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Archive for March, 2009

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat.

Tough economic times call for innovative approaches. An estimated 51 million people internationally are expected to lose their jobs in 2009, and with the unemployment rate on the rise, how does one find career opportunities fast? One great option is Twitter.

Twitter is evolving as another resource, in addition to traditional methods, for both job searching and recruiting. Read the rest of this entry »

Wikirank does for Wikipedia what sites like Compete do for websites. It’s a nifty analytics tool that tracks trending topics on the world’s largest online encyclopedia, displays the 10 most read articles in the last 30 days, and gives users the ability to compare stats for up to four different topics.

Wikirank uses the actual usage data from Wikipedia servers to give visitors a better global or custom view of what’s happening across the information hub. Cooler features include the ability to graphically compare impressions on four different articles, embed graphs, view Wikipedia entries, and quickly search for related content on Google News, Twitter, or The New York Times.

We really like Wikirank’s trending topics on the home page. Topics are ranked by percent change and certainly provide a great graphical view of major fluctuations in page views. Plus, the most read topics in the past 30 days give us an awesome glimpse at what’s hot over a longer duration.

We love the tool and can’t wait to use it to start comparing pop culture and Web trends, especially since Wikipedia has 10 million plus articles and is most likely one of the first places mainstream audiences go for information on the Web. What do you think of Wikirank? Tell us in the comments.

See Also: 100+ More Wiki Tools and Resources

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Reviews: Twitter, Wikipedia

Now this makes sense. MySpace is getting into reality TV with a new Web-based series called “Married on MySpace” that will chronicle one couple’s journey to their wedding day, with MySpace members driving much of the decision-making in planning the event. Read the rest of this entry »

A rare leaf monkey named “Elke” was born in the Taronga zoo some days ago and is becoming quite a hit on the internet as one of the cutest monkeys ever seen!

Jennifer Aniston reportedly dumped boyfriend John Mayer because of his obsession with social networking website Twitter.

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Looks like Google is at it again!  Google is working on Google Street View in the UK and it’s getting quite the reaction.

Google Street View is Google Maps but up close, street level!

Many are seeing Google Street View as an invasion on privacy but Google defends itself and as gone as far as making videos to assure people that they can be removed from any Google Street View product through a process. Read the rest of this entry »

A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing “member community destinations” in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, …

As many may know by now, Twitter is experiencing the largest percentage growth out of any social networking medium right now along with a boatload of Twitter applications surging onto the internet.  Twitter is being used for many reasons being marketing, business or just local gatherings of like minded people.  Being a broadcast medium, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explains how Twitter is being implemented right now as well as it’s original intent.

One of the few Google products that isn’t a perpetual beta, Google Chrome, has just gotten a beta branch, which lets users get a taste of things to come.

So, what does a Google Chrome beta bring? Speed, and lots of it. According to Google, it’s 25 percent faster than the stable build of Chrome, which is nothing short of amazing given that Chrome is already blazing fast.

Other new features are form autofill, full page zooming and autoscroll, as well as a way to get a side-by-side view by dragging out tabs to the side of the browser window, which you can see in the amazingly short video below.

You can get the Google Chrome beta here.

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Reviews: Chrome, Google, Google Chrome

Here at Nets Big Thing, we’ve compiled a list of the top Twitter user tools websites on the internet that will help you make better use of the massive social growth of Twitter!  These twitter tools will no doubt make your twitting life a whole lot easier!

1. Ever wonder who YOU are following you on twitter but don’t follow you back? Or do you ever wonder who is following YOU that you are not following back?  FriendorFollow will help you sort things out and save you tons of time.

2. Do you hate clicking on Twitter links and want a threaded Twitter timeline? Tweetree allows you to see your account in threaded mode which means you’ll be able to follow who replied to what you wrote and on top of that it will parse Youtube videos, Twitpic, flickr and other popular website media without you having to click on an external link.

twitter search – twitter search is a simple yet powerful tool for finding out who is tweeting about your interests.  Just type in a word or phrase you want to see and twitter search will show you a list of people who have tweeted.

Twittervision – twittervision is a website that simply displays a visual map of people who are tweeting.  Visual representation of things tend to give the viewer a better grasp of how things are and twittervision attempts to accomplish this.

Want to know the size of your twitter e-penis? you can check this site here