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As you guys know (if you read this blog), I am a pro-blogger and that means I blog for cash. I turn my blogs into businesses which can feed me an income. So, I’m interested in monetary value. But, there are some things where monetary value doesn’t – and shouldn’t – matter. And one of those is Twitter. So, when I saw TweetValue last week, I was rather taken aback. Here is the tweet I sent out when I found it: Oh sweet jesus: http://tweetvalue.com/ - Now we're assigning monetary … [Read more...]

It seems as if we've been seeing a wave of various sites that rank you among other Twitter users. Like Twitterank and TwinFluence. I came across another one called Twitter Grader. It ranks your Twitter profile up against other users of Twitter, based on things like number of followers, the power of your follower network, how often you update, and your profile bio. It gives you two numbers: your overall rank and your percentage out of 100. It scored me at 99.5, and ranked me #1517 out of … [Read more...]

The Internet is serious business, as I've been told. ;) It is very competitive and we're all out for blood, right? In order to be able to keep track of this fact, we need a point system and it looks like one has been informally developed over at FriendFeed. The exchange goes like so: [blah blah] posted a message on Twitter"Bush sucks. Obama walks on water. Palin. Lipstick. Pigs. Neocons."      +1 blah blah - [fellow blah blah] [Sorry, I had to get in a jab at the leftie … [Read more...]

I know that a lot of smart companies are using Twitter these days. They are using the service to keep in contact with their customers, to field new ideas, to let their customers know of new announcements, etc. The commercial uses for Twitter are many. As a consumer who might be using Twitter, it can be hard to find these companies on the site without manually searching for them or getting lucky. For example, when I was flying Southwest Airlines a few weeks ago to Seattle, I only by chance came … [Read more...]

A lot of us who use Twitter realize the value of it. We participate in it, gain value from our contacts, offer value to others, market our own sites, etc. Twitter is a valuable resource of knowledge when used properly. OK, I get that. Perhaps you do, too. But, most people don't. And nothing makes that more clear than trying to explain to a family member why you use it or, more so, trying to convince them to sign up. My wife recently joined up with Twitter, mainly because I tell her every now and … [Read more...]

I might have been a bit slow to warm up to FriendFeed (wouldn't be the first time), but today I am a pretty avid user. Yesterday, I actually spent quite more time on the site than I usually do, participating in discussions and monitoring the little squabble I got into with Scoble. But, one thing is very clear to me: FriendFeed has become extremely political. Now, I guess it is to be expected. We are, after all, in a political season. The Internet is mostly dominated by the U.S., but people in … [Read more...]