March 2009
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Celebrities a-Twitter
What is the single biggest driver of the Twitter rocket sled you ask (right after asking what Twitter is)?
Answer: Celebrities twittering.
CelebrityTweet and WeFollow (celebs) are two easy ways follow Twittering celebs.
The NYT is even tracking celebritweeters.
More on Twitter:
Why Twitter Matters
John Stewart Talkes Twitter on the Daily Show
Twitalyzer Shows Twitter Influence
Media on...
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Biggest Tech / Venture Blogs
Duncan Riley had an interesting post on The Inquisitr tonight, talking about the possibility of Mashable overtaking TechCrunch (and sub-domains) as the leading Web 2.0 blog by Traffic.
Riley included graphs from Compete, Alexa, ComScore and Quantcast to illustrate his point. Of course, what and how you count matter. What is clear: Mashable is a close second and definitely within striking...
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Sarah Lacy Joins TechCrunch
Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch announced today in a post that Sarah Lacy will join as a permanent member of the tech blog’s editorial staff.
Arrington writes in TechCrunch: ”I’d like to welcome Sarah Lacy to Team TechCrunch as a permanent addition to our editorial and writing team. Lacy, …will continue to write Valley Girl, a biweekly column for BusinessWeek. She will...
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How To Do Social Media Right In 2009
Marta Strickland of Organic, an interactive agency, posted an interesting deck on SlideShare. She does a nice job of giving specific examples, how-tos, stats and case studies on how brands are diving into social media. This ties in nicely with my post, Social Media How-to Guide: Getting Started. Marta uses terms like Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 that you can disregard, but on balance, this is a quality deck...
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Facebook Takes Top Spot in Monthly Attention
For the first time, Facebook overtook the top spot in Monthly Attention (time spent as a percentage of total time spent online by U.S. Internet users), commanding nearly 6% of all time spent online by Americans in the month of February.
Google and Facebook continue up and to the right on the graph below, but perhaps more compelling than Facebook overtaking Yahoo! is the trajectory of MySpace. As...
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Robert Scoble Leaving Fast Company
“Hi, I’m Robert Scoble. Who are you.” Not quite, “now you know the rest of the story,” but very well known in tech circles. Robert Scoble, the highly influential “tech geek” blogger and videographer is leaving FastCompany.tv for parts unknown — at least for now. (UPDATE: Robert will be going to Rackspace and focusing on community building. Read more...
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John Stewart Talks Twitter on the Daily Show
Twitter seems to finally going a bit more main stream. kind of…
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Michael Arrington is Back at TechCrunch
Mike Arrington announced in a post on TechCrunch that he is back from Hiatus. An excerpt from his post:
“…In short, I’m back. I’m tanned, rested, and generally grumpy about not being in Hawaii any more, but back I am. And somehow TechCrunch did just fine without me.
More soon on my plans for the future and my thoughts about the events that led me to take a month off in the first...