I don’t see how.
Without answers, how can monetary value be predictably mined from the Tweet stream?
With much fanfare, Google has launched its version of real time search incorporating Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Blog updates into their search results.
The following video shows how Google answers the “What’s happening right now?” and the “What’s happening nearby?” questions (please forgive the Slumber Inc. soundtrack).
Entering keywords into Google and selecting Anytime produces an amalgamation of relevant news and web results while selecting Latest often produces a condensed version of the Tweet Stream.
Such doesn’t appear to be the case for one particular brand – Google.
Selecting “Latest” in Google’s real time search for “Google” produces not a list of Tweets containing Google but instead a ho hum list of relatively tame looking mostly Google owned sites.
Purely a coincidence?
Must be a fluke here on my computer.
Surely its one or the other.
Why otherwise would real time searches for Yahoo produce Tweets containing Yahoo but not those searches containing Google?
Does the same thing happen to you when you search for Google in their real time results?
If so, the lack of Tweets about Google in Google’s real time search results must be the result of a bug.
Well it doesn’t exist yet, but should – Google’s answer to TinyURL.com – the Google URL shortener.
Why should Google enter the URL shortening business?
I think a better question is: “Why not?’
If anyone could and should be in the url shortening business its Google.
Having a shortened url under a custom domain extension like .Google (dot.Google – custom brand name domain extensions will become available next year) would create more visitor traffic and page views which in turn would create more advertising inventory for Google to offer to Adwords advertisers.
Making the new Google’s shortened url service available to Blogger accounts would be a good place to start.
As it stands now, everytime a Blogger account holder wants to share their blog post, Google’s Blogger service generates a rather lengthy and unwieldy Google domain address.
Assuming the blog’s title is more than a single word, this renders most Official Google blog posts incapable of being shared directly with Twitter because of Twitter’s 140 character limit.
More often than not, Google Blogger account posts’ title and domain addresses far exceed the 140 characters available for sharing a blog post directly with Twitter.
Thus, the Google domain address has to be shortened which is an inconvenience to say the least.
Google then shortens their domain’s address to one other than the Google’s brand – the Bit.ly brand.
This process then requires opening a new browser window, copying and pasting the Blogger address into Bit.ly – what a pain in the browser!
Bit.ly is a great service but there is no reason why Google couldn’t make this whole process several steps shorter while retaining a bunch of traffic that was their’s to begin with.
To take this a step further – why doesn’t Google just co-opt the best form and functionality the url shortening industry has to offer and then distribute its shiny new TinyURL shortening service to all Google account holders through their Google Accounts dashboards?
Between offering the new Google url shortening service to Blogger and Google Account holders, Google would surely realize the birth of a signicant new traffic generating property – the shortened Google URL.
John Sviokla has assembled an interesting list of Chief Executive Officers and their Twitter accounts on his blog under the CEO Twitter Dashboard.
The CEO Dashboard has CEOs categorized by their respective industries.
Twitter users can find CEOs from each of following industries on CEODashboard:
Advertising & PR, Construction, eCommerce, Education, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, High Tech, HR Services, Industry Association, Legal, Market Research, Media, Non-Profit, Professional Services, Restaurant & Hospitality, Retail, Software, Sports & Entertainment and Travel & Transportation.
CEOs from the Advertising & PR, eCommerce, Market Research and Media fields can be found below.
Clicking on their names opens each CEO’s Twitter profile.
Web visitors can subscribe to changes via RSS from the CEO Dashboard and can follow CEODashboard on Twitter to get notified of new CEOs as they are added.
The CEO Dashboard provides an interesting version of how Twitter accounts may ultimately be organized and searched – by Twitter account users industry category.
I don’t know why, but I seem to have more problems than not trying to use Twitter search in Firefox for Macs.
I can search in Safari for Mac and get results.
The only difference as far as I can tell is that when I enter a search term in Firefox, the query doesn’t appear to embed itself in the Twitter Search box.
I refreshed my Firefox browser and still no luck.
The Twitter search process as it stands now at least in Firefox for Macs produces a 404 error stating – “The page you were looking for doesn’t exist.
Recently WordPress added a “Publicize” button to their blogs so publishers could Tweet their posts directly to their Twitter accounts.
Isn’t it now time for WordPress to add a “Socialize” button to their bloggers dashboards?
Self hosted WordPress publishers can add plugins like those from Tweetmeme to let their visitors Tweet blog links to the Twitter audience.
However, WordPress hosted blogs lack any type of plugin tools for bloggers who want to enable their visitors to share their discoveries via Tweets beyond the WordPress walls.
Adding a Tweetmeme feature to WordPress bloggers dashboards and in turn their blogs would surely have a network doubling effect on the WordPress.com audience.
The fifth year of the Web 2.0 Summit was held in San Francisco over the last several days.
This year the Web 2.0 conference theme was Web Squared.
About the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit:
We believe that nothing is going to get better if the world collectively hides under its desk. It’s time for the Web to step up and step into its role as a platform for positive change—be it in our economy, our culture, or our society.
Last year we focused on where the Web met the world. This year, the Web is the world. And we’ve got a lot of work to do.
Entire industries are in the process of painful rebirth—finance and energy, to be sure, but also information technology, media and communications, healthcare, retail—nearly every major sector, in every major region of the world. And while these changes have been ongoing for more than a decade, the global financial crisis has accelerated and clarified this shift. It’s the end of one era, and the beginning of another.
At the center of both the destruction and creation is the World Wide Web. For this year, we are focusing on demonstrating proofs: showing how the founding principles of Web 2.0 have been put into practice to address the world’s most pressing problems.
Although I wasn’t able to attend in person this year, I have captured all of the Tweets that came out of the conference and posted the Top 50 Twitter Tweets (in no particular order) I found most insightful below.
RT typos – can’t edit multiple Tweets?
RT@Ross I have to say that Sean Parker’s preso was at first too basic and then made leaps beyond reason #w2s
RT@kajbouic Well, they sure do own the behaviour RT @fzanni RT Sean Parker: “Google doesn’t own Networks, they own Info Services.” #w2s
RT@marcedavis Teen Panel at #w2s love Facebook cuz?”that’s where their friends are.”
RT@lwaldal Why pay if I can get it somewhere else for free? (teens on panel) #w2s
RT@alparker To teen panel at #w2s Q: “If Bing paid you to search, would you use it?” A: “Oh, yeah!!!” But would advertisers continue to?
RT@ptoboley Hurrah for Twitter! RT @RodCrawford: Teens don’t use Twitter #w2s #web2 – …because it requires thinking.
RT@mtanne: teens: “if Facebook charged $0.99 a month I would go back to MySpace” #w2s
@benphoster Teen Panel at Web 2.0: Not a single kid could name the company behind Bing #w2s Maybe that’s good for MSFT.
RT@LorenDavie Kids: would rather text than talk. Maybe you should drop the phone part, manufacturers. #w2s
RT@samj putting high school kids on the stage at #w2s is either incredibly insightful or idiotic. which is it? SF kids not stat sample
@sradick: “when you search on Google, do you see any ads on Google?” – Teens answer “Nope” #w2s
@sradick “The iPhone can’t do picture messaging – like, isn’t this supposed to be sophisicated?” – teen at #w2s
@sradick: Teens pay for CDs & music, but only for artists they “want to support” #w2s | All about Trust & Engagement – !ndeed
Have the television viewing habits of teens decoupled from regular televised programming?
RT@kristathomas Social networks as still more walled gardens. -TBL @ #w2s
RT @mtanne: Sergey Brin says we can use Chrome for Mac by going to http://bit.ly/DUqUc pre-beta. #Chrome #w2s
RT @moyalynne: Berners-Lee – “Semantic Web is not about adding meaning – it’s about where you’ve already got meaning” #w2s
RT@ginablaber Berners-Lee: it’s most important to just get data out there. put yr data out there, & let people link to it. linked data #w2s
RT@jhagel @fzanni: Tim Berners-Lee: the original idea back in 1990 was creating together. That was lost for some time #w2s
RT@moyalynne The idea that links can break is key to scalability of the Web. “404 the most important invention on the Web” #w2s
RT@dberlind Sir Tim Berners-Lee @ #w2s: One of the gating factors for the whole world of Web apps to take of is trust.
RT @hetavs@davemcclure: Sean Parker: “Friendster lost due to infrastructure probs, but MySpace lost to Facebook due to CAMPUS WARFARE.” #w2s
Web 2.0 Summit 2009 http://bit.ly/Web2_0Videosabout 3 hours ago from bit.ly
RT@jwoolson what is most exciting to you on web right now – Berners-Lee: HTML5, GeoLocation, move from web pages to mobile and apps. #w2s
RT@mworrell @mager “A set of connected social networks will defeat a lone, unconnected one.” Sir Tim Berners-Lee @ #w2s (via @dberlind)
RT@rlavigne42 @stumm :17 cents of every dollar in health care spent on billing. –Aneesh Chopra #w2s A simply astonishing number.
RT@yago1 “Only 20-25% of humanity actually uses the Web at all.” Tim Berners-Lee #w2s (via RT @rww)
RT @the_standard VentureBeat has a #w2s photo gallery. http://bit.ly/Av9IU
Pretty cool free video chat and video messaging http://bit.ly/Tokboxabout 3 hours ago from bit.ly
KoolAid Alert! “We’re moving from information economy to social economy.” – Sheryl Sandberg #w2s
RT @katiemoffat @thenextwomen: Cool! via @LATimesNystrom “The very 1st website can be found here” http://j.mp/TIqiI re #w2s @timoreilly
RT @onlythoughtwork @web2summit: “HTML5 is a computing platform” – @timberners_lee #w2s !mportant Web 2.0
What problem couldn’t you solve if spent 8 hours a day of concentrated effort focused on solving it?
RT @onlythoughtwork Location is THE input to rule them all. Location has the potential to change all outputs #mobile #life #quotes
Great idea from #w2s: What associations does an audience have with your brand? http://bit.ly/BrandAssociat…
Advice To Marketers: Advertising Accountability: http://wp.me/p4KvI-eAabout 4 hours ago from WordPress.com
RT@BertVanKets @makerbot @doucet: $750 DIY 3D printer @makerbot explained and demonstrated (video) http://bit.ly/3omyls #w2s
RT@psael HP @Web2Summit: 2.3 billion magazines are shipped to newstands & never read; HP answers with print-on-demand service @MagCloud #w2s
RT @andrescatalan What Do Teens Want? Their Moms Off #Facebook http://bit.ly/2gdbkC #w2s (via @alexiatsotsis)
@timberners_lee is on Twitter.
RT @moyalynne Tim Armstrong / AOL drops teaser about significant shift in their tech emerging next few months around content creation #w2s
RT @simeons Brin: excited by hardware (Moore’s Law persisting). #Google is about figuring out what we can do with what the HW can do. #w2s
RT @web2summit Google founder sergey brinn @ #w2s: “Please forgive Chrome for Mac if it crashes, it is not even in the beta stage yet.”
RT @shawncunningham #w2s I just asked Sergei Brin “where is chrome for mac?” – apparently u can download a dev alpha version, he’s not happy
RT @dberlind Goog Sergey Brin #w2s: “They [the AP, Murdoch] are conflating Google with change [in their complaints that Google is stealing]”
Several months ago WordPress announced the introduction of their own url shortening service under the WP.me branded domain.
At the time, I congratulated the WordPress staff on their blog while also asking when or if I could ever Tweet WordPress blog posts directly to my Twitter account.
The Official WordPress blog approves or disapproves comments and my suggestion went – for what seemed like an eternity – without being published.
Then within the last week or two, WordPress announced their new Publicize feature which Tweets WordPress blog posts directly to Twitter accounts.
I thought – unbelievable, Are you kidding me WordPress?!
As a consultant I am used to sharing strategies and techniques for growing businesses with my clients, but I provide them because my clients reciprocate by paying my fees.
Sharing ideas freely on the web is a requisite for participating in web culture yet not giving credit where credit is due is what keeps additional ideas from flowing and then multiplying.
This morning I woke up thinking about the above process and how I was going to write about how my suggestion had been perpetually embargoed in an approval que at WordPress while they went ahead and launched their Publicize to Twitter service.
To my surprise, my comment and suggestion were actually published several weeks ago while also being acknowledged by Automattic’s User Engagement head @Wordpress – Heather.
Congratulations WordPress… you not only listen to your customer audience, you also act on that which you have heard.
WordPress.com has announced a new feature called Publicize which let WordPress publishers tweet their blog posts directly to their Twitter account.
The feature is enabled from WordPress Dashboard’s → My Blogs admin page.
Once enabled, WordPress users are directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that they want to connect their WordPress.com blog and their Twitter account.
After Twitter allows access to a WordPress blog, the blogger’s account will display a message showing a successful connection has been made.
I assume publishing a WordPress blog post then automatically Tweets the post and it’s WordPress shortened url (Wp.Me) to the previously selected Twitter account.
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