trendsspotting blog
Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch. Youth (age 18 -44), social network users and users with access to mobile internet show early Twitter adoption symptoms.The study – Twitter and status update, was conducted in September 2009, among (Read More)
Submitted by Panda88:
So you've just heard about this "Twitter" thing and you're all juiced up to get online and start twitting [sic] the world with intimate details of your stomach's imminent contents and updates on the status of your dog's recent neutering (poor thing).But wait! Before you're even on a roll, you find yourself suddenly unable t (Read More)
: Strange what some people will do to promote their business or to get their view out there. I've seen some of these actions and I think it's safe to say Twitter (along with all other social sites) hates all of them.
ReadWriteWeb
Yesterday we heard Fox News reporting that Facebook may be responsible for lower GPA scores and now today a new study comes to light claiming that rapid-fire media - like that of Twitter for instance - can actually impact our moral compass. In fact, the study says the fast-moving nature of some online social spaces may not (Read More)
: Perhaps someone should commission a report on the insidious thought-control perpetrated by corporate-owned media ... but then they would never report it would they . . .
TechCrunch
Depending on which numbers you source or believe, all reports agree that the blogosphere continues to expand globally. As the leading blog directory and search engine, Technorati maintains a coveted Authority Index which is considered amongst bloggers as the benchmark for measuring their rank and selling their position with (Read More)
: They ll go together well. Now we havew a boost in Statusphere, but that will level down once the "new" factor wears out und everyone gets tired of it. Then ppl will use both for different means.
: //BackType tracks tweets associated with a source URL regardless of the shortener used to link back to it. twInfluence measures Twitter influencers, not just by followers, but also by reach, velocity, social capital and centralization. Retweetist tracks the most "retweeted" people, URLs, and also those who actively "RT" others. Tweetbacks, Disqus, and Chatcatcher are tracking related tweets and directly connecting and listing them as traditional trackbacks at originating blog posts.
FriendFeed already released APIs and with Facebook opening up the News Feed to developers, apps will emerge that can track blog posts by volume of likes and shared links.
At SXSW, Klout will debut a new service that helps bloggers and content publishers measure Link Authority and a conversation index by tracking the frequency of shared URLs tied to the weighted stature of those sharing them compared to other links shared during the same time frame. //
Delicious/r00vi
Its not 100% possible to protect your posts from leechers, or content theft, without paying for a service, however, here are some methods that might make it a little harder fro them to copy your content. (Read More)
readwriteweb
Nielsen Online, an analytics firm that tracks time spent online at various websites, has issued a report finding that throughout 2008 social networking sites and blogs saw more time spent by users than personal email. While not shocking, the finding does mark an important point in the history of the web.Youth watchers have (Read More)
: Facebook is the best way to visit/to see the world in a few time. Not only it has an amount of nice various applications from usefull applications such as Time Zone, Google Earth and more to the hobbies such games for brain development BUT you meet too from Facebook differents cultures: foods, languages, fashions, movies, news, friends, family, .... . Some of them as a link so you can develop your view to everything to a few time! ONLY, I don't use Facebook for professional exchange mails.
TechCrunch UK
AlertThingy, an Air app for aggregating social networks developed out of the UK, is poised to release an update to its recent version that improves filtering, adds groups and integrates powerful search. Next Tuesday AlertThingy 3.1 will have new filtering options which lets users identify items tagged as . (Read More)
The Guardian
Films and details of campaigners and journalists may breach Human Rights ActPolice are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.Photographs, names and video footage of people attendin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Going beyond traditional media players, teen developer David Nelson has created Muziic Player, an application that harnesses the power of YouTube to offer music lovers around the globe access to the world's largest searchable database of songs.Self described as "a free and legal" application, Muziic lets you stream music fr (Read More)
: OK, I don't really care about the whole free and legal bit, but being able to dream music from YouTube is great. So much amazing live stuff on YouTube. THis is killer.
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
I like Wordpress. There are times thought that I would really like to pull my hair out over things it does, or rather doesn. (Read More)
TwitLinks
It looks like the cat is out of the bag today. If you live and breathe Twitter like I do you probably saw that the accounts: @PoliticalUpdate, @ThreeOclockPot and @twtr_us were suspended. It seems these accounts were suspended possibly due to a blog post by Louis Gray which you can read here, titled “The Newest Annoyance on (Read More)
: I think I got pulled in by the "spam" thing also. I am interested in legitimate ways to use Twitter to promote my blog if anyone has experience and results they can show me...
Mashable!
Twitter has been testing an integrated version of its search engine with a limited number of users over the past few weeks. Tonight, it appears that feature is being pushed live to everyone, as numerous reports have come in to us about the feature and people are (naturally) tweeting about the new look on their homepage.As (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar
A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate or share content or friends across network (Read More)