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There are hundreds of applications to help you interact with others through Twitter. Some are designed for broadcasting, some for finding people to follow, and some for listening. Some are web-based, some are for the desktop, and others are for mobile phones (see Twitter’s recommendations).

Of course you can just use Twitter.com “out of the box” right after you sign up and interact with people well. But if you want to be more effective, you’ll need an application or two or four.

[UPDATE: The Guardian in the UK just … Continue Reading

Now – facebook.com/orangejack

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2. New marketing URL: facebook.com/orangejack
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When Michael Jackson unexpectedly died last week, he set one last record in his many acclaims: he broke the Internet.

Following are quotes from three sources that explain it all. Amazing!
The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in the ’60s in the first place, as a communications system with redundancy built in so that the military could communicate even if one of the nodes went down.

We saw some of that happen today, as news of Michael Jackson’s death spread like wildfire through the Internet. TMZ.com … Continue Reading

I found the most interesting part of this is at the bottom of the graphic — the roots of Twitter. If you want to see who are the most followed Twitter accounts, go to Twitterholic.

Where do I go on the tree? I joined June 2, 2007 and currently I’m in the top 30,000. Ha! Whatever.

This came from Manolith: The Story (so far) of Twitter

I realize this is the second post in a row about the role new media has played in reporting current events compared to old media, but I’ve watched a couple of videos (below), pondered the topic more, and feel like this issue is moving from “interesting” to “important”.

At issue is the time lag between a breaking news event happening and how long it takes old media (traditional news outlets or main stream media) to report it. Compare that to how fast user-generated content and social media networks report these events.  Normally I just find it interesting because I think, “of … Continue Reading

Normally I don’t care that much about the chest-beating that social media evangelists say when events break on sites like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blogs, etc before it does in Main Stream Media sources. It shouldn’t be a surprise that witnesses to events can get information only quickly. It doesn’t mean that information is “better”, just it was fast. However, it’s eye-witness reporting and sometimes isn’t verified.  It doesn’t take away from the value of the reporting, but I don’t feel like it’s as big of a competition as I think many make it out to be.

However, it’s been interesting to … Continue Reading

You may have seen services that will submit your website to hundreds of search engines. Some do it for free while others charge you.

Before you do that, stop and ask yourself a simple question: can you think of more than six?

I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to do that. Truth is, Google is the dominant search engine and if they know about you chances are everyone else will. But do you even need to tell Google you exist? Not really. If a site Google already knows about links to you, Google will find you.

However, it’s not a … Continue Reading

Kind of off-topic here, but it’s Hurricane Season again and I created a resource that I strongly encourage you to check out. It’s the FriendFeed Hurricane Room. You can read about what the site is all about on my personal blog.

Thanks for checking it out. I just want to provide a way to help us all be aware and be safe.

Also, just as a reminder, though I haven’t been posting here much lately, I plan to soon. In the meantime I’ve been posting links to other great articles on the Orangejack Facebook Page. … Continue Reading