January 16th, 2009 by Christoph Maeurer
Original article by David Nelles
Earthquake, war and flight disasters: Twitter has become a convenient catastrophe medium.
Caution: Consumers are listening. A Tweet with its unpleasant effects.
Google party plane – Google’s flight personal goes nippy.
Beautifully viral – naughty Durex Bunnies + Outtakes.
Nine Inch Nails – make money by giving.
Journalists should be able to handle these Technologies at the latest in 2009.
The wild 70’s in Apple.
Uschi Blum – Love’s slave.
December 19th, 2008 by Christoph Maeurer
The last Friday Flash before Christmas
Social Media:
The complexity of social media (german)
>> Netzwertig.com
Signs of an unsuccessfully social media campaign (german)
>> Connectedmarketing.de
Xing’s acquires Socialmedian – a social news site
>> Readwriteweb.com
>> Golem.de (german)
Miscellaneous:
new trend: Online-Sleepwalking?
>> Telegraph.co.uk
Mr. Yang on the “heat” spot
>> Valleywag.com
Reviews in Pictures (till now only Part 1 and 2 are available)
>> Boston.com Teil 1
>> Boston.com Teil 2
Still looking for a Christmas present?
>> Well, go get personal with Scarlett Johansson’s tissue waste
Twitter specials:
- who spend, how much time with Twitter? >> Tweetwasters.com
- Twitter and Influence >> Twinfluence.com
- Die “wahren” Twitter-Freunde herausfinden >> Twitter-Friends
Another neat collection of Twitter tools with screenshots
>> Ibrahimevsan.de
Spiegel Online is twittering
>> Prblogger (german)
Happy Holidays and A Merry Christmas!
December 12th, 2008 by Christoph Maeurer
Short and vibrant
Intel published Social Media Guidelines for employees
>> Intel.com
More than 100.000 downloads for Wordpress 2.7 within 20 hrs
>> Boren.nu
Courtesy of Kmart: Bloggers on shopping spree
>> Mediapost.com
Corporate blogs, are they trustworthy?
>> Readwriteweb.com
40 million Americans using Social Networks
>> Readwriteweb.com
Twitter Specials:
Feed your own blog with tweets
>> Twitterfeed.com
List of German Startups Twitterers
>> Deutsche-Startups.de
Have a great weekend!
December 5th, 2008 by Nils Maier
AK Social Media – MySpace, StudiVZ, Lokalisten, Sevenload, ethority&Co. Speed it up!
Press Release
Foundation of the Social Media Club Hamburg
Ebay – The U.S User numbers decline (Link)
Much ado about nothing – Red light for StudiVZ (Link)
OpenID vs. Connect, let the (cooperation) battle continues (Link
Market concentration: Twitter‘s rival- Pownce surrenders (Link)
Yellow card – 51.com has worldwide the strongest coverage as Open Social Community (Link)
Additional Presentations about it: (Link)
Handelsblatt Editorial – Knüwer vs. Iwersen, even indiscretion is a matter of honor (Link)
der Netzökonom adelt das Web – Internet wird zum Leitmedium: (Link)
Twitter specials:
Measurement of Twitter- Engagement: (Link)
Top of the Tweets – the top 10 lists of famous Brits’ twitterers (Link)
Twitter & Co. for companies, for god’s sake!!! (Link)
November 28th, 2008 by Nils Maier
Here are some Twitter links to fit previous postings …
http://www.twitter.com
A Twitter search engine:
http://www.twitscoop.com
A Twitter – Tool, which concerns itself with “followers” of specific User:
http://tw33t.me
Tool, for auto Follow People on Twitter >> Twollow
A tool for ranking your twitter account and checking the twitter fame within your city >> Twitter Grade
Another tool, which picks, sums and ranks posted links of twitterers :
http://www.twitturls.com
Yet, another tool (kind of old actually but still interesting), which lists corporate twitterers:
http://blog.metaroll.de/2008/04/17/corporate-twitter-die-liste
Twittering as PR – Tools? Here are 2 available online presentations:
http://fly.ingsparks.de/2008-11-15/twitter-als-pr-tool
A quick guideline, on how a company should act on Twitter:
http://valleywag.com/5056678/how-to-keep-your-company-from-looking-stupid-on-twitter
The infamous Obama on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/barackobama
Watch out, two r’s are needed! http://twitter.com/barrackobama
One gets to read interesting statements such as: “Yes, President Bush is really every bit as intelligent in person as he appears on television when Barney lets him get a word in edgewise.”
That’d be all, have a great weekend!
