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Twitter’s New Who To Follow Suggestion [Picture]

Josh — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:58:52 +0000

Last night my Twitter account was given a new functionality called “Who to Follow” suggestion box. Basically it displays two images of suggested people to follow, with a link to see their profile or to follow them directly from your page.

So far the suggestions seem to be random, so they are less than helpful. If Twitter where to apply some logic and algorithm to this feature, I could see it as being very useful. Attached is a screen shot of the new feature.

Click the image for a larger version.

Having Trouble Creating a Facebook Fan Page Box?

Josh — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:31:10 +0000

Solving the Facebook Fan Page Box creation issue

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been unable to create a new fan box widget here: http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/fanbox.php

I get this far but then I’m unable to see a preview or get the code for the box.

I finally found a solution.

Go to this url: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box

Add your page ID number, adjust a few setting and you should be ready to add the box to your wordpress blog.

For more great tips head over to the Traffic is Gold Facebook page and give it a “Like” vote!

Hope that helps.

Rise in Tech Investment Signal Recovery?

Josh — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:52:06 +0000

Rise in Tech Investment Could Signal Economic Recovery

Venture Capital investments were up 13% in Q1 of 2010 does this signal a recovery? I say No. Tech has been wrong before, remember the tech bubble of the 1990’s…

http://mashable.com/2010/04/29/vc-recovery-2/

Youtube Gets a New Video Player

I personally like the new player, check it out for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/user/TrafficIsGold

Or just see it in action: http://www.youtube.com/user/TrafficIsGold

Will Facebook’s Like replace Google’s Links

Not sure but I just added a like button on my site using a wordpress plugin. Took all of 2 minutes! See it in action at the top of this post:

New Interesting Twitter Stats

African Americans account for 25% of the Twitter population, which is double the percentage of African Americans living in the U.S.
Twitter users are more likely to live in higher income households.
Four in 10 Twitter users (39%) own three or more computers.
Twitter users are three times more likely to follow brands on Twitter than on other social networking sites.
Less than half of regular Twitter users post updates (47%), although 70% of these same Twitter users do post status updates to other social networking services like Facebook.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/29/twitter-usage-america/

Gowalla Beats Foursquare to the iPad

Get the full scoop from the folks at TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/gowalla-ipad/

Sponsor: http://www.checkindeals.com/

Best of the Day Links 04-28-10

Josh — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:23:52 +0000

Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies Buys IQC

$187.5 million later and Digital Sky is the proud owner of IQC?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/dst-aol-icq.html

New iphone coming in June

Apple should announce the new iphone during the June 7 -11 Apple dev conference in S.F.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/28/new.iphone.wwdc/index.html

World Cup Goes 3D

For the first time…

“Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has announced that 25 matches will be broadcast in 3D, with seven cameras at each of five grounds in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. The 2D broadcasts will require 32 cameras at each stadium.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/04/28/football.world.cup.3D/index.html

Facebook is a Popular Search Term

According to Hitwise “Facebook” was the most searched term in March: http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/search-terms-mar-10/

HP to Acquire Palm

Palm sells to HP for 1.2 Billion

http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/hp-acquires-palm/

Schools are Turning to Google Apps

“Today, the entire public school system of Oregon will embrace Google Apps. 400,000 Students, teachers, and administrators will have access to a common e-mail and chat system, cloud-based collaboration tools, and a robust multimedia streaming service.”

Two years ago I made the switch over to Google apps for my business email provider.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/schools-google-apps/

Best of the Day Links 04-27-10

Josh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:27:35 +0000

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RIM shows off BlackBerry 6 on video

At the WES 2010 Blackberry releases a teaser video of the Blackberry 6 operating System:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/27/rim-shows-off-blackberry-6-on-video/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/blackberry-os-6-0-pinned-for-summer-release-upgrades-possible/

Television Takes over Top Spot on Facebook Fan Pages

The Family Guy takes the number one spot.

Be sure to “Like” the Traffic is Gold Facebook page.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/04/27/television-takes-over-our-list-of-top-20-facebook-pages

GetGlue links Web resources for movies, books and music together

Great idea and service for movie lovers!

“If you’re looking at data for “The Godfather” on IMdB, GetGlue will show a trailer on YouTube and reviews on other sites. The application pulls from more than 300 popular websites.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/getglue.html

China already has iPad knock offs

Ipads international launch is not until the end of May, but don’t tell China that. China is already selling a cheaper version (counterfeit version) of the ipad ($410 USD).

http://mashable.com/2010/04/26/cheaper-ipad-knock-offs-thrive-in-china/

Read a great quote today: “You Can’t Be Scared of Failure. You’re Already Failing” This was geared toward new businesses and start ups.

Ipad Gets Facebook Friendly Video

So when will Facebbok support video via the iphone app?

http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/facebook-ipad-video/

Best of the Day Links 04-26-10

Josh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:47:11 +0000

Clean out your Twitter Account

Mashable post some great tools to help clean up your Twitter account. I’ve use Twitter Karma, but once you get past 5k followers the system was unusable (at least it was that way 1 year ago).

http://mashable.com/2010/04/26/twitter-organize/

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Which is Better: Buying Apple Products, or Buying Apple Stock?

This is a very interesting idea. In 1997, if you had NOT bought the new “Apple PowerBook G3 250” and put the $5,700 in Apple stock, your Apple Stock would now be worth $330563.38!!!!

Check out this grid for many more examples: http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php

http://mashable.com/2010/04/26/apple-products-apple-stock/

The Nook Passes the Kindle in Sales

More bad news at Amazon… First the ipad release. Now the Nook pass the Kindle in Sales for the month of March.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/nook-passes-kindle-sales-in-march/

Sony To stop Making Floppy Discs

A 30 year old product, will come to an end March of next year. Not really a big deal. But similar to the end of the 8 track.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/sony-to-stop-manufacturing-floppy-discs-after-30-years/

World Cup to drive record social media traffic

Football (Soccer) the World’s biggest sport will be covered in depth by the World’s largest social networking site. If you’re a fan of the beautiful game, this World Cup will be awesome!

The games start (as of today): 45 days, 22 hours, 15 minutes

“FIFA has its own social-networking service on FIFA.com — called “The Club” — which has 1.6 million members, but the organization is about to make a bigger push into social media.”

For those of us fans who will not make it to the games in South Africa, this will be the best World Cup for us to follow.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/04/26/football.world.cup.social/index.html

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Twitter to Pull the Plug on Manage Twitter

Josh — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:49:11 +0000

“We’re writing to let you know that your application, ManageTwitter, breaks our Automation Rules and Best Practices (http://help.twitter.com/entries/76915). Specifically, it facilitates bulk automated user unfollowing, which is not allowed. It’s best for both our users and your users if your application follows the rules, so please make the necessary changes, such as removing the “Select All” option (and requiring users to decide on each user individually) to bring your application into compliance.”

This Sucks!

Read the full story here.

News of the Day 04-23-10

Josh — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:27:49 +0000

Grab your cup of coffee and enjoy today’s top tech and social media news.

Our Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Traffic-Is-Gold/150974113971

How Facebook won the web

Pete Cashmore of Mashable discusses the impact of facebook’s new “like” button.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/22/facebook.won.the.web.cashmore/index.html

Are the Facebook “Like” buttons evil?

Techcrunch covers the tech communities reactin. “The Open Graph is open only in name.”

TC’s take on the whole issue: “A lot of this boils down to a nerd fight that Zuckerberg is likely to win.” (Classic TC style!)

How To Turn an iPad Into an iPad 3G

Tiger Woods and EA Sports giving away $10K in cash (facebook)

Tiger has enetered the world of virtual currency. Here’s the deal, for every friend that signs up for the online version of the PGA tour, they get $10,000 in game currency.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/tiger-woods-virtual-currency/

Amazon and Microsoft report large profits

Microsoft’s Income Rises 35%, Driven by Sales of Windows 7
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/technology/23soft.html

Profit Rose 68% at Amazon, Topping Analysts’ Forecasts
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/technology/23amazon.html

Facebook or Microsoft to acquire Foursquare?

Techcrunch is repoeting talks between the companies. This should be interesting. Will the CEO Dennis Crowley sell or try and grow this thing big?

Foursquare hits 1 million users

Some lucky chap from Escondido California secured the 1 million user slot.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/foursquare-one-million-users/

Also it looks like Foursquare is rolling out more business tools. Great start at earning your bubble $100 million valuation!

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/foursquare-business-friendly/

Don’t count out StumbleUpon as a large Traffic Source.

According to StatCounter’s GlobalStats research arm, StumbleUpon represents 25% of social media traffic, second only to facebbok.

Source TC: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/statcounter-facebook-stumbleupon-generate-more-traffic-than-twitter/

Source Statcounter: http://gs.statcounter.com/#social_media-ww-monthly-200903-201003

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Top News of the Day 04-22-10

Josh — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:25:40 +0000

What you should know about Facebook’s changes

“Facebook announced some changes on Wednesday that are intended to make the Internet more social. Essentially, Facebook is stretching out into the rest of the web.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/21/facebook.changes.users/index.html

Hulu to Launch a Subscription Service in May?

“Hulu plans to start testing a subscription service for a monthly fee of $9.95, claims the L.A. Times, citing people familiar with the plans.”

http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/hulu-subscription-may/

Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy

Facebook’s move to become the center of the web.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/open-graph-privacy/

Q.&A.: No Hiding on Facebook

A few quick tips to protect your privacy

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/q-a-no-hiding-on-facebook/

New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total

The New York Times Company this morning announced upbeat Q1 2010 results

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/new-york-times-reports-q1-profit-digital-ad-revenues-now-26-of-total/

Top News of the Day 04-21-10

Josh — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:11:21 +0000

Google to expose government agencies censorship requests

Google will make public how often government agencies request removal of content or request for user information.

“We hope this tool will shine some light on the scale and scope of government requests for censorship and data around the globe,” he said. “

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/google-fights-online-censorship-with-new-government-requests-tool.html

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Google updates Local business pages

The new product Google Places is designed for businesses. Google places offers a variety of tools business owners can leverage to make their products and services more available in a local search. There is also a paid ad component available in this new product. $25 a month will make your ad stand out.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/google-places-pages.html

LinkedIn Launches Many New Link-Sharing Features

I’m a big fan of linkedin. Linkedin brings me a lot of business. I can’t wait to test out the new features.

Check out this Mashable post for more info with pictures & Video:
http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/linkedin-share/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/linkedin-launches-url-shortener-enhances-sharing-options/

Youtube Video explaining the new features:

88% of Content on Google Buzz is Automated

Is this good or bad? I have a Buzz account but I’ve done very little with it. I guess I just don’t see the value. I’m already balancing enough social connection tools. I’m I missing something?

http://mashable.com/2010/04/20/google-buzz-bots/

Apple sells 8.75 Million iphones in Q2!

And dropped a bomb shell when they announced earnings were up 48% Year to Date.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36665630

Guys need a Date? Get an iphone

54% Of Women More Likely To Date Men With iPhones, Says iPhone Retailer

Phones 4u conducted the survey. You be the judge on this one…

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/54-of-women-more-likely-to-date-men-with-iphones-says-iphone-retailer/

Earnings Fall 21% at AT&T

“The company added fewer contract-signing wireless customers, an indication that the saturation of the market is even starting to catch up with the carrier of the iPhone.”

Nice spin.

Or maybe people waiting for the end of exclusivity agreement between Apple and AT&T. AT&T service is horrible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/technology/22phone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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