The week behind us: a lousy, quick look back
Posted in Deserving Twitter Apps, Twitter intro on July 26th, 2009 by 2above – View CommentsI just recently discovered when I write in a super bad or super pissed off, or super good mood, I write like Paul Carr, the newly hire at Techcrunch. While I have been away from my own blog for a while, here is the first lousy attempt for the weekly round up in the twitter app. Seriously, all I did was to dig into my previous notes (4 months old), shit load of techcrunch posts for the whole week, (seriously, the economy is bad but TC keeps hiring crazy kids, someone is getting paid!) and occasionally, I took a look at RWW, a more geeky tech blog in my opinion. I used to get my tipped off from entrepreneurs themselves and I still occasionally do but for now, let’s just be lazy.
So what are the big stories last week?: Zappo got its big pay day from Amazon; Rumors about Apple’s tablet PC (I think it will be AWESOME!, not the rumor, the iTab, oops that is just my guess of its name). Yahoo’s earning dropped 13%, Google’s earning increased by 3%, Microsoft: missed earning – for every dollar it made from online, it lost in its campaign. This is exactly like my CPC ad budget allocated among Google, Yahoo and MSN, in a slightly different proportion. Yahoo bought Xoopit (again, no idea what they do); Kevin Spacy explained twitter to David letterman, who in turn called twitter a waste of time. Twitter cracked down spam account and I lost more than 100 spam followers in one day, yeah! I was trying to lose them forever. Twitter unveiled a live-updating twitter search widget and twitter 101 for business. But what is the big deal about it? Twazzup does that live update ages ago!
In the twitter app world, following is a mix of new and old relevant apps.
1. twitterAround.com
2. Buddy Media’s “ultimate twitter client for brand management”, think cotweet for brand marketing.
3. Localbunny.com: problematic, but smart idea helping small business stay on top of market pulse through keyword identification and in time response.
4. tunein.com: find relevant information through people you care
5. tweetlinx, twitRollr, tweetMixx.com, retweet.com: all trying to do similar things as tweetmeme
6. Izea’s sponsoredtwts.com: ad network for twitter, similar players like twittAd.com, tweetROI, adcause.com, magpie.
That is the quick lousy update for the tech world. Thanks to the inner hard working me trying to get myself back on track on a foggy Sunday night like this one. Cheers!
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