A secret formula for getting retweeted?

An article in Fast Company, today explores the DNA of tweets that get retweeted based on the findings of Hubspot viral marketing scientist Dan Zarrella. The moral of the story is that the more the tweet focuses on you and your life, the less likely it is to be retweeted.
That doesn’t come as a huge [...]

New Facebook Fan Box Widget – brand engagement o-rama

Facebook just rolled out a Fan Box Widget. This is basically, as Facebook puts it, “to gain more fans and share your Facebook updates.”
All it takes is embedding the code on your site, so big companies or musicians or …. dog groomers could easily take advantage of this.
To me, this is Facebook’s response to the [...]

Michael Jackson Memorial – CNN coverage streamed with Facebook Statuses

A la the inauguration, CNN has partnered with Facebook to stream coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial alongside commentary from Facebook. It’s going on right now, join the conversation here: http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=100639101957&h=S-ADC&u=fwrDx&ref=nf

Web Site Story – CollegeHumor video pokes fun at trendiest Web sites

Story of our lives, huh?

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The iPhone 3GS – Announced at WWDC 2009

At WWDC, Apple just announced the newest iPhone — the iPhone 3GS. “S” stands for Speed. iPhone 3GS will have video, better camera quality. Built-in video editing. Voice control, compass, Copy and Paste!
There will be no change to the hardware. The 16GB will run $199 with the 32GB at $299. iPhone 3G will be $99, so [...]

Face-to-Facebook Confession: The Pope’s on it

 
Holy heck! The Pope is rocking the social media world. His holiness has a site, pope2you.net, is on YouTube, Facebook and the iPhone. One can only guess that Twittering is not so far away. Maybe doing a 140 character Mass? Condensing the “Our Father” into 140 characters. I would love to see it done.
Here’s the [...]

CEOs who Twitter

 
 
 
Businessweek recently put out an article about the top 50 twittering CEOs.
Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, Zappos.com’s Tony Hsieh, and dozens more CEOs harness the simple powers of Twitter. Guy Kawasaki of Alltop uses the microblogging service as a way to broadcast; Phil Libin of Evernote has been converted to Twitter after being a skeptic; and [...]

Tracking the Swine Flu

The latest thing to make Americans squeal is news of the Swine Flu. This started to surface over the weekend when it was reported that the Swine Flu had taken 68 lives in Mexico, and, of course, many compartments of the Internet are reflecting the spreading concern. Here are some bits and bites of the [...]

Tweeting Cat Door

 
“Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The [...]

Biz Stone Plays It Cool On Colbert

Biz Stone Takes a Break from Tweeting to appear on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert — http://twitter.com/stephenathome — interviewed Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone last night (April 2, 2009).
A good pull-out:
Stone describes Twitter as “The messaging system that we didn’t know we needed until we had it.” To which Colbert responds: “That sounds like the answer to [...]