Archive for the ‘microblogging’ Category

Not that wasn’t aware of this, but now it’s offi­cial: I’m Twit­ter bad ass, says SEM-Group.net’s Which type of Twit­ter user are you? quiz I found via SEOSmarty:

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Dur­ing the World Blog­ging Forum 2009 us par­tic­i­pants where quite busy, even dur­ing the breaks — so I inter­viewed French web-shooting star Loïc Le Meur, who left Baguette et Bour­deaux behind and moved to Sil­i­con Val­ley, in the bus, on the way to the conference.

Loïc Le Meur was Excec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent of Europa, Africa and the Mid­dle East for SixA­part, the inven­tors of Mov­able Type. Before he took this job, Loïc had already gath­ered rep­u­ta­tion as a “noto­ri­ous serial-founder” in France, hav­ing suc­cess­fully sold two of his pre­vi­ous start-ups (Rapid­Site web­host­ing and Ublog blog-hosting). These suc­cess sto­ries def­i­nitely proved help­ful in the process of rais­ing investor money for Seesmic. 13 investors, among them TechCrunch’s Michael Arring­ton and AOL co-founder Steve Case, handed Loïc Le Meur 6 mil­lion dol­lars to estab­lish Seesmic as the prime ser­vice for “video-twittering”. But when user growth stag­nated in a pretty early stage, Loïc decided to change the strat­egy and threw the mov­ing images over-board. Since the begin­ning of 2009, Seesmic is focussing on Twit­ter Clients. Cur­rently the com­pany offers two free pro­ducs: Seesmic Desk­top is a win­dows client soft­ware (com­pa­ra­ble to Tweet­deck), and Seesmic web offers a browser-based Twit­ter inbox. Enjoy the interview!

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I’m not talk­ing to you, dear Mr. Cre­ative Direc­tor. You make a good liv­ing and you do not hold any grudge against ads as such. But I’m address­ing the com­mon net surfer, the guy, who bravely updates his adblocker every other month and still gets bom­barded with ever-mutating pop-ups, pop-unders and other intru­sive inhab­i­tants of var­i­ous ad servers. But even he has learned that the “cul­ture of free” requires some­body to pay the bill — not in cash, this is why researchers came up with the term The Atten­tion Econ­omy.

Twit­ter begs to dif­fer though and promises users “ads they love” — now that sounds like a bit of a stretch, but actu­ally, metadata-infos might do the trick. But until the com­pany get’s their own “AdTweets” up and run­ning, you’ll just love ad.ly. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Twit­ter founder Biz stone sent out an offi­cial newslet­ter inform­ing all tweep­ers about the new ToS (Terms of Ser­vice). In his e-mail, Biz out­lines that shap­ing the foun­da­tions of Twit­ter is an ongo­ing project:

As Twit­ter has evolved, we’ve gained a bet­ter under­stand­ing of how folks use the service.

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“Wel­come to the world of tomor­row!” No, that’s not right. Let me try again: “Wel­come to the world of the last seven days!” That sounds bet­ter! There’s a lot to show-and-tell, so with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump straight into last week’s social media news. Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a built-in 24 hours of delay, as the author was extremely busy dur­ing the last week­end launch­ing the Aus­trian Inter­net Coun­cil [site in Ger­man]. This was an amaz­ing proof of the power of social media: within the short time span of 5 days we our project was the cover story on ORF Future­Zone, Austria’s biggest Tech News site. Crowd­sourc­ing is great, but it can be quite time-consuming, espe­cially when there’s a lot of inter­est and involve­ment. So, with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump right into this week’s hot social media top­ics! Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s Twit­ter update was not a minor bug fix­ing issue: the reply-policy has been com­pletely revamped, and most twit­ter users are not too about the fact that from now on users no longer see pub­lic replies sent by friends to peo­ple thy them­selves are not fol­low­ing. This is how Read­WriteWeb puts it — and after read­ing 4 Pages of heated dis­cus­sion on this post, I’m still not sure what the new pol­icy *really* means. Read the rest of this entry »

…is dep­re­cated. When I started this project a cou­ple of months ago, Twit­ter was in its early stages and far from being as spam-flooded as now. While the sys­tem worked per­fectly for a cou­ple of month, at some points more and more users began turn­ing off the auto-follow fea­ture as an increas­ing num­ber of spam accounts became more and more annoy­ing. Keep­ing in mind the cur­rent state of Twit­ter, such an auto-follow list doesn’t make sense any more, so I decided to remove the list. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay of rip­films sent me the fol­low­ing movie — it’s a col­labo between nalts, mgm, zipster08, askcar­rielee and atomicus5000. The “actors” are ask­ing for video reviews, so it’s time for your favorite pet (or future meal) to star YouTube:

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Yes­ter­day I talked about some twit­ter mar­ket­ing ideas at dig­italks. In my pre­sen­ta­tion I referred to the page howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com. All it shows is a big fat “Don’t” and I highly doubted this the­sis. Luck­ily my name­sake Richard Pyrker aka @cycus has done a fan­tas­tic pundit-kitchen-digitalks-xsara-photoshop mash-up:

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As social media ser­vices grow, they become more and more inter­est­ing for adver­tis­ers. Mag­pie, a brand-new “twit­ter adver­tis­ing net­work” (and in no way affil­i­ated with the RSS-parser library bear­ing the same name) is offer­ing tweep­ers money to embed spam ads in their time­line. This sure was unavoid­able, but at first glance, the European-based net­work is doing a pretty nice job. Read the rest of this entry »