blending the mix

Cool stuff I was readingJune 5th toJune 11th:

• Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone? - ReadWriteWeb - Quite the most comprehensive review of Plurk (or in fact any social media tool) I have seen in a LONG time!
• Revenue Robot | Plurk Tools and Tracking - Plurk Tracking Tools
• Mento -
• Blogger Outreach is PR and Not Marketing < Chris Abraham - Blogger Outreach
• entrepreMusings - entrepreneur, business, babies, parenting - A fantastic way to respond to negative blogger comments
• Shapeways | Home -

In the first of its kind in the UK, Orange are now offering free access to social networks (Facebook and MySpace mentioned by name) as part of their tariff pricing.

Orange - free texts, Facebook and Myspace

Woah….now Vodafone are selling Unlimited Internet add-ons saying that you can get unlimited Facebook access. (can you tell I am watching big brother?!)

I this kind of move the trigger to take social networking truly mobile? Let’s check out some of the figures:

A significant beginning (US):
32% of MySpace users upload content taken on a mobile phone
13% Facebook
11% Windows Live Spaces

In the UK:
21% MySpace
18% Windows Live Space
9% You Tube
9% Bebo

Young:
69% of those users submitting content to social network via mobile are aged 15-17 (US)
9% of UK mobile social networkers are 15-17 compared 5% of the total population

Bebo - a pot of mobile gold?
40% of mobile social networkers (aged 15-17) use Bebo compared to MySpace (28%) and windows Live spaces (27%)

(stats courtesy of Telephia)

Cool stuff I was readingMay 11th toMay 14th:

• Making a Business From Social Media | chrisbrogan.com - making a business/career from social media
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Solving the web’s image problem - A cool way to get people to tag images for reference on the web
• The Evolution of the Press Release - Something close to my heart
• BuzZ 2.0: Twitter Business Model, Why google is scared - Why google is scared f Twitter
• Zappos.com Takes Twitter By Storm, Hosts San Francisco Party | Laughing Squid - First real case of commercially acceptable Twitter usage

Cool stuff I was readingApril 6th toApril 9th:

• Ideas in Action -
• Windows Live Writer Goes Portable | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 - windows live writer goes mobile!
• We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors | Media | MediaGuardian - rupert murdoch on the internet
• The Omni Group - OmniGraffle - Download -
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Apps - This is where it ALL happens!

These are my links for January 25th through February 3rd:

• Watch Cloverfield (2008) Free Online -
• How I Make Money Blogging -
• Social Graph API Demo - My Connections - microformats
• Death Of The Influencials - Debunking The Tipping Point at ExperienceCurve -
• Super Panel At Davos: The Future Of Mobile Technology - The one to watch
• Skitch.com > paulfabretti - cool image editor
• The Alternative - the engagement agency -

These are my links for January 8th:

• minha selecao - My selection: Pimp my Keyboard - Tracking the conversion of a standard IBM keyboard to an olde-worlde typewriter
• Twittertale - You kiss your momma with that mouth? - Watch the potty-mouthed kids on Twitter
• Politweets - When Twitter gets political - Using the Twitter API to track political commentary on Twitter
• Pluck: Leaders in Social Media - Aggregation of social media content
• Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels | FactoryCity - Chris Messina - along the same lines. Grouping Twitter feeds
• How I created a TwitterGroup for Gnomedex « kossoâ��s braingarden - creating twitter groups using the API - way cool.
• Innovative Minds Donâ��t Think Alike - New York Times - Interesting piece about how to stop being fogged by convention to continue being creative
• 50 Ways To Improve Your Life in 2008 - US News and World Report (usnews.com) - 50 ways to improve your life this year.
• Communication Overtones: Advertising in Disguise: Cough up a Few Million and Call It Social Media - Advertiising as Social Media - what a load of pants!
• Yahoo mounts fightback against Google | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Yahoo to take lead on mobile for 2008
• Search Wikia - search - a Wikia wiki - wiki-powered search from the creator of wikipiedia