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Asterisq just released Mentionmap, an exciting web app for exploring your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most and what they’re talking about. It’s also a great way to find relevant people to follow.
The visualization runs right in your browser and displays data from the Twitter API.
2009 was arguably the year to characterize social media as the shiny new toy. Excitement and curiosity drove critical mass adoption in many of the public social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Other sites with less notoriety such as Jigsaw and Slideshare aimed to further develop, package and market their value proposition. Niche players, Yammer and Xobni (“Inbox” spelled backwards), emerged with “Twitter-like” micro-blogging within an organization and visual insights from our email transactions.
Ever wonder who’s on various social networks and how the Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube communities are evolving? Wonder what happened to Plaxo or MySpace? Will Facebook and Twitter likewise fade in the distance as another part of the evolving social networking story? How will you embrace this medium to engage and influence others – often without authority?
By David Nour, Founder – Relationship Economics
@davidnour
In advance of my upcoming Social Networking Technology Best Practices Book & DVD on Twitter for Business (with co-authors Michelle Cullison and Nhat Pham) my team and I have researched well over 1200 Twitter tools. Many are candidly silly and useless – you could say the same for 50% of Twitter users! Many were unique ideas, which became interesting products – but unfortunately, as we’ve seen too often, interesting products will not make a profitable and thus sustainable company. In fact, many are developed by individuals and only a few weeks after their launch, are found to be broken or no longer available.
Even this one is a little much for me…
Twitter site offers followers line to God
Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:13am EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Want to tweet God?
An Israeli university student has opened a Twitter site, twitter.com/thekotel, where prayers can be sent for placement in the crevices of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, a Jewish holy site that faithful believe provides a direct line to the Almighty.
“I take their prayers, print them out and drive to Jerusalem to put them in the Western Wall,” said Alon Nir, a resident of Tel Aviv.
He said he hoped his initiative on the popular Internet social networking service, where users post brief messages known as tweets, would be “beneficial to people all over the world.”
Nir promises to deliver the prayers — each no longer than a tweet’s maximum 140 characters — on a regular basis.
Prayers, which are sent via a direct message link on Nir’s Twitter site, cannot be viewed by the public.
At the Western Wall, where he placed some 1,000 rolled-up papers, Nir told Reuters: “People trusted me with their innermost feelings and secret thoughts … and it’s my duty to provide them with what I promised.”
Several services deliver prayers sent by email, text message or fax to the wall. Israeli postal authorities say prayers also arrive from overseas by regular mail, some in envelopes addressed “Dear God.”
(Reporting by Lianne Gross, Writing by Jeffrey Heller, Editing by Janet Lawrence)
What do you think?
