TWiTwi Episode #11 with Mike Prasad @mikeprasad
Tool of the week. Flirt140- www.flirt140.com - Twitter dating site - Flirt140 is a site that helps Twitter-ers find each other for dates and more. Tip of the week. Twitter backgrounds - Is it a branding opportunity? Its not really that important for the normal tweeter. Large % of people access twitter via phone client anyway. http://twitter.com/jonathan360 is a good one. Some pointers Not a great example - http://twitter.com/comcastcares In the News Blackbird Pie Tool. http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/ - tool takes URLs of tweets and turns them into easily embeddable HTML. Would love to show you but it does not work on Tumblr :-( For those that do no know.. To get your url click on the timestamp on the tweet and then copy the link.
Something to ponder - Has twitter caused a dip in RSS feed consumption?
TWiTwi Episode #10 with Aaron Cohen @AaronCohen777 (another tweetdeck user)
Tool of the week
Listorious - http://listorious.com/ Follow @listorious on Twitter to be notified of more follow-worthy lists!
Other Tips Mentioned
http://search.twitter.com/advanced - Complete twitter search..
If you want to understand the operators for the search goto http://search.twitter.com/operators , Pretty handy RSS feed for the search as well.
http://www.buzzom.com/ - Buzzom is a smart and fast way to experience Twitter. It provides best platform for social media monitoring, marketing , business strategy planning.
Klout - http://klout.com/ - Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to.
Something to Ponder - Does the Twitter Retweet Feature have to go?
Just used the iPhone boarding pass to reduce paper. You scan the phone then they print out a paper reciept!! #fail
This week in Twitter Episode 09 - Seth Harwood (another tweetdeck user!)
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-twitter/twitwi-09-with-seth-harwood/
Tool of the week.
- twittertimes - http://www.twittertim.es/ - The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account. (well not really real time).
Other tools mentioned.
twilert - http://www.twilert.com/ - Twilert is a Twitter application that enables you to receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service.
Twapperkeeper http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php - Archive tweets, trending tweets and hashtags.
Tip of the week
Twitter Bio
- Detail who you are
- Explain what it is that they are going to get from following you.
- Super Quick and Punchy
- Almost like a CV
Stay clear of
- Politics
- Religion
- Your credo
- Do not get too Jokey
Something to ponder - Would you pay twitter to avoid the ads?
Episode 08
Tools mentioned in the News.
- Bit.ly http://bit.ly/ - Shorten, Share and track your links
- Twitpic http://www.twitpic.com/ - Share photos on twitter
- Stocktwits http://stocktwits.com/ - Open, community powered, investment idea and information platform. Share ideas and learn from professional traders and investors.
- Spymaster http://playspymaster.com/ Game.
- yfrog http://yfrog.com/ - Photos and Videos for Twitter
- ad.ly - http://ad.ly/ - In-stream advertising on twitter
- Magpie http://be-a-magpie.com/en/ - Advertising Network on twitter
- flixup http://flixup.com/ - Where people talk about movies
- brizzly http://brizzly.com/ - See and share photos, videos and more. …
Tools and Apps
- powertwitter http://powertwitter.me/ adds multimedia tools via browser plugins
- monitter http://monitter.com/ - like tweetdeck but a twitter monitor.
- twitlonger http://twitlonger.com/ - post longer messages - adds a link like a more button.
- For the iPad - twitterrific http://twitterrific.com/ - twitter client, simple and solid
- twitrans http://twitrans.onehourtranslation.com/ - translate your tweets. Human translation.
- trendsmap http://trendsmap.com/ - real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.
- isfollow http://isfollow.com/ - Help you quickly and easily find out who is following who without having to login and scroll through ‘following’ result pages
- friendorfollow http://friendorfollow.com/ - Management application that shows the user who they are following that is not following them back and vice versa.
- tweepi http://tweepi.com/ Twitter Follow Management Utility is a set of Twitter tools to add, follow and unfollow tweeps in bulk.
- untweeps http://www.untweeps.com/ - Unfollow twitter users who do not tweet often enough
- secrettweet http://secrettweet.com/ - Allows users to share secrets anonymously
- Tweeting Too Hard http://tweetingtoohard.com/ - ired of people posting nothing but pretentious tweets about themselves? Give them the recognition they deserve
- Tweetpsych - http://tweetpsych.com/ lists creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and compares it to the thousands already in the databas
- whatthetrend http://whatthetrend.com/ - leading trending engine for twitter
Something to ponder.. Is twitter a telephone or a microphone?
Be aware of the latest Telstra Home Bundles. Just found that your better off negotiating each service separately and getting them linked onto the one bill. Getting a similar service as I have today using the Home Bundles would have cost $50 extra per month.
If you do however like Bigpond they are offering 25GB for $49.95 per month which is a $30 saving per month. http://www.bigpond.com/internet/plans/cable/latest-offer/ need to sign up for 24 months but.
Here be a list of products and services I use nearly every day. Inspired by http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/04/2009-products-i-cant-live-without/
- iPhone
- Dell XPS Laptop
- Newsfeedtweet on Twitter*
- TWIT podcast
- TWIST podcast
- Digg
- Diggnation vodcast
- Geo-defence
- news.com.au*
- Eurosport iPhone app
- Gowalla
- Foursquare
- Tumblr
- TomTom
- Motionx gps
- Skype Zynga poker app
- Beyonwiz DVR - insanely good!!
- Techcrunch
- Engadget
- FatWire CMS (obliged to say this.. It really is a great product!)*
* some personal involvement.
Short term wishlist??
- Ipad
- Kodak Playsport
- Augmented Reality Products - bring on the semantic web!!
“hoccer” allows you to select images, text or contacts and exchange them with other iPhone users by simulating a throwing action. Other iPhone users can hold their phone up catching the data.
“bump” also provides ad hoc data exchange but instead of throwing the data you hold the phone in your hand and you bump your hand against someone else who is holding an iPhone.
Very kewl.
