tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91553026797150050802024-03-15T00:32:13.279+07:00The Driessen PostArifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-45988667962881287542012-10-21T13:16:00.002+07:002012-10-21T13:16:21.244+07:00Google Receives Privacy Policy Scrutiny, Change in the Mix?<br />
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(Web Tech Magazine) – A new reworking of Google’s privacy policy could be in the mix. According to a BBC report on Tuesday, European watchdog CNIL, a data privacy regulator has asked that tech giant to provide key revisions to its wording.</div>
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The move follows a major makeover occurring in March in which Google previously revamped its policy.</div>
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The organization would like Google to be more precise on exactly which data it collects and what its being used for. CNIL also said users aren’t provided control over such actions.</div>
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Google, meanwhile, has already responded to the recently published report. “Our new privacy policy demonstrates our long-standing commitment to protecting our users’ information and creating great products. We are confident that our privacy notices respect European law,” commented Google’s global privacy council Peter Fleischer in a BBC news story.</div>
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The top online search giant has increasingly received scrutiny over its data collection practices in the past. In August, it was made public that the FTC had fined Google a sum of $22.5 million for the company’s illegal use of tracking cookies via Apple’s Safari web browser.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-83782899555376144282012-10-20T23:06:00.003+07:002012-10-20T23:06:37.896+07:00BBC iPlayer sees a record-breaking month as radio helps deliver almost 200m requests<br />
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<a href="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/10/Radio2-520x245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Classic radio" border="0" height="150" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/10/Radio2-520x245.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier this month, we <a href="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/10/08/bbc-unveils-a-new-standalone-radio-iplayer/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported on the BBC’s new iPlayer Radio app</a>, which launched initially for the Web and was swiftly followed up by the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer-radio/id560458506?mt=8" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iOS version</a> which hit the App Store later that day. You can <a href="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/10/08/bbcs-new-iplayer-radio-app-is-available-in-the-app-store-now-and-heres-our-verdict/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">read our full review here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the little factoids that the BBC hit us with was this: 20% of users access iPlayer to watch live TV (meaning 80% use it for catch-up), but with radio it’s a different story altogether – 90% of users tap it for live broadcasts, which means that its vast swathes of recorded radio broadcasts remain largely untapped post-broadcast. This is why it launched a separate, standalone Radio product.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, it seems that the BBC’s iPlayer radio offering is in rather rude health anyway, as the broadcaster’s latest figures show a record-breaking month for the service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were 199 million iPlayer requests in total last month. Interestingly, the BBC reports this was driven by radio requests, which grew by 8% on the previous month. Indeed, while TV requests dropped marginally from its record-breaking 151 million in August to 150 million in September, Radio rose from 46 million to 50 million, which resulted in a total of 199 million programme requests last month – its highest number ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By comparison, in September 2011, the corresponding numbers saw 153 million total requests made, with 113 million for TV and 40 million for Radio. That’s almost a third increase in a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s not entirely clear why iPlayer’s Radio requests have risen so much, as this is a figure we’d perhaps expect to see this month, given the roll-out of its standalone iPlayer Radio app. However, it’s worth noting that the final episode of the Chris Moyles Show topped radio requests (427,000), whilst sports coverage of Andy Murray’s US Open triumph and Team Europe winning The Ryder Cup were also up there, so this perhaps partly explains the growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’ll be interesting to see if the new iPlayer Radio app has any tangible effect on October’s numbers when we revisit this next month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, it’s safe to say that the rise of media consumption on mobile devices has contributed to the broader trend we’re seeing with iPlayer – last month, mobile phones and tablets accounted for more than a fifth of all requests (21%), while TV platforms such as TiVo (+22%) and games consoles such as PS3 (+16%) saw the highest overall growth in requests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the figures above apply to both on-demand and live broadcasts, and cover the UK only. You can <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-sep12.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">read the report in full here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Image Credit – <a href="http://www.thinkstockphotos.co.uk/image/stock-photo-classic-radio/110891307/popup?al=200452625-001,121261740,200274667-001,80608732,75547298,86529180,83597915,78630200,135941451,89792972,78485440,dv2073130,56459257,135084982,86536712,dv2073137,99824396,78485298,86507449,78396688,122219211,82775225,86506007,78630222,86536954,dv1180015,75673018,86482372,136885902,76762704,135116330,200298991-001,82775208,76762701,78630202,99824402,skd186385sdc,119803259,99824414,76744607,80509957,117976798,200543118-001,200298990-001,dv1961042,78032326,skd181326sdc,dv2073140,200280089-001,110891307,75674220,dv1961011,78029734,stk321035rkn,124826176,118281658,dv1396028,86489774,139405658,78617503&sq=radio/c=431,253,632,254,93,28,34,260,263,13,176,621,648,579,528,590,151,268,515,586,64,663,641,165,477,623,215,445,637,144,675,2,452,451,109,277,161,588,626,68,700,591,460,291,696,344,629,614,647/f=PIHVX/s=DynamicRank" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Thinkstock</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-83998654038055658162012-10-20T22:32:00.002+07:002012-10-20T22:32:13.766+07:00Watch these unsuspecting travelers become 007 for 70 seconds, as they try to win tickets for Skyfall<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the 23rd James Bond installment due to hit cinemas in a week, Coke Zero challenged unsuspecting travelers to “unlock the 007″ in them, for the chance to win tickets for the new, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Skyfall</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the tickets were, of course, free the carbonated beverage company made the public <em>really</em> put in the effort to get their hands on the coveted briefs. With less than 70 seconds to win, it’s interesting to see how much effort these guys go to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out the video for yourself below.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-36341263410663532222012-10-19T14:56:00.002+07:002012-10-19T14:56:30.156+07:00You’ve Got (Too Much) Mail: With Alto, AOL Tries A Fresh Approach To Combat Email Overload<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The way we use email has changed dramatically in the past decade-plus — written down like that, it seems like an almost laughably obvious statement. But David Temkin, AOL’s senior vice president of mail and mobile, argues that email clients haven’t kept up with the changes — with the last major innovation coming in 2004, when Gmail launched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Given its age, and its association with the early, “You’ve got mail!” days of email, AOL (which owns TechCrunch) might not seem like an obvious candidate to do anything innovative in this area. However, the company isn’t just bolting on some new features to the existing AOL Mail product. Instead, it’s launching an entirely new webmail client called <a href="http://www.altomail.com/" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Alto</a>, which is being gradually rolled out in a limited preview starting today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to Temkin and Josh Ramirez, senior director of product for AOL Mail and Alto, the new client actually has its roots in an attempt to overhaul AOL Mail. However, it became apparent that any major redesign would falter on the attempt to serve two different audiences — the existing userbase, which isn’t really interested in seeing any dramatic changes, and another group that’s looking for, in Temkin’s words, “a new product intended for and matched to how people use email today.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The biggest change in Alto versus other email clients is a new concept called Stacks. They basically function as a way to pre-sort your email, so that you’re not stuck reading through daily deals from Groupon and notifications from Facebook when all you really want to do is see if you’ve got a new message from your friends and family. They’re like folders or labels, but managed through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, and allowing users to decide that they want to make large swaths of their email bypass the main inbox entirely, to be saved in Stacks where they can be read later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you first set up an account on Alto, it will create Stacks (assuming there are applicable emails in your inbox) for social notifications, daily deals, and messages from retailers. You’ll also get a Stack that highlights all the photos from all the messages in all your inboxes, and another with all the attachments. You can create new Stacks by just dragging emails into the main dashboard, and you can also customize the rules around each one — namely the specific senders, recipients, or subject lines that signal whether an email belongs in a Stack, and also whether each Stack should skip the inbox or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Again, the idea behind Stacks isn’t entirely new (besides its obvious roots in email folders, you could also compare it to efforts like <a href="http://www.otherinbox.com/" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Other Inbox</a>), but the implementation seems smart and intuitive. Ramirez noted that email folders are largely “aspirational” — something that users want to use, but often aren’t able to keep up with. With Alto, a lot of the basic setup is already done for you with the initial Stacks, and it’s also quite easy to create new ones. Once they’re set up, Stacks can just run automatically without any interference, though you can be more hands-on and customize the rules if you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Not an entirely new idea, but well executed” is a description that could be applied to many of the features in Alto. As Temkin and Ramirez demonstrated the product, I was less impressed by any one feature and more by the sense that Alto was built up from lots of smart touches. And with a design that’s driven by images and icons rather than row after row of text, it just looks good — as I kept glancing back-and-forth between the demo screen and my own computer, where Gmail was open in the background, I couldn’t help thinking about how cramped Gmail looked in comparison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another important feature is the fact that you won’t need to sign up for a new email address. (“We need another email address like we need a hole in the head,” Temkin said.) Instead, you can use it with your existing email accounts — initially, it’s offering support for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, and .Mac mail accounts, and Temkin said it should eventually include any IMAP-based email account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other features include a visual search interface with instant results that appear as you type, profiles for contacts that include their latest social network updates, and a slick interface for browsing retail newsletters and daily deals. Ramirez said that last feature is kind of like a TiVo for “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacn" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bacn</a>“-type content, allowing you to read it later, rather than mixing it in with more personal and important messages. And he argued that Alto, like TiVo, might actually increase the amount of newsletters, deals, and the like that you’re willing to read, because it gives you control over when you consume the content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there’s my favorite feature, an email “snooze” button. As <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">others have observed</a>, for many of us, email has become our default to-do list, unfortunately organized based on who emailed us last, rather than real priority. With the snooze button, you can move an email off the top of your inbox/to-do list, but it returns to the top after a given period of time. Basically, it’s a way of making sure that important emails don’t slip through the cracks, even if you don’t have the time/inclination to deal with them right away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The current version of Alto hasn’t really been optimized for smartphones or tablets yet, but it already seems to work pretty well on a tablet — Temkin argued that’s because it “almost has a tablet design aesthetic in the first place.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As for what all this means for AOL Mail, Temkin said the company plans to support both Alto and AOL Mail as different products for different audiences. But if all the cool new stuff is going into Alto, doesn’t that suggest AOL is going to let the older product die, albeit slowly? “Absolutely not,” Temkin said, adding that there’s still a big appetite for “a classic mail experience.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can <a href="http://www.altomail.com/" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">request an invitation to Alto here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.383333206176758px;">by </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/18/aol-alto-limited-preview/">source</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-61217586248284955212012-10-19T14:42:00.001+07:002012-10-19T14:42:05.901+07:00Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic freefall attempt aborted<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Felix Baumgartner has been a pioneer of aviation for years now and his latest event is a freefall from 120,000 feet—literally the edge of space. Baumgartner has been working on this jump for five years with the Red Bull Stratos team in an attempt to break the 102m800ft record set by Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger over 50 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>Update</strong>: The launch has been aborted for today due to wind conditions. The wind can only be up to 2 miles an hour due to the delicate nature of the balloon and its ascent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The live broadcast is going on now:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s a video that outlines the jump and explains some of the mechanics:</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-62769956771468494302012-10-19T14:36:00.002+07:002012-10-19T14:36:14.532+07:00Google’s data center guarded by stormtroopers, warns these aren’t the droids you’re looking for<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google takes securing their property very seriously. When it comes to its data centers, the lifeblood of the company, it’s not joking around, but its security measures are closely guarded. That is, until now. As <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665369" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">leaked on Hacker News</a>, someone did a view of the search engine giant’s North Carolina data center <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.898176,-81.548166&spn=0.007622,0.013486&sll=35.900197,-81.547024&layer=c&cid=7373938251588581469&panoid=qlcZPzXMS12y_CrDh64Qvw&cbp=13,339.35,,0,4.29&gl=US&t=m&cbll=35.898186,-81.548184&z=17" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Google Maps</a> and was amazed at what they found: Stormtroopers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, looks like Google has brought in the Empire’s most feared foot soldiers in to ensure the safety of its servers to prevent any sabotage. After all, they don’t want anything to affect its service. Truly, the stormtroopers are there to ensure that these aren’t the droids that you’re looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you see the stormtrooper?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, this is just another <a href="http://searchengineland.com/20-awesome-images-found-in-google-maps-13127" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fun placement</a> that Google has done with its Maps product. In fact, there are other fun placements at the same data center, including a<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.898532,-81.547973&spn=0.007274,0.016512&sll=35.900197,-81.547024&layer=c&cid=7373938251588581469&panoid=2A5KnxdctVfIXT0qFF5Z6Q&cbp=13,17.71,,0,3.83&gl=US&t=m&cbll=35.898546,-81.547919&z=17" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">large Android being locked in a cage</a>, an <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.897811,-81.547168&spn=0.007274,0.016512&sll=35.900197,-81.547024&layer=c&cid=7373938251588581469&panoid=4Hg9K4xQrGMkTAudtPqBYA&cbp=13,150.61,,0,11.4&gl=US&t=m&cbll=35.898336,-81.547809&z=17" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">employee getting “rick roll’d”</a> multiple times simultaneously, or many others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Extremely rare glimpses have been made at its data centers, but <a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/10/17/where-the-internet-lives-google-invites-you-in-to-see-its-data-centers/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;">Connie Zhou captured the insides of one</a> earlier this month.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Image credit: <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/google-logo-is-seen-at-googles-annual-developer-conference-news-photo/147380204#" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images</a></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.383333206176758px;">by </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-73872794618239397452012-10-19T09:10:00.001+07:002012-10-19T09:10:13.669+07:0030 ways you can save 1 minute every day<a href="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/09/timer-520x245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="timer" border="0" height="186" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/09/timer-520x245.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re all looking for ways to save time. No matter how small the amount, the more time we save today, the better off we’ll be in the future. Maybe not tomorrow, but definitely over time the minutes and hours will add up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But where do you start?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, taking it one minute at a time is a great place to start. In fact, if you can find 30 ways to save one minute a day, then you’ll save 3.5 hours over a week, which can lead to 182 hours over the year. That’s a huge chunk of time that you can spend on doing the things you really want to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below I’ve assembled a set of 30 ways to save 1 minute per day – which will lead you well on your way to saving a whole lot more time for years to come.</span></div>
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<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Set up a recurring task list.</strong> Certainly there are tasks that are part of your daily and weekly routines. Use an app like 30/30 by Binary Hammer (<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/30-30/id505863977" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">iOS only</a>) or something similar to create a recurring task list for such items so that you can get moving on them without delay.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Get an automatic coffee maker.</strong> Prepare your morning coffee the night before by purchasing an automatic coffee maker. That way you can set it and forget it.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Keep a pen and paper in your jacket.</strong> By having these items with you at all times, you’ll be ready to capture ideas, tasks, and the like without fail.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Check voicemails half the time you do now.</strong> Treat your voicemail a little more like you should be treating email. Check it less often to save you time. For example, set aside a certain time (or times) of day when you’ll be handling phone activities and check it then.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use a text expansion app.</strong> Even if it is just for your mailing address or for multiple email signatures, a text expansion app like TextExpander (<a href="http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Mac, iOS</a>) will save you minutes upon hours the more often you use it. If you use Gmail or Postbox (<a href="http://www.postbox-inc.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Mac, Windows</a>), canned responses will also do the trick for common messages you may send from time to time.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Turn off notifications.</strong> Anything that is noise should be removed from your life to give you more clarity and focus. Kill any frivolous notifications and you’ll save time every day because you won’t be diverted from the task at hand.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Keep a jug of cold water in the fridge.</strong> Rather than run the tap until the water gets cold enough to drink, keep a jug of water filled up in the fridge for those occasions.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Carry floss with you.</strong> <a href="http://inoveryourhead.net/flossing-more-important-than-brushing-dentists-say/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Flossing has been cited as being more important than brushing</a>, so save yourself the time at the end of the night (and the toothaches that can come otherwise) by keeping some floss with you so you can floss between meals. It’ll make that final floss of the day that much quicker.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Do the front-end work.</strong> When trying out a new tool or giving a new app a go, make sure to prepare accordingly and do the front-end work first. Yes, it may cost you more in the first day or two, but the saved minutes will start to add up soon enough.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Wear headphones while you work.</strong> The kicker here is to make sure there’s nothing being transmitted through them, either. By wearing headphones while working (where permitted), you’ll avoid unwanted and unneccessary distractions.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Keep work and life tasks/projects in separate places.</strong> Whether you use an electronic or paper task management system, keep work and life tasks/projects separate, either by using contexts or tagging of some sort. That way you can seamlessly shift when you need to do so.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Keep your work and personal emails in separate places.</strong> Using this trick will keep you from checking home email while at work, and vice versa.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Don’t send unnecessary emails.</strong> Messages with a simple “thank you” or the like not only waste your time, but they’ll waste someone else’s. If the relationship is solid and you’ve got a rapport with the sender, replying with such a message isn’t necessary.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use Buffer for link sharing.</strong> When you’re checking out links on the Internet (like this article, for example), use the service known as <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/31/twitter-queueing-app-buffer-hits-milestone-one-million-tweets-buffered/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Buffer</a> to automatically stagger your social and link sharing. You can then batch process this activity (social networking) in one session as opposed to revisiting it multiple times per day.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use AwayFind for email filtering.</strong> With <a href="http://thenextweb.com/video/2011/06/02/awayfind-tries-to-solve-the-email-sucks-problem-with-relevant-alerts/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">AwayFind</a>, you decide what email gets to you and how directly it does so. This service will require some of that front-end work I discussed earlier, but it will pay off down the road in spades.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Save links to a “read later” service.</strong> We all skim through articles more often than not, so use a “read later” service like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2009/12/21/instapaper-redesigns-turns-delicious-reads/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Instapaper</a> or <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/04/17/read-it-later-rebrands-as-pocket-goes-free-lets-its-4-5m-users-save-articles-videos-images-more/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Pocket</a> to gather them in one place for, well…<em>reading later</em>.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Don’t leave your email app open.</strong> Email notifications steal time and attention. Grab some of it back by only opening your email app when you’re setting aside time to deal with email. And then close it.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use a natural language calendar app.</strong> Fantastical (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/08/gorgeous-calendar-app-fantastical-1-0-2-adds-busycal-support/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Mac</a>) and QuickCal (<a href="http://quickcalapp.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Mac, iOS</a>) are able to parse down natural language into a variety of popular synced calendars so that you can quickly enter appointments and then move on. This can save you a minute now, and many hours later.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use shortcuts for apps.</strong> Whether you’re using Launch Pad, Alfred or LaunchBar for the Mac, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/23/launch-center-pro-for-ios-is-for-those-of-us-who-like-to-take-shortcuts/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Launch Center Pro for iOS</a> or launching apps for other platforms, you will save time every time you use them.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Treat a ringing phone as an alert, not as a command.</strong> You’re in charge of the phone, it’s not in charge of you. We have voicemail, so if you’re in the midst of something that needs your focus, simply let the phone ring.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use ShowYou for video surfing.</strong> ShowYou (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/26/showyou-rolls-out-redesigned-iphone-app-with-new-social-video-feed-and-sharing-features/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">iOS, web app</a>) gathers videos from a variety of platforms and puts them in one place. Use it and your surfing of YouTube and shared videos over Twitter and Facebook will all happen under one roof.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Be device specific with your time.</strong> Even though you have the ability to read RSS feeds on your computer, reading them on a mobile device gives you the ability to read them while on the move. Take stock of your devices and make clear choices about what they should (and will) be used for now to save you time today – and tomorrow.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Limit your social network platform updating.</strong> Pick three social networks that are important to – and for – you and either delete the rest or passing them to someone else. Not only will you save that minute per day (or more), but you’ll be focusing more on “the steak” and less on “the sizzle”.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Prepare your task list the previous day.</strong> Make preparing your next day the last thing you do today. Then watch the minutes add up.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Cull your RSS feed.</strong> Go through your RSS subscriptions and be honest about what you really read and what you don’t. Then get rid of whatever doesn’t work for you and save time going forward.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Map your storage areas.</strong> Keep a map of what things go where in your office and in your home so you’ll be able to find things in their place…and put them back in their place as well.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use avatars and touchstones.</strong> If you’re inspired by the Green Lantern (like I am because of the willpower element) then keep the emblem representing the GL Corps close at hand. If you have a favorite quote or poem, keep it visible so that when you are slowing down, you’ll have the visual reminder you need to get back up to full speed.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Take advantage of “the cloud”.</strong> I wrote part of this piece on my MacBook Air and the rest on my iPad thanks to Byword (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/14/byword-a-beautifully-simple-mac-app-for-writing/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">iOS, Mac</a>) and its iCloud syncing feature. It made for seamless work. Take advantage of what cloud computing can offer you and you’ll start saving time right away.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use all-in-one shampoo and conditioner.</strong> Seems silly, but by using an all-in-one shampoo and condition you can speed up your shower and start the day off a few steps ahead of the game.</span></li>
<li style="color: #434343; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="color: black;">Use a multipen.</strong> I had one of these in school and I still use one to this day. I now have several pens on me at all times, which makes for easy colour-coding for lists and tasks.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’ve got more ways to save 1 minute per day, share them below. I’m always looking to add more tools to my arsenal – I’m sure I’m not alone.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Image Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tcp909/4004808621/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">Trevor</a></span></em></div>
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<em><a href="http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/09/15/30-ways-save-1-minute-per-day/">source</a></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.383333206176758px;">by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-16027404751697360322012-10-19T08:57:00.001+07:002012-10-19T08:57:03.502+07:00Facebook Messenger for Android speeds up photo tagging, lets you pick album before uploading photos<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook today updated its Messenger app for Android. You can download the latest version from the official <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;">Google Play store</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new version is all about improving the app’s photo functionality. Given that Facebook is all about photos, especially when it comes to mobile, and that the social networking giant <a href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/09/06/facebook-officially-welcomes-instagram-family-passes-5-billion-photo-milestone/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;">insists on keeping Instagram separate</a>, this update makes sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nevertheless, we can’t help but wonder how far apart the various mobile Facebook apps will go as they continue to be updated. If Facebook Messenger keeps adding more and more photo features, can we expect Facebook Camera to add more and more messaging features?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The app looks as spiffy as ever:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today’s update comes less than a month after <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/20/facebook-messenger-android-updated-texting-support-fresh-design-conversations/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;">the last one</a>. This is in line with Facebook’s recent promise to update its mobile apps <a href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/09/20/facebook-promises-update-mobile-apps-every-4-8-weeks/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;">every four to eight weeks</a>, including Facebook for iOS, Facebook for Android, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.383333206176758px;">by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421064820788250655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-47586717921658710372012-10-18T15:18:00.001+07:002012-10-18T15:18:14.621+07:00Too much email? You will love Sanebox<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Email is one of the most broken, and yet critically important components of our lives. Email is also a slow evolving tool. Hotmail is more than 15 years old, and yet email is roughly what it once was. Gmail’s priority inbox, and its offering of huge quantities of storage were big steps, but hardly revolutionary moves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There exists a plethora of tools in the market to help email become more manageable, and many are useful. I have recently been using a service <a href="https://www.sanebox.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; text-decoration: none;">called SaneBox</a> that is, in my view, one of the best. Let’s get into what it does, and how it works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SaneBox is essentially a massive filter, one that runs defense for your inbox. The service creates a separate folder in your email account. Email comes in, and SaneBox decides if it goes into the boo-boo bin, the folder, or if it stays in your inbox. You can check the filtered emails any time you want by going into the folder, and browsing. They aren’t deleted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, what happens is that, all of a sudden, your inbox becomes <em>much</em> quieter. It begins to feel like you don’t have any friends any more, it’s so eerily shushed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How does SaneBox know which emails to filter out, and which to keep? First, SaneBox will scan every email in your entire account. That takes some time. For me, I think it took over an hour. There were about 200,000 emails to churn through, or so. Might have been less. Following, you link up your social networks, allowing SaneBox to draw relationships between people. And, the service can be explicitly told, ‘no, I want that one and all like it my normal inbox.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Training doesn’t take long. <em>For fun, this is how SaneBox describes its process:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SaneBox is quite effective about cutting out email that you didn’t really want in the first place. It does lead to a much better email experience. The largest fear, I think, in using such a service, however, is that you might miss an important email. To combat that, the service sends you regular digests (you can pick their frequency) of email that was placed in the bad-kids-folder. An email of your email, if you will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the regular person looking to cut down on their email problem, SaneBox is well worth using. And it only costs $5 a month, so everyone can afford it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, I have to say goodbye to the service, due to my job, oddly enough. This is going to sound strange, but I essentially need to have an inbox problem. My inbox has to be a bazaar of sorts, which notes from all types of people, about all sorts of things, and at all times. I need to see every message as it comes in. Now, I don’t read the vast majority of it, but since I work in news, I can’t afford to be more than a minute late to any note that matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is no pattern for SaneBox to follow to dictate which message likely from a crazy, is in this one circumstance critical breaking news. You can’t train that, I don’t think, as curation of this sort is part of my job. For example, whilst defending my Gmail account from Groupon updates and bad PR flacks, SaneBox noticed that I had received a very vague email from Microsoft. It wasn’t from an account that you hear from often, I’ve never responded to it (it’s not a person), and so forth. SaneBox put it in the side folder. That email was an invitation to a very special event that’s happening next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would have seen it later on a check run through the side box, but I can’t wait to do that – I need it in my face as <em>now</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s annoying that I won’t get to use SaneBox, because it really has made a very nice change to my email life. Before, chaos. Now, calm. If I was in any other profession, I’d throw cash at them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you get more than 50 emails a day or more, and if not well-played, I’d try SaneBox. It has a free week trial, so you aren’t at risk for anything. By day two, you’ll be a new person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">➤ </span><a href="https://www.sanebox.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0982df; font-family: proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;">SaneBox</a></div>
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<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/14/email-tool-sanebox-is-amazing-and-worth-every-penny-it-costs/">source</a></div>
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Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-59374700046551655722012-10-18T15:02:00.001+07:002012-10-18T15:02:06.487+07:00Amazon Whispercast Helps Teachers Manage Students’ E-Books<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’ll be easier to get students and teachers on the same page with Wednesday’s launch of Whispercast for<a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/kindle-fire/" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kindle</a>. The online tool allows administrators and teachers to distribute e-books and school communications to many students through Kindle devices.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ereader-student-kid-boy-child.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ereader-student-kid-boy-child.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If your child has a personal Kindle or school-provided one, administrators can use Amazon’s free <a href="https://whispercast.amazon.com/" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Whispercast</a>tool to wirelessly send books and other learning materials to his or her e-reader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Hundreds of thousands of students around the world are already reading on Kindle,” Dave Limp, vice president of <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/amazon/" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> Kindle, said in a <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1746452&highlight=" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not every child has access to an e-reader, but the devices are certainly less costly than tablets. The most affordable Kindle is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000750701&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=15112161277&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13475207031808964926&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_yzq203d4d_b" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">$69</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are millions of <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/ebooks/" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">e-books</a> available through the Kindle; with Whispercast, those books can be accessed immediately by students as soon as teachers or administrators purchase and send them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">School administrators can centrally manage thousands of Kindle devices. Teachers using Whispercast can also distribute their own documents, such as school announcements and syllabi. That means no more flyers or school notices being left at school or buried in backpacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whispercast works on Kindle Fires and Kindle <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/ereaders/" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">e-reader</a> tablets. The materials can be accessed across Kindle devices and free Kindle reading applications for iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, as well as PCs and Macs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Administrators need to register and invite students, who can then access content. Admin also have the option of creating groups, for class grades or clubs, so members can receive the same material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you think e-readers benefit school-aged children? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: start;">by </span><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Arif s.Driessen</b></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Google has now expanded the credit card business. Through a posting to his blog, the credit card is available to small and medium for AdWords advertisers. While the availability for a while only to businesses in the United Kingdom and the United States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">With Google AdWords Business Credit Card, advertisers can buy ad slots in Adwords without having to be burdened by limited funding. But unfortunately, not all businesses could apply for a credit card Google it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/new-york-times" style="text-decoration: none;">New York Times</a></em> reporter Claire Cain Miller just <a href="https://twitter.com/clairecm/status/258331315156439041" style="text-decoration: none;">tweeted</a> that Page is speaking at the search giant's Zeitgeist conference, which is taking place in Paradise Valley, Arizona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But tech blogger <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/robert-scoble" style="text-decoration: none;">Robert Scoble</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151203250914655&set=a.18390289654.24496.501319654&type=1" style="text-decoration: none;">writes on Facebook</a> that Page sounded "hoarse."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Page <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-was-back-at-googles-headquarters-this-week-but-his-voice-still-isnt-fully-recovered-2012-7" style="text-decoration: none;">suffered an unspecified ailment</a> which prevented him from speaking at several public events, including Google's annual meeting of shareholders, its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-larry-page-loses-voice-2012-6" style="text-decoration: none;">I/O conference for developers</a>, and its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/live-google-earnings-2012-7" style="text-decoration: none;">second-quarter earnings call</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wall Street analysts <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-is-worried-about-the-health-of-google-ceo-larry-page-2012-6" style="text-decoration: none;">worried</a>, but Page reassured employees that he had "nothing seriously wrong" with his health.</span></div>
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</span></span>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-5053007692586537432012-10-17T07:52:00.000+07:002012-10-17T07:52:07.026+07:00How to Create a Super Private BitTorrent Community for You and Your Friends<br />
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These are dark days for BitTorrent. Using it leaves you open to fake torrents, viruses, an ISP that throttles your connection, and media companies that snoop to see what you're downloading. If you want to avoid all that, you can create an uber-private BitTorrent community that only you and your friends can access. Here's how.</div>
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You're open to these problems because most BitTorrent trackers allow <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">anyone</em> to come in and share files (a BitTorrent tracker, for those that don't remember, is the server that connects you with other BitTorrent users in order to download files). Those other people could include virus spreaders, snoopers, and other untrustworthy folk. While <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5897095/whats-a-private-bittorrent-tracker-and-why-should-i-use-one" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">joining a private tracker</a> can help, many users feel they aren't private enough—after all, if you can get an invite, can't anyone?</div>
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What You'll Get: A Tracker Only Your Friends Can Join</h3>
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You can do <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5936938/how-do-i-torrent-safely-now-that-demonoid-is-down" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a lot of things to protect yourself</a>, but why go through all that trouble? Between you and your best friends, you probably have a pretty solid collection of media and other files you could share without the need for other, less secure parties. We've shown you <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5534190/how-to-share-your-own-files-using-bittorrent" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how to share your own files using BitTorrent</a>, but if you want a bit more privacy, you can create your own BitTorrent tracker right on your home computer.</div>
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When you're done with this process, you'll have a (admittedly primitive) BitTorrent tracker running on your PC, sharing your files through torrents you create. Send those torrents to your friends, and they can download the files directly from you, without any other parties snooping. If your friends share their files too, you can pool your torrents together in a shared Dropbox folder (or something similar) and have a pretty sizable library of stuff to download, without the need for other unsafe channels.</div>
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To get everything up and running, you'll need a torrent client that supports <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">embedded trackers</em>. We're going to use <a href="http://www.utorrent.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">uTorrent</a> for Windows as an example, but you can perform the same process with <a href="http://www.vuze.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vuze</a> for OS X or <a href="http://www.qbittorrent.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">qBitTorrent</a> for Linux. Sadly, Transmission does not support embedded trackers, nor does uTorrent for OS X. Here's what you need to do:</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Head to uTorrent's preferences and click on Advanced. Scroll down to</span><code style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bt.enable_tracker</code><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">and double-click on it to set it to "True."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Go to Advanced > WebUI in the preferences. If you aren't using the web UI to</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5867786/how-to-monitor-your-bittorrent-downloads-from-any-computer-or-mobile-device" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">monitor torrents from afar</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">, make sure "Alternative Listening Port" is unchecked (even if "Enable Web UI" is unchecked, the "Alternative Listening Port" box must be unchecked or you'll encounter problems). If you</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</em><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">using the web UI, you'll want to make note of the "Alternative Listening Port" instead of the port you found in step 3.</span></div>
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Again, if you're using OS X or Linux, you'll have to do the same thing, but with your torrent client of choice. For more information on setting up an embedded tracker in Vuze, <a href="http://wiki.vuze.com/w/UG_Tracker" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">check out this wiki entry</a>. qBitTorrent users, <a href="https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/How-to-use-qBittorrent-as-a-tracker" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">check out this how-to</a> to set up your embedded tracker.</div>
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Step Two: Set Up DynDNS for Easier Connections</h3>
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Now your computer is set up to act as a private BitTorrent client. However, there's one catch: in order for your friends to connect to you, you'll need to add your IP address to every torrent you create, and most IP addresses change over time—which means your friends could get disconnected from your torrents. To solve this problem, we recommend setting up a service like <a href="http://dyn.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DynDNS</a> or <a href="https://www.no-ip.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No IP</a>. We won't go into too much detail about this process here, since we've <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5831841/know-your-network-lesson-4-accessing-your-home-computers-from-anywhere#dynamicdns" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shown you how to do it before</a>. Once you've set it up, just write down your friendly domain name so you don't forget it—you'll need it in the next step.</div>
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Step Three: Create Your Torrents and Share Them</h3>
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The last step is to actually gather the files you want to share, create torrents for them, and give those torrents to your friends. The process is very simple:</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Under "Trackers," you'll want to put the following two lines:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Where</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><code style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51413</code><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">is the port number you found when you created your tracker in step one. Also, replace</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><code style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">my.dynamic-dns-hostname.com</code><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">with the friendly domain name you created in step two.</span></div>
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Repeat this process for each file or group of files you want to share (and have your friends do the same). This can take awhile initially if you're sharing a large collection. You can share the torrent files however you want, but the simplest way is to create a shared Dropbox folder for you and your friends, where everyone dumps the torrents of the files they're sharing. That way, you have your own mini search engine for finding exactly what you're looking for on your private tracker. Make sure you leave your computer and torrent client on when you're seeding, or your friends won't be able to download your files.</div>
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Don't forget to <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5870042/what-does-my-internet-provider-see-when-im-downloading-torrents" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">enable encryption so your ISP doesn't throttle you</a>, either—whether you're using a private tracker or not, those same rules still apply. If you want, you can also <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5863380/how-to-completely-anonymize-your-bittorrent-traffic-with-btguard" style="border: 0px; color: #719602; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">use a proxy or VPN to anonymize your traffic</a>, but it isn't really necessary as long as you trust your friends, since only they can see what you're downloading.</div>
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The Downsides to This Method</h3>
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Like other BitTorrent privacy methods, this isn't perfect. This doesn't actually give you fine-grained control over who joins the tracker, so if one of your friends hands a torrent off to someone else, they'll be in on the tracker too without your consent (so make sure you trust your friends). In addition, anyone can seed on your tracker if they know your IP address or dynamic DNS hostname, but that's unlikely—and even if they did know it, all they'd be able to do is seed their own torrents and take up resources on your computer; they wouldn't be able to see what you're downloading.</div>
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Download speeds will also be slower, since you'll usually only be downloading the torrent from one person instead of many—that means your download speed is pretty much limited to your friend's upload speed. However, the extra privacy may be worth the slower speeds to you. After all, this doesn't have to be your <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">only</em> method of using BitTorrent—you can still download other torrents from public and private trackers as normal. This is just a simple way to take advantage of your network of friends, and share files with each other more privately than you can elsewhere.</div>
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Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-92015412517422126212012-10-16T20:40:00.001+07:002012-10-16T20:40:40.104+07:00How to Be More Efficient at Work in 3 Steps<br />
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1. Establish your priorities</h2>
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The first step might be the most important. You should take some time to literally write down a ranking of your major goals and tasks—for the next year and for the next week. As I have written previously, don’t just think about the supply side: what you’re good at and what you like to do. Also consider the demand side: what the world, your organization, or your boss needs most from you.</div>
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When you write down your goals, you’re likely to find a multitude of small tasks that need to get done, but really aren’t that important. Tasks like these might include writing a status report, attending a routine meeting, or responding to a slew of <a class="vglnk" href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=10029&campid=CAMPAIGNID&customid=CUSTOMID&catId=267&type=2&ext=310453967539&item=310453967539" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">emails</a>. If you’re not careful, these low-priority assignments can take up your entire day—leaving you with no time to deal with your higher-priority goals.</div>
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The best way to clear your docket of low-priority tasks is to avoid having to do them at all. If you can graciously bow out of attending a boring meeting, do it! If you can decline an assignment by explaining your impending deadlines, great! One less unimportant task for you to do.</div>
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Of course, you can’t decline every small task. However, you should recognize that very few of these small tasks need to be perfect. You don’t have to agonize about the phrasing of every email. You don’t have to spend hours perfecting the formatting of every internal report. For a lot of your low-priority tasks, “B+” is good enough.</div>
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Along the same lines, you should be quick to delegate tasks like these to any employees that you manage—even if there’s a chance that the result won’t be “perfect.” You still need to put in the hard work of establishing goals and metrics for the project, occasionally checking in, and offering feedback. But you can avoid the time-consuming process of actually doing the entire project yourself—giving you more time to spend on your higher-priority goals.</div>
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3. Start at the end</h2>
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For your higher priority goals, you obviously need to make a strong effort to create top-notch results. However, in my experience, many professionals could still achieve these results more efficiently.</div>
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As a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, I sometimes assign complex research projects to students or research assistants. Quite often, their first step is to spend days or weeks gathering facts about everything and anything related to the topic. After these days or weeks, they sit down, look at the information that they have gathered, and try to make sense of it all. Although they’ve certainly learned quite a lot of information, how much of it is relevant to the underlying research question? Not much.</div>
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Here’s a better approach. After a day (at most!) of basic research, try to establish some tentative conclusions for the project. That way, you have to quickly think about the issues most central to the project—allowing you to focus the rest of your research.</div>
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Of course, your tentative conclusions may turn out to be wrong. And if you don’t realize the error of your ways until the end of your project, you will have wasted a lot of time. So I advocate making a “mid-flight check”: around halfway of your project, take another close look at the evidence that you’ve discovered to see whether your conclusions need to be revised or even scrapped completely.</div>
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Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-64437882529414931022012-10-16T20:10:00.003+07:002012-10-16T20:10:56.925+07:00Tips For Building a 'Power Network' on LinkedIn<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Among the social networks, </span><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/tag/478" style="color: #365977; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LinkedIn</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision makers. The trick is going beyond connecting with cousins and college buddies to strategically building a "power network" of individuals who should be potential clients.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHmp1jq3Y2Zm7bDXK7fvWaLCAZ7Jf_OYjSCiMdljXzFyEf7aCv8W3kt5EIzAuO2tyHRcTFjNE9bDx2j-zT3pDCOmXwS0vkBjKtBZv0A_zQSgziNt5tvAfrftE6nKhMpPbhifX_dEYQPME/s1600/7-tips-building-power-network-linkedin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHmp1jq3Y2Zm7bDXK7fvWaLCAZ7Jf_OYjSCiMdljXzFyEf7aCv8W3kt5EIzAuO2tyHRcTFjNE9bDx2j-zT3pDCOmXwS0vkBjKtBZv0A_zQSgziNt5tvAfrftE6nKhMpPbhifX_dEYQPME/s320/7-tips-building-power-network-linkedin.jpg" width="320" /></a>But building a power network on LinkedIn doesn't happen overnight. Here are seven tips for <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/networking/index.html" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">making the kinds of connections</a> that can benefit your business the most:</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">1. Optimize your profile:</strong> One of the easiest ways is to update your profile picture. LinkedIn views this kind of update as "freshness" and it can help your ranking when others are searching for someone like you.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">2. Tell people who you are, who you help and how you help them in your headline:</strong> A headline that communicates these points is often what grabs a person's attention when searching the site. I should be able to read your headline and know exactly what you offer and why I should get in touch with you. Be clear and compelling.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224337" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">5 Underutilized LinkedIn Marketing Tools</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">3. Fill out all current and past work experiences:</strong> You never know who's looking for you, possibly a co-worker from an old job, or maybe a classmate that's suddenly feeling nostalgic and wants to see who they can find online. By listing all of your places of employment -- including your educational institutions -- you can create a larger net for capturing searches. Plus, these connections could be second- or third-tier connections to people you've been trying to meet.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">4. Join targeted groups:</strong> This can be one of the most effective ways to connect with like-minded professionals who are serious about using LinkedIn to form deeper business connections. Participating in these groups also enables you to share your knowledge and to learn from other members.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">5. Create a targeted group:</strong> Not only can leading a group give you a certain level of credibility, it allows you to connect with people who are influential within your specific industry.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">6. Send personal invites:</strong> These, in my opinion, always trump generic requests to connect. The invite is your first communication on LinkedIn, so make a good first impression by writing a personal request and asking how you can help the person, or whom you can introduce them to.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224512" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">3 Tips for Using LinkedIn's New 'Endorsements'</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">7. Get endorsements and recommendations: </strong>This can help enhance your profile, but there's a right way and a wrong way to do this. Don't send a mass or generic e-mail to clients or colleagues asking if they can endorse your skills or write a recommendation. First, identify people who have a great story to share about you and your skills. Contact those people directly, via phone or e-mail, and let them know you're personally reaching out to them because of (insert how you've helped them here) and would appreciate it if they'd be willing to write a quick recommendation for you, based on that story.</div>
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The same goes for endorsements, which are much easier to give since it's just a click of a button. It also helps if you mention you'll be endorsing their strongest skills as well.</div>
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Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-30186015066063147502012-10-16T19:46:00.003+07:002012-10-16T19:53:50.339+07:005 Tips for Using Social Media as a Customer Service Tool<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In today's mobile first, <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/socialmedia/index.html" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">social media</a> obsessed world, many people would rather text or email someone than call them. Most people also prefer to get their news and other information online. The same goes for <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/sales/customerservice/index115864.html" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">customer service</a> -- especially over social media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It started off as people going online to vent frustrations about bad service, canceled flights or products that they weren't happy with. But some savvy brands have realized that good can come from interacting with people who post complaints online. Every negative comment or customer service issue posted online is an amazing opportunity to wow people, provide incredible customer service and win new customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Using social media as a customer service tool, and turning dissenters into advocates in a public way, can be fast, easy and accountable. As a consumer, you get heard by everyone and receive rapid service. As a brand, you can prove you care, go the extra mile and that you are listening. Before long, managing customer service over social media is going to become the standard expectation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At <a href="http://www.fuelonline.co/" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">my social media firm</a>, we teach brands how to engage with consumers and provide actionable customer service over social media. Here are five tips for implementing social customer service protocol for your business:</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224492" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">5 Scary Mistakes to Avoid on Facebook</a> </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">1. When using Twitter, create a secondary account specifically for customer service.</strong>You can reply to a customer tweet from the main account, alerting him or her that you're aware of the issue and that the @Username will be contacting them (i.e @AcmeCustomerService). Your customer service account should follow that user, engage with him or her and sort out the issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's often wise to direct message the user after you've made it clear in public that you're there to help -- both for the privacy of the customer and to avoid cluttering the timeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">3. Let the customer know who they are engaging with.</strong> Humanize the experience by letting the customer know he or she is speaking with a real person. For example, "We are very sorry to hear about your experience. We will do whatever we can to help you. -- Scott L." Customers usually appreciate knowing they're dealing with a person who has a name, rather than a mystery person who's sending automated messages.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224430" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">What You Can Learn from Celebrities About Social Media</a></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">4. Reply in a friendly and helpful manner.</strong> Let the customer know you are concerned and will do everything you can to help them. This is an opportunity to not only help someone but to win additional customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And remember, never be aggressive, dismissive or mean. And don't try to hide or manipulate the issue. Social media is a public forum so everything you post can be seen by anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">5. Create a system of checks and balances.</strong> Monitor all interactions resolved and unresolved, and review how they played out. Did your team do everything it could to help that customer and win them over as a fan?</span></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">How have you resolved customer service issues over social media? </strong>Let us know in the comments below.</span></em><br />
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Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-46836547514916695202012-10-11T10:58:00.001+07:002012-10-11T10:58:32.522+07:00How Social Media Can Safeguard Your Vote<br />
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In September, my wife and I walked down the street at lunchtime to the local library to cast our votes in the primary election for the State of Rhode Island. When we arrived at the polling place, my wife was turned away, even though she was registered and presented a current photo ID.</div>
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Why? A new voter ID law in our state requires that photo IDs be either a state-issued vehicle operator’s license or newly created special “voter IDs.” Having recently moved to Rhode Island, my wife’s license was state-issued, just from the wrong state. So, she went home and returned a few hours later with a U.S. passport, and after a brief discussion among poll workers about whether that was an acceptable form of ID (it is, according to the secretary of state’s website), she was allowed to vote.</div>
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Often, many voters only have a limited amount of time to go to the polls — a mix-up like an unacceptable form of identification, an ill-informed poll worker or incorrect polling location information could cause them to become disenfranchised.</div>
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New photo ID laws, proof of citizenship laws and laws shortening the time early and absentee voting is available could disenfranchise as many as 5 million Americans in 2012.</div>
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To be clear, had my wife not be able to vote, it would be hard to argue that her vote had been suppressed through anyone’s fault but her own. She’s a teacher and gets election day off from work; we have adequate transportation to and from the polling place; we enjoy enough leisure time to regularly watch the local news and read the newspaper; and we have access to the Internet from a myriad of devices. There’s no reason we shouldn’t have been prepared to bring the required form of ID to the polls.</div>
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However, newly enacted photo ID laws, proof of citizenship laws and laws shortening the time early and absentee voting is available could <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/study_new_voting_restrictions_may_affect_more_than_five_million" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">disenfranchise as many as 5 million Americans</a> in 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. Another study, this one from the non-profit Black Youth Project, finds that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/voter-id-laws-minorities_n_1878893.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">up to 700,000 young minority voters</a> could be barred from voting in November.</div>
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Supporters of these laws say they are necessary due to individual voter fraud. According to experts, however, individual voter fraud is <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">extremely rare</a>, and most reported instances are later proven false.</div>
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More likely, these changes to voting laws are politically or racially motivated. In Rhode Island, for example, the voter ID law was written by Democratic secretary of state Ralph Mollis to “address the perception of voter fraud,” even though allegations of individual voter impersonation have never been proven in the state. So why pass a law that will only serve to disenfranchise some voters if there is no solid evidence that fraud is taking place? An examination of the law and who pushed it through the legislature by <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Republic</i> notes that it<a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/100429/rhode-island-voter-id-laws-hispanic#" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">seems to have an anti-immigrant tone</a>.</div>
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Regardless of whether you believe that voter ID laws, voter roll purges or other changes to the nation’s voting laws are intentionally designed to block some people from voting, or are intended to legitimately protect the integrity of the vote, it is still likely that thousands of people will be disenfranchised in November. And that includes more benign reasons, such as poorly trained poll workers or the unintentional spread of misinformation over social media.</div>
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“The risk and the danger in the proliferation of social media … is either intentional misinformation or unintentional misinformation,” says Eric Marshall, the manager of legal mobilization for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the co-leader of Election Protection, a nationwide coalition of organizations offering voter support and the creators of the <a href="http://www.866ourvote.org/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">866-OUR-VOTE</a> hotline.</div>
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Yet social media also significantly motivates voter education efforts designed to increase the number of people casting votes in the upcoming election.</div>
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“Social media is key to voter education,” says Faye Anderson, chief evangelist for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/costoffreedom" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cost of Freedom Project</a> and project manager for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/phillyvotes" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Yo! Philly Votes</a>, a citizen-led initiative to crowdsource election protection. “The voter suppression schemes will have a disproportionate impact on young and minority voters. Well, they’re active on social networks. To be effective, we have to reach voters where they are.”</div>
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That’s a sentiment echoed by Marshall, who says that mobile phones are increasingly important for getting information to voters, as well. That’s why mobile apps are central to the plans of both Election Protection and Cost of Freedom. Both organizations have designed and deployed mobile applications that offer accurate information about local voting laws.</div>
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The United Steelworkers Union is also utilizing social media in a big way this year to augment its traditional voter education efforts. The union is using its vast social media network — <a href="http://www.mashable.com/category/facebook" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.mashable.com/category/youtube" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/twitter" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.mashable.com/follow/topics/instagram" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instagram</a>, etc. — to share voter information with its members.</div>
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Mobile phones are increasingly important for getting information to voters.</div>
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“We are fighting like hell to make sure that our right to vote is protected in this country, and that any American who has the legal right to vote is not denied that right,” says Connie Mabin, director of new media for the<a href="http://www.usw.org/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">United Steelworkers International Union</a>. “Social media is a big part of that effort.”</div>
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In addition to voter education, USW will utilize social media on Election Day “to help us quickly share crucial information on an issue that could literally change the future of our country. The tools will also help us work together with allies, regardless of physical location. We won’t necessarily have to rely on traditional news media to report problems or concerns — we’ll be able to get this info out in real time, unedited.”</div>
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Marshall says that while social media has the potential to spread damaging information, Election Protection also recognizes the power of online media for disseminating accurate information to voters. The group is already using Twitter and Facebook to put out stories and articles about voting, to correct misinformation that may go viral around the web and to answer questions from followers. Election Protection is ensuring that all of the information it collects via social media and the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline becomes available, in an anonymized fashion, on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s <a href="http://electionawareness.appspot.com/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Our Vote Live</a> website. The coalition also plans to collect information about voting issues as they happen on Election Day and make that information available in real time.</div>
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According to Marshall, there are vote fraud problems in this country, but it’s not the alleged voter impersonations that have lead to restrictive laws. Instead, fraud manifests itself in things like vote buying, malfeasance by government officials or absentee ballot fraud, for which the solution is not creating barriers for people to vote. Part of the reason Election Protection plans to release all the information it collects about problems at the polls, is that it wants to shift the conversation to the actual reasons that make it difficult for people to vote.</div>
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“We want to use Our Vote Live to say, ‘These are the real problems. You’re not talking about the real problems. Let’s be honest with the American people,’” says Marshall. “We think it’s important to be transparent about what voters are really facing, because part of this whole vote suppression and restrictive voting campaign is manufactured problems with solutions that only limit the ability of responsible, eligible Americans to vote.”</div>
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Groups will be able to closely monitor activity at the polls this year by using new tool <a href="http://www.ushahidi.com/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ushahidi</a>, a collaborative mapping and information swapping mobile platform originally developed to map violence following the 2008 Kenyan elections. Election Protection teamed with the <a href="http://neworganizing.com/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New Organizing Institute</a> to develop an app utilizing the Ushahidi platform to track problems at the polls on Election Day.</div>
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“We saw the potential for the system to engage potential voters who may feel more comfortable reporting incidents via text message, mobile app or browser,” says Jared Marcotte, a senior engineer at New Organizing Institute. “We also wanted to visualize the data so the general public would be able to understand the magnitude of the Election Protection Coalition’s work.”</div>
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The Yo! Philly Votes app is also Ushahidi-based. “Yo! Philly Votes will aggregate and visualize multiple sources of real-time Election Day incident reports so that problems can be corrected in real time before the polls close,” according to Anderson, who says the app is designed to “empower ordinary citizens to help protect the right to vote.”</div>
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Each of these efforts has one main theme in common: The most effective way social media can help protect the vote is by spreading <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">accurate</em> information.</div>
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“At the end of the day, if you’re an eligible voter, regardless of whom you vote for, in the United States of America, you should be able to freely cast that vote and have it properly counted,” says Mabin. Social media can help ensure that happens for everyone in America.</div>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After shifting the last king of Windows XP. Windows 7 operating system has now been named as the most popular operating system in the world and the most widely used by the users desktop. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As quoted from Mashable (03/08/2012), according to a report based on data from Net Applications in August, Windows 7 has managed to beat the Windows XP desktop operating system as the most popular today. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to a report from Net Applications in August, 42.76 Windows 7 dominate market share of Windows XP followed by the acquisition of 42.52% market share, and the third position was occupied by the operating system declared 'failed', the Windows Vista with the acquisition of market share of 6 , 15%. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft's operating system (Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Vista) controls more than 92% share of the desktop operating system market. 's operating system origin Redmond software giant is famous user-friendly to the user's desktop. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes up to three years after Windows 7 was released to become the most popular operating system in the world. Windows 7 was released in October 2009, just three years later to be released successor, Windows 8. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What about other operating systems? Mac OSX 10.7 Lion controls only 2.45% followed by a Mac version, Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard market share of 2.38%. Overall, Mac OSX handle approximately 6% of the market. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The latest release of the Mac operating system, Mac OS X 10.8 Lion Mountain seem to have achievement in the desktop operating system market globally, it may be too early to meniai achievements Mac OSX Lion Mountain. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, the open source Linux operating system market share of only about 1%. Linus Torvalds's operating system is still carrying image 'difficult to use' by the user's desktop operating system even though the penguin bearing this has changed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span> </div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-655378410855529632012-09-03T14:09:00.001+07:002012-09-03T19:50:19.496+07:00Patented Google Chrome OS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdSzob8C4xuFDB6mza4NggvqeYDxksqeV_OARFt4r0sLRF98iZBH2IIbq3-JXFkrljY7sd0hc9bdaS93J7VBbJK0kbTc-_F9BLS03Bw-2UqYTcDg3HDJEmo7nIq8df56cuph0YiLXH50/s1600/Chrome-OS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdSzob8C4xuFDB6mza4NggvqeYDxksqeV_OARFt4r0sLRF98iZBH2IIbq3-JXFkrljY7sd0hc9bdaS93J7VBbJK0kbTc-_F9BLS03Bw-2UqYTcDg3HDJEmo7nIq8df56cuph0YiLXH50/s400/Chrome-OS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After several missed a patent on the Android operating system, now I do not want cheated with its other operating system, Chrome OS. Google reportedly has patented cloud-based operating system Chrome OS.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pat the fuss Apple and Samsung largely because of software problems, it makes Android and Google does not want to risk this happening to its flagship cloud-based operating system, Chrome OS.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cloud-based operating system that is usually embedded in the Chrome Book has been patented by Google. Chrome OS patent covers the entire system including the operating system in the cloud clients.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As reported from TomsHardware (02/09/2012), Google filed a patent titled Network based operating system across devices or network-based operating systems have been proposed traffic devices since March 2009.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chrome OS patent covers everything that encompasses all aspects of the operating system, including the use of cloud-based Chrome OS on the client, web browser used bahwkan into an entity that will continue to be updated regularly.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google itself is not a company that is free from patent conflicts, the search engine giant has been in conflict with Oracle's Java patents in the Android operating system, not to mention the position also in danger of attack Android Apple patents.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the saying goes 'ready umbrella before it rains' before it gets worse, I take a few steps to acquire Motorola for patents that are owned and patented Chrome OS in order to avoid problems in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the meantime, the Chrome Book that carries a cloud-based operating system Chrome OS itself considered less success in the market since the internet connection is fast and stable became a mandatory requirement to enjoy the Chrome OS.</span></div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-73853795472133194882012-09-01T22:05:00.000+07:002012-09-01T22:05:07.007+07:00IdeaTab A2107, New Tablet from Lenovo<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">IFA 2012 event was very lively with the emergence of a variety of gadgets from different vendors world. One vendor who shine in this event is the Lenovo Tablet output that showed its fangs. IdeaTab tablet, dubbed A2107 will reportedly be officially launched this September.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The performance of this tablet is fairly okay because in addition to the air-OS Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet is also equipped with dual-core 1GHz Cortex A9 MTK.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The slim design makes it look elegant in the hands of users. Not only the motor driving, this tablet is also equipped with a variety of cutting edge spec like 7 inch wide screen resolution of 1024 x 600, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0 and FM radio.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are two choices of 8GB and 16GB as distinguishing types, but that option will not be a problem for the buyer because they are still equipped with Wi-Fi, 3G and a microSD memory card slot as well as additional storage.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span><span style="background-color: #f7f6f6; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f7f6f6; font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br />
</span></div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-14076441999699682412012-08-29T15:03:00.001+07:002012-08-29T15:05:19.927+07:0054 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]<div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">If you want to know what’s happening in the social web you need social media monitoring tools. Before you reach for your wallet and start to spend money <strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">try out some of the free social media monitoring services</strong>. This way you will get an understanding of what is available and if you need any paid services.</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">I have collected 54 free social media monitoring tools.</strong> In the Group A are the services that I use regularly or seem interesting to check out immediately. The Group B is an alphabetical list of tools for you to play with. Here we go:</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9155302679715005080&postID=1407644199969968241&from=pencil" name="GruppA" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></a></div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Group A</h2><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://hootsuite.com/p_5106" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HootSuite</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="hootsuit 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3619" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hootsuit.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="hootsuit" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/HootSuite" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HootSuite</a><br />
Monitor and post to multiple social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Create custom reports from over 30 individual report modules to share with clients and colleagues. Track brand sentiment, follower growth, plus incorporate Facebook Insights and Google analytics. Draft and schedule messages to send at a time your audience is most likely to be online. HootSuite has the dashboard for your iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://socialmention.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Social Mention</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="socialmention 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3535" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/socialmention.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="socialmention" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/socialmention" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">socialmention</a><br />
Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content into a single stream of information. It allows you to track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors over one hundred social media sites.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.socialpointer.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SocialPointer</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="socialpointer 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3541" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/socialpointer.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="socialpointer" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/socialpointer" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">socialpointer</a><br />
SocialPointer is a real-time social media marketing platform for marketing agencies and individuals, It enables them to track, monitor and respond in real-time to relevant social mentions and user conversation. SocialPointer lets you monitor, listen, respond and engage.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://socialseek.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SocialSeek</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="socialseek 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3544" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/socialseek.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="socialseek" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/socialseek" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">socialseek</a><br />
Get all the latest tweets, news, videos, photos, and more on any topic you want in one place. There’s a Socialseek site for everything and you can even make your own. I found some of the news sources other tools missed.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://twittercounter.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TwitterCounter</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twittercounter 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3598" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twittercounter.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twittercounter" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a><br />
Twitter Counter is the number one site to track your Twitter stats. Twitter Counter provides statistics of Twitter usage and tracks over 14 million users. Twitter Counter also offers a variety of widgets and buttons that people can add to their blogs, websites or social network profiles to show recent Twitter visitors and number of followers.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://monitor.wildfireapp.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Wildfire Social Media Monitor</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="wildfire monitor 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3613" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/wildfire-monitor.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="wildfire-monitor" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/wildfireapp" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">wildfireapp</a><br />
Measure your performance. Glean insights about the growth of your social media fanbase on the leading social networks. With daily tracking, you have visibility into growth trends small and large. Gauge your social media success against others in your industry by comparing your follower bases across the leading social networks. Alert system will inform you of meaningful trends and activity that’s relevant to your social presence.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.socialbro.com/features" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SocialBro</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/socialbro.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="socialbro 300x134 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12276" height="134" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/socialbro-300x134.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="socialbro" width="300" /></a>Twitter account: <a href="https://twitter.com/SocialBro" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SocialBro</a><br />
Get accurate information about your community using different search criteria that will help you to make strategic and error-free decisions. Take advantage of knowing exactly who shapes your community: where your followers are from, which language they speak, their activity on Twitter, etc.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://klout.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Klout</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="klout 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3506" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/klout.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="klout" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/klout" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">klout</a><br />
Klout’s mission is to help every individual understand and leverage their influence. Klout measures influence in Twitter to find the people the world listens to. It analyzes content to identify the top influencers.<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9155302679715005080&postID=1407644199969968241&from=pencil" name="GruppB" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></a></div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Group B</h2><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://addictomatic.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Addictomatic</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="addictomatic 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3469" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/addictomatic.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="Addictomatic" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/addictomatic" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">addictomatic</a><br />
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s a tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and get info on what’s up, what’s now or what other people are feeding on. You can personalize your results dashboard and keep coming back to your personalized results dashboard for that search. News pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://argylesocial.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Argyle Social</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/argyle.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="argyle 300x160 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12257" height="160" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/argyle-300x160.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="argyle" width="300" /></a>Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/argylesocial/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">argylesocia</a><br />
We provide software to help your organization participate in conversations with prospects and customers, drive brand awareness, and integrate social media deeply throughout your organization. And behind the scenes, we crunch your social activity through our big data engine to provide you with the most actionable social intelligence in the business.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.antavo.com/en/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Antavo Promotion builder</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="antavo 300x152 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12263" height="152" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/antavo-300x152.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="antavo" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/antavopromotion" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">antavopromotion</a><br />
Antavo is a web-based marketing software to build intelligent promotions. Supporting multiple platforms it helps to convert online traffic into paying customers without real IT knowledge. It improves add efficiency and increases lead generation.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://boardreader.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Boardreader</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="boardreader 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3475" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/boardreader.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="Boardreader" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/boardreader" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">boardreader</a><br />
BoardReader allows users to search multiple message boards simultaneously, allowing users to share information in a truly global sense. Boardreader is focused on creating the largest repository of searchable information for our users. Users can find answers to their questions from others who share similar interests. Our goal is to allow our users to search the “human to human” discussions that exist on the Internet.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.cotweet.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CoTweet</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="cotweet 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3483" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cotweet.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="cotweet" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/cotweet" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">cotweet</a><br />
Free version is for individuals and organizations that manage a small number of Twitter accounts and need only basic features to engage and manage their conversations. Free version includes scheduling, conversation history, email notifications containing your latest mentions, team collaboration tools and access to Twitter follower profiles.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.cyfe.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cyfe</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cyfe.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="cyfe 300x148 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12275" height="148" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cyfe-300x148.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="cyfe" width="300" /></a>Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Cyfe/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cyfe</a><br />
Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard software that helps you monitor and analyze data scattered across all your online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Facebook, WordPress and more from one single location in real-time.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://edgerankchecker.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Edgerankchecker</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/edgerankchecker" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">edgerankchecker</a><br />
<img alt="edgerankchecker 300x172 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12267" height="172" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/edgerankchecker-300x172.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="edgerankchecker" width="300" />EdgeRank is an algorithm that ranks objects in the Facebook News Feed. Pages with high EdgeRank Scores will be more likely to show up in the news feed, than Pages with low EdgeRank Scores.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/search" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Facebook Search</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="facebook 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3486" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/facebook.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="facebook" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/facebook" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">facebook</a><br />
Facebook search is notoriously bad and will not find much, but if you have nothing else to do then give it a shot. It relies heavily on your social graph so the results you get may not be meaningful for your target audience.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://followerwonk.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Followerwonk</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/followerwonk.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="followerwonk 300x168 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12261" height="168" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/followerwonk-300x168.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="followerwonk" width="300" /></a>Twitter account: <a href="https://twitter.com/followerwonk/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">followerwonk</a><br />
Followerwonk is a cool new social media analytics tool for Twitter. You can use this free social media tool to search for influential bloggers for a variety of activies including blogger outreach.</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.google.com/alerts" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google Alerts</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="google alerts 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3491" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/google-alerts.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="google-alerts" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Google" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google</a><br />
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (blogs, news, etc.) based on your searches. Enter the topic you wish to monitor, then click preview to see the type of results you’ll receive. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring a developing news story and keeping current on a competitor or industry.</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google Blog Search</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="google blog search 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3494" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/google-blog-search.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="google-blog-search" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Google" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google</a><br />
Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice. Your results include all blogs. The blog index is continually updated, so you’ll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results.</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.google.com/trends" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google Trends</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="google trends 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3497" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/google-trends.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="google-trends" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/gtrendz" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">gtrendz</a><br />
Trends allows you to compare search terms and websites. With Google Trends you can get insights into the traffic and geographic visitation patterns of websites or keywords. You can compare data for up to five websites and view related sites and top searches for each one.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://howsociable.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HowSociable</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="howsociable 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3500" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/howsociable.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="howsociable" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/howsociable" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">howsociable</a><br />
Free monitoring tool for measuring your brands or keywords using 32 social networking sites. HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.icerocket.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Icerocket</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="icerocket 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3503" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/icerocket.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="icerocket" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/icerocket" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">icerocket</a><br />
Blog Tools, create your own Trend Graphs with the IceRocket Trend Tool. Enter keywords to see mentions trended over time. Trend Tool, enter items to see mentions trended over time. Enter up to five queries under Trend Terms. Type in the label you would like associated with each query under Display Labels. Search tool for blogs, web, Twitter, Facebook, news, and images.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://kred.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kred.ly</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kred1.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="kred1 300x185 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12256" height="185" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kred1-300x185.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="kred" width="300" /></a></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Kred" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kred</a><br />
Kred is a social-media scoring system that seeks to measure a person’s online influence.Kred, which was created by the San Francisco-based social analytics firm PeopleBrowsr, attempts to also measure a person or company’s engagement, or as they call it, outreach. PeopleBrowsr hopes that that combination can offer a more informed metric for non-celebrities like entrepreneurs and those whom they follow and look to for advice.<br />
<strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></strong></div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/#" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mentionmap</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="mentionmap 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3509" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mentionmap.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="mentionmap" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/asterisqdataviz" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">asterisqdataviz</a><br />
Explore your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most and what they’re talking about. It’s also a great way to find relevant people to follow. The visualization runs right in your browser and displays data from Twitter. Mentionmap loads user’s tweets and finds the people and hashtags they talked about the most. In this data visualization, mentions become connections and discussions between multiple users emerge as clusters.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.monitter.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Monitter</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="monitter 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3512" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/monitter.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="monitter" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/monitter" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">monitter</a><br />
It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you monitor the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying. Just type three words into the three search boxes and within seconds you’ll start seeing relevant tweets streaming live.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://nearbytweets.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nearbytweets</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/nearbytweets" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">nearbytweets</a><br />
<img alt="nearbytweets1 300x136 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12269" height="136" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/nearbytweets1-300x136.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="nearbytweets" width="300" />Nearby Tweets is a geography-centric Twitter tool (localizing Twitter) for social networking, building customer relationships, and monitoring real-time buzz.</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
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</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/et-ee" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Netvibes</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/netvibes1.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="netvibes1 300x144 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12285" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/netvibes1-300x144.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="netvibes" width="300" /></a>Monitor and analyze everything on a single platform with Netvibes. Now you can eliminate noise and get smarter, more relevant results by combining powerful adaptive analytics with expert human curation. And unlike “black box” analytics, our Open Corpus keeps you in complete control, while our award-winning SmartReader makes it easy to monitor hundreds of sources in real-time</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://nutshellmail.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">NutShellMail</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="nutshellmail 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3517" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/nutshellmail.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="nutshellmail" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/NutshellMail" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">NutshellMail</a><br />
NutshellMail lets you organize, monitor, and interact with all your social networks from a consolidated email digest delivered directly to your favorite inbox on a schedule that you choose. Nutshellmail supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Ning.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://omgili.com/graphs.html" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Omgili</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="omgili 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3520" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/omgili.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="omgili" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/omgili" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">omgili</a><br />
Omgili Buzz Graphs let you measure and compare the Buzz of any term. The Buzz is the percentage of the term out of the total number of discussions Omgili covered on a specific date.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pinerly.com/landing" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Pinerly</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pinterly.png" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="pinterly 300x162 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12260" height="162" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pinterly-300x162.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="pinterly" width="300" /></a>Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Pinerly" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Pinerly</a><br />
Pinerly.com is the easiest way to market your visual content onto social media sites, starting with Pinterest. Users can schedule pins, receive real time analytics on which pins are most effective, use multiple accounts, and bookmark. The company also churns out best practices data for content creators and brands on the platform.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.samepoint.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Samepoint</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="samepoint 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3529" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/samepoint.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="samepoint" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/samepoint" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">samepoint</a><br />
SamePoint.com tracks millions of conversations, taking place across in blogs and social media sites. SamePoint converts discussions into web pages, or permalinks, and organizes them within a tag cloud. SamePoint can serve as the nexus where the conversations meet, providing a single place for all discussions on a specific topic.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://seesmic.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Seesmic</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="seesmic 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3616" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/seesmic.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="seesmic" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/seesmic" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">seesmic</a><br />
Seesmic is a suite of social media management and collaboration tools that provide everything to build their brands online. Seesmic has applications on every platform, including mobile, and a marketplace of third-party plugins. Seesmic gives you social media monitoring, updating and engaging in real time.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://sharedcount.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SharedCount</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="sharedcount 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3532" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sharedcount.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="sharedcount" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/yahelc" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">yahelc</a><br />
Track your shares, likes, tweets, and more. Enter a web address of a page and find out how much it has been shared in different social networking and bookmarking sites. Currently includes Facebook, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn, Google Buzz and StumbleUpon.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.socialoomph.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SocialOomph</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="socialoomph 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3538" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/socialoomph.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="socialoomph" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/socialoomph" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">socialoomph</a><br />
Schedule tweets, track keywords, extended Twitter profiles, save and reuse drafts, view @mentions and retweets, purge your DM inbox, personal status feed — your own tweet engine, unlimited accounts.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://steprep.myfrontsteps.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">StepRep</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="steprep 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3547" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/steprep.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="steprep" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/steprep" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">steprep</a><br />
StepRep provides an overview of the conversations people are having about your business online. Anytime your business is mentioned, anywhere on the web, you’ll hear about it. Sources are scanned continuously to bring you the most complete and up-to-date data on how your business is perceived. The data is broken down and analyzed in reports that can help you target your marketing and increase your online customer engagement.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://surchur.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Surchur</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="surchur 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3550" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/surchur.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="surchur" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/surchur" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">surchur</a><br />
Surchur is the ultimate dashboard to right now. The surchmeter shows you how popular a keyword is on different sources: surchur, blogs and twitter.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://technorati.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Technorati Blogsearch</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/technorati" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">technorati</a><br />
<img alt="technorati 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3553" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/technorati.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="technorati" width="300" />Search Technorati and note the authority and rank of the blogs listed in the results. Authority measures the site’s standing and influence in the blogosphere. Rank shows what position this authority gives the site. It is not a very good tool for lesser known blogs as it misses a lot of great sites.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.tinker.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tinker</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tinker 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3556" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tinker.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="tinker" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/tinker" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tinker</a><br />
Tinker helps you stay on top of your favorite events by showing you the latest buzz from Twitter and across the social web. Create or follow an event stream by choosing a keyword. An event could be anything: the Oscars, a new iPhone release, a movie premiere, a book launch, or a Superbowl party. Tinker also lets you search for the top news, topics and places people are talking about.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://feeltiptop.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TipTop</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tiptop 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3559" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tiptop.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="tiptop" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/twittiptop" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">twittiptop</a><br />
TipTop Search is a Twitter-based search engine that helps you discover the best and most current advice, opinions, answers for any search, and also real people to directly engage and share experiences with. A search on any topic reveals people’s emotions and experiences about it, as well as other concepts that they are discussing in connection with the original search.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://topsy.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Topsy</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="topsy 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3562" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/topsy.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="topsy" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/topsy" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">topsy</a><br />
Topsy is a real-time search engine. Topsy indexes and ranks search results based upon the most influential conversations millions of people are having every day about each specific term, topic, page or domain. Topsy’s algorithms identify influencers for any searchable criteria, using these influence calculations to rank results. It displays results for related terms and articles, trending topics, identifies experts (influencers) and shows you trackback pages for everything in its index.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twazzup 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3568" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twazzup.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twazzup" width="300" /><a href="http://www.twazzup.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twazzup</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/twazzup" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">twazzup</a><br />
Twazzup is real-time news platform. It allows you to filter the news out of live Twitter content. It’s useful for understanding who are the influencers on a given topic and what are to trending sources.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.tweetbeep.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TweetBeep</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tweetbeep 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3571" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tweetbeep.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="tweetbeep" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/tweetbeep" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tweetbeep</a><br />
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates. You can keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL, Great for online reputation management, catching all your @replies and @mentions.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tweetpsych.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TweetPsych</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tweetpsych 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3574" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tweetpsych.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="tweetpsych" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/TweetPsych" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TweetPsych</a><br />
TweetPsych uses linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets. It works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform. Created by Dan Zarrella.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tweetreach.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TweetReach</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tweetreach 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3577" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tweetreach.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="tweetreach" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/tweetreachapp" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tweetreachapp</a><br />
TweetReach measures the impact of social media conversations. Use it to understand how many people were reached by tweets about a topic on Twitter.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twendz</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twendz 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3580" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twendz.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twendz" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/waggeneredstrom" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">waggeneredstrom</a><br />
The twendz Twitter-mining Web application uses the power of Twitter Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. Using the twendz application gives a glimpse into what’s on people’s minds and their emotional reaction. Mining Twitter conversations alerts you to brewing trends, conversation topics and points of view.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.twentyfeet.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twentyfeet</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twentyfeet1 300x148 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-12270" height="148" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/twentyfeet1-300x148.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="twentyfeet" width="300" />Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/TwentyFeet/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TwentyFeet</a><br />
TwentyFeet is an “egotracking” service that will help you keep track of your own social media activities and monitor your results. We aggregate metrics from different services, thus giving you the full picture of what happens around you on the web – all in one place.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.twitalyzer.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitalyzer</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twitalyzer 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3583" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twitalyzer.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twitalyzer" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/Twitalyzer" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitalyzer</a><br />
Analytics for social relationships. Twitalyzer knows who is in your social network and where they live, allowing you to be more targeted in your outreach efforts. Twitalyzer provides Twitter’s most robust benchmark reporting, ranking Twitter users ten different ways. Authored by Eric T. Peterson author and blogger.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://twitrratr.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitrratr</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twitrratr 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3586" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twitrratr.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twitrratr" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/twitrratr" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">twitrratr</a><br />
Twitrratr built a list of positive keywords and a list of negative keywords. It searches Twitter for a keyword and the results are cross-referenced against adjective lists, then displayed accordingly.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://twittergrader.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitter Grader</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twitter grader 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3589" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twitter-grader.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twitter-grader" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/grader" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">grader</a><br />
Twitter Grader lets you check the power of your Twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded. Just enter your Twitter username and you’ll get an instant grade and report. It looks at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://search.twitter.com/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitter Search</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twitter search 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3592" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twitter-search.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twitter-search" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/twitter" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">twitter</a><br />
Use Twitter Search if you need to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline. Twitter Search lets you search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through our service. Advanced Search allows you to create your queries using many advanced operators.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Twitter StreamGraphs</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="twitter stream graphs 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3595" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/twitter-stream-graphs.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="twitter-stream-graphs" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/JeffClark" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">JeffClark</a><br />
A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the ‘@’ symbol to see the latest tweets from that user.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://whathashtag.circulorojo.es/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">WhatHashtag</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="whathashtag 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3607" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/whathashtag.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="whathashtag" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/whathashtag" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">whathashtag</a><br />
WhatHashtag is service that allows you to find the most used Twitter hashtags for the keywords you enter. Search for the keyword and you will automatically get the most popular hashtags used worldwide to discuss your topic. The result retrieves the last 1.000 tweets related to your keyword, and orders hashtags by frequency of use. Using WhatHashtag you will gain visibility when tweeting your opinions, being read beyond your followers in the most effective way.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://who.unfollowed.me/" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">WhoUnfollowedMe</a></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="whounfollowedme 54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3610" height="144" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/whounfollowedme.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="whounfollowedme" width="300" /></div><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/whounfollowedme" style="border: none; color: #00aeef; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">whounfollowedme</a><br />
Who.unfollowed.me is a service that helps you track your unfollowers, in real time, without waiting for a DM, or email. It allows you to check your unfollowers on your schedule, every 15 minutes, without waiting for an email or a direct message.</div><h2 style="border: none; color: #0b2b3f; font-family: ChevinMediumRegular; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></h2><div style="border: none; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">That’s all folks. If you know of a great free tool </strong><strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">then please let us know in the comments.</strong></strong></div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-61724351349499110042012-08-29T09:00:00.000+07:002012-08-29T09:00:38.706+07:00Yahoo! Attract Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as New CMO<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One more beautiful heroine who joined Yahoo!. He is Kathy Savitt, a former CEO of Lockerz, who now serves as the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) new Yahoo!. What makes Marissa Mayer smitten by the former Vice President of Strategic Communications, Content and Initiatives Amazon?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Previous Marissa Mayer managed to 'hijack' former colleagues at Google for Yahoo! willing to join. Is Andrew Schulte, Product Marketing Manager for Google's CEO lined up to be pretty Yahoo! chief of staff.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even before adrew Schulte joins Marissa Mayer also successful in recruiting colleagues at Google, Anne Espiritu, who previously served as Costumer Technology PR at Google. Word got out when Marissa Mayer was looking figure COO (Chief Operating Officer) new.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have not had time to get COO, Google employees-20 is able to persuade Kathy Savitt for a new CMO.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kathy Savitt occupy top positions in several major technology companies. LinkedIn page notes, Kathy Savitt served as CEO Lokerz, American Eagle Outfitters CMO and Vice President of Strategic Communications, Content and Initiatives Amazon.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-51377488780702656892012-08-27T09:58:00.000+07:002012-08-27T09:58:17.807+07:00Twitter Joins The Linux Foundation<br />
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</div><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en">The popular microblogging service, Twitter, join the Linux Foundation. </span><span lang="en">These birds display the companies committed to supporting open source software.</span></span></div><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en">Why Twitter joined the Linux Foundation? </span><span lang="en">This is the question that terbesit in the minds of the connoisseurs of technology. </span><span lang="en">Twitter will be formally committed to supporting open source software projects.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like most other companies, Twitter heavily to open source software as data center and hosting server that uses a Linux operating system that judged reliable.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linux Foundation itself is the foundation that collects donations for the development of the kernel or the essence of the open source Linux operating system that relies on sponsorships from leading information technology companies to build open source software.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en">Twitter is rumored to join as a silver member and pay USD $ 15,000 to get special privileges. </span><span lang="en">Linux Foundation will announce at the Conference LinuxCon membership Twitter next week in San Diego.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en">As reported by from ArsTechnica (25/08/2012), Enterprise microblogging Twitter is indeed still accounting for new in the world of open source. </span><span lang="en">Twitter is rumored to have used a lot of open source software such as MySQL database developed itself to save Tweets.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not only that, Twitter is also a sponsor of the famous web server software, and ApacheFoundation also joined the World Wide Web Consortium.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div></span><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"How important Linux to become so much of a big company backbone which is basically running on Linux and works to build the infrastructure they are almost entirely on open source software," said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation.</span></div><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span> </span></div><div class="force_dir" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div>Arifs.driessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03031982077280684678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155302679715005080.post-17058300271324905342012-08-24T09:07:00.000+07:002012-08-24T09:07:48.612+07:009GAG Translucent 65 Million Unique Visitors<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9GAG, comedy website containing funny pictures of typical internet as 'memes' is more popular than Reddit, a site that contains a variety of hot news which has also been mentioned as a repository of 'memes'.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recent statistics from 9GAG announced at Y Combinator's Demo Day shows that S12 9GAG reach 65 million unique visitors, and as a comparison site Reddit has only 39.7 million unique visitors in July.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9GAG newly launched app for iPhone is full of images that can be humor rating, commented on and shared with friends. 9GAG popular content can be seen at the "what's hot" or "trending".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9GAG is the company that runs operations in San Francisco and Hong Kong. In July 2012, 9GAG got a cash injection of $ 2.8 million from various investors such as Freestyle Capital and True Ventures.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the stats 9GAG in July 2012:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* 65 million unique visitors per month</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* 17 minutes of time users spend each visit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* 3.8 million fans on Facebook</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* 920,000 followers on Twitter</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* 750,000 downloads on mobile app</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you often visit 9GAG in your spare time?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the emergence of Apple Siri and followed its competitors in the Android platform as Samsung S-Voice, Google Voice Search or LG Quick Voice, Windows Phone platform now turn to the teeth with applications Ask Ziggy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ask Ziggy application is indeed not much different from similar applications are first present in the market such as Apple and Google Voice Search Siri who was present as an intelligent assistant ready to help users.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like the Apple Siri, Ask Ziggy can also answer questions of users, even it has the ability to answer business areas such as stock quotes and answer any questions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unlike the Apple-owned Siri, Ask subuah Ziggy was developed by an independent company and has just announced that it has secured funding worth USD $ 5 million from a multi-national companies.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ask Ziggy company declined to companies that have contributed substantial funds, but some pundits speculated that the company is Microsoft.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ask Ziggy plans to be present in non-Windows platforms such as Android Phone and Apple's IOS in the third quarter of 2012, but until recently, the application is only available for devices based on Windows Phone.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nuance, a developer of intelligent assistant Siri and Nina is known to have formed a partnership with Ask Ziggy. Not only Nuance, Ask Ziggy also has a partnership with Kopin Corporation in Golden-i program.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As reported by TechCrunch, with funds amounting to USD $ 5 million will be used to expand the applications Ask Ask Ziggy Ziggy to a new platform and immediately released the SDK (Software Development Kit) for developers to take advantage of voice-based intelligent assistant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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