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A cocktail of advertising, social media, and technology
What kind of Twitter user are you?
Sep 19th
Ever wondered what kind of Twitter user you are? The Twitter Friend Follower ratio tool has the answer
And I am apparently a solid Twitter community member. Sounds good to me! 
Sylwia has a great post on Twitter ratio and restrictions right here
Life in Twitter Land – a collection of random tweets
Sep 10th
I seem to spend more and more time playing around with Twitter. Interstingly the Twitter experience keeps getting better and better as my number of followers increase. I just thought I would feature a few tweets that I either find interesting or that have made me chuckle…
I moaned about the ads on the new Facebook the other day and Iampennypops also agreed with me: they are very irritating and often badly targeted!
Google launched its own web-browser Chrome last week – despite a promising start and fairly good reviews, Chrome now seems to be going a little ‘loco’
Remember dial-up connections? Spending hours waiting for pages to load. Looks like bmje’s Internet connection is not feeling too well today. That actually made me chuckle!
What are your favourite tweets?
From what are you doing to what are they saying?
Jun 27th
I have just discovered that Plurk have now added a search feature allowing Plurkers to search for keywords in the Plurk-sphere. There is a little magnifying glass icon on the right hand-side corner of the timeline, click on it and you can search for whatever tickles your fancy!
I think the search engine represents a fantastic opportunity for brands [data mining] to see what people think about them, and could help with innovation, NPD or product improvements.
I also really liked the fact that Plurk seems to be available in different languages – this reminds me of the good old adage, think global, act local! Saying that, I am still struggling with Plurk’s design…
If you’re more of a Twitter fan, you can go to an external site called Twisky that also allows you to search Tweets from the Twittersphere. I would give these guys a job if I were Biz Stone…
Are you Twittering, Plurking or Jaiku-ing?
Jun 22nd
Micro-blogging seems to be the new trendy thing to do – everyone seems to be Twittering, Plurking or Jaiku-ing… and by everyone, I mean bloggers or people with a strong interest in digital which makes me think that these applications are not quite mainstream yet, and may well never be.
Twitter is currently the most popular micro-blogging application out there. The graphics look good, and you can easily customise your page. Saying that, the Twitter outages are no secret to anyone and the picture of the whale being carried across the sea by small birds when Twitter has reached maximum capacity says it all… and users are getting frustrated as a result. I also find it very difficult to keep up with conversations on Twitter… have you ever missed a Tweet from one of your followers because it got lost in the message timeline? I have!
Here comes Plurk, another micro-blogging application that has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks. Plurk certainly has one thing going for it – a sense of humour albeit an odd one. I am not a Plurk user (yet) but recently followed a Plurk conversation – Plurk’s strength can be summed up in two words – streamlined conversations. And that’s what differentiates it from Twitter. Quite a few bloggers seem to prefer Plurk to Twitter and I will probably sign up in the near future.
Enter Jaiku, recently acquired by Google (wink wink to Biz Stone co-founder of Twitter, who used to work for Google). Upon signing up the first thing anyone will notice is the abundance of features Jaiku has over Twitter – most notably the ability to import rss feeds from various sources such as your blog, LastFM , Flickr , YouTube , and yes – even Twitter . The beauty of this is that outside of ‘micro-blogging’ your updates, the traffic you’re generating elsewhere on the web is presented in one neat package.
I’d be curious to know how you differentiate each of these apps? Does your community differ on each? Which one is your favourite?