Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 20-06-2009
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Beloved by celebrities from Stephen Fry to Britney Spears, the social messaging service, with its limit of 140 characters, is now a global phenomenon and, as the Iranian crisis has proved, a powerful political tool
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Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 20-06-2009
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Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He’s in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. “Still in 10k split,” he said. “Didn’t sleep much but feel OK….” Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of a poker veteran – or is that a head-trip of a bluff intended to make his opponents think he could be slow on his game today?
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Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 19-06-2009
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CrowdEye today unveiled the beta of its innovative real-time social search engine that provides unique views into what people are talking about on Twitter. CrowdEye’s search results provide relevant, interactive ways to keep a pulse on conversations across the web. Results are built upon tweets on all topics, and allow users to understand what topics and links around the web are being most discussed. In addition to viewing raw tweets and links, CrowdEye provides an innovative time-based view that reveals the history of breaking news, and provides one-click access to viewing any search popularity back in time. “Searching social sites like Twitter opens up new roads to innovation”, said Ken Moss, CEO and co-Founder of CrowdEye. “Traditional search is based on web links, but real-time search provides new challenges and opportunities for innovation. Leveraging the amazing social data from platforms like Twitter allows new scenarios to be built that were impossible until recently.
CrowdEye’s new real-time, social search provides users:
- Social search results from Twitter that displays tweets, popular links, and top tags for every search.
- Historical views to examine how the conversation around a topic has evolved over time.
- Powerful query language that allows fine-tuning queries to find the exact topic you’re interested in.
CrowdEye is a new, privately funded started located in the Seattle area that was co-founded by Ken and Becca Moss. Ken has a rich history in the search industry after founding, building and running the Bing search technical team for Microsoft for 5 years.
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Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 19-06-2009
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Someday, when you ask your Twitter followers to recommend the most comfortable running shoe or the best digital camera, you might be able to go one step further and buy the product on the Twitter site.
E-commerce, including links to products and turnkey payment mechanisms, is a likely revenue stream for Twitter, said Todd Chaffee, a Twitter board member and general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, which has invested in Twitter.
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Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 19-06-2009
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One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension, according to a message on the Twitter developers email list from a company support team member.
Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then break those connections with anyone who doesn’t reciprocate, is a method used by some number of Twitter users to create an appearance of legitimacy for subsequent new connections. Twitter’s Doug Williams said last night that such practices will now risk account suspension. Some users will be unhappy about the policy, many others will probably applaud it. There are valid arguments on both sides of the position.
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Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 19-06-2009
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Social networking sites once relegated to the realm of teenagers in basements have become a major tool for professionals and businesses.
A study recently completed by AMI Partners for software company Sage North America found that small businesses are embracing the Internet and social networking sites in particular, as a way to increase their business.
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Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 19-06-2009
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With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook or Twitter, which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
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Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 19-06-2009
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Traditional brands may get the last laugh–or at least the richest laugh–on social networks.
So far, companies such as Facebook and Twitter have attracted all the buzz for creating social networking. Making money, however, has proved more challenging. Using Facebook and Twitter is something like hosting a big cocktail party, observes Brett Hurt, founder and chief executive of Austin-based Bazaarvoice, which offers user-generated review platforms and expertise to other businesses. “But nobody shops at a cocktail party.”
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Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 18-06-2009
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You know the type; always on twitter, looking at their Facebook page, inviting new friends, so on and so forth. It can be fun as well as enjoyable. Is it productive? Are you building your business? Or are you wasting away the days and weeks with nothing more than a couple “maybes”? This is the fallacy of social networking and the home based business. And yet everyone, it seems, is saying, “this is THE wave of the future!” “Jump on board and ride the 2.0 wave to fame and fortune.” Sadly, many home business people have jumped in feet first and now have noting to show for countless hours of effort.
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