Archive for October, 2009

Google Wave: Best Use Examples

If you follow the keyword Google on Twitter, you  will notice an ongoing buzz about Google Wave.  This is the social networking application in beta from Google.

There are people who are testing this now and several sites that say they have complimentary invites to distribute are using name capture squeeze pages to entice you. We see no compelling reason to be overly interested in this pre-launch.  However, we have been tracking ideas on how Wave might be used.

This article has some very good ideas for applying the features of Google Wave  submitted by people in a variety of   jobs.  If you have been wondering what the Google Wave buzz is about or just curious how others are thinking about using this application, click here for this article.

To Your Success,
Steve Pohlit, President
New Digital Media, Inc

“Building Social Media Networks That Build Revenue and Profits”

The Twitter List Buzz – First Reports Released

It is reported Twitter “randomly” selected about 1000 users to beta test the soon  to be released build your list feature.  The exact number of Twitter users seems to be elusive.  It is likely more than 10 million.  So don’t be discouraged if you were not a beta tester.

Several high profile people and companies who were “randomly” selected like Mashable and Tech Crunch have written reports on this latest development.  Here are links to those that I have found most useful to date:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/twitters-new-lists-feature-finally-introduces-grouping-offers-an-alternative-to-the-sul/

The following article has screen shots:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/breaking-twitter-begins-lists-rollout/

I recommend reading this last as it is more detailed and will make sense after you read the first two.

http://scobleizer.posterous.com/twitter-lists-limitations-bugs-impact-and-bri

Other

Check out the news feeds to the right. Interesting headlines.

To Your Success,
Steve Pohlit, President
New Digital Media, Inc

“Building Social Media Networks That Build Revenue and Profits”