Zenaida Gonzalez, the woman Anthony named as her daughter’s kidnapper when police first began investigating Caylee’s disappearance, has filed a suit against Anthony for using her name in association with the toddler’s death. Anthony initially claimed that Gonzalez was a babysitter and had kidnapped Caylee, but in reality the two had never even met. It was brought out during the trial that the story was fabricated, but Anthony still hasn’t said why she made up such a story during a crucial investigation. She was later acquitted of the charges related to her daughter’s death.

Investigators working for Gonzalez tracked down Anthony in order to serve her papers for the lawsuit, and she will likely have to take the stand next January, something she refused to do during the first trial.

“Ms. Gonzalez is happy to hear that Casey Anthony finally will be held accountable just like everybody else,” says her attorney.

This isn’t entirely surprising given recent developments in Twittervile. Summify’s purpose was generating personalized digests of users’ Twitter feeds, which suddenly became somewhat redundant last week when Twitter announced that it would be sending out Best Of emails to users that compiles a summary of users’ Twitter streams. If Twitter owns Summify and users are receiving digests now from both Twitter and Summify accounts, it’s not really the most resourceful business plan.

Twitter’s decision to begin sending out digests under the company’s name instead of Summify seemed inevitable after the weekly digests started arriving in inboxes. However, it doesn’t appear that the closing down of Summify means that the Summify team will be leaving Twitter; quite the opposite, really, considering that it was the Summify team that developed the Twitter weekly digest. According to the Los Angeles Times, Summify sent out an email to users explaining that the decision to shutter up the service was so that they could focus on the Twitter brand. “We are going to focus our efforts on making Twitter even more engaging and useful for you,” the email said. “While we can’t get into details on what’s to come, we can say that we’re excited and we think you will be too.”

So yeah, less bad news than it really appears to be on the surface. More, the email adds that the Twitter-branded digest will be sent to Summify users automatically so as to make the transition as seamless as possible.

The only snag arising from Summify dissolving completely into Twitter is that, in addition to providing summaries of the micro-blogging site, Summify provided digests of users’ Facebook and Google Reader accounts as well. As you may expect, since this is now a Twitter joint, digests of Facebook and Google Reader will no longer be included.

Summify users who are fond of the daily digest as opposed to Twitter’s weekly digest won’t have to worry about missing out on anything, though. While regular Twitter users will continue to get the weekly digest, Twitter said that those users originally receiving Summify’s digest will be receiving a daily digest from Twitter.

Knightly, 27, is best known for her role in the Disney blockbuster “Pirates Of The Caribbean” and its sequels, and is also one of the faces of Chanel. Righton belongs to the London-based band the Klaxons.

Twitter fans took to the social media site today to profess their grief over losing Knightly to a husband:

The Olympic runner has talked publicly about her decision to wait until marriage to have sex (mostly because it seems that’s all anyone wants to talk about) and says it’s not an easy thing to do, but is the right decision for her. And while all that attention to her personal life might prove to be invasive, it’s the earnest way she engages people via social media that is earning her some appreciative looks from fans and companies alike. In fact, her Twitter account may get her some endorsement deals that will put her in the spotlight even more, much like her Olympic peer Michael Phelps.

As with anyone in the public eye, Jones’ sexual preferences are widely speculated on and judged, especially on Twitter, where anyone with an opinion can hide behind a computer screen. But Jones tends to answer questions and even harsh judgments with ease, mixing self-deprecation with intelligent comebacks, and that could account for the huge leap in the amount of her followers recently.

Here’s a quick sampling of her tweets. Watch for Jones in this summer’s London Olympics, which begin in July.

“Some users may currently be experiencing site issues on Chrome; our engineers are working on resolving this issue.”

The desktop version of Twitter appears to be experiencing some outages for some users.

There is currently now message about it on Twitter’s status blog. In fact, the last update was from May 20th.

While it appears to be working fine for me, some others in the office have also been experiencing outages, with the message: “no data received”. I am, however, having some trouble viewing my Twitter lists, as are others.

There’s no question that the Fail Whale makes a lot less appearances these days than in years past, but clearly Twitter is not completely issue-free.

Our group is dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space.

A noble cause, unless your on the side of the corporations.

Considering the group’s perpsective, it should come as no surprise that the Space Hijackers are firmly against the London bending over backwards to welcome the Olympics. You can read a lot more about why the group is against the London Olympics here, but suffice to say, it has little do with the athletic events and more to do with stuff like this, from the awesomely-named Tumblr, Nipplelick (the link is SFW, but its index page may not be).

The Official Protesters even have t-shirts:

Twitter, the beacon of free speech which so vocally lent it’s support to the Arab Spring did, of course, what everyone expected and immediately curtailed to the interests of big money and business. We, The Official Protesters, were immediately locked out of our account, losing access to thousands of followers, in a move designed to silence our dissent.

From there, reaction exploded at an exponential rate across the Internet newsreel, which, in part led to the restoration of the Space Hijackers Twitter account. Apparently, however, they had to return their Olympic medals:

While the speech blocking aspects cannot be ignored, the fact that Twitter was slick wise enough to go trademark confusion as their reasoning no doubt absolves them of any wrongdoing, at least to them. That, however, does not reflect the Space Hijackers’ point of view, who made this known on their Twitter description:

We reject any ‘Trademark Connection’ or ‘Brand Affiliation’ Locog tries to make to us. Seriously guys it’s getting embarrassing, stop trying to make friends.

With that in mind, how does it feel knowing that Twitter acquiesced to the requests of a group clearly trying to silence any outspoken protest against the London Olympics, especially when the protest group does a great job of pointing out the hypocrisy involved in hosting these celebrations of athletics? Granted, the power was turned back on soon enough, but the fact that Twitter suspended the account in the first place is troubling.

But then again, perhaps we should’ve seen this coming.

HP President and CEO Meg Whitman comments on the changes at the firm:

“These initiatives build upon our recent organizational realignment, and will further streamline our operations, improve our processes, and remove complexity from our business,”

“While some of these actions are difficult because they involve the loss of jobs, they are necessary to improve execution and to fund the long term health of the company. We are setting HP on a path to extend our global leadership and deliver the greatest value to customers and shareholders.”

While the company invests in cloud security, information analytics, speed development in security, big data and other areas, there is a noticeable piece of the puzzle missing. Yes that’s right, printing technology. While I am sure they are not out of the game, some wonder if network sharing and other forms of digital media aren’t cutting into the physical photo printing business.

Venture Beat published a story that features Facebook as a main reason for HP’s recent decline in revenue from printers and ink cartridges used in their devices. Essentially they are claiming that as more people join the Facebook revolution, fewer choose to actually print out their photos.

I like what they are implying here. It speaks to a positive evolution, at least by my reckoning. Facebook and other social sites like Twitter and Pinterest allow us to share photos and other documents in a way that’s both, environmentally friendly, and economical. Let’s be honest, most of us use printers that are overpriced, antiquated, and expensive to operate. It’s cheaper to take your photos to Walgreens.

I am glad to see HP evolving and shifting their research efforts away from old technology and investing in newer more useful endeavors like cloud-based systems and security. Of course dying product lines will temporarily effect the bottom line, why do you think we still have gas-powered automobiles? Strained sales and revenue growth should indicate it’s time to innovate and move on, not sink more money into a dying cow.

However, nine months deep into 2011, the Twitter Developers blog gave us a glimpse of the new and improved Twitter Analytics. In addition to a good looking layout, and what appeared to be tracking of not only your account but Tweet button stats and API access as well, it looked promising. The post stated that these analytics would be rolling out to everyone “within the next few weeks.” Hmm…2011 came and went and still no native Twitter Analytics.

Now here we are, five months into 2012 and the only word we have about Twitter analytics is that, “it’s taking longer than originally planned to ready for wider use.” Meanwhile both Facebook and YouTube have completely revamped their analytics platforms and delivered deeper insights into the activity on their platforms. This is officially ridiculous.

If history is any indicator, 2012 is going to be gone in the blink of an eye without a real analytics release as well. You would think with all of the acquisitions and rounds of funding Twitter has executed over the last two to three years that they would have found, acquired, or hired someone who could have delivered on this vitally essential feature of any modern social platform.

Why it’s taking Twitter so long to catch up to its rivals, I have no idea. However it’s no secret that Twitter needs to find more revenue streams, and this could be one. By charging a nominal fee to people and brands that care about the analytics, they could start bringing in multiple, small streams of revenue.

What’s so difficult about this? Other platforms, which are far more comprehensive than Twitter, have had at least basic analytics for years. This isn’t rocket science… is it?

So, even though there are no signs of Twitter ever getting their act together and giving us marketers a native analytics platform to work from, there are options available. Thanks to Twitter’s mostly open API, there are several sites out there that will help you monitor and analyze the progress of both you and your competitors’ Twitter efforts.

1. Manual Tracking
Setup a spreadsheet and track all of the metrics applicable to your brand. RT’s, Mentions, Followers, Following, Lists, etc. If it’s important, track it. Just be sure to update it weekly so that it doesn’t become an unmanageable amount of data.

Pro Tip: Updating weekly spreadsheets is a great task to delegate to interns to familiarize them with the platform and progress tracking.

2. Topsy
Track mentions of yourself and two competitors for up to 30 days and see the top links for the past 24 hours. If you’re prepared to do some manual tracking, you can use Topsy to look at domains, keywords, brand names, hashtags, etc. and track the results.

Pro Tip: Topsy is a great supplement to any manual spreadsheet data aggregation.

3. Twitter Counter
Compare up to three brands side by side. Under the free plan you can monitor Followers, Following, Tweets, and a mix of Tweets and Followers for the past three months. If you upgrade to a paid option, it includes Mentions, ReTweets, Your Retweet, and Your Mentions, and can go as far back as six months.

Pro Tip: This tool is great for researching competitors and tracking your own progress.

4. TweetStats
Get your Tweet Timeline and see what month, day, and time the account is most active. TweetStats collects information on daily tweets, hourly tweets, replies, RTs, Friend and Followers stats, and even see what interface(s) were used to tweet. It’s also possible to create a word cloud comprised of the most used terms and hashtags by the account.

Pro Tip: In addition to account stats, you can pull current stats on Twitter for wide trends and platform usage!

5. Xefer
Xefer will provide very simple analytics. It will show you some stats for around the last eight months or so, depending on the activity level of the account. It breaks tweets down into the time of day and day of the week so you can see the timing and volume of interaction. Also included on the page is a reply explorer so you can see high engagement users and view those conversations.

6. The Archivist
Look at Tweet volume, top users, tweet vs retweet, top words, top URLs, and platform. Each of these graphs can be expanded to show more detail. Below the graphs is a stream updated with mentions of the account. It’s a good way to get a quick snapshot of an account or topic and gage the relative health of the account.

7. MentionMap
See who and what a user mentions the most and follow the trail to see how topics and people are connected. You can map the activity of your account and the hashtags associated with campaigns or promotions.

8. TwentyFeet
Track a variety of details about your Twitter account and even competitors. TwentyFeet uses publicly available data and private data (after you authorize it) to find reputation indicators, influence indicators, conversations, following analysis, and more.

Pro Tip: You can also add Facebook, YouTube, Bit.ly, MySpace, and Google Analytics accounts to be tracked.

9. Export.ly
Export.ly serves up a polished report that you can export to Excel or Powerpoint. It’s free with a Tweet so long as the account you’re looking at is under 10,000 followers. Above that you’ll need a Simply Measured account to access the report. You can also get detailed reports for Facebook and Google Analytics.

Pro Tip: Exporting the report to Excel makes it easy to tailor the presentation with your own company colors and deliver a great looking report.

10. SMMS analytics
Many SMMS platforms (Social Media Management Systems) have analytics built into them. Check out platforms like Hootsuite, Shoutlet, Sprout Social, Argyle, and others. Not only do they allow you to interact and post directly from the platforms, but will track your progress and allow you to pull reports from their platforms.

No word yet on the amount of damage done, although apparently the flames were contained before they could spread to any other parts of the house. Everyone in the household is fine.

Zolciak tweeted about the scare earlier:

While most are happy that Kim and her family are okay, some are wondering what the big deal is.

Perhaps Kim’s reputation from the show has something to do with fans’ reaction to the news, as she is constantly involved in drama with the other cast members.

A new study from The Search Agency peels back the skin of the social media onion to find out what places people have designated as their online playgrounds and what places people try to church it up and keep it professional. Some of the results won’t come as any surprise to you, such as Reddit being the place where people go to get their jollies whereas LinkedIn tends to be the professional niche of the net. See, not so surprising, is it? However, that’s merely the first layer of the big old Vidalia internet; the good stuff is many layers deeper.

For instance, the ladyfolk of the internet, of whom there are tons, haven’t really taken so much to Google+. Search Agency found that there’s over twice as many guys +1′ing on the social network than there are women. More, Google+ is also where the students and software engineers tend to hang about.

As for referral traffic driven through social media sites, Pinterest is like a giant sperm whale gobbling up a mouthful of squid because it drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. Facebook, of course, is the king of referral traffic, but StumbleUpon, which has been quietly indexed as a place people like to go for some good times, is the second highest source of referral traffic after Facebook.

The data collected by Search Agency provides some good direction if you’re looking to market to a particular niche of people. Sure, Facebook and Twitter provide an easy outlet to fire a scattershot of content across a wide swath of people, but if you’re interested in fine-tuning your aim, you might want to focus on a site like Pinterest or Google+, depending on what you’re target audience is.

“By taking a closer look at the dominant audiences on popular platforms, we thought we could show a clearer vision of where businesses should focus their social media strategy on based on each site’s best-selling points,” said David Carrillo, social media manager at The Search Agency. “As marketers, we understand the importance of sewing our efforts in the most effective places.”

So have a look and see if you see yourself reflected in any of the social media profiles that Search Agency has compiled. Groups of people in the physical world always self-segregate into cliques, so why should the internet that all of these people from the physical world reflect anything different?

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