Twitter Oprahed
Hitwise reveals that on April 17, Oprah’s Twitter show: 37% of visits to Twitter were new visitors; http://tr.im/jq2m
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Google Analytics API
The Google Analytics API is now in public beta, enabling client applications, new data presentation; http://tr.im/jpVb
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Google Features Google Profiles
Google starts featuring Google Profiles in its U.S. web search: a threat to LinkedIn, Facebook? – http://tr.im/jpFf
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Thinking about Social Media Marketing?
Wales: “Unless your brand is information dense, social media marketing is expensive and useless“; http://tr.im/jpmd
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Future of News
Jarvis: “Rather than holding hearings on the death of newspapers, hold them on the future of news“; http://tr.im/jpiN
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Social Profiles
Siegler on social profiles: “We remain at a stand still”, updating every profile individually; http://tr.im/jolM
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Google vs. Twitter III
Mashable: “Google is the biggest entity on the Net. – It is also not able to compete with Twitter.” – http://tr.im/jiNH
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Google News Timeline*
Google News Timeline organizes information chronologically and offers powerful search options; http://tr.im/jiLV
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Media Agencies and Media: a Tenuous Relationship
The tenuous relationship between media agencies and media reared its head during Festival of Media; http://tr.im/jiJG
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Qik Videos to Facebook
Qik, the mobile video sharing service, supports Facebook Connect: Post videos to to your collection; http://tr.im/jiCK
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Qik: “What does that mean for you? It means you can now instantly share your Qik videos on Facebook the way you have been able to share photos for quite some time – directly from your mobile device. … Qik is the first mobile video service to use Facebook Connect for video uploads. So once you have streamed live using Qik, your videos are now instantly uploaded to your Facebook video collection. You can then proceed to tag, share and comment on the videos from Facebook as you would with any other Facebook photo or video. You even have the option to update your Facebook status and post a one-line story on your wall.”
MC: “This is a huge move for Qik and, as I’d imagine that all of the competition is already hard at work at rolling in Facebook Connect support as well, a huge move for the concept as a whole. Facebook is amongst a small handful of social networks that have really breached the main stream. Integrate a product properly, and you’ll be pitching your wares to one of the few online audiences that isn’t almost entirely geeks.”
Mashable: “It’s very important to note that users cannot post live video to their Facebook account, but rather only recorded videos. To compensate for this, Qik has included the option to update your Facebook status with a link to a live stream on the Qik website. – This is a cool example of a company stepping in to improve on Facebook’s existing features. With Qik also having ability to share videos via Twitter, distributing mobile video is becoming a lot simpler.”
Google: “Google News Timeline can present results from lots of different sources, including both recent and archival news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, and sports scores and media like music and movies. You can view multiple sources simultaneously, allowing each source to lend context to the others.”
TC: “The timeline view gives you a snapshot of the major stories for each day, and you can drag the dates across to go back in time. It seems to favor Time Magazineand Wikipedia Events, although you can get rid of those results with a click. If you want to zero in on a particular topic, you can search for that term to see how a story has evolved over time. The timeline remembers your searches and saves them if you are logged in.”
SEL: “Google News Timeline is what it sounds like – a tool that lets you see news coverage over a period of time. … But it’s also more than a simple news timeline, because Google has added a number of user controls that lets you customize the tool in several different ways.“