SheGeeks
I love social media. Within said field, Twitter would be my tool of choice for a lot of things. The conversations are great. The people are great. The community is excellent. The content is awesomesauce. However, there’s one service that has Twitter beat hands down when it comes to content & to some degree even conversatio (Read More)
: "I love social media. Within said field, Twitter would be my tool of choice for a lot of things. The conversations are great. The people are great. The community is excellent. The content is awesomesauce. However, there’s one service that has Twitter beat hands down when it comes to content & to some degree even conversation: Friendfeed."
Delicious/fabcomm
There have been tons of Firefox hacks out there that have been covered to death, but we've recently taken some time out and run a side-by-side comparison on a couple of identical computers from the shop we had laying around. What did we find? You can essentially double your browsing speed if you're currently on a broadband (Read More)
: Worth a try! I moved to Chrome for a while, but couldnt resist going back to FF.. I just love things like Foxmarks and the general feel... Chrome has more work to do yet..
Submitted by Lionelane
from Google Reader:
My news radar has been tuned to "Twitter + PR" for some time now. As this blog has maintained, Twitter is quickly being co-opted by forward thinking communications professionals everywhere.It is only a matter of time before your client asks about this service. Why not get smart about it now, by perusing some of the relat (Read More)
SarahLacy.com
Whether you adore FriendFeed and don't get why your friends don't, or you're one of those friends who just doesn't get the hype, you should check out this post by Louis Gray on what FriendFeed needs to do to grow. (And, I'll add survive.) I'm one of the users he describes that has a good number of followers and has a ton of (Read More)
: I wrote about this problem a while ago, so Louis's views aren't exactly news to me.
Personally, I think Twitter has made people lazy:
"Don’t agree? We routinely use exceptionally complex software each and every day of our business lives. Do we balk at using Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop? No, we don’t. There are alternatives to both, but the fact of the matter is, if you want features, then there’s a commensurate level of complexity associated with those additional features."
But in fairness to Louis and Robert Scoble, there are things the guys behind FriendFeed could do to improve their product:
"However, the alleged failure of FriendFeed is not entirely as a result of an abundance of features, but the inability of the developers to conceal the levels of complexity, allowing a more layered and progressive disclosure, or revealing of those features as the user begins to explore FriendFeed further."
: with all this press on FF, will that now drive new traffic - its worked for me, I have never used it before - don’t see the clear difference between this and Twitter, but I will check it out as a result of all the current commentary..
4 entrepreneur
Today Dennis Goedegebuure from The Next Corner (follow him at @TheNextCorner) makes some predictions about Twitter in 2009.2008 showed an unbelievable growth for Twitter as THE place for microblogging. With competitors like Pownce closing their doors, it seems that Twitter has the stronger cards to become the sole survivor (Read More)
: yes it has too what's interesting is who will buy it Google, MS, Facebook or Vodafone. Still think the combination of Twitter with Friendfeed and SocialMedian fed into my Ecademy profile is truly amazing power.
: @JoshMiller according to MyCompete.com Twitter has 3.4m users, Facebook has 49m and Google 130m. Linkedin has 7.7m users and is no way mainstream. So I guess over 50m users would be my definition.
: The only thing I dislike is that everybody is talking about Twitter and not about the generic possibilities of Microblogging per se. T. is not open, not OpenSource and the sheer momentum is scary.
louisgray.com
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Lifestreaming was a big thing for social media in 2008, and surely will be even bigger in 2009. Thanks to sites like FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm and others, we can easily aggregate our social activities into one central place. As with all of these services, we must l (Read More)
Delicious/oliverg
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Here are 10 free tools for monitoring your brand's reputation. (Read More)
Regarding the feed reader I recommend BlogBridge (Java). BB is the best made tool so far for monitoring self created searches and has the outstanding feature of creating 'smart feeds' which will make managing hundreds even thousands of search feeds and spitting out relevant items into one 'monitoring feed' a breeze.
Chris Charabaruk
Image via CrunchBaseNo doubt you know about Digg, the social news site that lets you "discover the best of the web". It's been a popular site since it first hit the scene four years ago. It's had its fair share of supporters and detractors along the way, from those who thought it would revolutionize news on the inte (Read More)
: I used digg more when the 'blog' function was one click away (now it's two clicks and doesn't always work) I used digg to auto post content to my blog, I've never used it for any other purpose and haven't read the instructions, I use delicious more these days and I'd probably use yahoo's buzz if it were more available as I'm tied into yahoo with BT so I'm always logged in.
Mashable!
Want to see if your friends, family, or colleagues are on Twitter? Now you can through the microblogging tool’s re-launched people search, which lets you query the service by username or first/last name to find other users. The feature had been taken down earlier this year when Twitter was experiencing significant downtim (Read More)
chrisbrogan.com
I’ve already written about Tweetdeck before in my post about using Twitter at volume. And to be honest, you should just skip my post and go read Louis Gray’s piece. Just stop reading this.Still with me? Tweetdeck is a desktop Twitter application. It requires Adobe Air installed on your desktop to run. The cool thing is that (Read More)
: @paulswansen I'm sorry to hear that. I love air apps, and see enormous potential in them. I take it you've tried twhirl? That's the app that Tweetdeck needs to beat for me to make a switch. I'm actually having some trouble installing Tweetdeck. It keeps telling me that a file already has that name. I guess I'll have to delete it first. I'm going to give it a try.
: @michaelfidler - thanks for the reply. Yes I was an early user of Twhilr, and one of the other AIR apps. Neither of which worked on either my Intel iMac or the PPC iMac. I do know of others for whom AIR apps don't work either. It doesn't seem to be a consistent user problem either.
Social Media
Erik Qualman at SearchEngineWatch.com: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox? Excerpt:The "killer app" of the first part of the Internet boom was e-mail.Then came e-commerce, e-care, search, music, video, and now socialmedia. E-mail has held on through the years as arguably the king of theInternet, used by the old and t (Read More)
Submitted by Kehrseite:
Was war am spätem Abend nur wieder bei den deutschen Twitterern los?.... Man kam aus dem Lachen nicht mehr heraus @zellmi aus Stuttgart überlegte nach seiner Aussage schon den ganzen Tag " famous- last-tweets " zu starten und ca. 60 Twitterer machten mit. Sie malten sich aus, wie wohl die "letzte" Twitternachricht eines Men (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
What's that? socialmedian is now on FriendFeed? Yes...sort of. We have now RSS-enabled the "Me" tab on your homepage, which provides a feed of all your socialmedian activities (postings, clippings, comments). This feed formats nicely for FriendFeed or any blog roll widgets. To add your socialmedian feed on FriendFeed: (Read More)
TechCrunch
Burger King launched a new brand of perfume today called Flame by BK. “The Whopper sandwich is America’s favorite burger. Flame by BK captures the essence of that love and gives it to you. Behold the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”My guess is that the controversial advertising agenc (Read More)