Twitter Helps You Find New People To Follow
Twitter is launching a new tool called “Suggestions for You” in the hopes of making it easier for users to find the right accounts to follow. The tool is rolling out today; I don’t have it on my main @mattmcgee account, but it does appear on the home page of my @atu2 account. (atu2.com is [...]
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[Data Visualization] How Yahoo’s Homepage Delivers Personalized News to 700 Million People
February 10, 2012 - 7:55 pm
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With all the attention focused on Facebook and Google, it’s sometimes easy to forget how many people visit Yahoo on a typical day. The site has over 700 million users and gets a massive amount of page views each day. As the company struggles to figure out what its future focus should be, one thing [...]
How Yahoo’s Homepage Delivers Personalized News to 700 Million People (Visualization)
February 10, 2012 - 9:56 am
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With all the attention focused on sites like Facebook and Google’s properties, it’s sometimes easy to forget how many people visit Yahoo on a typical day. The site has over 700 million users and gets a massive amount of page views each day. As the company struggles to figure out what its future focus should [...]
Study Suggests Content Matters On Twitter
February 10, 2012 - 5:55 am
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Will this article get re-tweeted? According to a new HP Labs white paper, we can now predict whether or not it will become popular on Twitter. The findings are crucial because most previous analysis of how tweets travel have focused on who has been tweeting as opposed to what they have been tweeted. If someone [...]
SEO Perth Experts Digital Domination Helps Small and Medium-Sized Businesses … – SBWire (press release)
February 9, 2012 - 5:26 pm
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SEO Perth Experts Digital Domination Helps Small and Medium-Sized Businesses …SBWire (press release)Perth, Australia — (SBWIRE) — 02/09/2012 — Digital Domination announced today that the SEO Perth experts are continuing to help small- and medium-sized businesses increase online traffic and drive sales. By leveraging the company's comprehensive … View full post on SEO – Google [...]
Saudi Twitter User Faces Death Penalty for Tweets
February 9, 2012 - 1:55 pm
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A 23-year-old Saudi Twitter user, Hamza Kashgari, fled the country Sunday to avoid being arrested for his religious tweets, only to find himself in the hands of the Malaysian police today. He was heading to New Zealand to request political asylum. On Saturday, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Kashgari tweeted three times, expressing [...]
Google Screenwise Pays People to Search the Web With Chrome
February 9, 2012 - 12:28 pm
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A new Google project called Screenwise is offering web surfers the chance to get paid to surf the web and help “make Google better.” You have to search the web using the Chrome browser and share your data with Google, according to the signup page. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
February 8, 2012 - 11:08 am
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Earlier this month market research tool provider Ask Your Target Market surveyed 400 US adults about their attitudes toward personalized search on Google. The results were reported today in eMarketer’s email newsletter. We went back to the source to check out the survey and discovered that… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. View [...]
Q&A: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley on What He’s Learning From Twitter and What’s Next
February 8, 2012 - 9:55 am
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Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company [...]
User-Centric Design is Great, Just as Long as You Find the Right User
February 8, 2012 - 3:55 am
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My friend and colleague Esther Schindler has written a wonderful post over on SoftwareQuality Connection about encouraging user-centric design. The only trouble is figuring out the right set of users that your software is designed for. Put another way, this is the classic programming problem: the person who hires you (or who sets up the [...]
Poll: People Don’t Rely On Facebook, YouTube, Twitter For Election Information
February 7, 2012 - 12:55 pm
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Fewer people are relying on the Internet in general and social media specifically for election news and information than some social media “experts” would have us believe, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. Sponsor While many in tech journalism circles have been quick to call the 2012 presidential race “the Social [...]