blogmaverick.com - 5/16/2009
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Last year I wrote a blog post entitled “If the news is important it will find me”. The point was that we all live in so many social networks, that someone will send us an update if something in the world happens that we would be interested in. Back then I was guessing. A year [...]
reuters.com - 5/19/2009
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reuters.com —
Alexei Oreskovic NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter is
working on various ways to make money from its...
fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that ...
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Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue
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allfacebook.com - 5/15/2009
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allfacebook.com —
Want to call your Facebook friends via video
chat? Soon enough you’ll be able to. Earlier today...
one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook’s cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released ...
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Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product
techcrunch.com - 5/14/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch.
It included taking away a feature some people loved,...
probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it ...
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Twitter’s Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours
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The Value Of Twitter As Compared To Google
Techdirt —
... , but for those who have learned how to use Twitter well (as opposed to many who use it poorly), the value of it is quite impressive. I now spend a lot more time using Twitter to find news than I do my feed reader -- and that's amazing to me. However, I think Mark Cuban actually has made the strongest point, noting that in many ways, Twitter is becoming more useful than Google. This isn't to say that Twitter is "killing" Google (x killing y stories are lame), but that many people are finding information via Twitter now, where they used to find it via Google. ...
Linkpost | 5.16.2009
TechBlog —
... " is rolling out over the weekend. • How Twitter and Facebook Now Compete with Google - Mark Cuban says more people are finding his blog via Facebook and Twitter than Google. That may say more about how his blog has evolved than the state of social networking. • ...
How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... have also seen Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed become referrers of traffic to our network of blogs. Mark Cuban (of the Dallas Mavericks) and Borthwick (of Betaworks) have noticed similar trends. “For the first time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google. The total number of people coming to my blog is increasing. The percentage of people who find it via Google is declining. Significantly,” writes Cuban. ...
Google vs. the Real-Time Web [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , real-time content marks a still-amorphous but important new phase of evolution in the web, allowing for the instantaneous discovery of newly added information. And Twitter and Facebook are emerging as an alternative to the traditional engine, which presents a big challenge to Google’s core business. As Larry Page ...
5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives
Mashable! —
... Friends on social media are increasingly becoming people’s trusted sources of information, even more than search engines. Tech blogger Mark Cuban recently noted, “For the 1st time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google.” ...
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