Bookmarks for 11 Oct 2009
- Tweeting a link or a picture? Don't forget to blog it as well… – currybetdotnet – 9 October, 2009
Great post from Martin on recent experiences with authority and social media: "Over the last few weeks I've had three tweets receive a lot of retweeting action. I thought it worth sharing what I'd learned from it about the relative values of tweeting a link, and blogging about something." (twitter blogging social_media journalism ) - Amazon Launches Preemptive Global Strike with Kindle
Analysis from Gartner researcher Allen Weiner on what Amazon are up to with the latest Kindle announcements (price drop and global availability). (kindle amazon business_strategy ) - Link Farming for Fun and Profit: Lt. Draper – KaminskiWiki
"I bumped into a small link farm patch on Twitter today. It was more interesting than the typical "Trending Topics" spam we see so much, so I tweeted:What a sophisticated Twitter link farm looks like: http://bit.ly/info/cVh4t – numeric fake people, lots of RTs, affiliate ID in long link. – Oct 7th
A friend asked, "say more! this is very interesting…"
So here goes. [...]" (spam twitter links bitly marketing seo )
- Codendi : open-source collaborative solution for software project management
"Codendi is the collaborative development platform offered by Xerox. From only one interface, it gathers, all the needed tools for software development teams: management and versioning of code, bugs, requirements, documents, reporting, tests…" (collaboration opensource software tools project_tracking ) - I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Apple and the Future of Publishing – Part One – Cringely on technology
Robert X. Cringely on what Apple have to do if they want to make money out of publishing text (first installment): "Part of the difficulty here is that while we’ve effectively removed most of the production and distribution expenses from publishing, we’ve added some expensive layers, especially portals like Yahoo. Also the old-line publishers like Time-Warner that are used to OWNING their content haven’t shown themselves to be as good as Lonelygirl15 at MARKETING it. And unlike Lonelygirl, T-W is saddled with very high overhead if very little teen angst." (apple publishing technology business_strategy )