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Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know
via Online Marketing Blog by Lee Odden on May 04, 2008
Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few new Twitter tools you may find useful.TweetWheel - You may have a 100 or...
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Google Apps Hacks Is Out
via TechMeme by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
... Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, Google Maps, SketchUp, Picasa, Blogger, Google Calendar, iGoogle, and many more. There are different difficulty levels, ranging from quick tips easily applied, over to spreadsheet formulas or stylesheet hacking or downloading special plug-ins or creating gadgets or maps, towards programming tips. O’Reilly on their site offers a table of conte...
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No Contest: FriendFeed vs. The Facebook News Feed
via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life by (author unknown) on February 27, 2008
I found Charles Hudson’s post FriendFeed and the Facebook News Feed - FriendFeed is For Sharing and Facebook Used to be About my Friends somewhat interesting since one of the things I’ve worked on recently is the What’s New page on Windows Live Spaces. He writes I was reading this article on TechCrunch “ Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed ” and I found it...
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Dell makes $500k a year off Twitter
via MSDN Blogs by stevecla01 on May 23, 2008
That’s what BusinessWeek says according to Dell employee Ggroovin who says on his Twitter page he "works at Dell, created @DellOutlet & help w/ Dell's Twitter strategy”. Groovin indeed!Half a mil…nice. I bet Twitter wishes it was getting a slice of that pie. The whole article (Beyond Blogs) is actually a good read with folks like JP Rangaswami and Steve Rubel quoted and parting shots...
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Microsoft makes a 216megapixel camera
via MSDN Blogs by stevecla01 on May 23, 2008
I just learnt this from Mark Brown's Virtual Earth Blog. It turns out the cameras we use for Virtual Earth 3D models known as the UltraCam are manufactured by Microsoft. Get your head around this Engadget 216 mega-pixels with a panchromatic image size of 14,430 x 9,420 pixels, capturing data at over 3 GBits/sec, 13 CCD's - 7 pan and 4 color (RGB + Near IR) and 14 CPU's to process...
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Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market
via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
If you work in the technology industry it pays to be familiar with the ideas from Geoffrey Moore's insightful book Crossing the Chasm. In the book he takes a look at the classic marketing bell curve that segments customers into Early Adopters, Pragmatists, Conservatives and Laggards then points out that there is a large chasm to cross when it comes to becoming popular beyond an initial set...
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How to make custom Twitter groups
via Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero by Christopher S. Penn on March 04, 2007
See that RSS link at the bottom of your Twitter page? Copy it.Head over to Yahoo Pipes.Start a new pipe. Paste in the URL of your RSS as a Fetch pipe.Add a filter pipe. Put the real names of the people you need to follow most as part of the title, or if you only know their Twitter name, use that in the guid field. Make sure the pipe is set to permit any meeting these conditions.Connect...
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Birth cry of a supernova
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on May 20, 2008
Very, very cool news today: for the first time in history, astronomers have unambiguously observed the exact moment when a star explodes.Whoa.The Quick VersionNGC 2770 is a galaxy at the relatively close distance of 84 million light years away. On January 9, 2008, a massive star in it exploded, and instead of finding out days or weeks later, astronomers caught it in the act, right at the moment,...
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The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 24, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Search isn't over, but maybe the monetization of search is over. Is there another way for anyone to make money on search? And can anyone really compete with Google? I don't see how. Of course this has happened before. Remember Alta Vista?Are Microsoft’s attempts to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more attempts to get back...
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Compfight.com
via iain tait | crackunit.com by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Harry Brignull Compfight is useful when acquiring images for your presentations. What I'd really like is a little tool that generates the source blurb according to the CC information, and overlays it over the image using a pixel font.yourself.Andy our latest new Poke chap alerted me to the awesomeness of Compfight.com. It’s a Flickr search tool that allows you to find and view...
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