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  • ‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off

    ‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off

    There is a new initiative by Harris Interactive where they’re asking you to connect your ‘social’ profiles to an engine that will analyze your actions in Facebook and/or Twitter. Is this the future of research?

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  • From Meetup to Commercial Dating?

    From Meetup to Commercial Dating?

    The internet meeting is starting to break through , maybe as early as this year. This development is not only fun and entertaining; it is also a good way to make contact with consumers, customers and business partners.

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  • Does advertising on social networks have to be at the cost of user experience?

    Does advertising on social networks have to be at the cost of user experience?

    Guest Article: On 12th April 2010 Twitter announced its new business strategy to include promoted tweets in its organic search results. This new direction in collecting revenue from advertisers raised many questions among the online marketing community and avid Twitterers. Is Twitter not going to affect the user experience in the network by “polluting” the content with promotional tweets?

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  • Twitter event: Twittershizzle

    Twitter event: Twittershizzle

    You get together with long-time online friends, strangers and everyone in between, while others are still trying to grasp what this is really about. Enter Twittershizzle; an event by Tweeps, for other tweeps, with music, artists and fun and laughter it's both the average get-together as well as networking, listening and performances all in one.

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  • How do you treat your following?

    How do you treat your following?

    The question do you deserve your following might sound a bit odd. After all, if it is a followerbase like on twitter that you have, people have the option to unfollow you once they feel mistreated. Nevertheless it is a good thing to stop and think about how you treat the people that follow you online.

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  • Broadcasting; information sharing on Twitter

    Broadcasting; information sharing on Twitter

    If one would name sharing, editing and redistributing content as the key to social media, a virtue of this new way of sharing and consuming content then one neglects the underlying question; why this 'works'.

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  • A blessing and a curse…

    A blessing and a curse…

    I'm number 8 in the twitter top 40 and Levi Boitelle made a fanpage for me on facebook!

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  • Blocked from Twitter Search?

    Blocked from Twitter Search?

    A couple of months ago I noticed something strange; some of my tweets didn’t always show up in the twitter search. Quite soon it appeared that my hashtags were not indexed or omitted from the search functionality. Whenever I would click a hashtag to find it’s latest connected tweets I would never see any of [...]

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