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The sudden increased popularity of twitter and social media in general has created a new avenue of looking for jobs-with the millions of people using twitter and talking about everything it was only a matter of time until this medium could be used for employment.
You can use twitter search to look for jobs but you [...]

On March 17th, Senator John McCain and George Stephanopoulos from ABC News faced off in what was dubbed a twitterview or more simply a interview conducted over the microblogging service Twitter.
To see the interview you had a couple of options
1. You could follow both Sen John McCain and George Stephanopoulos and read their twits
2. You [...]

Finding keyword rich domains to use for affiliate sites or other domain projects is a slow task that usually ends in frustration. Too many times the only options are hyphenated words, .info, .net or other less than desirable choices. There are several tools that try to automate the process which I have used in the [...]

Most URL’s are too long for twitter and need to be shortened. TinyURL is great for shortening long links but doesn’t provide its users with any time of feedback or analytics. Enter Cligs- Cligs is a short URL service that gives you access to detailed traffic statistics of your short URLs.
A “clig” is a short [...]

Friendfeed debuted live updates during last nights televised presidential debate. The real time view offers comments, posts and pictures at the top of a users feed as they are posted.
For last nights debate over 500 people joined the 2008 debate room and participated in live real time comments as the debate was going on.
Once the [...]

Tweetlater is a useful tool for managing a single or multiple twitter accounts. Tweetlater lets you set a schedule to send tweets and also allows the setup of auto welcome and auto following
The ability to set up delayed twitter postings makes most people think of spam or abuse of the system. Delayed tweets do have [...]

It’s hard enough generating leads and business but when you have to do estimates and invoicing and accept payments from clients it seems an impossible tasks. How many times have consultants froze in their tracks when a client asks them for a quote or an estimate or mail them an invoice?
Clients big and small judge [...]

Yahoo Searchmonkey is a way for developers and site owners to modify Yahoo search listings in a way never before available.
With SearchMonkey, site owners create “applications” for Yahoo search that can be installed by users in the same sense that Facebook applications can be installed.
Instead of search results consisting of a simple title, abstract and [...]

I am a big fan of the book Groundswell and almost all research I can get my hands on concerning social media and how to apply these concepts into companies big and small
Groundswell is a step by step blueprint on how to implement a social media strategy in your organization. The book focuses on social [...]

FriendFeedSpy is a new beta service similar in nature to Twitter search. The difference between the two services is instead of searching for information based on keywords or users it is a live view of posting activity on FriendFeed.
You can filter the information posted by users into different categories news, bookmarking, video, photos, blogging, books, [...]

First Anderson Cooper started blogging and taking blogger questions live on his newscast now a new show on CNN is here interacting live with twitter- CNN Newsroom with Rich Sanchez weekdays at 12pm PST

Now Rick Sanchez has a daily newcast integrating Twitter into the show. Viewers can twitter comments and opinions about live news of [...]

Ispionage.com is a new pay per click competitive intelligence tool that allows marketers to set up competitive alerts tied to keywords or ads across the three major advertising engines.
When I first saw this tool I thought of keyword elite and all the other keyword tools that have appeared over the past year such as keycompete.com, [...]

Twitter is now being used as a method to discuss special events as they are happening. During this years Oscar broadcast twitter is being used to discuss and evaluate the oscars among thousands of twitter users
By including the phrase “#aa08″ in your tweets or twitter messages a mashup is created with twitter users commenting on [...]

What is twitter? What is twittering? why do people do this and what type of person is most likely to twitter. Every time I’ve tried to describe twittering and tried to show examples of twitter I’ve gotten blank responses and been labeled as a nut. I have also made the wrong assumption of thinking just [...]

Google teamed up with Twitter and Twittervision to offer a unique mashup for Super Tuesday. Tweets related to Super Tuesday were overlayed on a map showing the tweet, the user and their location along with other election related data including videos and actual voting results
This was an amazing use of social media and what I [...]