Archive for February, 2009
Charging companies for Twitter – what could it involve?
Feb 17th
You’re probably aware that Biz Stone, one of Twitter’s co-founders, told Marketing magazine on February 10th that: “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts” How to decode this quote? It’s fairly vague, but I can [...]
Another Twitter visualisation
Feb 3rd
I promise I’ll stop posting links to these one day. Anyway, this is from a series of Superbowl-related interactive visualisations produced by the New York Times: Unlike the visualisation of #inauguration posts I linked to recently, this isn’t based on hash tags but instead uses moving tag clouds to illustrate the volume of Twitter posts [...]
Googlewatch – updated
Feb 2nd
Before Christmas I suggested that Google may have reached its apex during 2008, especially as it had, for the first time, allowed a dubious new feature – SearchWiki – to infiltrate the product that sits at its core – search. And over the weekend, Google spent an hour saying that every site in its index [...]
Missing the point of social media
Feb 5th
Posted by brelson in social media
No comments
I’ve just been reading an article on Netimperative (What’s the future of search?) which features the following quote: …if you find that very negative results at search engines show up following queries for your brand, products, services, you should evaluate if you’re doing enough PR in the social media space to counter it. This statement [...]