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Twitter Sells Tweets

Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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With most social networks the users are the product.

In the case of Twitter one of the problems the company has been struggling with is how to actually make money from it all ..

So selling their content ie. their users’ tweets appears to be one of the solutions.

According to an article on RWW Twitter has sold the data to Datasift and has other companies lined up to buy the same data.

So not only is Twitter claiming ownership of the content, but they’re also happily ignoring any privacy concerns users might have..

Expect privacy advocates to get very vocal on this.

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Google+ Vs Facebook Humour

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Came across this animated image on Google+ earlier today and thought it was amusing enough to share:

No idea where it originated, so if you know the image source please let me know

 

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CoTweet Standard Being Pulled

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
CoTweet

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CoTweet Standard, which is used by a lot of companies to manage Twitter for teams, is being withdrawn on February 15th

From then on CoTweet will only be offered as a paid service under a new name “SocialEngage”

There aren’t much details about SocialEngage on the CoTweet / Exact Target site unfortunately, nor is there any information on pricing. It looks like they’re adding support for tracking Facebook, but without knowing pricing etc., it’s really hard to see if this is going to end up costing companies a lot more than they’ll gain or not.

Their Enterprise product “Cotweet Enterprise” may have been very powerful, but it also came at a very high price.

So are there any viable alternatives?

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Irish Social Media Awards

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Nominations are open for the 1st Irish Social Media Awards. There are also full details on how to submit a nomination for the awards and what information you need to supply.

The awards ceremony will be held May 26th 2011 in Dublin’s Mansion House, which is a great venue.

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Social Is All About Permission

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

If you’re going to use “social” as part of your online strategy you need to remember a key concept.

Permission.

Earlier this morning I got an email “invite” from a contact to join a site that likes to see itself as being “social”.

I ignored the invite but the wording of the email really touched a nerve:

Skillpages unsubscribe email footer

Skillpages unsubscribe email footer

Why on earth would I “unsubscribe” from something I’d never subscribed to in the first place?

Who gave them permission to “subscribe” me in the first place?

It is possible that this is just bad wording on their part and that what they actually mean is that clicking on the link will “block” my email address from being used ..

Now why don’t they actually say that?

It’s also worth noting that Facebook’s notifications include equally misleading wording, so Skillpages aren’t alone in this.

 

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LinkedIn’s April Fool’s

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Today being April 1st the web is awash with April Fool’s jokes and pranks.

Some of them are pretty clever, while some of them are downright silly.

One that caught my eye was LinkedIn’s

If you go into the “people you may know” section you’re in for a surprise:

LinkedIn April Fool Joke 2011

 

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Some Social Media Icons

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

If you’re looking for some social media themed images and icons there’s an excellent variety of them over here.

Some are “free” for non-commercial use, while others are released under a Creative Commons license.

Just check the license before you use them – though most of them seem to be pretty liberal.

Enjoy!

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The Social Network Available For Pre-Order

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

The Social Network is probably going to win a lot of awards before the year is out.

If you haven’t seen it yet it will be released on DVD and BluRay in Ireland and the UK on February 14th.

Play.com have it for €23.99 (bluray) and €18.49 DVD. Both prices include free delivery.

Amazon are listing the bluray for £16.93 (approx. €20) and the standard DVD is available at £12.93 (approx €15). Pricing excludes delivery, but they offer free delivery on orders over £25.

US audiences can already get their hands on a copy, as it was released on bluray and DVD there last week.

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LinkedIn Loses Its Frontpage

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

LinkedIn has been around for several years. For many professionals, including recruiters, it is “the” social network that they use.

Unfortunately they seem to have “lost” their main page:

The URL is correct

But the content seems to have gone AWOL:

LinkedIn HomePage 404

The home page of LinkedIn - throwing a 404

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Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Last night Facebook suffered an outage.

It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally.

Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life).

Oh no!

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