Twittad is the latest venture which is looking to monetize Twitter accounts.
The premise of Twittad is similar to AdComo. You first need to set the price and duraton of an ad in your account (most seem to be selling on a per week per month basis). Once set up your ad listing shows the price to advertise on your account and the number of followers you have. It also shows how many people you are following. Since users set the price themselves I expect a market average price will appear once…
Peter Alguacil from Pingdom contacted me on Friday about a comparison he did with Digg and other social media sites. In the comparison he included Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, Fark, Dzone and Sphinn.
Peter used Google Trends for the comparison and as you can see from the graphs below, it illustrates the growth and decline of some of the most popular social sites in the last year.
Not surprisingly, Digg remains at the top of the pile however over the last year the number of daily visitors hasn’t moved. Compare this…
Yahoo Buzz, the new social media site from Yahoo, is now online and looks very Digg like to say the least. It will be interesting to see how popular this new social site becomes. There are hundreds of digg clones on the net today (many using Pligg) but with the money and the traffic Yahoo has I’m sure it will become a popular site for bloggers in no time.
Might be worth trying Yahoo Buzz out the next few weeks so add a few buttons to your posts and see what traffic…
I wrote a post about Twitter Following Habits on Xfep yesterday and spoke about Michael Arrington’s recent post about Twitter needing a fake follow button so that you didn’t offend people who followed you by not following them in return. Twitter and FriendFeed have hinted that in the next few weeks a group function may be integrated into their systems which I think would be a great feature and would help prioritize who you want updates from.
In the comments section of my post, Bill Deys and Rebecca Atkinson (Muller) both recommended a Twitter client called TweetDeck. I…
Delicious today launched a complete redesign of their website. They have improved on a number of things however the first thing many of you will notice is that del.icio.us now forwards to the domain delicious.com.
According to their blog, they have upgraded the following :
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five…
