With Facebook testing fb.me and Google introducing goo.gl it looks like the big guns are getting in on the shortening game. URL shorteners have been around since the late 90s but with Twitter’s restriction on 140 characters their use has exploded in the last few years. Here are a few of the current “big” names [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
18 Dec
URL Shorteners
Posted by socialmediachunks in Facebook, Google, news, Online Applications, Twitter. Tagged: Bit.ly, Facebook, fb.me, goo.gl, Google, tinyurl, Twitter, URL shortener. Leave a Comment
1 Dec
Geek Chic
Posted by socialmediachunks in Facebook, Funny, Social Media, Twitter. Tagged: Facebook, geek, myspace, Social Media, Twitter. 1 Comment
What’s the ultimate Geek Christmas present? Welcome to the Social Media cushion! Buy them and more here
30 Nov
Twitter top word of 2009
Posted by socialmediachunks in linguistics, Social Media, Twitter. Tagged: Global Language Monitor, linguistics, Twitter. Leave a Comment
The Guardian blogs today about the Global Language Monitors Top words of 2009. Twitter makes it into number one illustrating the media’s love of Twitter. Surprisingly Facebook wasn’t in there and interestingly “Cloud Computing” made it to number 6 on the phrases of the year. I really love watching language evolve and according the the [...]
24 Nov
Adobe Photoshop for Iphone
Posted by socialmediachunks in Facebook, Iphone, Online Applications, photography, Social Media, Twitter. Tagged: Facebook, I Phone, Itunes, photography, photoshop, Social Media, Twitter. Leave a Comment
As you probably know Adobe launched their new Photoshop I phone app back at the beginning of October in the US and for some strange reason it is still not available in the UK It was free on launch and hopefully it will be free for a period on the UK app store when they [...]
19 Nov
More changes to Twitter
Posted by socialmediachunks in Social Media, Twitter. Tagged: retweet, Twitter. Leave a Comment
Just been on the web version of Twitter and noticed they have introduced some tweeks to the list feature which was added recently. You can now add descriptions to give a wee bit more info about exactly what your list is about. They are also beta testing a new way to see Retweets, see image. [...]
12 Nov
Yammer
Posted by socialmediachunks in Internal Communication, Social Media, Twitter. Tagged: internal communications, Social Media, Twitter, web 2.0, yammer. Leave a Comment
A great way to bring Social Media into the workplace is Yammer. It’s Twitter with a business edge as only people from within your network can access or read the posts, or do we call them yams??? You can also setup rooms where each member of a particular project or department can communicate privately, allowing [...]
