Technorati: Reuters Discourages Breaking News on Twitter.
“Many reporters currently use Twitter as both a reporting tool and service for getting out breaking news faster. But Reuters wants their journalists to be very clear one on thing, you shouldn’t be breaking stories before they go out on the wire.” Scoop the pay-for service ... not a sustainable concept.
Mashable: Hulu Users Tag Leno’s Return as “Vomit Inducing” (and Much Worse).
”Despite strong ratings this week, Leno is still facing a backlash from those of us with a penchant for Conan’s style and resentment for how the situation was handled.” My italics. Hmmm. Strong ratings, but facing a “backlash”? Perhaps the greatest disconnect involves internet/social media mavens mistaking theoretical influence for actual influence.
ReadWriteEnterprise: Socialtext, Groups and the Context of the Social Web.
Interesting. The day someone comes up with an extended sort of Brizzly social media reader interface that aggregates *all* social networks into one reverse-chronological feed, is the day I pay for a social media app.
justBcoz: 20 Lessons from the last decade.
Whether you’re a web design firm in America or in South Africa, the lessons are the same. Offhand, I’d add: Be sure to encourage clients to set an advertising budget and parcel out advertising dollars based on performance (note I say performance, not profit ... money alone won’t make you a success). I’m seeing a great deal more folks show up with stars in their eyes, having attended seminars convincing them that Twitter alone will make them zillionaires. It’s the “Amazon” effect we web designers dealt with ten years ago, when everyone thought a web site alone would make them millions. Websites and Twitter are just single facets in the great cubic zirconia of advertising (never a diamond; puh-leez).
ars technica: Why we tweaked our copyright notice.
Of interest to those concerned about meta-usage.
Mashable: Twitter’s Impending Ad Platform
“As Twitter’s been implying all along, the idea here is to be as non-invasive as possible. As opposed to inserting ads into your stream, Twitter is only going to place ads in search. On the other hand, if third-party apps like TweetDeck or Seesmic jump on board (and WSJ says a revenue share will incentivize them to do so), the searches you run and setup inside the program would conceivably include ads.”
CNet: Facebook eats up patents for the ‘feed’.
“Can I start screaming loudly about patent reform now?” Seems a little late, if you ask me.
ReadWriteWeb: 2 Ways to Sync Google Buzz with Twitter.
I’m not wild about meta-posting across social media (the repeats are a bloody waste of my time), but this might be helpful to some.
Ahmed Rabieh: New Facebook Adobe Developer Connection.
“The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.” I merely report, without polarity. Some will consider this equivalent to the alliance of Saruman and Sauron ...
kikolani: Unlock Your Marketing Genius to Make Money Online.
If you want to monetize your bloggings, you can do worse than skim through this article. I particularly admire these two statements: “They [Online Marketers] are also not concerned with volumes of traffic, they want conversions and sales”, and “Social Traffic doesn’t convert well, but it does convert sometimes.” Targeting and measurable results, kiddies. Social marketing takes a lot of time, and that time needs to be compensated for ... otherwise, you’re twittering your way to bankruptcy.
CNet: ShadyURL makes URLs entertainingly suspicious.
“This wonderfully satirical service turns even legitimate URLs into something that even the least tech-savvy friend or family member would know better than to click on. It inserts anything from what appear to be hijacking commands, to profanity and the names of well-known malware.” Wonderful.
LA Times: Breaking through the noise of social media.
“According to the survey, since 2008 the number of people who view their friends and peers as credible sources of consumer and business information dropped by almost half, from 45% to 25%. Similarly, in the past year, the number of people who view peers as credible spokespersons also slipped. Even more strikingly, however, after a precipitous decline earlier in the decade, informed consumers have regained trust in traditional authorities and experts.”
If this article is true, it means the country is ripe for the old ‘simple answers’ canard. We’re tired of complexity, and want black-and-white clear-cut living for a while. Waiting for a virtual Mommy and Daddy to make decisions for us. The authoritarians will win in 2010.
Mashable: Are We All Asking to Be Robbed?
“It’s no secret that when you share your location via Google Buzz and Foursquare you’re exposing information that could put you at risk. Many of us location-sharers get so caught up in the novelty and bonuses associated with our behavior that we forget the implications of our actions. PleaseRobMe.com seeks to make us more aware.” This is what postdating blog posts is for. Fun as it can be to share location, it doesn’t take much imagination to see the opportunities it presents.
AEXT.net: Ignore this if you’re already Buzz’d out.
More Google Buzz Tips, Resources, Extensions, and Icons to Keep You Buzzed. Still trying to figure out a place for this in my working day ... I need a bigger ‘gang’, I think. I think building Buzz will be more like building a tribe, less like a megaphone.
CNet: For ads, social media still a niche buy.
Local firms using Facebook haven’t had a lot of ROI using their ad program. Yet. (It seems to just about always be ‘yet’, with social media, doesn’t it?)
Mashable: Why Brands are Becoming Media.
This one nabbed for future perusal. In other words, a quick skim of the content caught me, but I don’t have time to read it fully right yet.
TechCrunch: Brands Wasting No Time With Google Buzz. This Could Get Annoying.
“When it came to Facebook and Twitter, it took brands a while to figure out how to take advantage of the social networks. With Foursquare, they have been much faster. But now with Google Buzz, they’re beating plenty of early adopters to it.” They’ve learned early adopting makes a difference. Via Euan’s Posterous.
aext.net: 12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz.
CNet: Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz.
If you really hate it, here’s how to disable it. I suspect they should also add that you should deactivate any websites or web services you’ve added to your Google Profile before turning it off.
vowe dot net: Google Buzz, one day later.
Concur. Twitter’s a terrible place to try to support a conversation (especially for a verbose nitwit like myself). I can’t answer in a timely manner, because I’m spending all my time fighting the -215.
Mashable: Google Buzz Makes Gmail Social.
Early adopters, get yer rollerblades on. Lifehacker has more.
Later: How Google Buzz is disruptive: Open Data Standards.
Line 25: Tips for Designing Unique and Attractive Blog Posts.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the time to do something like this for blog posts? I suppose if it’s your business, one has the time.
Pop Loser: Why I Didn’t Follow You Back On Twitter
Yeah, I have days like this. Via Splorp’s Twitter.
CNet: Blogging declines among teens, young adults.
Blogging declines among teens, young adults. Facebook effect.
Anyone seen this LinkedIn issue before?
I installed the Yoono plugin in Firefox, so I can keep track of Facebook, Flickr and LinkedIn. The notification screen in the plugin says I have a bunch of invitations, from people I want to make contact with. Pop into the LinkedIn interface - they’re not there. They’re ghosts. A few I can figure out that I know them and can contact them ‘manually’, but some have names I haven’t run across - and searching brings up enough names I’d have to choose from a couple of dozen similars. Is this because I don’t have the pay-for upgrade? Any idea? Boggles me that I can be getting invites, a third party plugin sees them, but the main LinkedIn interface doesn’t.
