So this post is inspired by Mrs M, who saw me playing on tweetpic this afternoon (for fun, yes a little bit geeky behaviour in hindsight!) looked over my shoulder and saw my favourites bar that is full of different twitter tools.  

She said to me “I bet if you listed all the twitter tools in your favourites bar some people might have a go at using them and find it useful”.  

So here they are, explore and enjoy!

 And my current favourite twittearth.com…

Estoy enganchado a twitter… lo reconozco. Ya ha pasado a ser la aplicación que más uso en mi iPhone, incluso por delante del correo o de la navegación por internet.

Pero es que hay que reconocer que he encontrado un grupo de usuarios estupendos a los que sigo y que además de divertirme con las cosas que cuentan, siempre tienen algo que enseñarte o recomendarte.

Y entre las cosas que he aprendido de ellos es que hay multitud de herramientas asociadas de alguna forma a twitter que si bien algunas veces no son más que un ejercicio de tecnología, otras (la mayoría) son realmente útiles.

Así que me he decidido a recopilar unas cuantas, más que nada por que seguro que a mi mismo se me van olvidando y así tengo una página donde aparecen algunas de las más interesantes.

Vamos con ellas:

Twitter Search – http://search.twitter.com/

La búsqueda de twitter. Por un lado, te muestra los términos más utilizados por los twitteros en esos momentos (los trending topics). De alguna forma es un reflejo de “lo que se está hablando” en el Mundo, de los temas que más interesan en ese momento.

Pero además, puedes hacer búsquedas de los términos que quieras. Por ejemplo, puedes poner el nombre de tu equipo favorito de fútbol, el nombre de tu empresa o de la película que quieres ir a ver. Podrás leer todos los comentarios que hacen al respecto los usuarios de la comunidad de twitter.

Aunque no funciona muy bien, puedes elegir que te muestre sólo los mensajes escritos en tu idioma o en todos.

De rebote, te puede servir para encontrar usuarios que escriben cosas de tu interés y sguirlos a partir de ese momento.

A mi, sinceramente, me parece una herramienta alucinante y que tiene muchas posibilidades. Hay veces que me paso muchos minutos buscando temas que me interesan y viendo qué dicen sobre ello.

twubble – http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/

twubble me encanta. Sólo tienes que ir a la web y pulsar en ‘Find some friends’. Te pedirá tu usuario y password de twitter y te dirá a quiénes siguen tus amigos. Lo más normal es que encuentres gente que comparten tus mismos intereses. Desde la misma web, puedes pulsar el botón de follow para empezar a seguir sus twitts.

TweetStats – http://tweetstats.com/

Otra herramienta muy interesante, que te permite sacar un montón de gráficas relativas a tu usuario de twitter: cuántos twitts envías al mes, el agregado por días de la semana, a quién envías más @replies, etc.

Twittervision – http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d

Vale, éste no sirve para nada, pero es muy espectacular! Te muestra el timeline público de twitter y desde dónde está escribiendo cada persona. Lo más alucinante es que lo muestra en una imagen 3D de la tierra que va girando en función de dónde se publican los mensajes.

Hay una versión con el mapa en 2D si pulsas en ‘Classic View’

Twist – http://twist.flaptor.com/

Este servicio es similar a Google trends ya que nos permite buscar un término cualquiera y ver la evolución de las menciones que ha habido en twitter en los últimos 7 ó 30 días. Incluso puedes comparar varios si los separas por comas. Muy útil para ver si mencionan más a tu equipo o a su eterno rival

Y hay muchísimos más… como Qwitter que usa twitter para dejar de fumar! o trackthis que permite seguir el estado de los paquetes que te envían por UPS, Fedex o DHL (muy apropiado para usar después de las keynotes de Apple)

Seguro que vosotros conocéis muchas más, así que os invito a que me dejéis en los comentarios las más útiles y así poder compartirlas con el resto de lectores.

Mientras os recomiendo un sitio donde podéis encontrar decenas de aplicaciones para twitter: http://twitterapps.co.uk/ (en inglés)

 Happy Friday Everyone!

I had a good week and I have a lot on my mind today. We got good news that the Cook Islands job seems to be heading full-steam in the right direction now that we know that MD stands for Managing Director and not Medical Doctor as we had previously thought.  In addition, recently we got even more good news on the Thailand job front as well. Rip was informed on Wednesday that the off-site position with that American company seems to be coming along nicely as well. His schedule would be 13 hrs a day on Saturday, Sunday and Monday then off for 4 days. Of course if we can go to the Islands that would be a dream but making American wages in Thailand would be hard to turn down. It’s interesting to  me that life is presenting us with these opportunities that seem to be polar opposites. I can’t help but wonder why. Is life somehow asking us to decide what we need the most at this point in our lives? Making that decision will be tough.

Do we embrace a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live a tranquil  island lifestyle on a remote, self sustaining island paradise while making  an average but adequate New Zealand salary, and little in the way of healthcare? This would definitely heal our souls, but what if one of us gets sick while we are there?

-or-

Do we  feed our need for adventure and  go to Thailand? We can experience what life is like there with more than enough money to live comfortably and the opportunity to work from anywhere with high speed internet access. This will allow the ability to travel every few months to a different location. Thailand is known around the world as having a sophisticated high tech healthcare industry which would definitely heal our bodies ~but will Thailand heal our souls?  I can only say that I hope we don’t have to be the ones to make this decision. I hope somehow it’s made for us with one job (hopefully not both) falling through.  In the worst case scenario of losing both opportunities, we will go to Thailand and both teach English. Rip is showing interest in teaching math in a university setting and my skills are marketable for teaching (English) in Thailand as well. Regardless, a decision at some point will need to be made. Our depositions are scheduled for June 2nd which is only 6 weeks away. Once that’s done, we are free to travel abroad. To all our friends, thanks for coming along on our wild journey up ’til now. Stay tuned for the continuing saga of Another Beautiful Adventure!

I am posting some cool sites I’ve come across on the web. I wanted to share them with you today.

 For all our geeky-tech friends~ Dave and Julie, Mark (who looks just like Leo Di Caprio),  my secret lover~Q,  and the rest of you~ you know who you are!  I thought this was just the coolest flash drive I’ve seen yet.  It’s called the LaCie IamaKey.  It looks like a regular key on your keychain and stores 8GB of data. The price is very reasonable at $25-$33. 

 This is fascinating to me for some reason and I don’t even use twitter! You can see tweets in real time all over the globe. You really should see this if you haven’t already. There’s no signing up, just twitter on over to Twitter Vision to check it out. 

And finally, it just wouldn’t be the weekend without some good Blues and  BBQ Art!  Enjoy your weekend!

Twitter is all the rage now. In the past week alone I’ve seen it emerge as the cover story of business magazines, mention during news broadcasts and continual mention by colleagues.  It doesn’t take long before you have hundreds if not thousands of “followers”.  How you use Twitter, or any other social network, will determine whether the time you invest in social marketing will be meaningful to you and your business.

So can there be a real-world value and ROI to social networking and your integrated marketing plan?
Absolutely!

I have personally have engaged in discussion with businesses throughout US and Canada, resulting in strategic partnership and new business for my search engine & internet marketing firm.

…all of which were initiated via Twitter!

But there is more to Twitter mania, especially if geographic marketing plays any role in how you proactively market your business. 

Just as we did in traditional marketing before the internet (yup, I’m that old), geographic targeting can be extremely valuable in determining whether a medium will reach target audiences. Twitter Map solutions, in theory, could be used much in the same way to build and deploy an effective social marketing strategy. 

Although very early in development, I anticipate the integration of social media, mapping and marketing will become far more sophisticated and meaningful to the marketing mix – soon!

There are currently a variety of applications and websites that allow you to find, map and track your Tweeps for a more meaningful dialogue.

Here are just a few current Twitter mapping applications to check out for viability from a marketing, networking and sales perspective:

Tweetmapper.com
Map your tweets! This application lets you tell Twitter followers where you are, where you’ve travelled, places to go and things to do, even share news around you – as it’s happening.

This application could be useful for event promotions, travel and hospitaility marketing, blogging, professional clubs and associations, chambers of commerce, the list goes on. If you’re on the move and want people to know…this could be a great way to leverage that Twitter account.

Twittermap.com
offers a similar solution that integrates Google Maps with Twitter profiles and recent tweets. You can type in a location and view Tweeters by city, state, zip code, even street name. It doesn’t appear to refresh in real time, however if you are interested in learning where the Twitter population is in any given geographic location, Twittermap could be an interesting tool.

Twittervision.com
This is basically what it sounds like…a visual display of Tweets by displaying them from their geographic location. This website offers a cool worldwide perspective of Twitter and doesn’t offer much control, but is interesting to see, so I’ve included it.

TwitSpy.com
Offers a similar experience to Twittervision with scrolling Tweets. It does offer a filter by Twitter profile, location, etc, which is a little clunky, but interesting. This would become much more interesting for business, marketing and networking if it offered you the ability to integrate your Followers without having to follow your Tweeps, one at a time. (which you can do on Twitter much more easily)…we’ll see where this one goes.

TwitterGrader.com
Twitter Grader is a ranking site that “grades” Tweeters within any geogrphical profile you enter. You can view entire Twitterdom, by country, state, or city. By entering the Twitter user name you get the score, profile, view the “tweet cloud” (keywords reflecting tweet topics), and other interesting data. By entering city, you can view the top Twitter users in any area, identifying potential strategic partners as influencers, people to follow, or as competition to overcome.

The best way to use social marketing mapping tools to support business goals is to first build a social marketing strategy and use the data to support those efforts.

Another way to leverage Twitter and mapping is to add a Twitter Google Map Mashup on your website. This is an entirely different discussion for a future entry! 

How will you use Twitter Maps for marketing, networking and business development?

Mention in these solutions is not an endorsement of these solutions. I encourage you to check them out to determine whether they might be of value to you.

La cosa non è di interesse strettamente letterario ma mi sembra una rappresentazione efficace di cosa si intende per cognizione collettiva e accumulazione di contenuti e, come tale, credo che possa dare un’idea anche dei termini secondo cui si attua la scrittura on line.

Si tratta di questo: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/, ovvero WikipediaVision, uno script di László Kozma che dà conto, su base geografica e quasi in tempo reale, degli edit fatti sulla Wikipedia in lingua inglese. In altre parole, su una mappa del mondo, si vedono spuntare gli interventi fatti dagli utenti, con la segnalazione della voce interessata, la localizzazione geografica e vari altri particolari. Rimando alle FAQ del sito per chiarimenti.

Consiglio davvero di seguire per qualche minuto l’avvicendarsi degli interventi sulla mappa, considerando i diversi argomenti che vanno a toccare, le distanze geografiche che li separano e la contiguità temporale che li accomuna. Se ci si lascia andare un po’ alla suggestione, si ha l’impressione di percepire il flusso costante del fenomeno Wikipedia (e, più in generale, del web) e la sua natura di evento comunitario, simultaneo e discontinuo.

P.S.: come segnala anche Kozma, l’idea parte da altri due script di Dave Troy, che interessano Twitter e Flickr: Twittervision e Flickrvision. L’effetto che danno è simile ma WikipediaVision, inquadrando i singoli contenuti in un unico progetto, mi sembra che abbia una forza maggiore.

A different way of viewing Tweets.

http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d

Twittervision has been around for a while, and it’s a fun way of seeing tweets around the planet. It’s also a cool, ever changing background if you leave it open in a browser.

It may not be the most useful way to find someone new to find to follow it is a fun way of seeing tweets going on around the planet.

This is how it looks regularly:

And this is how twittervision looks in 3D:

Cool eh.

Regular twittervision is here.

Twittervision 3D is here.

Enjoy.

Alle Welt twittert? Möchte man zumindest glauben, wenn man dem Hype in den Medien glauben schenken mag. Schon vor einem Jahr hatte ich mir das “Microblogging” einmal aus Neugier heraus angeschaut. Der wirkliche Nutzen hat sich mir bis jetzt noch nicht erschlossen. Zugegebenermaßen, die einzigen Aktivitäten auf meinem “Tweet” waren irgendwelche Unbekannten, die sich Spam-mässig bei mir als Pseudo-Follower eingeklinkt haben.

Jetzt werd ich dem ganzen eine neue Chance geben. Vielleicht finde ich ja den ein oder anderen interessanten Tweet. Beeindruckend sind mittlerweile auf jeden Fall die Verknüpfungmöglichkeiten zu anderen Webseiten und Social Networks. Dank Twitterfeed werden meine Blog-Posts zukünftig automatisch getwittert. Gleichzeitig landen all meine Tweets automatisch bei Facebook. Vollkommen Vertwittert

Was machst du gerade? Das ist der passende Slogan von Twitter. Sehr schön visuell umgesetzt hat das David Troy mit Twittervision. Hier sieht man auf einer Weltkarte wo gerade, wer, was tut. Echt sehr nett gemacht – und auch wenn man nicht alles versteht, hat man doch das typische “Mittendrin, statt nur dabei”-Gefühl.

In diesem Sinne: Follow me!

Nogle kender Twitter, ander ikke. Twitter er en social netværkstjeneste som er basseret på en mikrobloging service. Det går i alt sin enkelthed ud på at lave små updates på maks 140 tegn, lige som man kender det fra facebook. Via en “follow” funktion kan man følge, hvem man har lyst til blandt de mere end 6 millioner brugere, og derefter modtage updates fra dem. Der findes mange måder at bruge twitter til, og der er mange forskellige formål med at bruge twitter, alt efter om man reprensenterer et firma, et medie, sig selv eller måske noget helt tredje. 

Sidder man og keder sig, er der udviklet et fint site over twitters API, som integere google maps og twitter. På siden twittervision.com kan man følge hvem der laver updates lige nu, og hvor de er henne. Enjoy

According to scientists it may be frying your brain but, the Twitterati (those who Tweet) world is expanding exponentially with new apps to support Tweeting being released almost daily:

Twitterfall is an on-screen display of live Tweets, which you can filter by #tag if you wish – a great way to follow a breaking event – and an especially good complement to television coverage.

Tweetminster is a site for MPs (and peers) who Tweet.

Cursebird  is a live compendium of people swearing on Twitter.

Twittervision is a map of the world showing Tweets as and where they appear.

Tweet Deck is a downloadable application which becomes essential once you are following more than a few people.

Tweetie and Twitteriffic and a few others are iPhone applications which help you read post and add them yourself.

Special Weekend Edition: Twitter About? Top 21 Twitter Apps to enhance your Twitter Experience. These are awesome and they are hot! Check em out and have fun! Enjoy… – jschulmansr

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The Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to Compete) – Tech Crunch

Source: Tech Crunch

by Leena Rao on February 19, 2009

We’ve accumulated a list of the twenty most popular Twitter applications, based on monthly unique visitor data from Compete.

Twitpic, an app that lets users share photos on Twitter, took the top spot with 1,236,828 unique visitors in January. Tweetdeck, which came in second with 285,864 monthly visits, is a Twitter app that streamlines notifications and tweets. Third place went to Digsby (with 233,472 monthly visitors), an application that centralizes e-mail, IM and social networking accounts into one desktop program. With 149,812 visits, the fourth most popular app, Twitterfeed, offers to automatically tweet posts published on a user’s blog using RSS. A Twitter user ranking site, Twitterholic, is the fifth most popular application, with 147,164 people visiting monthly.

Interestingly, two of the top twenty apps – Digsby and Hellotxt, an application that allows users to update their status across social networks – are not exclusively focused on Twitter. We recently wrote a detailed post on why we cover Twitter-related news so often, and we think the fact that there are so many applications developed as an offshoot of the microblogging system is another testament to the fact that Twitter is not just another startup. This is our attempt to figure out which ones are gaining the most traction.

While we think this is a pretty comprehensive list based on the chosen proxy for popularity, it’s but a first pass at a list we hope will become more authoritative over time. Keep in mind that this methodology is only one measurement of engagement; many people use Twitter iPhone apps and other clients without ever visiting these services’ websites. Derivative site traffic is only a proxy for usage but the most easily measurable one.

We also ran these sites though Quantcast and Google Trends, but chose to measure by Compete because it had the most comprehensive set of data, especially for the smaller sites. So the absolute numbers are unquestionably higher for some of these Twitter apps. If you know additional Twitter apps that should be listed here, or if you have better ideas on how to compile this list, please leave a message in the comments.

It should also be noted that there is a plethora of Twitter application databases out there. Here are a few that we looked at particularly closely: Twitter Fan Wiki, Twitdom, Twapps, Twitstat, and TwitTown.

Update: As many people are pointing out in the comments, Twhirl is not included in this list. That’s because the list is based on Compete data, and Compete measures Twhirl at under 13,000 visitors per month. As we said above, this is just the first pass at creating a list and we certainly realize Compete traffic is not a perfect way to gauge the popularity of applications.

Update 2: So it looks like we owe a “mea culpa” on Twhirl, since we looked up the wrong address on Compete originally (it’s at .org not .com). Twhirl.org actually has 143,000 visitors, putting it at the #6 spot.

Update 3: By popular demand, here is a list of the Top 21 Twitter Clients (According To TwitStat).

Twitter Applications	Monthly unique visits (Compete)
1. Twitpic	1,236,828
2. Tweetdeck	285,864
3. Digsby	233,472
4. Twittercounter	212,200
5. Twitterfeed	149,812
6. Twitterholic	147,164
7. Twhirl	143,333
8. Twitturly	88,793
9. Twtpoll	74,154
10. Retweetist	60,051
11. Tweepler	51,304
12. Hellotxt	45,754
13. Twitdom	45,411
14. Tweetscan	44,463
15. Tweetburner	41,754
16. Tweetvisor	31,621
17. Twittervision	30,708
18. Twitterfall	29,592
19. Monitter	25,433
20. Twibs	17,168
21. Twistori	16,229
22. Twitbin	14,986

Website:	twitter.com
Location:	San Francisco, California, United States
Founded:	March 1, 2006
Funding:	$55M

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July 2006, is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted… Learn More

TwitPic

Website:	twitpic.com
Founded:	February 1, 2008

TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, through TwitPic’s API, or through the site itself.

Also, some Twitter clients have… Learn More

TweetDeck

Website:	tweetdeck.com
Location:	Crowborough, United Kingdom
Founded:	June, 2008
Funding:	$450k

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

… Learn More

twitterfeed

Website:

twitterfeed.com

twitterfeed allows you to feed your blog into Twitter. You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want posts to Twitter, and twitterfeed does the rest. Learn More

Information provided by CrunchBase

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Already a week behind and playing catchup again! So what have I looked at today? Well I watched a video clip on Social Networking which left me with some reservations – It’s a good way of keeping up to date with what is happening in peoples lives but only as long as your friends use it as well. Anyway I took the plunge and set myself up with a Facebook account. I had a lot of trouble confirming this as the security on my P.C. wouldn’t allow pop ups! It only worked once I cut and pasted the URL into my browser. Thank fully finding and inviting a friend was more straight forward. I also browsed the groups set up by staff & students at the University but the ones I found interesting were closed groups. Better were the ‘become a fan’ groups – definitely something to explore when I’ve more time. 

I found Microblogging a more interesting prospect. A kind of lazy/in a hurry person’s diary/blog. I like the idea of brief to the point entries, easier to read than a blog,  more about activities than thoughts, so after watching the video clip I set up an account with Twitter.  I don’t really feel inspired to microblog myself, although it is fun to read someone else’s, I’ve already paid daily visits to the ones by William Shatner &  Stephen Fry (the best of the two).

I watched the video clip on twittervision but it gave me an headache watching it flit from one new twitter entry to another!

Another post about visual stimuli. This time I have listed below a few interesting sites that show just how global the social media are.

The first is WikipediaVision (beta) created by László Kozma. The site contains a map of the world and, as you watch, you can see what people are editing or contributing to Wikipedia as “anonymous edits to English Wikipedia (almost) in real-time”and where they are based. The map moves as the new entries are added (You can also choose to watch the German, French, Spanish, Swedish edits ). It is powered by Google Chart API.

The idea for WikipediaVision came after László Kozma saw the following sites created by Dave Troy.

• Flickrvision shows real time, geolocated Flickr photos, where the map moves around to show some of the photos being uploaded to Flickr. and

• Twittervision, a real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter.

These are addictive when you start to watch.

A re-mixable data source is, by and large, a web site that permits the user to combine the site’s data with information from other sources, in order to create some new informational view. The result is often referred to as a mashup.

The site developers usually provide a set of tools to facilitate the merging of external data into the information offered by their site. These tools are usually referred to under the arcane acronym, API. An Application Programming Interface is like a set of standardized connections into the web site so that mashup creators can incorporate the external material.

These video tutorials demonstrate how the Yahoo Pipes API works.

One of the most common examples of a mashup is the integration of various sorts of data, for example, real estate information, with a map. Google Maps is a good example. Users can create their own maps by adding images, YouTube videos, and other markers.

European campers have used Google maps to show the location of campsites. Then there is the Diaroogle Team whose web site offers a detailed map showing the locations of the public toilets in Manhattan.

Flickrvision is a global slideshow where photographs, as they are uploaded to Flickr, pop up on a map of the world, (in 3D if you wish) indicating the location of the photographer.

Twittervision is a variation on the Flickrvision idea.

One way to better understand the mechanics of creating a mashup is to go to Microsoft’s Popfly. Here is an example of one user’s mashing of Google maps and upcoming concert information.

The mashup is a relatively new idea and its development relies heavily on web site developers creating and enhancing the API’s that enable to combine data from different sources.

Your comments are welcome.

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To a degree Twitter first caught on from this need a year and a half ago at SXSW in 2007. I have witnessed it over and over through examples like attendees of four conferences finding one another to share an evening of Korean BBQ in
rohitbhargava.typepad.com

Für diejenigen, die ebenso wie Endesunterfertigter noch hineinwachsen müssen in die schöne neue Welt des Web 2.0 hier ein relativ sinnloser, aber dennoch voll fett cooler Link:

http://twittervision.com/

zeigt auf einer Weltkarte an, wer gerade wo auf dem Globus was twittert. Ist das geil.

Ebenso cool: Die neue Software “Shazam” fürs iPhone. Geht so: Wenn irgendwo Musik spielt, iPhone-Mikro in die Richtung halten, Knopf drücken. Dann nimmt das Ding 12 Sekunden auf, sendet die Datei an einen Server, und der liefert Titel, Interpret, Album sowie einen Link zu iTunes zurück. Dann kann man die Musik gleich kaufen. Eigentlich eine Idee, die die Radiosender hätten haben müssen. Jetzt macht wieder Steve Jobs die Knete. (Danke an meinen Kollegen Matthias Lange für den Tipp!)