Want to make a collage of all your twitter followers? Use this tool to create one, you just need to enter your twitter username only.
It creates a code that you can enter in your blog.
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Twibs – Twitter Business Directory
Want to find if your favorite “brand” (company) is on twitter? Go to twibs.com – it’s a directory of businesses who are on twitter. So far over 5000 businesses have joined twitter.
Note: follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ades
Find people who do not update their twitter (and unfollow them)
Following too many people on twitter? Don’t know who has abandoned their twitter account and no longer update it? Use http://www.mycleenr.com to find them and unfollow them. Below are some people who I am following that have not updated their twitters for almost 2 years. Surely, I have unfollowed them;
Website: http://www.mycleenr.com (via liewcf)
Google FriendConnect Toolbar Widget
Google FriendConnect added a toolbar widget. Now you can display it on top of your blog or at the bottom of it for your members to join and communicate with each other.
Unlike Yahoo’s MyBlogLog, Google FriendConnect is a bit vague in its positioning. I am still not very clear what its real objective is? How about you?
Do you use it on your blog? If yes, how it has benefited your blog? Share with us your experiences and success stories so to speak.
Here is its description on Wikipedia:
Google Friend Connect is an online service by Google that allows users on the internet to connect with their friends on different websites.
Google Friend Connect is an Open Social application offered by Google that started in May 2008. Google Friend Connect main focus is to simplify the connection between social and non-social websites and standardize the handling and presentation of social applications and content. It uses a blend of open standards, such as OpenID for signin, oAuth to control data, and Open Social for applications.
Google Friend Connect is free but requires approval of the website using it. It requires no knowledge of web programming and enables any website to offer social applications and content from Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, MySpace, Google Talk and other social networks.
At the time the interface is in English and there’s no option to choose other languages. Google didn’t announce any plans to translate it and most words can’t be translated by the site that implements it.
Examples of use are:
- E-commerce site: Allow users to check whether friends purchased or review the product you are interested in on the product web page.
- News sites: Allow users insert comments and opinions with their real profile.
- Organization Sites: Increase marketing and communication within members of the organization.
- Blogs and Personal Websites: Increase communication within author friends.
Source: Wikipedia
Now after reading that, it makes some sense. Join my FriendConnect by clicking at the toolbar below, let’s get connected!
Website: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/
Twittersheep – who follows you
Twittersheep is a cloud generator tool for twitter, but it generates the tags out of the words from your followers’ bios.
The following screenshot is a tag-cloud of my followers. Basically these are the words that my followers use to describe themselves in their Twitter bio. From one look you can see that most of them are bloggers ;)
So, it’s a great tool to find out what kind of people/professionals are your followers on twitter.
Website: http://twittersheep.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ades
Adjix Later – Timestamp feature for Twitter
Remember Adjix that I blogged about here? For those who don’t know adjix, in short, it’s a URL shortening, money making, twitter-on-firefox plugin. Now it has a new feature called “Send Later” (see screenshot below)
Basically it’s a timestamp feature similar to WordPress’ one that allows you to publish tweets at a specified time. How is that useful? Some people use twitter as a promotional tool to drive traffic to their blogs. But since twitter works in real-time and since real-time tweeting might not be good idea for someone who is located in Australia but want to target people who are from North America, than this feature will make a lot of sense for them. Because, because of the time difference you might be missing a lot of people who could otherwise see your tweet and visit your blog. Make sense? Well, then check out http://www.adjix.com
P.S It now supports multiple twitter accounts too.
PDF: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report
The Consumer Experience Report is a report by Razorfish which documented the results of a 2008 survey that Razorfish conducted of more than 1,000 “connected” consumers (a coveted group who spend money online and have access to broadband). The study looks at:
- how people “live” online today;
- how Web 2.0 has changed consumer behavior;
- what is the real impact of the “social web”;
- what really drives online purchase habits (especially in a down economy);
- and who is really using the mobile web and what are they doing.
You can view the report online at http://feed.razorfish.com or download the PDF version here. If you are doing online marketing or interested in social networking and where it’s heading, then you shouldn’t miss this report.
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