Hannah Del Porto from our ImpactWatch team provides a great introduction for those looking to set up their own monitoring/measurement programs.
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Hannah Del Porto from our ImpactWatch team provides a great introduction for those looking to set up their own monitoring/measurement programs.
[...]Video demonstration of Google’s latest product, Google Buzz, which the company describes as a "new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting." You can read the Google product announcement here and a good overview of the service over on Techcrunch here.
Sassy is Phoebe's surviving hummingbird baby, check out the Phoebe-cam for more.
Yes, I enjoy this a little too much, but indulge me.
[...]I still need more time to get my head around Google Buzz, which will enable users to post and share updates, links, photos, videos with the world or with friends tied to geography via the web, mobile apps, and voice. Buzz also promises to prioritize the “buzzes” we get. I [...]
30 inches of snow at API and more on the way.
"15 Paths to Paid Online Content" (scheduled Feb. 11-12) has been postponed to March 8-9, 2010.
Whether you're launching a paid-content initiative, already charging for content online, or just curious' [...]
As readers of this blog know, I think it’s a weak crutch when journalists, bloggers and others use the hyphenated -killer to announce the new appearance of anything that will compete with an established leader in a category (for example, any new “smart-phone” is an iPod-killer). Simply put, the term [...]
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) today sold its regional media business to Trinity Mirror in a £44.8 million deal, it was widely reported. Of the price, £7.4 million comes in cash and Trinity Mirror is releasing GMG from a £37.4 million print contract.
Including my parents, we own four Toyotas in my family; over time, we’ve probably owned eight or 10. Will we ever buy another? Depends. Depends on whether we can trust the company given its performance lately.
There’s a reason we bought our Toyotas. They are incredibly reliable. I abuse mine, [...]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have extensively studied The New York Times list of most e-mailed articles, checking every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles, and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or [...] 
Bloggers need to know where their blog sits within the "conversation", which is why monitoring other blogs, social networking services, and regularly checking inbound stats is so important.
At Headshift, I've been involved in a number of projects involving social media monitoring. In some instances, it's part of a' [...]
Tuesday, we hope, things will get back to normal after Super Bowl fever had subsided. Google is set to turn Gmail into a status updatin' machine, which positions it to compete directly with Twitter. I'll be posting this Signal an hour or so before the details [...]
All reporters at the Journal-Register Co. (JRC) will get video cameras, under an ambitious plan to bring the newspaper into the digital age, the company's 3,100 employees have been told. The company's new CEO John Paton has also told staff that they now work for a [...] 
Peter Warden has a great post up on his blog that looks at how Facebook users in different states are connected to each. He finds that the U.S. can be divided into roughly seven regions, which are visualized above. Be sure to read the [...]
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger told Reuters that "if we get the right functionality and design," the iPad could "produce interesting, significant revenue streams," according to PaidContent.
The free weekly newspaper in Edinburgh will relaunch next week with a greater focus on shopping and local listings, All Media Scotland reports.
Well, fun works, and maybe Dustin Haisler from Manor Labs has the right idea.
He speculates about two ways that might build on existing approaches to get people involved in
Does
gaming have a place [...]
Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008, according to IDC information on PC World. 
Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on site-wide trends. You can read more about it here.
From the Lexicon site.... "Thank you for your" [...]
OK, I’ve given you the reasons why Google will be successful this time, but why won’t what they announce tomorrow give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut? Funny aside, I found this photo of Matt Mullenweg (the [...]
Orkut. Used it? I did back in 2002, but since then? No one I know uses it.
Jaiku. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it.
Dodgeball. Used it? I did back in 2006, but [...]
REDMOND, WA -- Regardless of how fast your broadband connection is, Microsoft plans to deliver consistently high quality, "smooth streaming" of the Winder Olympics with adaptive streaming technology, a system that delivers video tailored to the connection speed and CPU power of the end user.
NBC Sports is using [...]
As Tiger Woods recovers from a car accident and contends with reports of philandering, Slate V imagines what the golfing great might be typing into that familiar white search bar.
In Social Media Crisis Management By This Fluid World, Jonathan MacDonald reviews his own reporting of a real-life incident in the London Underground — and what happened next, as the ripples spread. Good stuff. In the midst of his talk (slides are presented in the post) he cites [...]
Do you remember August 21, 2009?
Moviegoers in more than 100 IMAX 3-D theaters worldwide watched 16 minutes of footage from a new James Cameron movie. That same day, Ubisoft debuted a trailer for a videogame based on the film, and Mattel unveiled action figures inspired by the film's' [...]
