Twitter: I Twink I Twove You
Today Chris Winfield published a great article on SearchEngineLand about Twitter. I was amazed to see that he was able to actually use Twitter to write an article about Twitter.
“Basically the best way to show the true power of something is to let it demonstrate it for you. That’s what I wanted to do with Twitter.” - Chris Winfield
I am always open to trying out new social communities and tools. Even though I tend to spend more time using the ones that help me business wise, I will give them all a try at least once.
Facebook was cool, but I never logged, in unless I got an email saying someone wanted to add me as a friend. MySpace was something that looked interesting, but got boring about the time I finished putting in a cool css layout.
As for real time social communities and tools, I had already jumped on Pownce, because I knew social media users had accounts. Pownce seemed more likely to have a return on my time spent using it. Twitter, on the other hand, showed no potential value to me.
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SMX Social Media - Long Beach 2008 Recap
Last Monday I flew into Long Beach Airport to attend SMX Social Media 2008 in Long Beach.
All in all, the event was very good. It was a small group but it really gave the attendees a chance to corner us and ask all their questions.
I spoke a little on Tuesday about the various categories for social media linkbaits and the process of actually creating a linkbait.
I won’t go through the entire break down of the session, basically because if you want to know, then you should come see us speak, but I will link you to one of the session recaps here - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites.
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New Reddit UI and Features Leaked
Are you ready for the new Reddit?
A source of mine, close to the Reddit project, sent me some of the new screen shots as well as some explanation for the new features that will be rolling out over the next week or so.
Gmail Removes IMAP Services?
It is pretty early in the ordeal but about 10 minutes ago I began to get errors from my Outlook, which uses Google’s Gmail with the IMAP service.
It is now telling me “IMAP is not available for your account. (Failure)” and will no longer connect to Gmail.
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About Brent Csutoras
Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral and Search Engine Marketing.
Brent is a regular speaker at top search marketing conferences such as SMX and Pubcon. He has also made numerous guest appearances discussing the arts of Social Media and Search Engine Marking on highly popular internet marketing radio shows such as Good Karma, Rush Hour, and Webmaster on the Roof.
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