Twitter: 142% Growth
ComScore: Twitter grew to 90.2M unique vistors in May (37.3M in 2009) from 83.8M in April worldwide; http://j.mp/aS10SV
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Awareness: Social Media Hub
Publish, manage, and measure across multiple social media channels: Awareness Social Media Hub; http://j.mp/9TUolE
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WordPress 3.0
The 13th major release of WordPress: 3.0 is available for download, offers new APIs, merge with MU; http://j.mp/dB1fs3
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WordPress: “Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click… We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless.”
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What Happened in Your Birth Year?
Do you know what happened in your birth year? Nice mashup by Philipp Lenssen: http://j.mp/YourBirthYear (via @tsaijie)
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Future of Books
Halavais: Can we get over the books are (not) dead trope? Insightful thoughts on the future of books; http://j.mp/9M8JM6
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Curation vs. Content
Rosenbaum: Content is king, no longer. The world has changed: curation is king; http://j.mp/a847sA (via @pfandtasse)
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We, the Google Killer
Atkins-Krüger: The Google Killer will come from the organisation connecting human knowledge mobile; http://j.mp/bqJZY5
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Social Media: 22,22% of Time Online
Nielsen: Social networks and blogs now account for 1 in every 4 1/2 minutes online; http://j.mp/c7LBYu
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Twitter Places
Twitter goes Places: geolocating tweets, integrating Foursquare and Gowalla, API functionality; http://j.mp/cfmoDX
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Twitter: “Foursquare and Gowalla integration: Many Foursquare and Gowalla users publish check-ins to Twitter. Location is a key component of these Tweets, so we worked closely with both companies to associate a Twitter Place with Tweets generated by these services. This means that if you click on a Twitter Place, such as ‘Ritual Roasters,’ you will see standard Tweets and check-ins from Foursquare and Gowalla.”
VB: “Twitter just launched Places, the location-sharing feature that the company announced at its Chirp conference in April. – Users could already share their location on Twitter – either their latitude and longitude coordinates or their neighborhoods. But with Places, you can share a specific location, like a coffee shop, a restaurant, or a bar. Then users can search to see all the tweets from that location. They can create new Places, too.”
NYT: “Twitter users who want to share their location click on a link that says ‘add your location’ when they write their post. They can choose from a database of places nearby or add their own.”
RWW: “Twitter has ‘data partnerships’ with TomTom and Localeze in order to make Twitter Locations work. Over the coming week, it is rolling Locations out to 65 countries. It is also working to add Twitter Places to Twitter for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.”
TC: “All of this means huge things for location on Twitter. And the fact that this place data ties in with both Foursquare and Gowalla is excellent. But there still eventually needs to be some sort of unified place database. Maybe Twitter Places will help produce that. At least until Facebook’s location solution comes out and is inevitably incompatible – I kid, I kid. Or do I?“
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Gartentechnik.com: eine weise Entscheidung
Germann: Meinen Internetauftritt mit Gartentechnik.com zu realisieren, war eine weise Entscheidung; http://j.mp/cvtTu6
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Awareness: “Publish with one-click to dozens of destinations across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Control who has rights to publish where with an easy-to-use web-based permissioning system. Automatically publish the right kind of content to the right social media destinations. – Centralize organizational access to social media channels. Update or remove published content in dozens of places with one-click. View detailed audit trails and publication history for every piece of published content. – Track the effectiveness and reach of published content across social media channels with one simple view of activity across your social marketing campaigns. Drill down to see the details of how a particular piece of content is being consumed, shared, commented on, and favorited. React to peaks and valleys in content activity with trend reporting. – Standard pricing for the Hub starts at $2,000 / month (with annual subscription) which includes access to 5 channels from the supported channel types.”
Mashable: “Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of the Social Marketing Hub is that marketers can manage all channel behavior – like viewing and adding comments or replies – inside their dashboards. So, you can watch the conversations happening on Facebook and Twitter and participate in all of them from a single place. For example, if there’s an inappropriate comment posted to your Facebook Page, you can remove it in the Hub. – The Social Marketing Hub includes aggregate, channel and content-specific metrics. Users can look at views, click-throughs, comments, retweets, favorites and likes. The Hub also includes sentiment analysis for both comments and the commenters that created them. This handy feature should help brands better identify and address brand advocates and naysayers. – The Social Marketing Hub is priced at $2,000 for the lowest subscription plan, which includes support for up to five channels.“