If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?
The answer might surprise you!
Twitter has announced the launch of a feature called embedded Tweets. This gives bloggers the chance to paste a short piece of flat-HTML into a post and BOOM - you have a clickable tweet right there on your site. It's going to make life a lot easier. So, smart idea, right? Well, maybe not! Google announced ...
If you read this blog, you are obviously interested in technology news. That’s why I would like to share my Tech News Providers Twitter List with you.
Here’s the list…
I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last! This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded.
Here’s Buchheit’s message in full:
Friendfeed seems to be doing little more than gathering dust, following Facebook’s acquisition. Even their most highly followed user, Robert Scoble, has said; “I can’t keep focusing on a site that isn’t getting developed. Sorry. That’s not what I do.”
Is this the end of the line for Friendfeed or a new beginning?
CNN’s poorly-advised coverage of the balloon boy hoax story, could mark a change in the way mainstream news is reported. By trying to take on services such as Twitter, by releasing ‘news’ super-fast, the reliability of stories is suffering. Here’s what I think is happening…
Once again, hundreds or maybe thousands of people, attending the SAME event at the SAME time are ‘live blogging’ the SAME content to (mostly) the SAME people. So-called ‘live blogging’ was once a useful practice, where a small number of people attending an event, would send key messages via Twitter, to their targeted followers.
However, today – when almost every attendee at these events is tweeting everything they hear, live blogging has become (at best) a nuisance for Twitter users.
When Matt Mullengweg announced that Wordpress.com was installing RSS Cloud on it’s 7.5 million blogs, something amazing happened!
All of a sudden, blogs on the Wordpress.com platform became almost real-time. In other words, posts will be broadcast almost immediately; allowing bloggers to both deliver real-time content to their RSS subscribers AND potentially share real-time comments with their readers. Here’s why I think this is such a big deal!
Blogging is experiencing (yet another) resurgence it seems. However, this time, it looks like the very sites that were accused of killing blogs, are now responsible for making them more popular than ever.
That’s right: Twitter, Facebook and co are actually making blogs more popular than ever before. Read on to find out why!
