
mashable
What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy? Based on the data from previous surveys – InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study – the InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed these gorgeous graphics showing the Twitter community represented as 100 people. While beautiful, the data is b (Read More)
TechCrunch
Here we go again. The newspaper industry is blaming online news aggregators for its dwindling profits and inability to adapt to a world of links and truly-free flowing information. (They like it when information flows freely into their pages, but not so much when it flows out). On Thursday, paidContent ran an essay by med (Read More)
Scobleizer
I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1.But it isn’t catching on.Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis: that FriendFeed should just become a great Twitter client to become relevant.I have got to be honest: it’s worse than that.Fr (Read More)
TwitLinks
Want to hear a secret? How would you like a major shortcut to finding information that you are interested in as well as connecting with others that might like to subscribe to within Friendfeed? Welcome to Friendfeed Groups. Groups in their simplest form are a feed generated by contributions from multiple users. “Think of it (Read More)
: I could not agree more! The groups on Friendfeed might in a way harken back to those old days of the BBS. But they really let you slow the stream or rather main of information coming at you from the firehouse that is Friendfeed. :-)
observer.guardian.co.uk
When Anna Pickard asked Twitterers to help her discover her new hometown, she not only got a great day out but a store of ideas for future visitsTen days ago we announced our second TwiTrip. Benji had conquered Paris: I was going to take on San Francisco, but in a slightly different way.I've just moved here, and while I've (Read More)
Submitted by Jeremy Dent
from blog:
Should companies and brands establish their own community networks or develop an area in an established social network like Facebook or LinkedIn?. (Read More)
: Companies are well-advised to look at their overall goals when making a decision about this. Disney has a recognized brand and can leverage that. Smaller and less well-known companies might not want to do this but, for any company, the best advice is to be prepared to follow and participate in the conversation wherever your customers decide to "hang out."
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Looks like Google orchestrated a major product line shakeup, and announced on a newsday when everyone might be looking the other way, with Carol Bartz taking the helm at Yahoo and Steve Jobs taking an 'extended leave of absence' at Apple.Most interesting to me are the deadpooling of Dodgeball (I guess we all expected that a (Read More)
Mashable!
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume (Read More)
Submitted by Barcelonaphotoblog:
A new free service called Twitrans launched today that allows Twitter users to quickly translate any short message to a variety of languages. The translation is farmed out to humans using the OneHourTranslation platform and results are promised in a few minutes. (Read More)
louisgray.com
By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)Recently, a question was raised to bloggers, should we shut up about Twitter? Eric Berlin responded with a simple no. He then goes on to list several reasons why Twitter may even go mainstream. Twitter actually going mainstream will be a big story as it is something different (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)FriendFeed can be used for many different purposes.The service's brilliance and simplicity leads people using and interacting on the site in a variety of ways, and each person's feed is different, based on who they follow, how they use lists, and what services they (Read More)
: "The service's brilliance and simplicity leads people using and interacting on the site in a variety of ways, and each person's feed is different, based on who they follow, how they use lists, and what services they view. This post touches upon 25 different uses forFriendFeed, and displays how FriendFeed can be used, by anyone, for many different purposes."
: After scanning this article I may give friendfeed a chance. I'd been avoiding it as just another facebook/myspace/younameanothersocsite that I belong to but don't use much. These all seem to take much time and offer so little real payback for that wasted time. Just my impression. I'm no social butterfly.
: @twitizen @joedawson @hutch I still haven't really gotten into it. I do vanity searches on it every now and again but don't participate much. I guess I have enough to curate on here.
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
By Daniel J. Pritchett of SharingAtWork.com (FriendFeed/Twitter)The FriendFeed social network is a powerful resource. With it you can connect to some brilliant people and learn new things as they learn them. Converse with interesting people around the world around similar interests. Stream together separate news sources (Read More)
: "The FriendFeed social network is a powerful resource. With it you can connect to some brilliant people and learn new things as they learn them. Converse with interesting people around the world around similar interests. Stream together separate news sources into a single place and then kick off some great discussions about them. Read on for fifteen ways that other users are making FriendFeed a more valuable tool for all of us."
TechCrunch
London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet. There’s real demand for this. Any given blog post, for example, may have lots of comments and trackbacks ( (Read More)
: Im loving BackType so much. It's really got me hooked and has opened up a wonderful selection of new blogs and comments I would otherwise never had known about.
And because I follow carefully, the comments are almost certainly going to be useful to me and entice me to get involved. So looking at any other similar options with open arms.