Archive for the ‘Micro Blogging’ Category

10 Reasons Social Media is Important to Politicians

Barack Obama - Facebook Page

Barack Obama - Facebook Page

Politicians follow wherever voters take them, and today’s voter spends a lot more time than ever before on social networking sites like Facebook. People watch less television, read fewer newspapers and magazines and hardly listen to the radio at all. Politicians get far less bang for the buck advertising on “mainstream media” than they used to, and they are turning toward social sites in increasing numbers.

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RiotFeeds Bundle Hottest Links via Twitter, Helps Novice Tweeters

RiotFeeds

RiotFeeds are especially helpful for novice tweeters to find quality, relevant content right away in their realtime Twitter stream.

RiotFeeds a new micro-site powered by OneRiot, offers an easy way to discover the hottest realtime links in your Twitter stream for any topic- tech news, gadgets, sports, green living, food & wine, others (especially for novice tweeters to find quality, relevant content right away in their Twitter stream).

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How to Make any Site Mobile Media Enabled with Jively’s New API

Jively

Enabling a website with mobile multimedia content such as video and images has always been a costly and time-consuming process – expensive video conversion, MMS portals and fast media streaming are out of reach for most website owners. Until now.

Jively – the social media tool that lets you share and tag the world around you has launched a new API enabling all of the sites functionality to be harnessed by third-party website owners. The service allows site designers, developers and content providers to create mobile video and image portals right on their website without the need for costly development, media hosting or streaming servers.

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CitySpeek – Micro-Messaging Service, with Picture or Video

CitySpeek

You know as well as any that micro-messaging is one of the web’s most efficient forms of communication. We’ve got Twitter, Identica and Tumblr just to name a few. Now, let me be the first to introduce you to one of the web’s newest micro-messaging sites, CitySpeek.

CitySpeek allows you to easily stay in contact with your friends, family, teammates, co-workers and customers. Like other micro-messaging sites, CitySpeek gives you 140 characters to tell the world what’s on your mind. But what you need to know about is what makes CitySpeek different.

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sfeed.com – Shopping Microblogging

sfeed

sfeed.com is a shopping microblog that brings people and products together. Sfeed changes the way you discover new products from the web and share your findings with your friends and followers.

sfeed makes it easy for you to bookmark your favourite items from any webshop and let your friends and followers know of your activities. You can follow other people to see what they bookmark and exchange ideas and comments about products. With set editor you can quickly create visual collections of items, scale items and even remove their background for a more seamless result.

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