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Fav4
Justin Giritlian - Tuesday, February 16, 2010
No doubt the future of the internet is going to rely heavily on web applications, social networks, and consolidation. Meet fav4.org, a website that you should consider making your homepage. All you have to do is setup which of your four most used sites are and boom - beautiful shiny buttons are placed leaving you easy access to the sites you need first thing. Thumbs up for slick, simple, and effortless design and functionality!
New Twitter Data
Justin Giritlian - Wednesday, January 27, 2010
RJMetrics has compiled new data showing the trend growth on one of our personal favorite social media platforms: Twitter.
You can read the entire Metric System analysis here, but in short, there is no denial Twitter has had a huge growth in the last two years, however the growth and updates have dropped recently. This is due to a few factors: 1. Twitter does a good job deleting spam accounts and 2. In my opinion, I think most people don't actually understand what it is used for. They sign up because they heard about it on the news or think it will help lead to over night success. They make a few updates, refuse to learn the lingo and drop it because no one cared about their tweet. A lot of people are treating it like Facebook, which of course the platforms have similarities but are clearly very different. I think that twitter is here to stay, however, only the companies and services that actually have something of value to offer their customers and/or followers will survive on twitter. It will be the difference between reading The Economist and The National Enquirer. I recommend reading Vivek Wadhaw's article for clarity on why twitter is such a powerful resource and tool.
Whose Excited for Tweetie 2... H2P is!!
Justin Giritlian - Wednesday, September 30, 2009
"There is absolutely no shortage of Twitter apps available for the iPhone. But in my mind (and the minds of many others) one stands above all the rest: Tweetie. And while the app has undergone several small tweaks since it was first released last year, a big time revamp is about to hit: Tweetie 2.
We’ve been testing out of the app for a few weeks now, and I’m happy to report that it’s the Tweetie you know and love, but better.
Maybe you’ve seen some tweets from users in recent weeks labeled as coming from “Bigbird”? Yeah, that’s Tweetie 2.0. Some may recall that this was also the code name for Tweetie for the Mac right before it launched. The reason for the nickname is that Tweetie 2 is built on top of the Project Bigbird core, which Atebitsdeveloper Loren Brichter first developed for Tweetie for Mac. This means an iPhone Tweetie that is “faster, slimmer, and much more powerful,” as Brichter puts it.
So what’s new? A lot. Here are the big ones.
Persistence — Tweetie now remembers the last thing you were browsing when you closed the app. This means if you were on a user’s Twitter profile, you will go back there when you open the app again.
New message indicators — When you have a new @reply or direct message, you will now see a glowing blue light below those sections to let you know.
Scroll up to reload — Rather than having a separate reload button, to reload your main tweet stream, you simply now scroll up, hold for a second, and Tweetie will check for new tweets.
More third-party service support — You can now use services such as Favstar.fm (which we’ve covered here), Tweet Blocker, and Follow Cost.
Live-filtering search — At the top of your tweet stream is a Search Timeline option from which you can search your stream. The best part about this is that it filters as you type. Very sexy. You can also search your mentions this way.
New tweet options — Bringing up the tweet box (the area where you write your tweets) if faster than ever. But there are also a range of new options if you hit the 140 character counter. You can now easily geotag tweets (presumably this will work with the Twitter Geolocation API when it goes live, but for now it inserts a Google Map link), search for hashtags to include, and even search the people you follow to find someone to @ reply to (this is very nice).
Draft manager — If you’re the kind of person who writes tweets to send at a later time, Tweetie 2 has a draft manager where you can save multiple drafts of tweets.
New tweet stream options — One of the nice features about Tweetie from the get go was that swiping a tweet to the right brought up a range of options for things you could do with that tweet. Tweetie 2 o offers even more of these including new ways to retweet, quote tweets, post a link to a tweet, mail tweets, and translate tweets. If there is a link in the tweet, you also have a bunch of options.
Notifications — Yes, you can now get Push Notifications for specific users’ tweets on your device. [Update: My bad, these are not Push Notifications, but rather a way to toggle on and off the SMS notifications that Twitter sends.]
Create iPhone contacts from Twitter profiles — Pretty self-explanatory, pretty awesome.
Saved searches — The searches you save on Twitter.com are now synced with Tweetie.
Landscape — The whole app now works in Landscape mode. Or you can disable that.
More threaded conversations — One of the really nice UI elements of Tweetie for Mac is that is allows you to easily see a threaded conversation view between people. You can now do this on Tweetie 2 as well simply by clicking on who a tweet is in reply to.
Video support — If you have an iPhone 3GS (Tweetie 2 requires iPhone 3.0 or above, but will work on older iPhones that that OS) you can also easily upload videos to Twitter via services such as yFrog.
Get It…Soon
So those are a lot of the big changes, but there are many more subtle ones as well. The main takeaway is that if you’re addicted to Tweetie 1, there isn’t anything in Tweetie 2 that you won’t like, and several things that are greatly improved. It’s simply a must-download.
So when will it be available? Brichter plans to submit to the App Store at some point this week, so you can look for it sometime in the next couple of weeks depending on the approval process. The app will be $2.99, just like the first version was. Sadly, this will not be a free upgrade for existing Tweetie for iPhone users, as Britcher considers this to be (and has made it) a completely new app. Still, it’s easily worth the price.
One more thing
Brichter has also revealed that he is working on Tweetie 2 for Mac, and that it should be available shortly. He doesn’t give away too many details, but there are features such as syncing between the iPhone and Mac version. That will be a free upgrade if you already have a license for Tweetie for the Mac."
The True Value of Social Networks
Justin Giritlian - Friday, June 05, 2009
We’ve now remodeled social network valuations based on current user numbers and Facebook’s most recent $10 billion valuation. The results are dramatically different.
The U.S., by the way, is only the 4th most valuable market per Internet user, trailing The UK ($213), Australia ($148) and Denmark ($144).
We’ve then multiplied the average Internet spend per user in each market with the number of unique users each social network has in that market, essentially creating a “weighted average” based on the advertising dollars chasing users. If a social network has more users in the U.S., Japan, the UK, Germany, Australia, and other bigger advertising networks, they will have a higher weighted average valuation.
We believe this model is an effective way to rank various competing social networks. It bumps down networks like Orkut and Friendster who have tens of millions of users in markets with very little advertising spend, and bumps up networks with lots of users in higher value markets.
Based on this model, MySpace is by far the most valuable social network. Second place Facebook has just 75% of the value of MySpace (even though it now has more users), followed by Bebo (26% of MySpace value), Hi5 and Amebio. LinkedIn comes in at no. 11, at 6% of MySpace’s value.
The new model takes into account the dramatic rise of Facebook usage over the last year, the massive recent decline in MySpace usage, and less dramatic changes in the other social networks. We’ve also modeled out the various valuations with the old Bebo ($850 million) and LinkedIn ($1 billion) valuations as pivot points. We’ve also added Twitter to the list just for kicks.
The bottom line: If Facebook is worth $10 billion today, MySpace is worth just $6.5 billion. Bebo is worth $1.8 billion, Twitter is worth $1.7 billion and LinkedIn is worth $0.8 billion. Facebook also accounts for 37% of all social networking value points in our model. Another way of saying this: If Facebook is worth $10 billion, the value of the entire social networking industry is $27.1 billion. Thanks to TechCrunch intern Dan Romero
for running the new model.
Twitter Can Haz a TV Show?
Justin Giritlian - Monday, May 25, 2009
Variety says the show’s concept was the brainchild of novelist Amy Ephron. Founded by NBC Entertainment exec Ben Silverman, Reveille Productions is known for producing TV hits like ABC’s Ugly Betty and NBC’s The Office. The company was apparently bought by Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Productions in February 2008 for $125 million."
Could this be the beginning of the end for Twitter? If this becomes true, will this enhance to or take away from your tweeting experience?
Twitter made Google Focus on Real-Time Search
Justin Giritlian - Monday, May 18, 2009
The Google Zeitgeist conference outside of London was held today March 19, 2009 by Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google. They obviously discussed Twitter and how it has affected Google. Here is what TechCrunch had to say:
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google did a double header interview from the Google Zeitgeist conference just outside of London today. But the real question on our lips was what is Google going to do about the astounding buzz around realtime search and Twitter?
During a press conference I asked the question of of of Google’s executives, and the answer came back that “the kind of innovation like what Twitter is doing and what we’re doing is increasing search speed, relevance , freshness and comprehensiveness. Other companies will come up with solutions of course.”
Not a great answer.
Luckily, Loic Le Meur is also here and put Larry on the spot on stage, and captured:
“I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. With Twitter, now they know they have to do it. Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but people are getting pretty excited about realtime.”
See, Larry actually came up with the idea first.
iTwitter coming soon?
John Holdridge - Monday, May 04, 2009
Twitter! Whether you use it or not, or understand it or not, it’s the hottest thing in Silicon Valley right now. It’s brought up in every conversation. And no wonder - the service has exploded to somewhere north of 25 million users and has been growing by 40% a week since that Oprah appearance, says a source close to the company.
Google tried to buy it but was rebuffed by Twitter CEO Evan Williams, says a source with knowledge of the talks.
Today, though, rumors popped up that Apple may be looking to buy Twitter. “Apple is in late stage negotiations to buy Twitter and is hoping to announce it at WWDC in June,” said a normally reliable source this evening, adding that the purchase price would be $700 million in cash. The trouble is we’ve checked with other sources who claim to know nothing about any Apple negotiations. If these discussions are happening, Twitter is keeping them very quiet indeed. We would have passed on reporting this rumor at all, but other press is now picking it up.
Twitter is strongly signaling that it doesn’t want to sell at any price right now. The founders took significant money off the table in the last round valuing Twitter at $250 million, we’ve heard, and are aligned with investors to see Twitter through to the end.
And frankly that’s probably the best thing for the Internet. I wrote in an earlier post that I’d like to see Twitter spread its wings a little longer and see what it can become. It’ll be hard to do that as a subsidiary of Google, Apple, or anyone else for that matter. If Twitter wants to stay independent that’s just fine with me
2009 Web Trend Metro Map
Justin Giritlian - Wednesday, April 08, 2009
The newest Web Trend map has been posted! This is a map, made by Information Architects and is done in the style of a Tokyo Metro map which points out the traffic, revenues, and trends on the web. Every year one is made, the most recent version, 4th one in total (BIG VERSION 6740 x 4768), "maps the 333 most influential web domains and the 111 most [influential] Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team through dialogue withe map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenuse, age and the company that owns it. The iA design team assigns these selected domains to individual stations on the Tokyo Metro map in ways that complement the character of each. For example, Twitter is located in Shibuya this year, as Shibuya is the spot with biggest buzz."
Follow H2P Inc on Twitter
John Holdridge - Monday, April 06, 2009
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Twitterific!
Adam Holdridge - Sunday, November 30, 2008
Yay for Twitter!
Ok, so I was against the premise that is Twitter. But, today, I've decided to embrace it. Using this service, you can update the world about yourself by sending "tweets." These short bursts of information can be anything you'd like it to be. Friend's can subscribe to follow you. I added my Twitter information on the About Us page of our corporate website. Let's see if the rest of the team follows suit.
Here is a link to my Twitter Page: http://www.twitter.com/aholdridge
I love long holiday weekends, because it give me time to play with these new services.
-Adam
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