Its was bond to happen. They say imitation is the best form of flatery….twitpic founder Noah Everett has unveiled Heello, his feature-for-feature copy of Twitter. Heello looks and acts like Twitter in almost every way. Instead of tweeting, users you send “pings” to their followers. The language is different. Instead of retweeting, you use “echo” [...]
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The Nominet Trust is a UK-based charity with the mission to “support initiatives that contribute to a safe and accessible Internet, used to improve lives and communities.” Recently, they published a report entitled, “The Impact of Digital Technologies on Human Wellbeing.” It makes for interesting reading about the impact of digital technologies on human wellbeing. “The impact [...]
For all those who love to share across all social media platforms —This is for you. Happy Friday
Despite its 140 limit on characters on twitter, a website from the University of Trento lets users explore the Twitterverse, using only the humble tweet as a signifier of gender differences. On Tweetolife, users can enter a series of words, upon which the website will return the number of times male tweeters use the word in [...]
1. Twitter tightens the screw further on its ecosystem: it’s about to announce its own photo-sharing service. 2. eBay-for-vacation-rentals Airbnb is reportedly raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. 3. We learned a bunch of incredible things about Google over the week-end.
Friends, fans & followers are influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions in ever-more sophisticated ways. Which is why you need to check out our May 2011 Trend Briefing: THE F-FACTOR. The briefing highlights five ways in which consumers’ purchasing decisions are changing, and brings you plenty of examples of brands, from Diesel, Visa and Macy’s to Disney and [...]
The NY Times recently reported what regular users of Twitter already know. Follower counts are an indicator of influence but not a very good one. And yes, followers can be and are gamed frequently with the assistance of shady web services. Here are a few more critical Twitter influence indicators: 1. Lists Being included on [...]
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 …characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.” is 5 TODAY! Five years ago, co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the very first tweet over Twitter’s servers (back then, it was [...]
What do all of the major social and business networks have in common. The answer. They all allow users the ability to discover or connect. Humans by their nature are both inquisitive and require the need for community. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs highlights this fact. These are the fundamental building blocks of any relationship and [...]
Whilst doing a quick search on our title I scrolled down to the bottom of the search results and happened to notice something different than the usual search results that I was used to. At the bottom was this: I then clicked on the social circle link and was presented with this page
The Pareto principle, more commonly known as the 80/20 rule, is the idea that roughly 80 percent of activity will be accounted for by 20 percent of the participants. Vilfredo Pareto’s initial observation at the start of the 20th century, that 80 percent of Italy’s land was owned by 20 percent of the population, has [...]
My last few tweets… My footwear of choice today will be my Hunter Originals http://bit.ly/6m5knK #Facebook tool prints and mails personal newsletter http://bit.ly/5L7IBw Interesting article from @EntMagazine about Learn how to sell yourself to prospects in 6 simple steps. http://bit.ly/7K1cE9 MapMyIndia Launches TrailBlazer, Navigation Device for MotorBikers http://bit.ly/6SYlj8 #mobile #technology #india Ad figures for 2009 [...]
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