June 2009
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MySpace slashes international staff, close offices... →
Even more layoffs at MySpace, this time up to 30% of the total workforce.
Tags: myspace layoffs news efficiency
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Top Five Twitter Analytical Tools →
Here’s a post by Rob Callari discussing his top 5 tweet analysis tools.
Tags: twitter analysis 3rd party tools news
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Updates to the Station super structure
I have made some minor fixes to the template behind this website. If you have any other suggestions or comments, please add a comment to this post or email me direct.
Here are the details:
I have finally fixed the comments problem, in that no-one could post any. Click any post, add comments, reply to others and so on. It should work thanks to Disqus.
Tumblr notes (i.e., when someone...
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Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan... →
An article by Fred Vogelstein on how Facebook plans to take on Google for the internet battle ground.
Tags: facebook google firewall internet news
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CNN Loves Twitter, But Doesn’t Seem To Always Know... →
Interesting piece at Techcrunch commenting on CNN using Twitter but with broken link directing.
Tags: twitter cnn techcrunch links news
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Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran | TED... →
Revealing question session with Clay Shirky regarding his recent talk on Twitter and the media revolution.
Tags: twitter shirky media news ted
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Twicsy - Search Twitter Pics →
An image search tool for Twitter. Equivalent (but more lightweight) than Google images.
Tags: twitter 3rd party service photo search
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TwitVid - Share Videos on Twitter →
Free 3rd party service for sharing video over Twitter.
Tags: twitter 3rd party video service news
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Nielsen: Twitter grows user base almost 1,500% in... →
Short comment on recently released numbers from Nielsen online about Twitter’s staggering growth. Facebook is still top of the heap.
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Facebook and Divorce: Airing the Dirty Laundry |... →
It seems folks involved in delicate life experiences such as divorce are using social media to vent. This means that Facebook etc., are useful tools for children and lawyers to find out things.
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Clean Tweets: Get Rid of Twitter Trend Spam →
Clean Tweets is a firefox extension that removes selected content from trending topics. It also allows for stopping tweets from accounts that issue these spam topic (c/o BW).
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Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On... →
Mike Arrington discusses Facebook’s latest approach for dealing with the Twitter threat.
Tags: facebook twitter plans techcrunch news
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Socialcast →
This is an enterprise communication tool not unlike Yammer but with Friendfeed like features. Does it add value? I plan to try it and see.
Tags: yammer twitter enterprise communication
Is Twitter The CNN Of The New Media Generation? |... →
Brian Solis has written a relatively lengthy piece about the recent 140 Characters Conference (#140conf). The focus here is on Twitter (new media) interacting with old media.
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Twitter testing verified accounts
Twitter is now trialling verifiable accounts for popular Twitterers (i.e., in beta). This service is being tested on well known folk like artists, athletes, musicians, actors, etc. to prove they are who they say they are. This does not mean, however, that they actually tweet but that the account is legitimately connected with them in some way.
The approach taken by Twitter is to add a new badge...
MySpace staff slashed almost 30% | Computerworld →
More on recent layoffs at MySpace HQ as a consequence of stagnating growth.
Tags: myspace redundancy plateau facebook news
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WatchClay Shirky speaking recently at TED. This is a great talk that illustrates the massive changes to media distribution, participation and consumption through four compelling stories.
Official Google Research Blog: Google Fusion... →
Google has announced a new lab tool for building databases into the cloud - Fusion Tables. Supposedly this approach is to revolutionise the database space - big ask.
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How Facebook and Twitter are changing data privacy... →
Interesting discussion around the often trivial concernfrom executives with data privacy (outside of health data). Twitter and Facebook may help improve this situation.
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The Power of Twitter’s "Suggested User" List |... →
Further comment on Twitter’s suggested user list for newbies. Easy way to break the 100,000 barrier for the uninteresting (if you can get on it).
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Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL | ... →
A short piece discussing a smart? selection for a new Facebook username.
Tags: facebook username unique techcrunch news
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In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World | Sysomos →
More stats on Twitter performance and demographics as at June 2009. This social media analytics company examined 11.5 million Twitter accounts.
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Digital Domain - Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google... →
Interesting discussion about accessing real-time data on the internet with Google and Twitter. Neither do it presently but does it matter?
Tags: google twitter speed search news
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Twitpocalypse NOW! Twitter App Armageddon Strikes... →
Y2K is coming to Twitter. In this case the identifier for tweets is about to exceed 2,147,483,647. This may cause problems for 3rd part apps or it may not.
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Visualizing the Twitter Trends Attack | PandaLabs →
A fascinating look at the ongoing phishing attacks on Twitter. It does not look like they are stopping anytime soon. Check out the diagrams.
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Twitition →
Create your own Twitter-based petition about anything can get your tweeple to sign it. Easy and free.
Tags: twitter service petition free news
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Facebook to offer vanity URLs
According to their blog, Facebook is set to to support vanity URLs or descriptive usernames to more easily identify and link Facebook accounts. This is a big deal so in preparation for the rush, Facebook have teased their community by promoting an exact day and time to release this service - June 13th 4:01pm (see the dynamic timer by clicking the image above).
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140 Labs - Coming Soon! →
This collection of Twitter innovators intend to develop and release Twitter-based services and communities. Stay tuned (c/o Techcrunch).
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Video Capture and Upload Coming to iPhone Twitter... →
mashable:
Today’s iPhone 3G S announcement at Apple’s WWDC has huge implications for application developers. Because the new hardware will support video capture and trimming, that functionality can…
iPhone 3GS offers speed boost, video capture |... →
More information about the new features of the new “3GS” model iPhone from Apple.
Tags: apple iphone 3gs computerworld news
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Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp |... →
A new 3rd party service that will charge for helping manage access to celebrities and vice-versa through the direct messaging system.
Tags: twitter pay service celebrity techcrunch
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | TIME →
Author Steven Johnson’s view on Twitter, particularly how the service is evolving thanks to the community (c/o MKP). BTW: This is the print version.
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What are the people of Twitter twittering about? →
See what the folks working at Twitter tweet about on this site built by David Winer.
Tags: twitter service employees tweets news
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Modeling The True Value Of Social Networks: 2009... →
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch looks at the market value for the top social media sites. Unsurprisingly Facebook comes out top.
Tags: facebook social media value news techcrunch
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How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could... →
An essential read from RWW about how Twitter staff are using or perhaps not using Twitter in relation to hard-core tweeters. (c/o SS)
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EFF Launches Terms of Service Tracker for... →
Here’s a new website from the EFF to track changes to terms of service (TOS) for numerous online services like Facebook, MySpace etc.
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The Case Against Twitter, By The Numbers | Silicon... →
A spurious collection of numbers presented as way to show that Twitter is not doing as well in terms of numbers as the hype would suggest. What’s you interpretation?
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Google Wave: A new kind of mega-application | CIO →
Nice overview of Google Wave.
Tags: google wave collaboration messaging news
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Ashton Hits 2 Million Followers on Twitter |... →
Aston Kutcher has set another celebrity popularity benchmark on Twitter. This time 2,000,000 followers, which has arrived far quicker than the first million.
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China blocks Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Hotmail... →
China continues to shutdown internet services such as Twitter, Flickr, etc. to prevent dissidents connecting about Tiananmen square. (c/o MKP)
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Facebook use grows by 700%, maintains top spot |... →
MySpace is trending downwards while Facebook and Twitter head towards the stars. Check out the original Nielsen report for more.
Tags: facebook twitter myspace trends uptake
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What Brands Want From A Twitter Client | Web... →
Jeremiah Owyang presents features that business desires from a Twitter client.
Tags: twitter client business features news
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Gen Y's Are Not Yet Taking Flight on Twitter |... →
Here is a press release from the PMN (Participatory Marketing Network) about Twitter demographics. The kids aren’t playing - yet.
Tags: twitter uptake gen-y news charts
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New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody... →
As Twitter becomes more of a well-known phenomenon, more research is starting to appear. Here is some from an MBA student at Harvard that contains interesting stats.
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