The Trouble With Twitter - Confessions Of A Twitter Snob

Current TV already made a splash in the social media space a few weeks ago with the Presidential debates, integrating Tweets into its live coverage on the cable network. Today, the company is announcing their full plans for election night, which now also include the streaming of Digg headlines, as well as video commentary from users of 12seconds.tv and the Current.com site. On-air, Current will have conventional election coverage – like covering the latest vote counts and making ... more

Practical 101s: Getting Started With Twitter : ... more

Twitter is a free micro-blogging / social networking service that allows users to post “updates” or “tweets” (text-based messages up to 140 characters long) on their Twitter profile. Tweets can be posted directly on a user’s profile, sent from third party applications like Twitterific or Twhirl, sent via SMS or IM, or posted via RSS. Once posted on a profile, tweets are sent to all users who have agreed to receive them. Users can receive tweets via their Twitter... more

Do you want to spice up your Twitter conversations with some funky characters, and don’t know how others do it? Read on to learn one technique… Twitter accepts UTF-8 characters as input text. What this basically means is that you have more than just the regular English language available to you. You can tweet in just about any language you want, as long as you know how to! Some of the character sets in UTF-8 have some cool characters as shown in the image. You can easily us... more

monitter.com - A Twitter widget to track keywords like search.twitter.com reply ... more

Question: How do you tell when something is beginning to go main stream?Answer: Or one answer .. look at the most conservative. For some that might be the federal government. When it comes to the hot new social media tactic .. micro blogs a la Twitter, it’s not a surprise that politicians have been tweeting for months including the presidential candidates. Take a peek at the list that Alexandra Rampy developed. I can’t help but wonder what is going on in the other side of those twee... more

Marketing When Nobody Is Looking : There’s a famous saying that goes something like, “integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.� It’s like that old chestnut, “to thine own self, be true.� In the past few days I’ve…... more

episode #93 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is live. In conversation with Seth Godin: http://urltea.com/2trk ... more

watching Sir Ken Robinson speak live in NYC. He rocks. Almost feels like I’m back at TED.... more

SPOS #93 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - PlaneCast, TED And Seth Godin : Welcome to episode #93 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast . From 35,000 feet in the air, here’s my first PlaneCast (hat tip to Joseph Jaffe ). It was a crazy week from…... more