After a summer (or winter) of Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, you might be feeling a little bit like Jan Brady. While Twitter is getting a lot of press and continues to grow, it isn’t the only site people are using. We asked around and here are five sites that people are checking out that aren’t Twitter.
- If you want to micro blog, but want a different user experience than Twitter there are three new competitors. You can try ReJaw, Identi.ca, or Plurk. Do you use a local micro blogging platform?
- If you don’t like watching long videos on YouTube of people ranting, then check out 12 Seconds TV. It is a new video site that limits users to only 12 seconds keeping videos focused and short.
- What if you have an image, but don’t know who created it or what the name of the painting is? Tin Eye is a new image search engine that compares the “thumbprints” of images against a database of thousands to help you find the original.
- Even if you don’t work in design, FFFFound offers a cool peek into great design found around the web. It is also invite-only to submit images, but available for anyone to browse.
- Six Apart, the company behind Vox, Movable Type and Typepad, recently launched Blogs.com. Blogs.com aggregates the best blog content and makes it available by topic.
What new site are you using?
(Okay, yes, I'll admit it. The irony is that all of these sites were suggested over Twitter.)
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I have tried Plurk. It was fun to just try out at first, but then I kind of just lost interest to it. Plus it didn't load as fast as twitter did. Although a lot of people were just reposting the same stuff they wrote on twitter. So I went back to twitter.
A new website that you PR/Advertising/Marketing people may like is http://howsociable.com/
The website searches the internet for your brand image and gives a statistic feedback. They call it the "visibly score".
From their website:
"We introduced the score a few weeks ago to provide a quick way for people to compare the visibility of one brand to another. We decided to take the simplest approach we could think of that would provide useful results…
We took a set of benchmark results using one globally recognised traditional brand and gave it a score of 1000. To ensure that even small, local brands would register we made it a sliding scale. For example, Coca-Cola has around 8,000 times more photos mentioning them on Flickr compared to our company Inuda, but we still get a score of 10 for having some photos rather than getting 0."
As soon as an engineer can figure out some metrics that are tangible like this for PR/Advertising/Marketing firms, they will be millionaires. If only I could use my MBA, accounting, marketing, online video experience into programming, I could do this.
Posted by Nick Schmidt | September 3, 2008 5:16 PM
Posted on September 3, 2008 17:16