TechCrunch:
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience.In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offe (Read More)
Mashable!:
The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications. If you haven’t nominated yet – and you can nominate once per category per day – now’s the ti (Read More)
Mashable!:
As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings.As such (Read More)
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Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for “That Morning Show” on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com.A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current econo (Read More)
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Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.Unsure about mixing your iPhone with wine? Well, if you’re a tru (Read More)
Mashable!:
Gather ’round, social media lovers, for ’tis time for this week’s Lunchtime Poll! As you may know by now, the way it works is simple. We’ll throw out a poll question, start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine folks have at it in the comments. Last week we looked at your favorite Faceboo (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
The Twitter Blog has a short blog post mentioning that they have added technology “to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” Clearly, this is Twitter’s first step in improving Twitter Search by adding relevancy and search quality factors to the search algorithm. (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Stephen Baker, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek
I’ve been carrying out a small experiment in one of the areas of greatest potential abuse of social media: Twitter marketing. If you Google “Twitter buy followers,” you’ll see lots of choices. One outfit called Quick Online Tips offers 100,000 followers for a mere $3,479. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter’s Trending Topics area is one of the easiest things to game on the web. Even when trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave and get some people seeing their spammy nonsense. Today, Twitter is acknowledging this.In a post on its blog, Twitter notes that t (Read More)
Mashable!:
While Twitter’s Trending Topics have been an amazing tool for tracking what’s happening not only on Twitter, but in the world in general, they’ve been plagued by spam. The result has been the deterioration of Twitter trends to a point where viewing tweets within trends has simply become a mess.Twitter knows this is a probl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter has just activated the retweet button a a small number of accounts, according to a blog post. The retweet button was originally announced back in August. Below you’ll find a picture of what the retweet functionality will look like. Here’s the text of the post:“We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very (Read More)
mashable:
Earlier this week, we wrote about how news organizations are already using Twitter Lists. Today, they’re getting their first major test, by way of a tragic breaking news event – a deadly shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. Details are still coming in about the event, but Lists being created by major news brands are providing s (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last night, Amazon sent out emails to their Amazon Associates members touting the latest addition to the company's affiliate program: a new feature called "Share with Twitter." According to the email, participants can generate "tweetable" links to any Amazon product after first logging into their Associates account. By clic (Read More)
: I actually like the idea, if it is utilized correctly. Of course it can be used or abused like anything in affiliate marketing, but if used properly it would benefit everyone, including Twitter followers.
Mashable!:
Google Alerts, once the secret of savvy online marketers and social media experts, have become the de facto way for the masses to keep one eye always on the web.While there have been attempts to apply the instant alerts concept to Twitter, we haven’t seen an application get the formula completely right yet. Perhaps we spoke (Read More)