A2SM Podcast #41 – The Man Of The Year?

In This Episode

Social Media Podcast
Twitter

The 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010
http://yearinreview.twitter.com/powerful-tweets/

Twitter closes massive funding round
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20025785-36.html

Social Media Advertising on Twitter – http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/12/social-media-advertising-twitter/

Twitter Takes a Step Toward a Turn-Key Advertising Solution

http://mashable.com/2010/12/15/twitter-turn-key-advertising/
WARNING: Acai Berry Twitter Attack Spreading Like Wildfire [UPDATED] – http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/acai-berry-twitter-worm-warning/
On Facebook Too! And a Video One! Beware!

Elsewhere In The Web

“Time” Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year – http://mashable.com/2010/12/15/time-mark-zuckerberg-person-of-the-year/

Americans Now Spend As Much Time Using Internet as TV
http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/internet-tv-forrester/

Gawker hackers release file with FTP, author & reader usernames/passwords – http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/13/gawker-hackers-release-file-with-ftp-author-reader-usernamespasswords/

Picks

Neal: Splash Top Remote – VPN for your iPad to your Computer – http://SplashTopRemote.com/

Seth: Google’s App Inventor Now Open to Everyone – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_app_inventor_now_open_to_everyone.php

Jody: Chrome – Cortex (Social Browser) -
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/cortex-chrome/

MacBundle Time!
http://www.mupromo.com/8910

Link Post for July 12th through July 16th

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  • DA Withdraws iPhone 4 Warrant, Returns Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s Possessions – The iPhone 4 may be available to the general public, but the police investigation into the leaked device that Gizmodo purchased last spring is still going strong. Now there’s been a new development: the EFF reports that the San Mateo District Attorney has withdrawn the warrant it used to search Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house last April, when it confiscated multiple computers, hard drives, and other electronics.
  • U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs | TorrentFreak – After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result.
  • How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made – How do you take the social web by storm in a day, winning over even the coldest of hearts and gaining international acclaim – with commercials?
  • Man Claims Ownership of Facebook – WSJ.com – A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, following a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84% stake in the social-networking company.
  • Two Guys Conquer YouTube For Profit And Glory – I call them the YouTube cowboys: two guys who are rough around the edges, not obeying anyone’s rules, and steadfastly doing well by doing their own thing; they are crushing it. These relatively new YouTube channel owners are not just dominating their genre, they are often spanking the biggest brands in the world, bringing in hundreds of thousands of views to their content every day.
  • Make Your Own Rechargeable, Water-Powered Battery – We've covered how to make a beer battery before, but if you've yet to get into the home brewing scene, you can make a smaller battery with a copper rod and a bit of water or vinegar.

Link Post for March 26th through March 28th

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  • Turtles: So Hot Right Now [Randomly Viral] – Watch out cats and kittehs everywhere — your spot atop the heap of most viral animals is about to be usurped by a whole legion of heroes on a half-shell. That’s right — for some reason that I have yet to ascertain (aside from the obvious, “I like turtles” sentiment), turtles have become a seriously hot Internet meme.
  • Violent Flash Mobs Becoming a Problem in Philly – Flash mobs are usually associated with randomized fun (or pantlessness), but in Philly, they’re basically akin to randomized violence. Last night, Mayor Michael Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams took to the streets to spread a message to the city’s young, social media-savvy inhabitants: Flash mobs will not be tolerated.
  • Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises – Five months ago, right around the time that Andrey Ternovskiy was building Chatroulette, no one could have predicted that being “nexted” would become the modern day equivalent to a rite of passage.
  • See Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search in Action [VIDEO] – Earlier this week, Yahoo launched a new iPhone app called Sketch-a-Search that allows you to trace an area with your finger to get restaurant results in a specifically defined region.
  • Browsing the iPad App Store [VIDEO] – Feverishly awaiting the release of the Apple iPad and all the goodies that go along with it? Well, now you can take a virtual tour of the iPad App Store, via a video that purports to depict the storied place.
  • 5 Essential Apps for Your Business’s Facebook Fan Page – If you’ve already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business’s Facebook presence, you may now be in the market for some features that will further engage your fans.
  • Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp – Don’t spend money on marketing, do offer flexibility and data exporting to eliminate buyers’ regret, make sure to capitalize on and value goodwill, and only charge for things that are hard to do. That’s what some startups say is the key to success in the freemium business. But the biggest reason the five presenters this morning at the Freemium Summit in San Francisco — Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic (see disclosure at the bottom) and MailChimp — are doing well is because they have great products that people want. They’ve been able to get those products to a broad audience by using the freemium model — that is, offering a free service with the option to upgrade. It’s an increasingly important business model, but one that’s hard to navigate, so their anecdotes, open sharing of data, and lessons learned were really valuable.
  • Free email archiving and backup software – MailStore Home – MailStore Home enables you to backup all your email messages from multiple applications and accounts into one secure and persistent archive. Lightning-fast search, one-click backup, powerful export – all information from your email is at your fingertips anytime. Never lose important email again!
  • The Magic Formula For Blog Retweets | Bit Rebels – You’ve worked hard on a post that you think many people will like. You tweet it to all your followers and wait to see all the RTs come in on your stream. They aren’t there. It’s like a ghost town. What happened?
  • CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO COMPETE TO BECOME A GOOGLE INTERNET TEST SITE « City of Philadelphia’s News & Alerts – Today Mayor Michael A. Nutter declared that tomorrow Philadelphia will be known as the “The City of Google-ly Love and Gigabit Affection” in support of the City’s application to become a Google internet test site.

Link Post for March 4th

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  • Facebook Officially Launches Resized Photos – Looking to upload larger photos on Facebook? It’s now possible thanks to Facebook rolling out some features first announced in January. Images have now been increased “by almost 20 percent to 720 pixels to give [users] higher quality photos”. While on the surface this isn’t a big deal, Facebook run the largest online photo storage product which means this is a relatively substantial technical feat.
  • Ali Fedotowsky Dumps Facebook For “The Bachelorette” – Weeks after leaving ‘the Bachelor’ as a contender to keep her job at Facebook, Ali Fedotowsky has quit Facebook and is set to star in the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’. She made these revelations during her appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
  • Viral Facebook Page Wants To Make ‘Hella’ An Actual Number – You’ve probably seen some unusual Facebook Groups and Fan pages lately, and the petition to make “Hella” a real number is just one more. However its initial appeal to a small group may be ending as it’s beginning to catch fire and go viral.
  • Facebook’s Deal With Omniture Could Lure More Big Companies to Its Performance Ads – Although a range of companies provide analytics services for Facebook Pages and applications, and a handful offer automated purchasing of Facebook’s performance advertisement inventory, Facebook is now officially partnering with a big player in both areas: Omniture.
  • Bing’s Facebook Page Gets 400,000 New Fans in a Day Through Ad Offer in Farmville – In the latest example of brand advertising integrated into social games, Microsoft ran an advertising offer for Bing within Zynga’s hit game FarmVille on Tuesday. If users became a fan of Bing’s Facebook Page by clicking on a sponsored ad on the bottom right of the FarmVille main page, they’d receive 3 Farm Cash (FarmVille’s virtual currency). The effort was apparently successful, as Bing’s page went from slightly more than 100,000 fans on Monday to more than 500,000 as of earlier today.
  • Facebook Promotes Mobile Services to Users Who Log Off the Web Site – It’s already clear that Facebook believes mobile devices are a key way for users to access its service, and the company has occasionally tested ways of making its mobile site and mobile apps more obvious. But now it’s going even further.
  • Kwedit Gets Slammed On Colbert, But Raises $3.3 Million To Soften The Blow – Kwedit, the innovative new alternate payment product for social games and just about any other virtual good, is on a roll. They’ve raised a second round of financing – $3.3 million in a round led by Maveron. And they were also on the Colbert Report last night. Just, not so much in a good way.
  • WSJ: Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion – Late last year, we published a list of the top 10 IPO candidates of 2010. Leading that list was Facebook, which has grown to 400 million users and is finally starting to turn on the revenue pumps as it works toward its inevitable IPO. But this evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article penned by Jessica Vascellaro that may dash the hopes of anyone who thinks that will happen in the immediate future. The lengthy piece, which is well worth reading in its entirety, touches on quite a few issues related to Facebook’s history and its future, and largely revolves around CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who doesn’t sound all that keen to take his company public.
  • Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time – Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs.
  • Twitter Speeding Toward 10 Billion Tweets – About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.

Link Post for February 22nd

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  • Facebook Clarifies Minimum Spending Requirements for Page Promotions – Facebook requires that anyone wanting to administer a promotion or sweepstakes on their Facebook Page first get written approval. But part of the approval process has been surprising people since it was updated last November. In order to be approved, you need an account representative at Facebook. And to get an account representative in the first place, you need to spend around $10,000 on Facebook advertising.
  • WARNING: “Like” Facebook Application Is Not Real – This morning we’ve been receiving numerous notifications about a misleading application that is spreading around that attempts to replicate Facebook’s like functionality. Users first find out about the application, called “Like”, as they receive a notification which says “Your Friend Likes your photo”. The user then clicks the link and installs the application which promptly sends notifications to all of that users’ friends.
  • Twitter Nears Facebook’s Daily Status Update Volume – This afternoon Twitter announced that the company now receives over 50 million status updates per day. Compare that with Facebook who states they currently receive over 60 million updates per day. Despite Twitter being a fraction of the size of Facebook, the company now owns a massive percentage of the total status updates posted each day on the web. The latest statistics should revive discussion over the ongoing Facebook versus Twitter war.
  • HOW TO: Build a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business
  • Could the Toyota Recall Crisis be Helping the Brand? – There’s no question that Toyota is in deep trouble with its current recall crisis. But could these issues actually be helping its brand? Shockingly, an analysis of Toyota shows that its Social Influence Marketing (SIM) Score saw an uptick in January. Who’d have thought that a crisis of such significant magnitude could actually help a brand’s perception? This seems to be true, at least in the short term, even though sales may be dropping. Let me explain how.
  • The Dalai Lama Officially Joins Twitter – More and more celebrity holdouts are joining the Twitter bandwagon. First Bll Gates started tweeting, then yesterday rapper Lil Wayne joined the service. Today, another famous figure has his own Twitter presence: The Dalai Lama.
  • Betty White Might Appear on SNL Thanks to Facebook – Betty White might actually make an appearance on Saturday Night Live — a victory for more than 400,000 Facebook users who became fans of a page lobbying Lorne Michaels to offer the comedienne the chance to host an episode.

Link Post for February 8th

This is the A2SM Link Post for February 8th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • StopTweet: A Customizable Spam Blocker for Twitter – We've just found a new, completely free app that will zap those bots and bad users in just one click. It's fully customizable, so you can tell the blocker what you personally consider to be a spam account. And you can choose to simply unfollow those users, block them or report the accounts to Twitter, as well – again all with just one click. StopTweet is definitely one of the more useful apps we've seen lately, and it also helps us all do our part to clean up the Twitter universe.
  • 5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media – As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology has in store for this year and beyond.
  • Multitouch Update Coming to the Droid Soon – There’s some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: sources tell Engadget that multitouch browsing will be added to the Motorola Droid in its next software update.
    Multitouch was one of the most requested features on Android (Android), at least until the Nexus One gained multitouch browsing last week.
  • 5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age – In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook or Twitter, my guess is that your sphere of communication has expanded significantly in recent years. Who you communicate with and how you communicate has changed radically. This new connected era brings both opportunities and challenges.
  • HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features – Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends.
  • Super Bowl Ads 2010 [VIDEOS] – YouTube delivered on its promise to upload all the Super Bowl Ads as soon as they aired today, with users voting to choose which one will adorn the YouTube front page on Thursday.
  • Don’t Have Money for a Real iPad? Cut One Out of Paper

Link Post for January 25th through January 26th

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Link Post for January 17th through January 18th

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