Mashable!:
Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, with just two days left in the nominations period we thought it would be appropriate to take a look at (Read More)
TwiTip:
by LisaMarieDias – follow her @LisaMarieDiasDuring my introductory class on the basics of Twitter, almost every client asks me, “How do I get followers?” I try to explain that the question really should be “Who should I follow?” While your followers ARE key to the success of your Twitter efforts, the difference between re (Read More)
TwiTip:
Back in October, my wife’s Grandfather, Lou Roth, passed away at the age of 97. During funeral preparations, someone rather clueless and ignorant asked if I was going to tweet during the funeral. By the way, did I mention this was my wife’s grandfather? I knew Lou for twenty years. He was a great guy and I loved him a lot. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Webtoday. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media's content business to Henry Ford's production line for cars. It currently produces 4,000 new pieces of content a day. What's more, Demand Media is increasingly syndicating this content t (Read More)
Mashable!:
Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.The Internet has already radically changed the way we shop. Googling for promotion codes, free shipping, free return shipping, virtual models, live chats with sales associates – it’s al (Read More)
TwiTip:
By POYZN of WamWan – Follow them @POYZN.There’s countless Twitter widgets, tools and sites out there to make your Twitter experience more enjoyable. But the following sites are the pick of the bunch chosen from those sneaky discreet third party text-ads on Twitter itself, placed on user profiles, displayed under the stats.S (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've just found a new application for finding your Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, and other friends from around the web on Facebook - all at once and all quite simply.This tool is called FBFriendFinder. It comes from the Dutch web dev shop Open & Sociaal, and it works like a charm by using OAuth, Facebook Connect (Read More)
Mashable!:
Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here.Ah, Twitter. Out of all the web-related companies, we’ve probably talked about Twitter the most throughout 2009, but we’ve had a very good reason. Twitter is more than just another startup; it’s a communicat (Read More)
Xconomy:
people, startups, Don Dodge Robert Buderi wrote: It was big news here in New England last week when Don Dodge announced on his blog that he had been laid off from Microsoft as part of some 800 layoffs at the software powerhouse. Dodge had been a regular on the innovation scene here in New England—and around the world, (Read More)
Techie Buzz:
Twitter Lists has received widespread acclaim, since its launch. Millions of lists have already been created and the number will only continue to increase. Lists are one of the best ways to make sense of all the noise. However, if you happen to follow hundreds and thousands of users, then grouping them into meaningful lists (Read More)
TwiTip:
by Chris Allison (@neboweb) Social Media Strategist at NeboWeb.I’ll cut to the chase. Twitter isn’t a fad. It’s not going away. Let me tell you why:They Have Industry RecognitionIndustry giants can be intimidating for any new business, especially on the web. Since Twitter’s inception, we’ve seen multiple companies make offe (Read More)
Mashable!:
When Twitter announced that it would soon attach location to tweets, we began to imagine the possibilities. In fact, we made a wishlist of geolocation features we’d like to see Twitter implement. Our top request was the ability to see trending topics by country, state, and city.Apparently, Twitter thinks that’s a solid ide (Read More)
: How About the changes the new adminstration has made wall street bonuses at record levels now that is a change. Unemployment at record levels another change with many more changes to come.
ReadWriteWeb:
It's been two years since ReadWriteWeb last published the Thunderbird 2 review. Since then Thunderbird has been restructured away from Firefox into Mozilla Messaging and the group is finally releasing its desktop email application, Thunderbird 3. While the launch has been widely anticipated, the fact that the entire project (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
Alex Wilhelm, writer for TheNextWeb and a good friend of mine, recently wrote a post to drop the RT @username when distributing other peoples Tweets to your own Twitter followers. I love Alex and all, but RT’s need to stay as is and here is why:1. RT’s Are A Great Way To Discover New PeopleI don’t have the time to go search (Read More)
Submitted by Lemasney
from Google Reader:
To be able to post to Twitter from Google Wave, you must use a Google Wave bot called Tweety or Twitbot (others call it Twave although the bot is officially called Tweety). To add this Twitter bot, go to your contacts in the bottom left corner of Google Wave, click the "+" sign and add this:tweety-wave@appspot.comTo underst (Read More)