I’ve heard variants of this for quite a long time, in fact since the semantic web thing became mainstream. It’s never easy to introduce something new, as novel applications designers will know, and users don’t want to learn something new, however easy it is to pick up. The sema[...]
Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
December 19th, 2008 - 8:49 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – holidays!
Welcome to another installment of TGIF. I hope you are all well and that you are looking forward to the Christmas break. Many of you finish work today for at least 2 weeks so make sure you celebrate accordingly and enjoy a beverage of your choice and a couple of sweet treats too Without further [...]
December 19th, 2008 - 8:05 pm § in Uncategorized
"A few Chirps about twitter"
“A few Chirps about twitter” gives valuable insight into how we use the application and why we use it. It is a paper written by Balachander krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs), Phillipa Gill (Uni Calgary) and Martin Arlitt (HP Labs – Uni Calgary) “Our goal is to characterize a no[...]
December 8th, 2008 - 12:34 am § in Uncategorized
Hot topics in comp sci vs SEO
To see if there was a correlation between hot topics in SEO and hot topics in IR, I’ve listed the top 10 in each in no particular order. I may have forgotten some in SEO because that space is not as ordered at the comp sci one. SEO popular topics: - How to get more [...][...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 8:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Making Twitter bots
As some companies have figured out, there is a lot of information to be gleaned from Twitter that can benefit their business. They can manage reputation and customer service for example. There are however other reasons to collect information which do not involve marketing motivations but for exa[...]
November 28th, 2008 - 8:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Why I used Blogger
I’m often asked why I use blogger to host my blog, being a knowledgeable SEO person, and also a computer scientist. ”I should know better” is the main idea. I advocate using WordPress instead, and tell everyone else to do so when they ask me what they should use for their blog&[...]
November 17th, 2008 - 8:35 pm § in Uncategorized
Things I’d like for xmas from Twitter
I use Twitter daily and think it’s great for businesses as well. Customer service is vastly improved and product information can be disseminated to those interested. I use it as a personal account and like to follow people with the same interests, because that way I can get really interest[...]
November 17th, 2008 - 3:26 am § in Uncategorized
The power of twitter – a personal experience
I began using SlideShare a few weeks ago, it’s a place to share presentations with others in the community, they can download them, favourite them, view them, embed them in their own sites and blogs. It’s a great source of information on a wide variety of topics, and it supports open o[...]
