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MySpace's Twitter Sync Pays Off Fast

'News Corp social network MySpace allowed its users to sync up their status updates with Twitter only a week ago, but the move is already paying off.

The evidence? Just seven days into the integration, MySpace's link shortener lnk.ms is the second most popular on Twitter, according to Twitter link aggregator TweetMeme. (Via TechCrunch.)

To be sure, just because MySpace users are filling Twitter with new links, that doesn't necessarily mean people are clicking on those links -- or providing MySpace any material traffic growth. And just because MySpace broadcasts to Twitter now, it doesn't necessarily mean that MySpace users are logging into the site more frequently than they did before.

But it's probably contributing some growth in both metrics -- certainly a step in the right direction. (And something Facebook should implement as soon as possible.)' Read more at Silicon Valley Insider >

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MySpace's Twitter Sync Pays Off Fast

via businessinsider.com

A week into the integration, MySpace's link shortener lnk.ms is the second most popular on Twitter, according to Twitter link aggregator TweetMeme.

This means that MySpace users are filling Twitter with new links. What it doesn't necessarily mean is that people clicks on those links so MySpace get higher traffic volumes. It will be interesting to see what metrics will come out of this two-way sync when Nielsen or Comscore presents a follow up!

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Cómo se ve tinyurl cuando no funciona

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Verwendungszwecke von TinyURL

Uses of TinyURL

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Are You a Visual Thinker?

How do we learn? How do we best communicate or share our ideas?
 
As a visual thinker, I tend to pull out a paper and pencil in most conversations and start to draw a graphic representation of what is being discussed. Some people look at me like I'm crazy and others look at me and say, "Thanks, now I get what we are talking about."
 
When I saw mashable's post this morning ( 6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations - http://bit.ly/prlZo ) it made me remember a long-standing observation of mine, that (generally speaking) people can be broken into two categories, visual and non-visual thinkers.

Working in advertising it has been a joy to present creative to the visual thinkers in the room. Presenting a campaign to non-visual thinkers tends to be a different meeting. The dialogue starts and evolves differently, often arriving at the same conclusion as visually based discussions.
 
Then I saw a visual Steven Rubel shared yesterday via http://tinyurl.com/dzlrgs. or via steve at http://tinyurl.com/moo5le

And just this morning I found this image via http://www.socialmediamagic.com/

Also, I would be remiss if I didn't include a friend of mine who just finished his book The Gort Cloud. The Gort Cloud is a vast, largely invisible and growing 'community' that sieves, measures and exchanges information on green products and services. A great visual video here. http://www.thegortcloud.com/qa.html
 
I love the Twitter visuals (as noted above) and wanted to give a plug to common craft. I don't know them and am not getting any kick backs, but they sure have a fun style of simple teaching that is accessible and yes it is a VISUAL approach to a lot of subjects. visit http://www.commoncraft.com/videos

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Are URL Shorteners A Necessary Evil, Or Just Evil?

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I always knew this is going to happen at some point, your URL shortening (eg @trimurls) service is down and so are all your links

This raises the question how much you trust those URL shortening services and their reliability, what if Tinyurl, Tr.im, Budurl or whoever suddenly decides to have all their generated URL's (billions) link to one single page (theirs) with some ads on it or their business offering? How much do you want to rely on a service and that might be gone weeks, months or years from now? None of your links are going to work anymore and there is no way to change it back in all your old social networking posts, it will be even hard for you to find some of the 'real' links again ...

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icanhaz.com

These bloody cats are everywhere these days, and, after spotting that icanhaz.com was available we thought we'd add our contribution to the current internet fad, lolcats. So, just for fun we built a tinyurl but with nice urls, e.g.:

• http://icanhaz.com/builtbydave for my site
• http://icanhaz.com/jzawodn for Jeremy Zawodny's blog
• http://icanhaz.com/feather for Derek Featherstone's box of chocolates
• http://icanhaz.com/ciderthing for Brighton's geek cider tasting event
• http://icanhaz.com/spiderpig for the Simpsons trailor

... you get the picture. We've got a few ideas for further development, but it is a side-just for fun-project, so as and when. Enjoy your new lolcat urls, or lolurlz, kthx.

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