Blellow
http://Blellow.com, the community for leveraging the wisdom of crowds, looks like a specific Twitter; http://tr.im/hpwi
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Gerrit Eicker
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Online Privacy: Important Issue
Truste survey: 90 percent called online privacy a really or somewhat important issue; http://tr.im/hpvv
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GM Dealers are Waiting for Advertising
GM Dealers would like to see a bold advertising commitment of the carmaker but GM stays quiet; http://tr.im/hpuj
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Twitter Search vs. Google Blog Search
Did Twitter Search surpass Google Blog Search? Some Compete-data implicates strong growth at least; http://tr.im/hkxg
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Twitter’s Suggested Users
Winer thinks it’s time to break out of Twitter because of the highly discussed suggested user page; http://tr.im/hkxi
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eBay: No Strategy for Skype
Donahoe: “We were wrong“, eBay doesn’t have a plan to integrate Skype into its eCommerce business; http://tr.im/hkkJ
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Facebook Vanity URLs?
Is Facebook getting serious about vanity URLs? At least there are more vanity URLs today; http://tr.im/hki0
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nick
yeah tiny-fb.com has been doing that for facebook users for ages. creates your own tiny-fb.com/yourname site for your facebook account. makes it easier to twit, sms, email and randomly jot down your facebook details to people.
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Su.pr
StumbleUpon will launch http://Su.pr, an URI shortening service like http://tr.im or http://Cli.gs; http://tr.im/hkhi
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Advertising on Front Covers
Paid pitches on magazine front covers emphasise the changing standards for advertising acceptability; http://tr.im/hjT9
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Google Reader Gets FriendFeedish
Google Reader copies the comment function of FriendFeed with a few key distinctions; http://tr.im/hjRH
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TC: “Conversations in Google Reader are only be visible to friends of the user who originally shared a story (FriendFeed allows comments to be displayed to the public with input from users who aren’t your friends). … There’s apparently no way to export the conversations that are held on Google Reader.”
Mashable: “It’ll be interesting to see the reaction to this from bloggers. Hopefully Google decides to make comments exportable, so we can include them in the commenting section of blogs, the way we currently do here on MashableMashable reviewsMashable reviews with our “social media comments” feature. ”
RWW: “Google has been relatively slow to add social features to Google Reader and most of the discussions around shared items now happen on other services like FriendFeed and Facebook. It will be interesting to see if users will actually use this new feature in large numbers, but it is definitely an interesting addition to Google Reader.”
TC: “When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000. … Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who is no Twitter slouch himself with 61,266 hard-earned followers, thinks that being one of the top 20 on the suggested list will be worth as much as a Superbowl ad within five years. He is offering Twitter $250,000 to lock in a spot on the suggested list for two years, or $120,000 for one year.”
Winer: “This isn’t the way the Internet works. The guys at Twitter should know this. I think they’re living in a bubble, and creating one at the same time. No one likes someone who pops the bubble while it’s still building. So be it. We need to get that power out of their hands, or they need to disclaim it. They’re such a small guy, it’s really puzzling why they would do something that alienates so many. Most people won’t say it, for the obvious reason that their business interests prevent them from. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be said.”
TC: “Traffic from Twitter spiked in January, before we were added to the list, growing from 67,000 page views to 130,000 in that month. In February, when follow number spiked upwards, traffic actually dipped to 111,000 page views. The first 11 days in March have brought in 53,000 page views from Twitter, suggesting the month will end up around 150,000. – If the March data holds, that tells us that 65,573 hard core users brought us 130,000 January page views. Nearly quadrupling that number of followers will only bring in an extra 20,000 page views in March. – We love these new users, but they aren’t nearly as valuable to us as the ones that we fought for in the early days of Twitter.“