Originally posted on The Steve Rubel Stream.
Later today Klout, an influence tracking tool, is going to launch a new Facebook app called Facebird that helps you understand overlaps in influence between your Twitter and Facebook friends. Facebird will be live later today over on the Klout Labs site. The team gave me a preview yesterday, which you can watch above or
Seeing is believing and visuals are powerful. I’ve collected a few visualization tools for Facebook, news feeds, and Twitter to let you view networks and conversations at a glance.
Mentionmap is a web app for exploring the Twitter users and hashtags that mention your account most. The great thing about Mentionmap is that it is interactive which allows you to be able to drill down within your network to connect with people…
Originally post on The Steve Rubel Stream.
Last week in LA I had a chance to visit Idealab, an incubator that pioneered pay-per-click advertising a decade ago. The purpose of my visit was to meet CEO Bill Gross and his team and to learn more about TweetUp, an innovative new service that, I believe, has a great shot of creating a demand-driven ad network around Twitter.
(Idealab,…
Originally posted on The Steve Rubel Stream
Do you “cross the streams?” In other words, do you co-mingle your personal and professional social networks? This is a tough question to answer. In this essay (which is also my Adage column next week), I present the pro-side of the argument. I also opened up this discussion
Jessi’s Friday Five about words that need to be removed from the social media lexicon had me thinking about one other term I think we need to press reset on: “social media” itself. It’s not that I’m against socially-constructed forms of communication – trust me, I love them – it’s that, in true Inigo Montoya fashion, “I do not think it means…
I had a front row seat to the story below, as the author Ted Nation and his wife Susie are longtime friends. Like all those in their extended social networks, I woke to the horror of the Chilean earthquake on the morning of Saturday, February 27. Being the nerd I am, I booted up the laptop, logged into Facebook and saw this status update from Susie:
“Big Earthquake in Chile and Sarah’s on a bus right near the epicenter”
Their daughter Sarah was in Chile, and they were living every parent’s worst nightmare: not knowing if their child was safe… or even…
It seems that every few months, Google comes out with a new communication platform. As health communicators, some of these have had significant impact on our role (see: Sidewiki) and bring added challenges to our counsel.
Last week, Google launched a contact-based social network, Buzz, that is automatically built into Gmail, the company’s…
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