Authoritative Sources and the Human Search Engine Posted by under Micromedia | No Comments by, Heather Negley If you start to view Twitter more as a real time or human powered search engine it takes on a new persona, like a chameleon changing it’s color to adapt to it’s environment. With new service tools popping up everyday, the functionality of Twitter is growing into something way more powerful than just [...] Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry

Tinker Gives Twitter Its Long Awaited Events Firehose Posted by under Social Networks | No Comments Tinker Gives Twitter Its Long Awaited Events Firehose . Share on Facebook Tweet This Post  Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry

Technological Speed Sweeps Us Into New Era Posted by under Micromedia, Web 2.0 | No Comments By Heather Negley The pace of technological change is increasing. This week, as I read the recent news from Neilson about Twitter growing 1,382% over the past year, and I was reminded of Moore’s Law which says that the number of transistors that can be integrated into a circuit doubles every two years. These implications are far [...] Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry

Twitter Posted by under Uncategorized | No Comments 17 Ways to Use Twitter for Business and Some Not from Duct Tape Marketing. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post  Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry

‘Twittering’ encouraged at Seattle church Posted by under Web 2.0 | No Comments KING5.com - “The Mars Hill Church in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is not your grandma’s church. On Sunday, the pastor’s sermon was being broadcast on large video screens to accommodate his laryngitis and the congregants in church were broadcasting on their iPhones. They weren’t talking, but “Twittering,” typing in brief thoughts or messages for their friends to [...] Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry

Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? Posted by under Web 2.0 | No Comments   Tech Crunch   Germany’s Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated version of the interview here, which features Williams answering the usual, boring questions ‘professional’ journalists tend to ask about the micro-sharing service (the reporter opened the interview with the [...] Share on Facebook [-] Read the rest of this entry