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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, [...]
The Twitter Book The Twitter Book O’Reilly Media, Inc. This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know to quickly become a Twitter power user, including strategies and tactics for using Twitter’s 140-character messages as a serious–and effective–way to boost your business. Co-written by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein, widely followed [...]
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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This is a guest post by David Druckenmiller, producer & editor of video, television and documentary film
"First 40 Follow" - a simple twitter strategy
If you have an established twitter account and a good bit of interesting updates, here is a way of having some great fun with Twitter and gaining relevant followers pretty [...]
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Micro-blog your music with BLIP.fm. It’s the best instant gratification music discovery engine we’ve ever used!, and it tweets to twitter. A twitter for music!
Twitter asks “what are you doing, right now?”
BLIP.fm asks “what are you listening to?”
This morning I’m listening to noisy crumb’s BLIP.fm page.
It’s a tool for suggesting songs -and sharing [...]
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The winners of Mashable’s 2nd annual Open Web Awards was announced Dec 16, 2008. The Open Web Awards are a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. By way of an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services [...]
Continue reading about OPEN WEB AWARDS – 26 People’s Choice Winners
PeopleBrowsr (I would have called it PeepBrowsr) is an online app that lets you keep tabs on your online IDs. Kinda like TweetDeck as an online application, but in addition to Twitter, you can keep track of your other online identities. If you have used TweetDeck you will get PeopleBrowsr immediately. Although it’s in Alpha, [...]
On November 28, 2008, Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-126) undocked from the International Space Station after spending 11 days, 16 hours and 46 minutes of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and space station. This photo was taken by an Expedition 18 crewmember aboard the ISS after Endeavour undocked at 08:47 (CST.)
via: Space and Astronautics News – [...]
If you haven’t heard, Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to send tweets (updates – limited to 140 characters) to the Twitter website and your twitter friends. You can find and interact with people with similar interests. You can follow them, and others can follow you. It’s an instant-messaging-meets-social-media-networking tool.
http://twitter.com/Kent_Beatty
This screenshot shows my [...]
What’s your Twitter Account worth in USD?
YATT – Yet Another Twitter Tool – TweetValue – assigns value to any Twitter account in US Dollars. Find out what your Twitter account is really worth.
To find out the value, give TweetValue your Twitter ID and it calculates the value of your account. You can also view the [...]
We connect, relate, group and network:
Facebook is Number 1 Globally but MySpace is still most popular in the United States. Pingdom.com used Google Insights for Search to compare search volume comparisons across global regions and thereby assess Social Network popularity. They looked at the google data to see where the 12 top social [...]
