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Twitter and RSS – Peas in a Pod

May 6, 2009

  Image via CrunchBase   Fans of Steve Gillmor’s Gillmor Gang podcast will know that he’s had a bee in his bonnet about “real time” for quite a while now.  In Steve’s world, communication on the web must be instantaneous.  Post to a blog, and it should be instantly indexed and accessible on Google, Feedburner, [...]

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Twitter is a megaphone

April 17, 2009

Social media gives marketers a lot of tools to add to the kit bag.  So how do you know what the right tool is, and can they be used in an integrated fashion? Easy! Podcasts are great for creating intimacy, and delivering longer high value messages.  That’s because they’re often consumed during commute time, and [...]

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Follow @asaunders. Ashton Kutcher / CNN SMACK DOWN!

April 16, 2009

Can anyone stand to sit on the sidelines watching Ashton Kutcher and CNN duke it out for twitter follower supremacy?  No.  Of course.  On the one hand you have Hollywood’s biggest publicity hound ever, and on the other… the faceless man behind the curtain, CNN’s very own Wizard of Oz! We don’t know if it’s [...]

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A Magpie No More

April 11, 2009

I run a test of the Be-A-Magpie twitter advertising services. Over a period of a couple of weeks, nobody clicked the advertisements and I made no money. Account deleted.

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Rank based search comes to Twitter

April 10, 2009

Google like search algorithms applied to Twitter by Luca Filigheddu. A novel experiment, but do users really need this yet. Only time will tell.

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Exploit Calliflower to promote your online events

April 7, 2009

Want some help promoting your teleseminar, or online event?  Calliflower conference calls have a number of features that are designed to help internet marketers do just that. Google Indexing Each public call in Calliflower is Google indexed.  Calliflower uses the Subject of the conference call as the <META> Title, and publishes the Agenda of the [...]

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FriendFeed 2.0 is cool. I’m sticking with Twitter.

April 7, 2009

When Mike Arrington writes that FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses, it’s hard to disagree with him. I’m not a FriendFeed user. Not in any real sense of the word. Oh yes, my Twitter postings are echoed to FriendFeed, and occasionally I respond there, but Twitter is where I hang out. Most of what I need is there, or has been supplied by third parties for me. Twitter is good enough, and it’s where people are.

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Tweet news from Calliflower

March 13, 2009

We snuck a nice little feature into Calliflower a couple of days ago – “Tweet This” — which is a tighter integration with Twitter.  It does three things: At the time you create a public conference call, you can choose to broadcast that event on Twitter.  Just press the “Tweet This” button.  Now your Twitter [...]

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TweetDeck upgraded with email feature

February 12, 2009

The best twitter tool out there, TweetDeck, just got a fabulous upgrade.  ReadWriteWeb has the full details, but one feature especially worth noting is “Email Tweet”.  Now one can quickly send the text of a tweet on to any number of people, by simply choosing “Email Tweet” from the drop down. Why is this so [...]

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Advertising comes to Twitter

February 1, 2009

Image by GusF via Flickr Advertising has finally come to twitter, although not via the Twitter gang.  Be-A-Magpie is an ad network for twitter users.  It works by inserting an advertisement into your twitter stream periodically, which your followers then see.  As a “publisher” you get paid for each posted to your twitter feed. My [...]

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