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Twitter picture search

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

http://www.twpxsearch.com/index.py?q=%23uksnow is the new URL for my mash-up, which pulls pictures from Twitpic for specific search terms on Twitter. The example in the URL shows some great images from the current uk snow storms. Snow daleks seem popular this year.

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Stats from bit.ly

Monday, November 9, 2009

This morning’s fascinating fact is about the bit.ly URL shortening service:
If you have a bit.ly link, for example http://bit.ly/4dWnCu
you can insert ‘info’ into the URL thus:
http://bit.ly/info/4dWnCu
to get all sorts of facts and figures, like how many clicks that link has had, which sites are referring using it, who’s tweeting about that particular URL, and that [...]

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Getting inside a person’s head

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

I was shown yet another rambling, boring example of someone’s twitterings this morning, and it showed me a lot more than I needed to know about how the author’s mind worked.
What was a lot more interesting was visiting this exhibition at the weekend, where artists have created spaces that evoke what their minds feel like [...]

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Google signs deal with Twitter… still no money for Twitter

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

According to this article at Adage, marketers can now create ad units for Google Adsense that syndicate their last 5 tweats, with the call to action to follow them on Twitter, rather than to visit their website.  The commitment for a consumer in following someone extra on Twitter is quite low, so this might lead [...]

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Oh no, I broke it!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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Should we trust consumer reviews?

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Yesterday, I read at Gizmodo that Reevoo (a leading provider of online review services to retailers) is warning shoppers to be careful when relying on reviews they read on the Internet. This might seem like an odd thing for a provider of reviews to be doing, but Reevoo’s business model involves pooling reviews across all [...]

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Twitter, emergent properties and continuous partial attention

Thursday, March 29, 2007

I managed to squeeze 3 buzz-phrases into 1 title!
Continuous partial attention is one of the Harvard Business Review’s breakthrough ideas for 2007. I was reminded of this when I finally took a look at Twitter today. Continuous partial attention is all about people having too many things going on at once, like when you go [...]

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