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29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared

tweetie is rated high. I also think so.

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- Tweetie: Not to be confused with impostors, Tweetie combines beauty, speed, and function in an impressive option that will only set you back $2.99. The app supports multiple accounts, search, saved searches, retweets, user profiles, follow options, a landscape keyboard, Instapaper () integration, conversation views, and flashy UI elements. It’s the Twitterati’s app of choice, and ours too.
  
  iTunes rating: 4 stars
  
  Mashable rating: 5 stars
- Pay to Play: Tweetie
  
  Freebies: Twitterfon
  
  Search and Trends: ReTweet
  
  One Hit Wonders: Twitterlink
  
  Multi-Purpose: Nambu
Your life, on the line - Plurk.com

China banned Plurk from chinese plurker.

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Plurk China WebCommunity on 2009-05-03 and saved by 5 people
- Fellow Plurkers, we have some very troubling news to report to our beloved community today. Like many other prominent sites such as Google, Youtube and Wikipedia before it, Plurk has now joined the ranks of sites that have been officially banned in China.
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- - Finally, we ask Plurkers to please help spread the word about Plurk’s ban in China. Tell your friends, tell local newspapers and media websites and help China reconsider its actions. We are confident that with enough support and awareness, China will lift this ban and Plurk will again be well on its way to becoming the worlds most beloved communication platform!
Google designer leaves, blaming data-centrism | Webware - CNET

Why don't google smart engineers win the Form-Follows-Function race? But is that all include what design should be?

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- Douglas Bowman, Google's visual design leader, is leaving the company after finding the company's reliance on detailed Web page performance data too confining.
- Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4, or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can't operate in an environment like that. I've grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions...
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- - I'll miss working with the incredibly smart and talented people I got to know there. But I won't miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.
  - , I find Google's approach to design refreshing and radical in its own way. Choosing color shades and pixel widths on the basis of the behavior of millions of Web page users is a fascinating development to the form-follows-function school of design.
Online swine flu map goes viral - CNN.com

The trials utilizing Google technology and open info collected from web community for tracking swine flu on the Google map. But at this moment the insight from the map meets the WHO demand, because it depend upon the population and internet influstructure.

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Google on 2009-05-07
- Story Highlights
  Unofficial online map to track swine flu has gained thousands of page views
  
  Devised and updated by biochemists Henry Niman using Google Maps maker
  
  Sating public desire to "see" spread of swine flu not met by WHO
  
  Reflects the growing popularity of online maps
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- - Created as a side project by Henry Niman, a Pittsburgh-based biochemist, it's attracting considerable attention despite being imperfect and not being backed by an official agency.
  - To create the map, Niman says he primarily used media articles from around the world, often supplied by map visitors posting comments.
    For foreign language articles, he used Google's translation site to try to ferret out details, especially precise geographic location. He tried get more detailed, for instance, than maps that show only cases by state, going instead down to a town or even building level if possible.
  - The WHO doesn't make a map like Niman's partly for technical reasons. It needs to communicate effectively around the world, and online interactive maps are difficult to use in developing countries without high-speed Internet connections, notes WHO spokesperson Lina Tucker Reinders.
Google Maps Mania: Maps of the Swine Flu Outbreak - Updated

Google maps to track swain flu by generating open communication and broadcasted info. They are far less accurate than the proper research, but gives us overall insight.

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- HealthMap
Facebook: Connecting Us in Life and Death

The death and mourning process of friend in virtual society.

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- Facebook isn’t just a place to maintain communication anymore; it’s become a place to grieve, to pay final respects to someone, and connect with his/his friends. With every new memorialized profile page or group dedicated to a deceased user, Facebook is changing not only the way we hear about deaths, but the way we mourn them as well.
- Death on Facebook’s Terms
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- - Now, once Facebook finds out that a user has died, that person’s profile is automatically memorialized. What this means is that for thirty days, sensitive information (status updates and contact information, for example) is taken off the page, the profile can only be looked at by friends (the friend list is also locked), and people are able to post messages and photos on the person’s Wall.
  - Another popular option that Facebook offers is for friends and family members to start group pages dedicated to the deceased, such as “Tribute to ____” or “In Memory of ____,” where people can share memories and cherished pictures online. And for those who want the profile eliminated completely, Facebook will only honor the request if you’re a close relative and can prove the relation.
Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | U.S. | Reuters

Dell's business model has high familiarity with twitter. But when twitter starts charging such PR activity, twitter will be ruined. Anyway, twitter is broaden the method of e-comers, which will change the corporate direct marketing. For those who are sick of spamming will give up using e-mail and start using twitter.

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- Social media company Twitter is struggling to craft a profitable business model, but the Web-based service has helped Dell Inc chalk up millions of dollars in sales.
- Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3 million from Twitter followers who clicked through its posts to its Web sites to make purchases.
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- - Three million in sales over two years is a pittance for Dell, ranked by IDC as the world's second-largest PC maker in the first quarter of 2009. Dell posted $12.3 billion of revenue in the first quarter of this year, alone.
  - Twitter does not charge companies for such benefits, but does not rule out doing so in the future.
  - Gartner analyst Allen Weiner said such financial success could provide a model for Twitter, itself, to make money.
  - Dell said it posts 6 to 10 times a week to its DellOutlet account, which is where the majority of Twitter-based sales have come from. Stephanie Nelson, who manages the account, said almost every post includes a coupon or a link to a sale, and about half of the posts are Twitter-exclusive deals.
  - Other non-media companies ranked in the Top 100 include Whole Foods Market Inc, Woot.com, Zappos.com, JetBlue Airways Corp.
Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | U.S. | Reuters

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- Small companies are also finding financial success on Twitter. New Orleans-based Naked Pizza, which turns $1 million in sales annually, is "betting the farm" on its Twitter presence according to co-founder Jeff Leach.
- The company, which created a Twitter presence about two and a half months ago and has about 4,300 followers, last week said nearly 69 percent of sales generated during a one-day Twitter advertising blitz came from customers drawn in from the site.
Fifty Best Tech Startups - BusinessWeek

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Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know

Evernote proudly announced this on twitter !

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- BusinessWeek and market researcher YouNoodle have teamed up to identify 50 tech startups flying under the radar.
- Ning Palo Alto, Calif. 96 104.0 2004 Gina Bianchini
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- - Scribd San Francisco 91 12.8 2007 Trip Adler
  - Slide San Francisco 91 58.0 2005 Max Levchin
  - Evernote Mountain View, Calif. 60 13.5 2005 Phil Libin
  - Fon Madrid 44 48.0 2005 Martin Varsavsky
Twitter Lists

Twitter related materials.

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The Real Time Search Dilemma: Consciousness Versus Memory

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- One of the hottest areas of search right now is real time search, which attempts to find results based on what is happening right now
- There is something about human nature which makes us want to prioritize information by how recent it is, and that is the fundamental appeal of real time search.
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- - The default, or at least the starting point, for most real time search engines is simply to put the most recent results up top and then keep pushing then down in a free-flowing river of information as new results which match the query come in.
  - maybe real time search is more like an alert system.
  - But it is clear that in order to make sense of the stream, it needs to be ranked by order of importance as well as by time.
Influential Marketing Blog: 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter

Looking past these small points, the report does share some fairly interesting observations and stats as well if you dig a bit deeper. Here's my read on the 10 standout conclusions that the report offers to help you (and your brand) better understand the potential uses of Twitter

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- 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders.
- Nearly 94% of all Twitter accounts have less than 100 followers.
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- - March and April of 2009 were the tipping point for Twitter.
  - 150 followers is the magic numbe
  - A small minority creates most of the activity
  - Half of all Twitter users are not "active."
  - Tuesday is the most active Twitter day
  - APIs have been the key to Twitter's growth & utility.
  - English still dominates Twitter
  - Twitter is being led by the social media geeks.
The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank

FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon.

Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now. Everyone, including Google and Microsoft, recognizes the value of using trusted contacts as filters. What was once called social search is now called real-time search, but this time it will really happen. First, it will be applied to streams and then to the Web in general.

What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank. Whenever you search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social graph. That is, people who matter more to you will bubble up. How does this work? Well, there will be a formula, just as there is a formula for Page Rank.

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- Solution 101: Rank by Friends and People You Follow
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- - Small Worlds and Taste Neighbors
  - The Influencers and the Crowd
  - The Quest for the Perfect Filter
Forrester Research

The number of people online around the world will grow more than 45 percent to 2.2 billion users over the next five years, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Asia remains the biggest global Internet growth engine: 43 percent of the world's online population will reside in Asia by 2013

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- 17 percent of the global online population in China
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- North America. Online penetration in the US is set to rise from 73 percent to 82 percent over the next five years, representing about a 3 percent annual growth rate. By 2013, US online penetration will be on par with the most highly penetrated markets of Europe and Asia, such as the Netherlands, the UK, Japan, and South Korea.
  Europe. Europe's Internet growth will be fueled by the continent's emerging markets. Internet usage in Russia and Turkey will grow by almost 8 percent annually, while growth in Spain's online population will increase by an average of more than 5 percent each year.
  Asia. China's online population (already the largest in the world) will rise by nearly 11 percent each year over the next half decade. Other Asian countries with substantial online growth rates include India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. By contrast, growth rates in some of the more mature markets such as Japan and South Korea will rise by less than 2 percent each year.
  Latin America. Brazil is currently the fourth largest market in the world in terms of number of Internet users, but despite a 7 percent annual growth rate over the next five years, it will drop to the No. 5 position in 2010 when it is surpassed by India.
  Africa and the Middle East. The countries of the Middle East and Africa currently represent just 8 percent of the global online population but over the next five years will see some of the highest growth rates in the world, around 13 percent. Egypt, Iran, and Nigeria are among the countries with the highest growth rates in the region.
UK Government Writes Twitter Guide...in 20 Pages

A tweet can have a maximum of 140 characters. A guide on how to use Twitter, well, that’s another matter. The UK government has one, and it took its author, Neil Williams, 20 pages and 36,215 characters to create it.

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Twitdom » Archives | The Twitter Applications Directory

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