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One Million Strong for @aplusk

April 17, 2009

Ashton Kutcher has done it – he has amassed one million followers. He’s using this publicity to donate mosquito nets to African children, but that’s just scratching the surface of what is possible. Use your imagination.. what could he do, with his combination of celebrity and follower clout? – he could raise money for a [...]

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The End of Twitter: You can stop tweeting now

March 20, 2009

This is the Final Tweet to End All Tweets. Twitter is Over. This is Twitter’s End. There are No More Tweets. (inspired by the eoti)

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monetizing WPMU

February 6, 2009

There’s a great conversation at WPMU.org about how to make money using WordPress MU – James starts by noting that advertising doesn’t cover the hosting costs for a massively successful site, and goes into the various other ways in which they derive revenue, including selling extra features to paid users and selling custom plugins (that [...]

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should Google spin off it’s advertising business?

February 1, 2009

This intriguing article for web entrepreneurs has a lot of useful information in it – particularly the interesting metric for assessing a companies value: 10 x (revenue – cost). However, in the course of the discussion he also makes an intriguing point about Google: Google has one incredibly amazing business – keyword advertising. It relies [...]

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the WhiteHouse.gov blog: open government

January 21, 2009

Among the inaugural festivities, the official web site of the White House underwent a transition of its own. The site is now built around a central blog, which is a presidential first and a definite sign of the times. The first post lays out the purpose of the blog in detail: Just like your new [...]

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whither NewsJunk?

November 17, 2008

One of my mantras is to rely on others to filter my data in the social web, because the key to improving your signal to noise ratio is not to try and filter the noise, but actually to reduce your signal. That’s a lot harder than it sounds to do. But it’s made a lot [...]

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Backing up your tweets

November 12, 2008

Twitter: over one billion tweets served. Actually, it’s probably more than that, since the count is from GigaTweet, an external service and not an official count. If we do the math, that comes out to: 140 chars per tweet x 1 byte per char x 10^9 tweets = 140 billion bytes = 130.4 GB worth [...]

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TwiTip

November 3, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger fame has launched a new blog, TwiTip, aimed at introducing Twitter to new users. Darren always has an interesting and insightful take on blogging and so I think his insights will be worth reading even if you’re a veteran twitter user. Given how much I blog about twitter I can fully [...]

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A revenue model for Twitter

October 15, 2008

At RWW, Bernard Lunn asks readers to suggest a revenue model for Twitter, that satisfies two criteria: 1. Do not irritate/interrupt the user and even occasionally add value to the user. 2. Provide a value proposition that is so compelling that even conservative buyers give it a try. There’s actually a fairly simple solution that [...]

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