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Rapidi aggiornamenti sul panorama microblogging, questo mese tutti dedicati a Twitter

  • Chavez rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez is tops on Twitter in Venezuela less than 2 weeks after launching his account, surpassing Internet-savvy foes who dominate the social networking site and use it to oppose him.

    Chavez’s account, “chavezcandanga,” had racked up more than 237,000 followers as of Saturday morning — besting the 234,000 who receive tweets from Globovision, the only TV channel that remains critical of the socialist leader.

  • Why Twitter Is the Future of News – An unprecedented analysis reveals that the micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading “important” information.

  • The Twitter Search Revolution: Popular & Promoted Tweets Mature The Service – Within the past month, Twitter Search has radically matured. It has gained “relevant” tweets in addition to search ads. The changes are as much a revolution as when web search engines increased their relevancy and integrated search ads a decade ago. Searchers, search marketers — take notice! Below, a guide to what’s happened and what may come.

    Relevancy Ranking Vs. “Recency” Ranking

  • Twitter to Launch Twitter Business Center – We have confirmed with Twitter that beta testing of its new business features, dubbed the “Twitter Business Center,” has begun.

    According to the company, “only a handful of accounts have these features presently,” but it will expand on a gradual basis to more accounts. One of the biggest additions is the ability for businesses to accept direct messages on the service, even from people they don’t follow.

  • Twitter Expects Hundreds of Advertisers This Year – Twitter plans to have hundreds of advertisers using its new ad system in the fourth quarter as the company ramps up plans to become a self-sustaining, profitable business.

  • Can Twitter Promote Itself into Profitability? – It was a tweet like many others from Starbucks, promising free refills to customers who brought in reusable tumblers on Earth Day.

    But the message came to users in a different way — it appeared at the top of Twitter search results pages, even for those who weren’t among the coffee giant’s followers. And there was a tiny tag in the corner of the update, outlined in yellow and reading “Promoted by Starbucks Coffee.”

  • Twitter, in arrivo strumento “Followers in comune” – E’ ora per Twitter di rinnovarsi, di cambiare, di rendere più dinamico il suo aspetto, a prima vista un po’ scarno. Dopo l’arrivo delle liste, dei bottoni di Re-twitt e di tools utii ad aumentare l’interattività tra gli utenti, sarebbe in arrivo un nuovo interessante cambiamento che potrebbe aiutare a incrementare il grado di socialità del SN.

    “Amici in comune” è, in effetti, qualcosa di già visto sulle pagine di Facebook: ogni volta che si entra nel profilo di un utente, vengono evidenziati gli amici condivisi. Uno strumento utile, che ha sempre caratterizzato il SN di Zuckerberg.

  • Come citare un tweet: lo strumento facile e veloce per il tuo blog – Twitter ha reso disponibile un semplicissimo strumento per citare graficamente un messaggio di un utente Twitter (un tweet, appunto), in due secondi e senza fatica. Basta inserire l’indirizzo del singolo messaggio e copiare il codice generato

Rassegna su microblogging e affini, questo giro con più attenzione sul fronte Location Based Social Media

Segnalazioni relative a Twitter:

  • 5 Big Twitter Trends to Follow Right Now – As Twitter celebrates its fourth birthday, we thought it appropriate to take another step back from the day-to-day happenings of the Twitterverse and analyze some of the bigger trends. There are many indicators that can clue us in to what’s in store for the social network.

  • 21 Tips for Using Twitter for Business – Last year, Forbes magazine assembled a visual list for its Top 21 Twitter Tips to showcase business examples on how to use Twitter for marketing, service, sales, and ideation. The original compilation served as inspiration for a new list, one that helps businesses of all shapes, sizes, and focus embrace not only Twitter, but all relevant social networks. While many examples and quotes remain the same, the list is modified based on my observations and personal experiences.

  • Twitter Italiano – Crescere nel Mondo – Salve, il mio nome è Matt Sanford e sono l’ingegnere capo del team internazionale per Twitter.‬ ‪Trascorro molto tempo a pensare agli utenti di Twitter che si trovano al di fuori degli Stati Uniti. I primi utenti di Twitter sono stati i nostri dipendenti e i loro amici, in gran parte residenti nella zona in cui sorge il nostro ufficio a San Francisco.‬ ‪Oggi siamo una rete di informazione globale, con un ecosistema di sviluppatori meraviglioso e con un sito web disponibile in sei lingue..

  • Kirghizistan, la premier è su Twitter “Posso farmi sentire solo via Internet” – Roza Otunbayeva racconta il caos e posta gli annunci ufficiali in Rete. I blogger: «Ora non dimenticateci»

  • Twitter Acquires Cloudhopper, Looks To Become Highest Volume SMS Program Worldwide – Twitter announced this morning its acquisition of Cloudhopper, a startup it hopes will help it “become one of the highest volume SMS programs in the world.”

  • 10 Dos and Don’ts for Brands on Twitter – When it comes to Twitter (Twitter) and brands, consumers who are also Twitter users have plenty to say on the subject. We’ve interviewed a few folks, analyzed a couple of streams, and come up with ten common, recurring requests and complaints from users who’ve engaged with brands on Twitter.


Relative a Foursquare e alla “febbre” di quest’ultimo periodo sui servizi social legati alla posizione geografica:

  • Location-Based Social Networks: Delightful, Dangerous or Somewhere in Between – Are location-based social networks privacy disasters waiting to happen? Or are the supposed “dangers” simply being overhyped by those without a thorough understanding of what these new networks can and cannot do? Today, these questions are the subject of a serious debate among early adopters – the group of people who are first to sign up for and try out the latest technology innovations, testing everything from iPads to mobile apps.

  • ShareThis Adds Real-Time Streaming to Share Tool – The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots of Internet users — thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream, which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friends and other ShareThis users all over the web.

  • Location Based Social Media – The Next Battleground? – You’ve no doubt heard it before that location is the next big thing. It’s about to get much bigger. With Facebook about to announce new location-based features at their developer conference late this month, location is about to take a giant leap forward.

  • The Future of Location Based Applications – Foursquare and Gowalla are great. I just can’t help but think that they simply are not going to make it. While Foursquare has been the darling of a lot of media and bloggers out there (also maybe in talks with Yahoo) it has one glaring issue…

  • Two-Thirds of iPhone Users Now Use Location-Based Services at Least Once a Week – While services like Gowalla and Foursquare still haven’t become household names outside of the early adopter market yet, the technology behind these apps is now solidly mainstream. According to a new survey by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), about two thirds of iPhone owners now user location services at least once a week. Taking all cell phone users into account, 22% of adults between 25 and 34 use location services at least once a week, mostly to locate nearby points of interests, shops and services.

  • If Location Apps are Games, How’s the Gameplay? – One of the motifs you keep coming across when reading about Foursquare and Gowalla, the mobile location apps, is that they are games, and the games are fun. The most important thing when it comes to gaming is the most subjective, whether the players are having fun. But it’s not the whole story. Were these apps structured to have gameplay, a through-line with obstacles and rewards? Are Foursquare and Gowalla, and apps like them, games by design? And if so, is the gameplay good?

  • On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever – Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people’s movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.

  • Gatsby + Foursquare: Find Friends or Enable Stalkers? – Such is the power of social media that a query on Facebook via Friendfeed, from an online friend I’ve never met despite college and social circle overlaps, led to discovering Gatsby, a location-based social recommendation service that works off the Foursquare mobile social platform. Gatsby looks at check-in data from Foursquare, then sends text messages to users phones suggesting that they might want to meet so and so because of common interests and being nearby. Despite there being some positive uses of Gatsby, this is the kind of mobile application that just raises a lot of red flags for some consumer.

  • Over-sharing and Location Awareness – The following is a guest blog post provided by Frank Groeneveld, Barry Borsboom and Boy van Amstel. They are the creators of PleaseRobMe.com, a website that uses Twitter’s search functionality to show location-based messages. Their goal is to raise awareness about the potential risks of location-awareness and over-sharing. The opinions here are theirs only and do not necessarily represent those of CDT.

  • Foursquare Graffiti Appears Across College Campuses – As many universities digitize the conventions of the college visit by geotagging points of interest or including history lessons as you navigate campus via smartphone, many officials are running into issues with those defacing the community space.

  • Snacksquare Connects Foursquare Merchants to Customers – Quick Pitch: Snacksquare is a location-based advertising provider that facilitates local businesses automatically delivering SMS text messages to potential customers that check in on their mobile phones near a venue. Genius Idea: You might consider it educated cheating or just intelligent pre-night out planning, but Snacksquare helps users find Foursquare deals faster than during actual gameplay

  • Foursquare Launches An Obvious, Brilliant Business Model – Right now Foursquare isn’t charging businesses for the dashboard because they want to see how people use it and improve on it, and we don’t think it would be smart to charge for it at all.

  • 5 Real-Time Location Trends to Watch – Combining location and real-time data is hot, according to Joe Stump, CTO and co-founder of SimpleGeo — so hot, in fact, that it was the topic of his talk at The Next Web ‘10 this week in Amsterdam. Intrigued by the possibilities highlighted by Stump during his speech, we grabbed the former lead architect of Digg (Digg) for a more in-depth look at the future of real-time location and where the big growth areas might be.


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Aggiornamenti su microblogging, lifestream, real-time web ed altro ancora..

Segnalazioni relative a Twitter:

  • Working in progress: Twitter e la blogosfera – E`ormai scontato che uno degli usi preferiti di Twitter è quello della promozione dei post di un blog. I backlink non sono quindi più l’unico modo per raccomandare un blog. Però nessuno conosce realmente il tasso di penetrazione di Twitter nella blogosfera. Cioè, quanti blogger hanno un account Twitter? Quale è la proporzione a secondo dei singoli paesi?

  • Twitter’s Red Carpet Era – Celebrities and Criminals – As part of an ongoing effort to make the Web a safer place for both business and casual users, Barracuda Labs decided to take a deeper look at one of the Web’s fastest growing social networks, Twitter. We reviewed growth drivers, usage trends and the overall crime rate, analyzing both legitimate and malicious users for 2009. Today, we published our findings as part of our Barracuda Labs Annual Report.  This report revisits an analysis completed by the team in June 2009, following the launch of TweetGrade (www.tweetgrade.com), and coincides with recent accounts of Twitter’s explosive growth – reportedly reaching 50 million tweets per day.

  • Hitwise boccia Twitter come fonte di News e promuove Facebook – Spiacenti, Twitter non è fonte di News. A dirlo non è un Blogger, tantomeno un giornalista, è Hitwise che “declassa” Twitter a servizio di MicroBlogging promuovendo invece Facebook e Google.

  • E se Microsoft comprasse Twitter? – Cosa ne pensate di una possibile acquisizione da parte del colosso di Redmond di Twitter, il noto social networks secondo solo a Facebook. E’ quanto si è domandato Steve Ballmer parlando al Search Marketing West Expo in California, affermando che il sito di micro-blogging potrebbe essere in futuro acquisito dall’azienda.

  • My wish list for @anywhere. – Help make @anywhere work for @anyone, no matter what their favorite network is.

  • Forze armate Usa autorizzano uso Twitter e altri social media – Il Pentagono ha annunciato ieri sera di aver autorizzato l’uso di Twitter, Facebook e altri cosiddetti siti “Web 2.0″ fra le forze armate Usa, dicendo che i benefici dei social media sono maggiori delle preoccupazioni per la sicurezza.


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  • Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue – How is this working out for the company? Well, according to the neat infographic which it’s sent us (see below), its traffic and user base is growing fast, and it has recently hit some major milestones.

  • ShareThis Adds Real-Time Streaming to Share Tool – The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots of Internet users — thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream, which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friends and other ShareThis users all over the web.

  • Microblogging tra marketing ed enterprise 2.0 – Un recente studio di Kate Ehrlich del Centro Ricerche IBM sul Software Sociale ha indagato su come i dipendenti IBM utilizzano due strumenti di microblogging, Twitter e BlueTwit. Il primo lo conosciamo tutti, mentre il secondo è in pratica un clone del primo con due differenze: è accessibile solo all’interno della rete IBM e ha un limite di 250 caratteri anziché 140.

  • Foursquare Introduces New Tools for BusinessesFoursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments.

  • Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Talks Revenue, API, Brands, and “Beyond the Badge” – I just sat in on a fascinating panel here at SXSW in which Dennis Crowley gave us quite a glimpse of how he views his surging company, Foursquare, and where he would like to lead it.

  • OpenMicroblogging è diventato OStatus – StatusNet (un progetto che mi sta particolarmente a cuore) non si è certo dimenticato della propria anima open source, a prescindere dalla scalata al settore enterprise: quando la società – che ancora si chiamava Laconica – lanciò identi.ca cominciò a lavorare a una specifica per il microblogging che superasse i limiti di Twitter — il progetto si chiamava OpenMicroblogging.

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Le novità sull’universo microblogging.

Segnalazioni relative a Twitter:


In primo piano:

  • Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass – Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months..

  • Is Social Location a Feature or a Business? – Will social location be won by a point solution that does one thing and one thing well, or it will be won by a company providing a more full featured suite of social features?

  • Onioning: Yahoo! Answers in salsa microblogging – Forse l’idea non è completamente originale, ma a esserlo è sicuramente la forma in cui è stata realizzata: Onioning è fondamentalmente un servizio di microblogging… che però si basa sullo stesso concetto di Yahoo! Answers.

  • HootSuite è la killer-application per il microblogging? – Su queste pagine ho parlato spesso di HootSuite, il client da interfaccia web per Twitter (e non solo, perché ormai integra pressoché tutti i principali social network e le piattaforme di microblogging) che si contende con CoTweet il primato nel settore professionale per la gestione degli aggiornamenti di stato — ma pure di link tracking ecc., grazie ai servizi a esso correlati.


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  • Arrestato per uno scherzo su Twitter – Brutta avventura per un 26enne britannico, che dopo aver prenotato un volo per l’Irlanda dallo scalo di Doncaster aveva sentito che l’aeroporto era chiuso per neve. Il giovane, forse per sfogare la sua frustrazione, aveva allora scritto un messaggio scherzoso ai suoi amici su Twitter, il social network di microblogging, annunciando l’intenzione di far saltare in aria l’aeroscalo se non avesse riaperto entro una settimana.

  • Il Messico dichiara guerra ai Twitteros – Il governo di Calderon contro i trafficanti di droga che scambiano informazioni su Twitter

  • Chavez scopre un nuovo nemico: Twitter – La protesta contro il presidente venezuelano si diffonde in Rete, tra microblogging e social network. La risposta: “Siete terroristi e vi fermeremo”.

  • Le 10 cose che devi smettere di twittare.

Gli ultimi aggiornamenti del 2009 e le novità 2010 sull’universo del microblogging.

Segnalazioni relative a Twitter:

  • Twitter impara da CoTweet e HootSuite e prepara i Contributors StatusNet intende diventare il WordPress del microblogging – Ciò cui si sta lavorando all’headquarter di Twitter è proprio la possibilità di dare una precisa indicazione su chi abbia effettuato il twit: la funzione non è ancora disponibile al pubblico (neppure ai partner professionali), ma introduce una possibilità molto intrigante.

  • Twitter, in attivo grazie a Google e Bing – Twitter ce l’ha fatta, ha dimostrato di poter generare profitto. Il celebre sito di microblogging, infatti, seppur molto apprezzato, non era ancora riuscito a proporre un modello di business credibile. Da molto tempo i conti di Twitter erano in rosso e la direzione del sito era in costante ricerca di uno stratagemma per aumentare gli introiti. Stratagemma che è stato trovato e messo in atto nelle scorse settimane.

  • Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable – Data-mining deals signed in October will bring in $25 million in exchange for rendering Twitter’s tweets searchable on Google and Microsoft Bing.

  • Twitter assume specialisti per fare soldi con i “tweet” – Twitter, il popolare servizio di microblogging, sta assumendo ingegneri e specialisti nel tentativo di fare soldi con i brevi messaggi di testo noti come “tweet”.

  • Twitter announces Mixer Labs acquisition – Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams announced this past week that the microblogging company has recently acquired Mixer Labs, creator of the GeoAPI after launching its geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients last month.


In primo piano:

  • What, Who, Where (e When): qual è il futuro dei servizi online? – What, Who, Where. Tre “filtri” che ci consentono di avere informazioni più pertinenti e mirate ma soprattutto una semplificazione che ci dà la possibilità di provare ad analizzare l’evoluzione dei servizi e fare qualche ipotesi sulle future innovazioni.

  • 7 Ways Posterous Improves Your Social Media Presence – Posterous is known as the most “social” networking place of social media. It’s also the ideal solution for sharing content that’s too long for a tweet and too short for a blog post. There are many different reasons and motivations to create a free Posterous account. Let’s have a look at the 7 most common reasons for businesses to use Posterous.

  • Microsoft China rips off Asia’s No. 1 Microblogging Service – Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but blatant theft of code, design, and UI elements is just not cool, especially when the infringing party is the biggest software company in the world. Yes, we’re talking about Microsoft. Blerg.

  • Cina, Microsoft si tinge di giallo – Redmond accusata di plagio in Asia: il neonato Juku copierebbe design e buona parte del codice della startup Plurk. Big M sta investigando

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Come era nell’aria da un po’ di tempo, Twitter è da qualche ora disponibile in lingua italiana.

PrintCome consuetudine ne danno annuncio sul blog attraverso un post nella nuova lingua disponibile:

Ora che le conversazioni su Twitter si arricchiscono di punti di vista sempre più diversificati a livello globale, il network di informazioni continuerà a crescere in ogni angolo e fessura del pianeta. Più eventi saranno condivisi, più conoscenza e consapevolezza si diffonderà e i milioni di persone che alimentano Twitter influenzeranno altri milioni di persone con i loro tweet.

Dopo la versione nativa in lingua inglese e la pre-esistente versione in giapponese, l’italiano segue la traduzione in spagnolo e in francese, anticipando quella in tedesco. Un primo segno della distribuzione di utenti attivi Twitter in Europa? Può darsi, nonostante le differenze di popolazione tra i vari paesi Spagna-Francia-Germania-Italia e la diffusione dello spagnolo e del francese anche al di fuori del nostro continente.

Come fatto per Spagna e Francia, anche per l’italiano è stato creato un account di riferimento: Twitter_it.

La notizia che divide la comunità di Twitter tra entusiasti e scettici, non esalterà di certo gli heavy users che per lo più non trovano ragione di cambiare lingua in un servizio così semplice.

Eppure la disponibilità del principale servizio di microblogging nella nostra lingua avrà più di un effetto immediato:

  • i media tradizionali non potranno più presentare Twitter come l’ultima meraviglia della Rete
  • molti utenti avranno meno difficoltà ad avvicinarsi ad un servizio che capiscono, non subito concettualmente ma a livello di utilizzo, dal primo momento
  • gli utenti twitter non verranno più visti come smanettoni che utilizzano il servizio all’avanguardia, ma come semplici utenti di un altro servizio.

Di certo non sarà il tipping point, ma una prima scossa nel nostro paese la versione italiana di Twitter la può dare!

Aggiornamenti sulle ultime novità relative a microblogging, lifestream e real-time.

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In primo piano:

  • 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web – What are the emerging trends for companies and entrepreneurs to watch for? Here are four real-time web trends that I’m tracking.

  • It’s Time To Hide The Noise – Considerazioni su come affrontare il rumore che i servizi attuali producono

  • New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher – Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more. All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way.

  • 5 Reasons Why the LinkedIn-Twitter Integration is Big News – What does this all mean and why is the LinkedIn-Twitter integration big news?

  • Analyzing Twitter Lists-Follower Ratio As An Indicator of Influence – I decided to assess whether this new metric correlates in any way to existing influence measurement tools. The objective was to assess whether the metric has any correlation with influence ranking algorithms that do not use Lists information.

  • Tumblarity and Quantified Stand-ins for Social Status – Tumblarity is a metric that measures one’s popularity, or degree of Tumblr-ness, depending on who you ask.

  • Trends with Traction: Is Twitter the new cigarette? – Today’s Trend with Traction is the convergence of social media and… love. Not just any love, mind you, but the very act of making love. Yes, this is actually happening. Apparently.

  • Beyond Twitterfeed: Innovative uses of Twitter in the newsroom – As many newsrooms have discovered, Twitter is a great way to break news as it happens and to share stories with a large audience as they are made available. However, many news organizations fall into the trap of simply posting links to stories with no context and no interaction with their followers, thereby turning Twitter into a glorified RSS feed. That is the old media way of disseminating the news, one that won’t survive. What follows are examples of newsrooms embracing Twitter as a new media, Web 2.0 way of spreading and sharing the news and listening in return.

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Dalla conferenza LeWeb il filmato dell’intervento di questa mattina di Ryan Sarver, director of Platform di Twitter.

Spazio a Twitter

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Non dedicato a Twitter:

  • Twelve Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Posterous – Posterous is a company that truly enables “the rest of us” to blog.

  • Understanding the Value of Lifestreaming – Over the last couple of years I have seen my fair share of critics that post negative commentary about Lifestreaming. I feel that this is due to a narrow-minded view of what it is. This in part is due to the misconception that Lifestreaming is only about personal narcissm and vanity. Sure, that’s a part of it, but it goes far beyond that.

  • 9 Open Source Microblogging Applications – While there are very popular microblogging services like Twitter, Tumblr or Plurk, being a rival may not be (or may be) the best idea. However, in order to create something unique, a community for a closed group or a microblog for a single user, there are still huge opportunities.

  • “Friendfeed is not dead. It’s transforming” says Friendfeed Co-Founder – Friendfeed, the nimble social lifestream, was acquired two months ago by social networking giant Facebook and much to the disappointment of Friendfeed’s loyal members, there was no word from the Friendfeed as to its future.

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Si riparte dopo la lunga pausa estiva. Provo a riassumere alcune novità dell’ultimo mese e aggiungo qualche segnalazione che mi sembra interessante. Buona lettura.

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