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How to set up a Twitter autoresponder

March 25th, 2010 @ jon // No Comments

Have you ever wondered how people can reply to you so quickly when you follow then on Twitter?

You guessed it, it’s an automated response. Check out this link to find out how.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5842327_setup-twitter-autoresponder.html

Easy hey?

Category : Features & Social Media & Twitter

So whats this Web 3.0 all about then?

January 5th, 2010 @ jon // No Comments

Well, let’s start with Web 2.0, a term disliked by many an online marketer, to see where everything is going with 3.0. You could argue that it ‘brought the world interactive information sharing, user-centered design and collaboration’. Software applications provider ICON believes that the next generation of the web, or “Web 3.0″ promises more recommendations, free services, intelligent (semantic) searches, and information that’s no longer random data, but tailored, highly intuitive and delivered in real time.

As we move into then new decade, there has been a renewed focus on the new developments in what could be called Web 3.0.

So what are we to look out for?

Collaboration: Slideshare.net is a great resource for anyone looking for the latest thinking on an area of interest and reading it in succinct, generally well-put-together PowerPoint slideshows that are rated and commented on by users.  It lets users create, collaborate on, share and store a slidedeck on the cloud (their remote server), so they can access it anywhere in the world.

Social Media Intermediaries: There’s an ever-growing range of useful software to help consumers make sense of, filter and manage the world of Twitter, Facebook and a number of other social media and micro blogging sites. Tweetag helps search tweets for trends. It also edges toward Web 3.0 semantic search by offering up a tweetag cloud and organizing search results according to whether other Twitterers have ‘re-tweeted’ an idea. TweetDeck integrate Twitter and Facebook account feeds into once useful desktop application (also available for the iPhone).

Mobile Apps: We’ve seen the wave of iphone apps and other mobile devices being flooded by applications to tell you where you are, where you’re going and how to get there. You can even find out how much you can buy products for on the web, while your window shopping in the real world.

Maps: Google street map made news early this year with its controversial drive-by views of people’s front doors and people themselves. What were you doing when Google’s camera drove by your place?

So hopefully this helps to explain what web 3.0 is bringing to the internet.

If you have any more suggestions on how this so called ‘web 3.0’ is changing the internet then please comment below.

Category : Features & Social Media & Twitter & Web 3.0

Twitter feeds on Google

January 4th, 2010 @ jon // No Comments

Google are finally embracing the social networks. We liked their animated tribute to Sir Isaac Newton today on the Google home, you can click through and then watch on page 1 of Google the live twitter feeds updating. Cool hey?

Latest results for isaac newton

1. Nice HomePage of #Google today for Birthday of isaac newton www.google.com

   monirabuhilal – twitter.com – 1 minute ago

2. Ahh, physics! RT @auscicomm: Happy Isaac Newton’s Birthday to one and all. Visit google.com for their (slightly) animated tribute.

   daynoir – twitter.com – 1 minute ago

3. @bamp Sir Isaac Newton lol

   braziliandre – twitter.com – 1 minute ago

What else can you spot on Google’s twitter feed?

Category : Features & Google & Twitter

The social media phenomena

December 7th, 2009 @ jon // No Comments

For a number of years now we have, as individuals, been thrown into a new, interesting and sometime exciting world of social activity. One which can take your world by storm, become your worst nightmare, or perhaps wash over you with nothing but a mild interest. Whatever the effect, the future can only involve more and more social activity online, as we chat, shop, do business or just simply socialise.

If you go out to a store in the real world to buy an item, do you spend an hour or so chatting to other buyers to find out their thoughts about a product or service? Social activity on sites can now provide the answer to almost any question for the prospective buyer. Where you actually buy online or not, the research available about any product or service in phenomenal! The social media phenomena has the ability to change the power structure of a simple high street purchasing decision. (Even to the point where there is a Iphone applications to trawl Google Products (Google Merchant Centre), amounst others, while in store, to find the top internet prices on a product.)

So what effect can it have on business? How can you exploit the social media environment to promote your products and services? If you have a success story on using social media effectively then please let me know or add your comments below.

Category : Blog & Features & Social Media