Archive for August, 2009

Are you Tweeting "Pointless Babble?"

Before you or your company decide to  jump in to Twitter with some Tweets you think are relevant, you might be interested in a recent (short-term) study by Pear Analytics to be sure your Tweets aren’t falling into certain catagories. Pear took snapshots of  Twitter every 30 minutes (between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm) and picked […]

Twitter: Car 54, Where Are You?

Twitter announced recently that it is adding “location services” to its micro-blogging service.  This means that users will soon be able to (optionally) enable their twitter posts (or “tweets”) to include the location they’re sending the message from. For instance if I am travelling in the Andes mountains with my iPhone (and I somehow magically […]

Enter Visual Search Engines

We all know that we can type a keyword phrase in a search engine and it would rank a particular image based on the relevancy to the keywords contained in that image’s Alt tag, or the copy surrounding the image or even the meta data on the page.  Enter new technology that is taking your […]