“Small is the new big“. That was the title of Seth Godin’s post on June 5th 2005. The latest post of Sarah Perez issued on August 4th could have been “Lifestreaming is the new big”. Instead it has been “The Future of blogging revealed“. Which actually may be the right way to do. Lifestreaming has become sort of hype since Twitter generalized it (”say anything but in 140 caracters”). Facebook also generated a lifestreaming tool, the famous activity stream. And those two have moved the Internet. But why and how blogs might be killed by lifestreaming social tools? Why lifestreaming may become the new big thing? A new wave has come and if you want to surf it, you should prepare to ride it now. Read More
TipiT.to is maybe the next big idea for transferring funds over Twitter. I speak about next big idea because TipiT.to doesn’t actually send any funds, but send a notification email reminding you to pay over PayPal. A really interesting move for a company that has started business on tipping websites for their work (like you like what I’m writing and sharing and instead of buying me a beer you pay me the beer price over Paypal - read this article from Chris Garrett for more info about donation and buy-me-a-beer plugin). But the real challenge would be to be able to make people confident in such a tool like Twitter for payments. It’s so easy to type a wrong name… Read More
Jeff Bezos is one of my Top 5 more impressive and smart web innovators (with duo Page & Brin, Vint Cerf, all from Google, and Wales from Wikimedia). Creating and turning Amazon into what it is nowadays is simply unexpected and fabulous since it’s one of the main pillars of the modern Internet with Wikipedia and Google. And when he’s spending some money into Twitter, we can expect him to transform this potentially next generation standard into standard. Can’t wait to forget about this freaking whale … (was a bit scary, wasn’t it?). From Twitter Blog via Read/ Write Web Read More
Twitter is like the hype itself since its launch. Everybody’s using it and this webservice smells like there’s some great opportunity integrating it into communications planning and marketing strategies. But how can 140-words text improve brand reputation? What is the return on investment of such an application for brands and above all how can it become a competitive advantage using it? Not so easy to answer but after some use you’ll discover Twitter is more useful and engaging that you may think, but only if associated with a blog and social media activity (see this post regarding social media activity). Read More
