Datasift and Twitter have entered into a deal for your tweets. Datasift bargained for the whole fire hose of data. If you tweet and it’s public, they’re recording it. Big data? That’s what @nik calls what they store at Datasift. So what can Datasift do with all this data? Just about anything. Mentioned in the…
Category Archives: Social Media
Don’t be a sharing fool
Violet Blue runs a great blog, TinyNibbles.com. Part of that includes sharing cool things including photos, stories, and of course stickers. Very special, NSFW stickers! Being so generous, if you contact her and ask for cool stickers, she sends them out personally. Even taking the time to seal the envelope with a Violet Blue sticker,…
Is that really your avatar
You join a social network. You update your profile. Finally, you’re asked to upload a picture. Most people stop at this point and ask themselves if they have a photo. If you’re new to social networks and perhaps cameras, you won’t have a good one handy. But look, you’ve got a camera in your cell…
Great Social Networking Cleanup of 2011
Why wait for Spring? The New Year is the perfect time to clean up and clean out your social networks! Clean up – it means different things based on context. Social network clean up is about removing dead weight, be it contacts or entire network profiles, subscriptions or even what you publish. Accumulating new contacts,…