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Looking for info on Social Media?
For the easy primer, see the 1st slide deck below, “Social Media in Plain English.”
For a more advanced explanation, view slide deck #2, “What is Social Media and Why Should [...]
TweetDeck has been my Twitter Control Center for several months and now with Version 0.26 it’s even more powerful:
Newest features:
Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts - (for you split personality types)
Sync and Backup - to keep your TweetDeck safe
Spam button – use this to avoid twitter spam
iPhone – take all your TweetDeck [...]
The fastest accelerating & growing segment on Facebook is the
35-54 Year Olds.
The iStrategists & Peter Corbett over at iStrategy Labs have released their latest granular examination of Facebook’s demographics. (Download 2009 Facebook Demographics and Statistics as an Excel spreadsheet)
The iStrategists’s Top Insights:
1) The 35-54 year old demo is growing fastest, with a 276.4% growth [...]
Seesmic Desktop Launched Today.
This is Twhirl on Steroids!
From Mashable:
The new Seesmic Desktop is a dream application for the frequent status updater, group lover, and social media meme tracker alike, and now includes support for multiple columns that can be rearranged via drag-and-drop, custom and manageable groups, a left navigation bar for managing multiple accounts and [...]
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Ignite Social Media has compiled their 2008 Social Network Analysis Report: Geographic, Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed – the sources are Google Insights and Google Adplanner.
You will find some very interesting insights in these reports which cover 42 different social networks. Presented for your convenience below are the data on twitter (because twitter is my [...]
In the 6,527 days since the Tim Berners-Lee made the first web page we’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now – sharing data with the semantic web:
Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine) at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nov 5 – 7, 2008, in San Francisco, CA gives his impressionistic view of [...]
On March 19, 2008, before the candidates were nominated, Mike Elgan wrote a column entitled “Has Digg Already Picked the President?” suggesting that social networks might be the best predictor of the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. He was right:
“At the time, I conducted an analysis that varied from site to site, and included [...]
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Do you lay awake at night worrying about whether you have your username registered with every site that you should? Did someone take your username before you registered it?
Username Check Tool
This is very handy, see if the new username you’ve dreamed up is available without visiting each site!
Provided by: Jon Sykes
addthis_url [...]
I first noticed iJustine about 3 months ago. At first I thought she was just a curiosity but since she was kind of geeky I looked a little closer and saw that she has a large audience and has attained a respectable level of success. She creates BUZZ. Her geek videos go viral. She [...]
Simplicity to Complexity,
from one connection to a social web explosion!
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YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley
“How We Did It”
Chad was the speaker for June 2008 Startup2Startup dinner.
He told the story of how YouTube was started by the three co-founders - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal who [...]
“The Machine is Us/ing Us:
Web 2.0 in Under Five Minutes”
A video created by Michael Wesch in February of 2007. Michael talked about about how everything is connected and his background in cultural anthropology during an interview with John Batelle. From Michael’s blog, “I sent it to 10 people. Four days later it was the [...]
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