April 2010
2 posts
Sency - About Us →
Sency was created to help you easily navigate the real time web. At any time, we allow you to see what is going on right now with any person, place, or subject matter. Anyone can use Sency - even…
@anywhere prototypes from the Guardian | The... →
We recently got the chance to play with Twitter’s brand new @anywhere service. Here are a couple of prototypes we made
March 2010
4 posts
How much traffic Twitter drives to UK newspaper... →
“To put these into perspective, these newspaper sites get around 2 million unique users a day, so 0.5% is 10,000 visitors a day. While not to be sneezed at, it shows that search, news aggregators and…
21st Century Councillor | Using Social Media: A... →
Twitter CEO unveils '@Anywhere' platform | The... →
Williams says that @Anywhere taps into Twitter’s deepest values of openness and transparency. “A window is transparent, but a door is open,” he said. “A door lets people come in and mess with what…
BBC College of Journalism - Blog - The right kit... →
Where I talk about how I reported from the field one day in Rwanda using a few compact devices, old and new. And a pay-as-you-go SIM.
February 2010
2 posts
5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist →
BBC World Service - World Agenda - New media vital... →
The Twitter community in fact provided much of the early information on the crisis in the existence of what the Columbia Journalism Review called “the Haitian news vacuum”. The Los Angeles Times…
January 2010
11 posts
Call direct from Twitter with Phweet | Janet Fouts →
I use Twitter a lot and it generally works just fine for short conversations, sending links etc, but sometimes I want to just pick up the phone and call the person to talk about something a little…
Popular topics and news from the Twitter public... →
TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories... →
The Hourly Press →
The Hourly Press is an example of an authoritative social filter. It shares some attributes with open social systems like Digg and others with formal organizations like newspaper editorial boards. It…
Stream Live Video on Twitter from twitcam- powered... →
Retweet.com | News for the People, by the People! →
Twitturls - Popular Twitter Links Tweeted err... →
Today’s most tweeted links. This list is refactored every minute.
Hootsuite apps and pugins →
8 Tools to Help Filter Your Twitter Stream & Find... →
Eight sites that can help you filter the signal from the noise
flocking.me - search tweets from just your friends →
Search for tweets from just your friends
Posterous: The Copy-and-Post Revolution in (Micro)... →
Overview of Posterous, how it works and the benefits.
December 2009
6 posts
BBC News - OMG. Did you just feel a quake? →
“Twitter provides a stream that dumps out the tweets continuously,” explained Michelle Guy, a software engineer working on the USGS project. “We put a filter on that stream, looking for key words…
Layar →
Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
Lazyfeed →
favit :: stream & share →
favit delivers your web stuff to one place in the web, where you can easily filter, share, discuss, rate and manage it.
Cliqset - Share. Discover. Discuss. →
Share, discover and discuss your life online * Share content with friends, family and followers * Discover new content, people and services around the web * Discuss the content you share in real-time
The Twitter Avatar Roast: 10 Types of Profile... →
What your Twitter avatar says about you….
October 2009
6 posts
TwitPicGrid →
Twitter Multiple Users and Accounts | TweetFunnel →
Evan Williams on Twitter's vision for the future -... →
“We are in the middle of a series of experiments to try and figure out how to enable people to discover what they need to know without asking. Our whole goal is about telling people what is happening…
Comcast: Twitter Has Changed The Culture Of Our... →
“It has changed the culture of our company,” Roberts said. Comcast has for a while now been using Twitter to scan for complaints and engage with customers. The idea was not his, but rather rose…
Vidly →
Another “share videos on Twitter” thing to look at.
Trafigura: A few tweets and freedom of speech is... →
One of the quickest to reveal the full story was a 34-year old human rights activist, Richard Wilson. He was baking a banana cake in his kitchen in London when he first found out about the gag on the…
September 2009
8 posts
Social media count →
“Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential growth. Inspired by other cool real time counters, my own Rise of SM presentations,…
A Nonprofit's Introduction to Google's Online... →
In this article, we’ll show you how to select an online mapping project that meets your needs and fits within your budget, and provide a detailed overview of a range of Google mapping technologies…
social media monitoring tools directory →
“With so many social networking platforms, there are search engines to match. In fact, there are new tools and sites popping up every day that will help find, sort and learn from what people are…
8 Essential Free Social Media Monitoring Tools →
What it says on the tin…
Chirps →
Send sound to twitter
TweetReach: How Far Did Your Tweet Travel? →
@Twitter_Tips' (Tips, Tools, Status) most... →
BBC - Today - Send us twits, or is it a tweet? →
August 2009
3 posts
Twitter Photos - TwiPho, Search twitpic.com,... →
@amnestyuk vs @shelldotcom « Protect The Human →
A simple Twitter message, repeated by just a few hundred users, and the world’s biggest company was scrambling to set up an online dialogue.
Think Again: Twitter | Foreign Policy →
The groundbreaking microblogging service is great for sharing links and communicating with friends. It’s not so good at spreading democracy and overthrowing dictatorships.
July 2009
13 posts
K Street Cafe » Blog Archive » Twitter Tips for... →
In the US alone, there are 26.5 million people on Twitter and among them are many, if not most of the most influential people in the country. These people are talking about all of the issues of the…
Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide →
How Twitter works and why it’s useful. A guide to tweeting from Twitter.
100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best... →
Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and…
Viralheat Emerges From Private Beta; Now Analyzes... →
Viralheat, the affordable social media measurement product that scours social video sites including YouTube, Hulu and Vimeo, and Twitter to deliver real-time results of consumer generated content on…
Socialseek Lets You Track The Social Goodness Of... →
Socialseek has released a desktop application that lets you search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a…
Update: Domestic violence - An SMS SOS | Build it... →
“FamilyFIRST“. FamilyFIRST is an SMS based system that allows victims of domestic violence to reach out to police, crisis counselors, and to document abuse incidents all via simple SMS messaging.
twitsay | Give your Twitter Account a Voice →
Voice message for Twitter… Useful? No idea. “Go to your Twitter page and listen to your voice message. All your followers can listen to it, too!”
Audiofile Engineering →
Fire calls itself the “ultimate field recorder for the iPhone” Interesting to see how it compares to existing tools. Audioboo already does a pretty good job.