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Recommending "Experience: The Blog's : Nineteen Free Twitter Tools that Turn Tweets into Knowledge

fredzimny — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:13:05 +0000

Found at http://www.experiencetheblog.com/2009/09/nineteen-free-twitter-tools-that-turn.html

Twitter hosts approximately one million tweets per hour. In mid-September, the site will accept its 4 billionth tweet. Everyone knows there is wisdom in all that group thought–some even predict Twitter could be the next Google–but how can you tap the brainpower of Twitter’s 6 million (give or take) users?

That’s Twitter’s $64,000 question (or, according to Scoble, the $5 billion question). The reason there’s so much hype about a microblogging tool with almost no apparent means of revenue or profit is that everyone realizes the amazing value contained in all those 140-character status updates.

To be continued at http://www.experiencetheblog.com/2009/09/nineteen-free-twitter-tools-that-turn.html

Twitter Is Fighting With Their Users For Metadata (regulargeek.com)
Twitter adds lists: is it mining users for reputation? (guardian.co.uk)
In-Stream Twitter Ads: You’re Already Doing Them [Yes, You] (siliconangle.net)
The Return of Pay Per Post: Your Twitter Feed (and Internet) is Just One Long, Subervisive Ad (gawker.com)
BREAKING: Microsoft’s Bing and Twitter search results live [Screenshots] (inquisitr.com)
Twitter Helps Dilbert Goof Off at Work [Cartoon] (mashable.com)

If you like my Tweets, then Retweet my Tweets…

Kuya Marc — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

For those that don’t know, I do a lot of Tweets in Twitter. They used to appear in Facebook, but I r

Blog Advisory: Meebo Active… Again!

Kuya Marc — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0000

While I was looking for an alternative solution for contacting me, online, other than through Twitte

micro-blogging what?

joanyy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:16:36 +0000

Well, ask anyone about micro-blogging and they will probably mention the word “twitter” only a gazillion times within a short span of 5 sec.

The fact that the whole entire freaking world is on it allows twitter to monopolize the micro-blogging sphere.

Well but on my site, i will tell you that twitter definitely isn’t on its own in this cyber world.

Who are the “mini me’s” of twitter exactly?

www.jaiku.com for one is a micro-blogging platform that has support for RSS and Flickr. However if condensing your thoughts in 140 characters is a chore to you and you feel like hitting yourself every time you exceed, Jaiku will definitely make you whack yourself with just one 100 characters allowance. Jaiku also have lesser mobility as compared to twitter with more services to sync you up to the site even on the go. With the entire planet on twitter, it is obvious that even with their impressive web 2.0 Jaiku still loses out to our twit buddy!

NEXT!

www.yammer.com, the Linkedin equivalent. Conversations in Yammer are formed amongst colleagues and members of the industry. To own a Yammer account, a valid corporate email address is needed. Instead of asking “whats happening?” like on twitter, Yammer asks professionals “what are you working on?”. On top of that conversations in Yammer have instant alerts when there are updates and can be sorted into threads.

www.identi.ca, the newest of the three mentioned supports RSS. Its competitive edge against the others is that it is an open source, users can download the source code and distribute it from their own server. Their search system is also more advance as users can search for people by both name and interest however they have a small user base as updates can only be viewed on their site. Yes you heard me right, no sparkly tweetdeck or hootsuite to glam up this micro-blogging site.

Having a rough idea of a few of the micro-blogging sites available on the market, I bet I was still unable to shake the foundations of your undying love for twitter.

It could be the alluring blue bird that beckons our loyalty but i got this strong hunch that it is because of the accessibility of it regardless of your location that keeps us connected, keep us coming back for more. The countless apps on various platforms make twitting easier, faster and constant. (dont get me started on hootsuite and twitterberry)

Whats next you might ask.

Rumors have it that there is a new competitor coming up in the social networking arena.

Heard of www.playfoursquare.com ?

It is a wicked combination of mobile browsing, gaming and location tracking. Users can keep an updated account of their movements and add on side notes on interesting locations and places that are automatically twitted.

Paired with new technologies, its potential is exciting to even think of!

Intéressant point de vue sur Google Wave (source: Le Soir)

huguesrey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:56:09 +0000

les impressions de Gil Durand

mardi 24 novembre 2009

AFP

Réservé dans un premier temps à un public restreint, Google Wave devient, grâce à la multiplication des invitations, de plus en plus accessible. Nous l’avons testé. Après plusieurs semaines d’utilisation, voici nos impressions. Que propose concrètement Google Wave ? Peut-il séduire le grand public ? Décryptage.

Google Wave, c’est quoi ? Avec Google Wave, Google ambitionne de proposer un service de communication et de collaboration qui, selon le géant américain, devrait combiner l’usage du mail, du chat, des réseaux sociaux, des forums et du travail collaboratif. Rien que ça. Imaginé par les créateurs de Google Maps, le projet ressemblerait selon eux à l’email s’il était inventé aujourd’hui. Ca reste relativement… vague, comme définition.

En résumé, Google Wave n’est rien d’autre qu’un espace de communication inséré dans une interface sobre à la sauce Google et doté de fonctionnalités avancées. Tout un programme.

Google Wave, c’est pour qui ? Dans un premier temps (en mai 2009), Google Wave était réservé à un cercle restreint, principalement composé de développeurs – le projet est open-source. Depuis le 30 septembre, environ 100 000 internautes ont eu accès à la version « preview » de l’interface. Mais ces derniers ayant par la même occasion reçu 8 invitations supplémentaires, le nombre d’utilisateurs potentiels devrait sensiblement augmenter.

A terme, l’objectif de Google est évidemment de toucher le plus large public possible, de l’internaute lambda aux grandes entreprises. Car, en partant des deux principes de base – communication et collaboration – Google Wave devient avant tout ce qu’on en fait : un chat amélioré, une interface de travail collaboratif, un espace de discussion libre,…

http://www.lesoir.be/la_vie_du_net/actunet/2009-11-24/le-souffle-google-wave-va-t-il-retomber-739889.shtml

Kweeper, un complément à Twitter.

ac0nit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:52:28 +0000

Aujourd’hui je vais vous parler de Kweeper.

Alors, Kweeper c’est quoi ? Kweeper : la manière la plus facile de micro-blogguer, mémoriser et partager ses images, textes, vidéos et sons de façon visuelle et graphique.

Pour faire simple, ce site permet de citer un extrait d’un article, une image ou une vidéo, et des les rassembler sur une page un peu à la manière d’un mur facebook.

Autre similarité avec un réseau social connu : Kweeper reprends le principe des followings/followers. Dans les faits, on peut suivre les kweeps (les citations, images et vidéos publiées) des utilisateurs, et être suivi.

On retrouve, comme sur twitter, un profil avec une biographie, un avatar et un website.

On peut également, à l’ajout de nouveaux kweeps, leurs adjoindre des tags, sur le principe des articles de blog.

Kweeper vous permet de blogguer facilement et rapidement. Kweeper est le gardien de vos coups de coeur sur le web, votre bibliothèque à portée de main, partout, tout le temps.

Personnelement, je pense que kweeper est un excellent complément à twitter. Il permet de faire partager des articles, des images ou des photos comme twitter, mais a l’avantage de tous rassembler sur une même page.

Le service est encore relativement récent et en béta (le site à ouvert il y a deux mois), et peut encore s’améliorer : on regrettera par exemple l’impossibilité kweeper un morceau Deezer, Spotify ou encore Last.fm (Charles Ele, si tu m’entends ). Cependant, malgré ces petites lacunes on devient très vite accro. A suivre donc avec une grande attention durant les mois à venir !

Liens utiles : Kweeper, le quid , Kweeper sur Twitter

Therapy Blogging

marissavandevelde — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:27:36 +0000

Don’t we all have days when everything seems to go wrong and we just want to blow off some steam? Well, in 2008, three French guys found the perfect solution for that. It was a micro-blog called VieDeMerde, which can be literally translated as shitty life. On this website, people can describe their worst moment of that day in a 300-character message, starting with “Aujourd’hui” (“Today”) and concluding with “VDM” (“Life sucks”).

Off course the Americans could not stay behind and launched FMyLife.com. This complete replica of the French site gained much more popularity globally spread the phenomenon. People from all over the world started sending their stories. Since a great amount was not worth publishing, the moderating team came up with a solution, they explain on their site. After submitting, visitors rate the anecdote, which is then being judged on credibility, originality and use of language, by the moderators. Based on this, the message is either placed in the “Top” or “Flop” category. Once placed, viewers have the wonderful opportunity to get involved and either vote “I agree, your life sucks” or “You totally deserve it”.

Not everyone likes FMyLife, though. In England some optimist were not exactly keen on the website and came up with GivesMeHope.com a site only about the perfect things in life. Pierre Mannoni, an American sociologist, even argued that: ”It can be dangerous to describe oneself endlessly as a loser.” (InsideVandy.com) However I would like to agree with my fellow-blogger Scott of The Three Rs, who better descibes it as “twisted counselling service.” Because every now-and-then, doesn’t a little whining and comparing to other people’s miserable life feel nice? After all, we are only human…

Sources:

Twitter 101

gabrielgruber — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:08 +0000

Tweet, tweet, bla, bla

mccraftigan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:04 +0000

Twitter is a phenomenon. Simple, as well as intangible. The concept of the so-called micro blogging is easy: short messages, that contain a maximum of 140 characters can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. However, one questions remains: Why should we use micro blogging?

As I have been reading through loads of different messages – or “Tweets” – I found most of them being completely irrelevant. A lot of them would say “Just woke up”, “Walking the dog” or even “Be right back”.

Now, is it really necessary or useful to share your every thought, your life and your sensitivities with the rest of the world? Or is Twittering just a pathetic attempt to strive for self-affirmation?

On the other hand, Twitter offers companies, journalists, politicians and other professionals a whole new way of communicating with the rest of the world. Nevertheless, those serious or professional Tweets remain more of an exception than the rule.

Twitter, with currently over 300 million members, seems to be the biggest hype on the net. The eagerness of people to connect with each other, and the simplicity with which Twitter allows them to, has made it the most popular community network online. Anyways, where did our sense of privacy go? Do we really want to bother the rest of the world with our personal problems?

Finally, we should ask ourselves this: did our need for interpersonal communication really decrease to 140 characters?