pack your social networks in one box
+ mulist
mulist is a web widget, where you can create any type of list you can think of
+ tweetAhead
Coming at the end of the month.
+ monitter
Real time, live twitter monitor and live twitter embed widget. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.
Source: MoMB & FeedMyApp
Social networks must this year put monetisation above growth in order to survive, according to Deloitte.
The call comes ahead of the release of Deloitte’s media predictions report for 2009.
Deloitte said while social networks have previously been valued on their member numbers, the harsh economic climate means they need to start justifying their worth to investors.
Source: New Media Age
From the TechCrunch Post by Robin Wauters:
Artiklz is debuting its conversation search engine to the public today, and it’s definitely worth taking a look. What the service does is aggregate comments from the more popular blogging and commenting platforms as well as a number of services including Digg, Reddit, FriendFeed, Delicious, etc. and make them available through a single search engine.
This is very similar to what companies like Crunchies finalist BackType and also uberVU are all about, and I definitely see the need for this type of service: regardless of one’s interests or line of work, dedicated comment search engines make it easy for users to find out what the content and tone of conversations across social media really are.
Source: TechCrunch
Do you ever wonder what are the most popular trends on the Twitterverse at any given time, either out of personal curiosity or because you could use that information for business purposes? If that is ever the case, a visit to this online resource might just provide you with the information that you are interested in.
The implementation of such a service is quite straightforward, as you can click on any of the provided tabs in order to see the most popular terms in either the last 2 or 8 hours. You can also visualize this information on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Finally, it is possible to see the all-time most popular trends and figure out the way things have shaped up ever since the inception of this service.
Source: Programmable Web, KillerStartUps.com
A searchable directory of Twitter mashups, apps, plugins, mobile tools and more.
Source: FeedMyApp
From the PhD Dissertation Abstract:
Social Media is changing the way people find information, share knowledge and communicate with each other. The important factor contributing to the growth of these technologies is the ability to easily produce “user-generated content”. Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube are just a few examples of Web 2.0 tools that are drastically changing the Internet landscape today. These platforms allow users to produce and annotate content and more importantly, empower them to share information with their social network. Friends can in turn, comment and interact with the producer of the original content and also with each other. Such social interactions foster communities in online, social media systems. User-generated content and the social graph are thus the two essential elements of any social media system.
Direct to Complete Paper (176 pages; PDF)
Source: University of Maryland, Baltimore County eBiquity Group
From the Web Site:
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name; Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most…Our search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. We take this data and display it to you through our carefully designed interface that harnesses the power of AJAX to give you a seamlessly well organized user experience.
Source: Who’sTalkin
See Also: Social Mention (Another New Social Media Search Tool)
On December 24, social networking site Facebook saw its most traffic ever within the United States, according to new data from Hitwise. That tops Facebook’s previous record, which was set in July.
Facebook set a similar record on Christmas Day in the United Kingdom, and MySpace had unusually high traffic too. In Hitwise’s blog post reporting the numbers, analyst Heather Hopkins offers three possible explanations — crummy weather, boredom, and the urge to send holiday greetings to your friends. The last explanation was probably the main cause, she says, since Christmas Day last year also set a traffic record. The weather probably contributed too, since the cities with the most Facebook traffic (New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) were all hit by snowstorms.
Source: The Industry Standard
From the Report:
This 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites.
Direct to Full Text Report (PDF by Chapters)
Source: EDUCAUSE
Risks of Admissions Marketing on Facebook
As admissions officers search for new ways to interact with Facebook and other social networking sites, the results have been slow in coming. Efforts to create popular user “apps” have found few takers. Admissions offices are finding that their stretched employees don’t have the time to monitor the myriad sites and pages – let alone respond to every negative remark that pops up on collegeconfidential.com.
And now, the “College Prowler” incident demonstrates the potential misuse of social networking in college admissions. As reported on this Web site, an online college guide called “College Prowler” created authentic-looking “Class of 2013” Facebook pages for over 200 colleges. Accepted applicants seeking to connect with potential classmates turned to those pages, and they (and some savvy admissions officers) noticed that these were designed not by admitted students, but by a higher education business interested in viral marketing.
Rather than a one-time scandal, this incident should be seen as a warning of potential pitfalls for admissions officers hoping to use social networking to attract the best prospects, and students who believe that social networks are a space they control. These cyber-squatters were probably interested in (the somewhat benign) goal of marketing specific products and services to targeted students preparing to enter college. However, it doesn’t take a large logical leap to imagine more controversial approaches — including concerted efforts to disseminate negative information about colleges. Despite the overall collegial relationships among admissions officers across institutions, that next step seems possible, if not likely.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
See also: Did Company Use Fake Facebook Groups to Market to Students? (Wired Campus/Chronicle of Higher Education)
scholarz.net offers reference management, knowledge organization, social knowledge and research network.
Price: Free
Source: MoMB
+ Google introduces auto translate to Google Maps (via StartUp Meme)
+ Google makes video search results neater (via StartUp Meme)
+ Google Solicits User Input On Product Priorities (via Search Engine Land)
+ New for Twitter: Twitchboard
TwitchBoard listens to your twitter account, and forwards messages on to other internet services based on what it hears. Our first service will automatically save any links you tweet to the del.icio.us bookmarking service. We’re working on connections to many other services — stay tuned!
Source: FeedMyApp
Tweet photos and videos by email
Source: FeedMyApp
From The Web Site:
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services…
Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time.
Direct to SocialMention.com
See Also: Social Mention Trends
For those of you who don’t think voicemail is counterproductive , there is a new app on Facebook called Voicetag that lets you send voicemail messages to individuals or groups. This is not the first such app on Facebook (see Voicemail or TringMe ), but it works with regular phones and incorporates SMS messages.
Source: TechCrunch
OMG, We’re Not BFFs Anymore? Getting ‘Unfriended’ Online Stings
Unfriending online “friends” is emerging as the latest offense in the world of social networking. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace allow people to build personal profiles with photos, videos and up-to-the-minute updates about their lives, then to share them with select users, or “friends.” The process has even turned the word “friend” into a verb, as in, “so-and-so just friended me on Facebook.” Users agonize over whom to friend (your mom? your ex-boyfriend? your boss?), and worry about whether their friend requests will be accepted or ignored, lingering in cyberspace in what some dub “friend purgatory.”
Now, people who have accumulated hundreds, or in some cases more than a thousand, friends are cutting loose some of the ones they have lost touch with or who were little more than acquaintances from the start. It’s a shift from the days when users, eager to boast about their online popularity, added new friends with abandon, whether or not they really knew them.
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Most sites allow you to remove friends with a click or two, but they don’t notify people when they’ve been dropped. Sites say that’s a decision designed to mitigate any awkwardness and to respect users’ privacy. A Facebook spokesman says the Palo Alto, Calif., company isn’t concerned with the impact of unfriending and it prefers to “leave the delicate etiquette of defining online social norms” to its users.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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