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Tag Archives: sales
Twitter to Spray Developers With the Coveted Firehose
Twitter announced that it will be opening up its data stream (otherwise known as the Firehose) in early 2010. This means the number of Twitter apps will skyrocket, and the potential for functionality in existing Twitter apps will be greatly increased. That means good things for developers, and most likely great things for Twitter. Twitter reportedly made this and several other announcements at the Le Web event in France. Other announcements involved a new developer site that will be launching soon, an increased rate limit for services that use OAuth, an API for browser-less apps to be launched in 2010, and an official Twitter-hosted developer conference called Chirp. The firehose would give developers access to the same spectrum of Twitter data that Google and Bing have access to, as Pete Cashmore points out . Twitter says there are already over 50,000 registered Twitter Apps so far. Imagine how many more will come out with such new possibilities made available. You can probably expect a lot of new "coolness" from our own Twitter-app Twellow , once we get access to the firehose, Twellow's lead developer Matthew Daines tells me. The firehose will mean a lot more accurate and real-time functionality for a lot of Twitter-related applications. With this, Google launching real-time results from Twitter and other sources, and announcements from other important companies , we're really going to be seeing the "real-time web" we've talked about so much start to truly take shape. On a related note, Twitter also stressed that it wants to become more transparent and communicate better with developers. In addition, the company intends to announce a business model that will involve "sharing money and success" with partners. If you thought 2009 was the year of Twitter, it looks like things are really going to get interesting in 2010. Related Articles: > New APIs Should Help MySpace Stay Relevant > Dell Attributes $6.5 Million In Sales To Twitter > Continue reading
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Tagged apps, business model, coolness, daines, data stream, get-interesting, important companies, potential, review and story, sales, time web, twellow, twitter, twitter-apps
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Small Businesses And Social Media
Early this year, Burger King made waves with a "Whopper Sacrifice" Facebook app. Continue reading
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Tagged bad luck, burger-king, dislike, facebook, laycock, long term relationships, omnipresence, sales, small-business, social-media, tabke, videos
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Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Deal
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Tagged agreement, boomtown, finalize, license agreement, microsoft, october 27, rsquo, sales, swisher, week
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Google: Page Speed May Become a Ranking Factor in 2010
Over the course of 2009, a consistent theme that Google has been involved with is that of speed. In announcement after announcement, Google has talked about the importance of speed on the web, and how the company wants to do everything it can to make the web a faster place. Has it occurred to you that how fast your page loads may have a direct effect on how your site ranks in Google? Don't worry, it hasn't had an impact...yet. In an interview with WebProNews , Google's Matt Cutts told us that speed may soon be a ranking factor. "Historically, we haven't had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast," says Cutts. "It should be a good experience, and so it's sort of fair to say that if you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much." > > Site speed ranking comments starts at the 02:35 point in the video... "I think a lot of people in 2010 are going to be thinking more about 'how do I have my site be fast,' how do I have it be rich without writing a bunch of custom javascript?'" he says. I would say that based on Matt's comments it is probably fair to assume that Google will indeed begin taking page speed into consideration as a ranking factor, although he doesn't come right out and say that they definitely will. That said, making your site faster is going to benefit your users and possibly your sales anyway, so you might as well start optimizing it for speed anyway. Then if Google really does start using this as a ranking factor, you will have a head start on boosting your rankings. Google has generally been pretty good at providing webmasters with tools they can use to help optimize their sites and potentially boost rankings and conversions. Google recently announced a Site Speed site , which provides webmasters with even more resources specifically aimed at speeding up their pages. Some of these, such as Page Speed and Closure tools come from Google itself. But there are a number of tools Google points you to from other developers as well. If you're serious about wanting your site to perform better in search engines, and you haven't given much thought to load times and such, it's time to readjust your way of thinking. Caffeine increases the speed at which Google can index content. Wouldn't it make sense if your site helped the process along? Have you given much thought to site speed? Is your site up to snuff? Discuss here . Related Articles: > Continue reading
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Tagged google-provides, importance, page loads, sales, search, search people, seo, speed, video, webpronews
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Facebook Reminds Users How to Handle Death
If you've had a friend or loved-one die during the Facebook age, you may or may not have known that Facebook will memorialize their profile if you let them know about it. Facebook's Max Kelly reminded us of the fact in a post on the company's blog today. While the process has been around for a while, the company evidently thought it best to bring up because as Facebook recently redesigned its home page, a new feature was added that gives suggestions for "reconnecting" with old contacts. As Pete Cashmore pointed out over the weekend, a lot of people are getting suggestions for people they really don't want to reconnect with, and in some cases people who have died. Kelly talks about how the company was once faced with deciding what to do with the profile of a dead friend and co-worker. "The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way," he recalls. "Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of 'memorialized' profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed." "We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized," continues Kelly. "For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions." When a Facebook account has been "memorialized," Facebook sets the privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in a search. People are also prevented from logging into it, but it lets friends and family leave posts on the profile's wall as a memorial. This is something to consider if you ever lose someone who is a Facebook user. It also brings up a broader discussion about what to do with any social media profile, blog, or site when someone passes away. Do you think Facebook's profile memorialization is the appropriate way to handle the situation? Discuss here . Related Articles: > Continue reading
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Tagged Business, facebook, friend-or-loved, friends, google-advisor, memories, profile, review and story, sales, sievers-passes, social, suggestions, thought-it-best
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