Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
This is an interesting Guardian report on an event hosted by the Said Business School in Oxford on Monday night. Some US entreprenuers spoke to a packed house with speakers including top execs from Paypal, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter.
'Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and one of ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Lazyfeed cofounder and CEO Ethan Gahng announced that the RSS reader is now supporting both RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub protocols, allowing for real-time integration of Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Feedburner content.
"Our internal tests show that the service has actually become significantly faster," Gahng wrote. "Now some content from as recent as ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. The new technology is not being offered by Facebook itself, however. Instead, ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
YouTube - Social Media Revolution.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-based research firm Coda. Actually, to be precise, they're claiming that mobile ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
TweetDeck is mainly a Twitter client, but it's been making inroads into helping you organize, search, and compress your other social networks in later versions. Adding columns is now a bit more intuitive and specific, as TweetDeck asks you which account the column should come from, and which aspects of ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
If that large follower base count of people following you on Twitter gives you a high, here’s a tool that might break your heart, a little bit at least. Called TwitBlock , the tool will scan profiles of everyone who follows you on Twitter and it will then prepare a ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
There are a couple of reasons why you may want to download your Facebook Photo albums or that of your friends to the desktop: For viewing pictures even while you are offline. For sharing photo albums with family members who aren’t very ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The social web has almost relegated website traffic to a shoulder shrug of a statistic for some. But the number of people of visit your website or blog is an important measure of your reach or exposure. However, many people make a mistake in analyzing or even determining a ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
BIT.LY is gaining dominance in the short url world, I used to use tinyurl.com and many of my server side apps in perl still use it due to the availability of Perl Modules for tinyurl to make it all happen, but when making short URLs by hand I prefer http://url.ie or ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Facebook has a lot going for it lately. They’ve got more than 250M users worldwide, they’re the most popular social network in almost every country in the world, they’re hiring in a down economy, and according to a new comScore report, 8.2% of all Internet ads are served on their ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Active blipper and convener of blipathon (feb 14) Brian Greene says Blip is getting bigger and its doing it fast.
To follow the growth we use the doop hosted & @dojodub developed external blip stats system called busy blippers.
feedback blipdublin@gmail.com 35958 active users in the last 7 days // 481039 blips in the last ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Evan Williams' talk at TED: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses, watch it below.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
I attended the Joe Rospars (Digital Media Manager - Obama Presidential Campaign) guest talk on Wednesday night in the Camden Court Hotel having found out about it that morning. Unfortunately I had to cancel my attendance at an IIA event that evening but felt that there wouldn't be many opportunities ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
I found an interesting post today on the The Nieman Journalism Lab about his take on the birth of Twitter (which had its origins in a company called Odeo). The post focus is a comparison of the Twitter entreprenurial spirit and what is happening in Newspapers today.
I think you can extend ...
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