WordPress.com: Publicize to Facebook
WordPress.com adds Facebook to its Publicize options: syndicates to Twitter and Yahoo Updates, too; http://j.mp/9e0UQs
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: Feed Patent
Facebook now owns a patent for dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network; http://j.mp/9bOuN0
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Gerrit Eicker
Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Today: The 10 Social Media Metrics Your Company Should Monitor; http://j.mp/bUnPzr (via @Mark_Zimmermann)
Gerrit Eicker
Website Footers
The bottom line in Information Architecture (IA): Minisitemaps, Superfooters; http://j.mp/Website-Footers
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Gerrit Eicker
ManageTwitter
Clean up and manage who you follow on Twitter with ManageTwitter; http://j.mp/Manage-Twitter
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Edouard
Use manageTwitter to clean-up the list of whom you follow… And, then, look at what the remaining followed people are really sharing with you… by using : http://paper.li .
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Gerrit Eicker
Great concept, thanks for the hint. Added mine just a minute ago: http://paper.li/eicker
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Edouard
good :-)
for now, semantic analysis only on english pages. german will come.-
Gerrit Eicker
Nice. Added a dedicated post about Paper.li now.
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Gerrit Eicker
Second Life Viewer 2 (Beta)
Linden Lab launched Second Life Viewer 2. Everything you need to know: http://j.mp/SLViewer2 (via @GiannaBorgnine)
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Gerrit Eicker
LL: “Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Viewer 2 Beta, the next generation of Second Life viewers – combining an easy browser-like experience with shared media capabilities – providing what we believe is the best experience yet for accessing Second Life, and a new option to choose from among Viewer 1.23 and other Third Party Viewers. … Shared Media, a standard capability in Viewer 2, makes sharing standard Web-based media and content in Second Life easy, and enables content creators to make more compelling, interactive experiences. Content creators can now place Web pages, video, Flash content, and other web media, onto any surface in Second Life. … But, it’s still Beta. And that’s why we’re putting it into your hands now. So, put it through its paces, stress test it, and give us your feedback in the Viewer 2 Forum.”
SCS: “While all of these features are great, and there is a whole slew more of them… there is something bigger. Perhaps bigger than the launch of the viewer itself, is the launch of Second Life Shared Media (SLSM). SLSM is 100% a game changer for Second Life. It will allow you to display fully interactive, shared web content on any surface of a prim in Second Life including Flash, Javascript, and embedded movies.”
ST: “Viewer 2.0 is, in fact, dozens of long-requested features. The fact that these features we’ve asked for years and years of Linden Lab to deliver for the Second Life platform is a testament to the teams and leadership, and is a very good sign for the longer-term viability of Second Life as a platform. Two of the most stand-out features are HTML on a prim and treating a browser like a browser. But there’s lots more. … Many, many doors have just opened for the possibilities of Second Life. Having interactive HTML and flash support alone makes lots of possibilities available. Combine with an array of interface improvements, and this really is a much cleaner, better experience.”
HB: “The ability to pull WebEx, Google Docs, YouTube videos into a virtual world would be ‘perfect’ for government, educational and enterprise users.”
DW: “This shift goes deeper, however, than rethinking the Second Life experience. There are early hints that this opens up a new front in which Second Life the world, Second Life the brand, and Linden Lab (the company behind it) may no longer be one-and-the-same. – Whether the shift from engineering-based to a more design-based approach, from evolutionary commerce to blatantly commercial, and from business-agnostic to business friendly will so overturn the in-world culture that the result is a diluted online experience remains to be seen. … And welcome to the new future. It begins now.”
VWN: “Perhaps most importantly for bringing new brands and services to Second Life, though, is the ability to drop Web pages, video, Flash content, and other media onto any surface in Second Life. TVs can now broadcast Hulu in the virtual world and arcades can play host to a variety of Flash games (including some casual MMOs) without leaving Second Life. The company also says it will be announcing new services for shared documents and collaboration, making the Web makeover as much about business as entertainment. – With the move towards the mainstream has come a bit more mainstream attention.”
Scoble: “Linden Labs has just released a new player for its virtual world, Second Life. This is important because it makes significant moves toward the Web and shows a new strategy: one of integrating into social networks (much of that shift has yet to come, Linden Lab’s CEO, Mark Kingdon told me in an interview).”
Prokofy: “I’ve never cared about HTML on a prim. If I wanted to HTML on a prim, I’d go out on the Internet, where they have HTML without slowing it down by putting it on a prim. That works best. There really is such a thing as a sensible membrance between web and worlds that is like ‘the blood/brain barrier’. Useful, evolutionarily developed helpful stuff that keeps your brain from being suffused with blood. The membrane that kept out the web from the world of SL for six years was a good thing, too.“
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LL: “Second Life Shared Media, a new Viewer 2 capability, makes sharing standard Web-based media in Second Life easy and seamless. It enables content creators to make more compelling, interactive experiences. Basically, Shared Media brings the Internet inworld. – For the more technically inclined, what this means is that you can now put media textures on any prim in Second Life. More specifically, the viewer uses WebKit to create a fully interactive, dynamic texture from a Web URL. … Behind the scenes, Shared Media is different. Second Life always stays synchronized for all Residents. That is, the simulation takes place on our servers, and each person’s viewer renders their perspective on that simulation – everyone is looking at the same thing. Shared Media, on the other hand, can look different to different people — sometimes. Everyone’s instance of the Shared Media is always presenting the same URL.”
BV: “Second Life 2.0 Viewer … has a lot of potential to open the door for more nonprofit, educational and government applications for virtual worlds. … Bringing your web-based content into the virtual world is essential for most organizations that have been operating on the web for the past 15 years. … It’s a lot simpler for a non-expert user to figure out with all the main stuff on handy tabs on the right side and bottom of the screen. … For your average public sector institution, being able to bring in your existing web content, get your users in-world more smoothly, find what you need fast, and access all the power tools, pushes Second Life way ahead of the other virtual world platforms.”
MJ: “Overall, Linden Lab deserve kudos for delivering a significantly revamped viewer that should make using Second Life markedly easier for new residents in particular. Linden Lab have consistently stated their commitment to improving the user experience and this is one of the more concrete examples of how that is now being delivered. The proof of Viewer 2’s success will only come with widespread use, but initial impressions are positive. Of course, Linden Lab need to pull off a usability coup to ensure ongoing growth. Combined with potential improvements in grid performance, the horizon seems a little brighter than it has been in a while.“
Gerrit Eicker
Yahoo Goes Twitter
Following its integration with Facebook last year, Yahoo gets closer to Twitter now; http://j.mp/bPQSO2
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Preistransparenz
Ist Preistransparenz generell nachteilig? Aupperle: Bei Onlineangeboten 0 Preisdiskussionen vor Ort; http://j.mp/a4Uxyy
Gerrit Eicker
Social Media Tracking
Blackshaw: The problem with social-media tracking is not data but how to interpret it; http://j.mp/a9am5t
Gerrit Eicker
Google Wants in on Your Action
Dumenco: If you are in a business that is connected to information, Google wants in on your action; http://j.mp/addmGD
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AF: “This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue other social networks which are infringing on their patent. Included in the patent are additional claims including feed filters, feed advertising, searching the feed, and more. … It appears that this patent surrounds implicit actions. This means status updates, which is what Twitter is based on, are not part of this patent. Instead, this is about stories about the actions of a user’s friends. While still significant, the implications for competing social networks may be less substantial.”
VB: “Facebook earned a patent for its core news feed and published one for prioritizing communication from apps based on how closely users interact with them. – It’s hard to put too much weight into either patent because, from a strategic perspective, Facebook would do better financially by prioritizing development on its advertising, metrics and payments offerings, than by pursuing a more litigious strategy of suing other companies. Both patents, which were found by AllFacebook, were filed a long time ago; one in 2008 and the news feed one in 2006. The company iterates and adapts at a significantly faster pace.”
RWW: “It sounds crazy, but did Facebook invent the algorithm-driven newsfeed? Messina wasn’t quite willing to grant that in our conversation, but it’s a tough call. ‘Facebook certainly built the whole phenomena around the newsfeed,’ he said.”
Winer: “The moral of the story of the Facebook patent and all the recent news from Apple and Google: Tech companies are no better or worse than big companies in other industries. … Further, the tech companies of today are much larger and more influential than the leading tech companies of the early 90s. … If you want to know what you can do, great – there are things you can do. Buy your own services and put your content in places where you are treated like a customer with rights that are respected. That’s still possible. In many industries it’s no longer possible, but you can get that kind of service on the Internet now, but you have to pay for it. … And when you have a choice between using the product of a small company or a large one, give the small one a chance. This helps protect choice and diversity.”