Greplin
Search bar for your life: Greplin, in private beta, searches all online data, in one place, fast; http://j.mp/bjSegg
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
50+ Goes Social Media
Pew: Social media use among internet users ages 50+ nearly doubled, from 22% to 42% within one year; http://j.mp/duy1in
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Gerrit Eicker
Icons of the Web
A sea of favicons, presented proportional to the sum of reach of sites using it; http://j.mp/Webicons (via @VizWorld)
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Gerrit Eicker
Time: 50 Best Websites 2010
Time: From helpful to distracting, from big hitters to unknowns, a road map to the best of the Web; http://j.mp/cSBMWD
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Gerrit Eicker
Sign-ins Via Janrain Engage (RPX)
Janrain Engage (RPX) lets website visitors sign-in with social media accounts, publishes usage stats; http://j.mp/9SQ05E
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Janrain: “How people prefer to sign-in to sites on the Web: 38% Google, 24% Facebook, 14% Yahoo, 5% Twitter, 5% Windows Live, 14% Other. … Overall relative popularity of each network has held steady during the past quarter. Google remains the most preferred network with nearly 40% share. Facebook continues to be a popular option, and Yahoo!’s share has grown slightly since April, with 14% preferring a Yahoo! account to sign-in. While Twitter’s popularity in the social web ecosystem continues to rise, it still remains the 4th most popular network for sign-in across our customers’ websites. … The story is different with media companies. On news media sites, Yahoo! is the leading choice for sign-in with 34% share. As a content-focused network, Yahoo! users proactively seek out news and timely content across the web, making it no surprise that the network performs well in this industry segment. Facebook and Google also maintain strong presences on news media sites. … For magazine publishers, Facebook comprises 57% share of all logins. Many magazine publishers focus on lifestyle and interests, a natural pairing with Facebook users who like to share their interests with friends. … A look across Europe shows that Facebook is the most popular network for sign-in, followed by Google and Twitter: 39% Facebook, 26% Google, 12% Twitter, 8% Windows Live, 7% Yahoo, 6% Hyves, 2% Other. … Preferred social networks for sharing: 53% Facebook, 37% Twitter, 8% Yahoo, 7% MySpace.“
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HootSuite Freemium
HootSuite, social media dashboard for Twitter, Facebook etc., introduces pro and enterprise plans; http://j.mp/c8FLtv
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Gerrit Eicker
Referral Traffic Sources
What are the top referral traffic sources from search, social networks, bookmarking, and media? http://j.mp/d8nq7R
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Gerrit Eicker
Social Media
Kagan: What the F**k is Social Media NOW? http://j.mp/b8lCsN (via @Mark_Zimmermann)
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Führungskräfte nutzen Social Media
Umfrage der Deutschen Telekom: 80 Prozent der deutschen Führungskräfte nutzen soziale Medien; http://j.mp/a6RwLb
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Gerrit Eicker
FAZ: “80 Prozent der Führungskräfte sind in den sozialen Medien engagiert, hat eine Online-Umfrage der Deutschen Telekom, der defacto.x und der Selbst-GmbH unter 477 Führungskräften in Deutschland ergeben. – Allerdings ist die Mehrheit der Befragten eher passiv im sozialen Web unterwegs. Die große Mehrheit nutzt das Geschäftsnetzwerk Xing, um sich mit Kollegen zu vernetzen oder sich zumindest die Kontakte der Kollegen anzuschauen. Aber immerhin jeder dritte Befragte kommuniziert aktiv in den sozialen Medien und etwa jede vierte Führungskraft veröffentlicht Nachrichten oder stellt sein Wissen in Projekten – zum Beispiel in Wikis – zur Verfügung, hat die Umfrage ergeben. Facebook hat es in der Rangliste der meistgenutzten Anwendungen bei den Führungskräften bereits auf den zweiten Platz geschafft, knapp vor der Videoplattform Youtube. Der Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter, der sich zu einem Nachrichteninstrument entwickelt hat, liegt mit 24 Prozent Nutzerquote schon vor dem amerikanischen Xing-Konkurrenten Linkedin, den Führungskräfte meist für internationale Kontakte nutzen. Allerdings wurde in der Umfrage nicht zwischen geschäftlicher und privater Nutzung unterschieden.”
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Twitter: Find Friends on Facebook and LinkedIn
Twitter Find Friends, helping Twitterers to connect, tries to integrate with Facebook, LinkedIn; http://j.mp/aPQ54J
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Gerrit Eicker
Twitter: “Today, we’re improving our Find Friends section to make it easier to find and follow the people you already know – your friends on Facebook and connections on LinkedIn – who use Twitter. Our Facebook app, which launched in 2007, now shows which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter and lets you follow them instantly and save them to a list. The app also lets you post your Tweets to your Facebook profile and now, to one of your Facebook pages too. With the Tweets application by LinkedIn, you can see which of your LinkedIn connections are on Twitter and follow the ones you choose right from the app. The app also lets you save your LinkedIn connections as a list, post your Tweets to LinkedIn, and add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile. – UPDATE: The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list. We believe this is an issue on Facebook’s end.”
TC: “Twitter is now using its application on Facebook to be able to tell which of your Facebook friends are also on Twitter. Okay, this is nothing new, but as two huge networks (Twitter with over 100 million users and Facebook with nearly 500 million) these little features can make a big difference in terms of users getting value out of the site – especially new users. … A similar feature that Twitter launched with LinkedIn a few weeks ago, has been improved to mimic more of the Facebook feature. The Find Friends area on Twitter will also now feature a LinkedIn button, which when clicked on will take a user to a page on LinkedIn showing them people they’re connected with there who are also on Twitter. Same deal: you can one-click to follow them, or create a Twitter list for LinkedIn connections. … Update: Well, it certainly didn’t take Facebook long to block this feature. Though it’s not clear if the block is intentional or due to rate limits.”
TC: “Update from Twitter: ‘The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list. We believe this is an issue on Facebook’s end.’ – Update from Facebook (a few hours later): ‘We are working with Twitter resolve the issue.‘”
VB: “Usually, the social network likes to have more in-depth talks with larger partners looking for this level of integration, to make sure they can handle the technical load. … However, Twitter’s growth has been accelerating in raw terms, with about 340,000 new users joining a day up from 300,000 in April. In contrast, Facebook’s growth might actually be slowing. While it accumulated about 50 million users roughly every two months into February, it has yet to announce that it crossed the 500 million user mark – a milestone that would’ve happened sometime in the last few weeks if the growth had continued on that trajectory. Facebook will reportedly pass this mark in mid-July instead. – Perhaps Facebook employees know all too well that only the paranoid survive.”
RWW: “For Twitter, this is just more bad news on top of an already poor period of publicity. The service is barely staying afloat as the World Cup is ravaging Twitter’s servers, and now they’re new Facebook app is broken, whoever’s fault it is. I’m curious that Twitter would decide to rely on Facebook’s own webpage to connect users between the networks. Just as other services do, Twitter could have easily connected the accounts using Facebook’s APIs, and they would have had full control over the look and feel of the experience.”
IF: “Assuming the Twitter app works as intended, the result should be more Facebook users getting more value out of Twitter. While this is unlikely to affect how people use Facebook, the two companies are both actively evolving their products; whether or not they become more direct competitors is something that even they appear to be unsure about. Regardless of how the companies see each other, many users themselves seem to be getting value out of both: Twitter tells TechCrunch that the ability to find tweeting Facebook friends has been the number one support request for some time.”
Gerrit Eicker 09:14 on 27. August 2010 Permalink |
NMAP: “A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine. As seen in the New York Times, Slashdot, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Telegraph.co.uk … – We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below. – The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons – those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach – are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440 (1.4 gigapixels).“