Posts Tagged ‘microblogging’
FourSquare Tips containing Adverts #gps #geolocation #jobs
I recently started noticing that certain locations that I check into had tips which were usually for companies close to that location. An example it the ING Bank advertising their career site when you are in the discount electronics shop across the road or in the mall. Or Heineken informing you that you can link your FourSquare profile to your Heineken profile.
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A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010
Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:
- Ignore
- Overreact
Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance
It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks…
@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner
It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie…
Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance
Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they…
Social Revolution – Do You Get It?
I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to …
Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking
Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne…
Company Policy or People #hr
I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac…
Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop
In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up…
Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google
I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so…
@Google, please stop with the language! #google
I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br…
Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin
For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar…
Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile
When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t…
GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard
On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th…
More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk
Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b…
Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet
I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…
Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy
I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the …
China acquires more than China… #hacks
This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to …
Implementation of Security #risk
The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small…
ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk
Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r…
Musing: Why can I fly solo?
After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p…
Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
Blogging using del.icio.us #microblogging #tagging
del.icio.us, as I still call it, is a social bookmarking, tagging or folksonomy site. Friends of mine and I believe folksonomy is part of the move towards a semantic web, but that’s not what I want to talk about here.
Most readers have noticed that I post my del.icio.us links to my blog, but I have been doing more than that for the people who have been paying attention. I have been adding messages in the notes section as microblog entries for my blog, giving a brief description of the context in which I found it.
del.icio.us microblog example
This is a nice simple way to add more information to my blog, and feel the need to elaborate with pages of text.
The Do’s and Don’t’s Live Blogging an Event
I lived microblogged my second event today, the goodbye too Roel van Duijn. It was quite fun, and I was getting some interesting looks from people as I was typing my commentary into my BlackBerry. I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the ease. Both of the events I used Ping.FM, the first using GTalk, which was easy, and the second using Ping.FM Mobile, which is terrible together with the BlackBerry browser.
Firstly I learned I should have read the following two articles, which contain handy tips:
I really should have prepared before I went, I didn’t know the names of all the guests and didn’t know the schedule. I was slightly late, and as I didn’t know I was going I didn’t really have time to prepare. I really should have used HashTags, I did think about it, but it was all going fast enough that the fleeting thought was discarded.
So I’ll know for next time to:
- Do come prepared
- Do know who is speaking
- Do use an easy to use tool
- Do use hashtags
- Do take pictures
- Don’t forget the names of the speakers
- Don’t attract too much attention
- Don’t arrive late
I’ll update this list and repost with anything which pops into my mind, and naturally comments are welcome.
Technorati Tags: liveblog, microblogging, blogging, groenlinks, blackberry, crackberry
Examining Profilactic
So I’ve been playing with Profilactic, which is similar to FriendFeed, although I won’t call it a clone. One of it’s selling points is that it supports 190 sites, as I have many of these sites hooked into my Ping.FM (currently down) like FriendFeed it collates all the messages that I distribute into the microblogosphere.
Thanks to DutchMob for the hint.
Technorati Tags: microblogosphere, microblogging, friendfeed, profilactic
Ping.fm Syndication Issue #twitter
As you might have noticed I’m slowly coming to appreciate Ping.fm as a tool to update my microblogs, or status. Some Twitter and Brightkite subscribers started complaining that they were getting two messages. The first was a update from Ping.FM directly to Twitter. The second went from Ping.fm to Brightkite – which adds the geolocation – and was then posted to Twitter.
It looked a little like this:
Sitting at home about 2 hours ago from Ping.fm
As Brightkite sends the message on to Twitter with my current geolocation added it wasn’t necessary for Ping.fm to directly update Twitter.
The only things I still have which updates Twitter directly are:
- me
- Brightkite
- TwitterFeed (for my blog)
technorati tags: twitter, brightkite, ping.fm, syndication, microblogging, geomicroblogging
Short Blog Posts Vanishing (UPDATED) #ping.fm
You might have noticed that some subjectless, single blog line posts are added to this blog during the day, they may contain a location or an activity as would be more appropriate for a Twitter or a BrightKite feed. These truncated blog posts are actually the microblogs – or status updates – which I’m sending with my GTalk client for the CrackBerry to Ping.fm – which syndicates my microblogs to 20+ sites including Twitter. Sadly enough these messages are erroneously being posted to WordPress by Ping.fm.
I am currently employing two options for correcting this:
- Use my custom trigger (shortcut #ms) to post to all my microblogs – by way of Ping.fm – with the exception of WordPress
- In case a message is posted incorrectly, remove the WordPress item from the blog manually
This does mean that typos cause these microblogs to appear here until I manually remove them, however leaving WordPress active in Ping.fm still makes it possible for me to write a blog post in Ping.fm and have it syndicated to all my blogs. Were I to decide to remove WordPress from Ping.fm I would most likely lose a good part of the automated syndication of my blog postings.
UPDATE: I think I’ve been able to disable this for WordPress, we’ll wait and see…
Please tell me if this issue bothers you, I will try to avoid erroneous messages as much as possible.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, blogging, ping.fm, twitter, microblogging, status, crackberry
Twits like me
As you may know my blogs are automatically posted to Twitter, but I found a nice tool to find people who post similar tweets: Twits Like Me.
Have a look at Twits Like Webhat
technorati tags: twitter, microblogging
Tagging your Twitter #folksonomy #hashtags
I love folksonomy, and so finding a folksonomy option for Twitter makes me excited. #hashtags makes it possible to tag your messages follow @hashtags.
As my posts are automatically send as tweets this means that I need to add the #hashtags to my subject line. From a SEO point of view the way the permalinks are created it’s an excuse to create better indices of the URLs.
technorati tags: folksonomy, microblogging, tagging
Twitter buys Summize
Yesterday in Search Twitter I mentioned Summize, it now redirects too http://search.twitter.com/. Twitter apparently bought them for $15 million.
technorati tags: microblogging, search, twitter, summize, news
