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Ryan said:
Paul Balcerak reverses the information stream, and instead of asking readers for photos, or feeding them unfiltered breaking news, he asks them a simple question: What do you need to know right now?
Quote: Our newsrooms were obviously already covering the storm. And I had asked for photo submissions because they help tell a story. But I figured there had to be people out there living the story who were thinking, “Yeah, great, a tree that broke in half. But I can look out my window and see that and I’ve got an online test in 40 minutes, so where can I find a power outlet and free WiFi?” Added: March 18, 2010 at 11:55AM EDT
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- pgPoliTweets: If u are on witness list & think u may be called to testify 2moro, do not read my tweets today. Court order. #bonusgate
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Ryan said:
Tracie Mauriello has been livetweeting the "bonusgate" case for weeks now. Interesting note from her to readers today, although I'm amused by the judge's efforts to prevent citizens from finding out about events happening in open court. Real-time's a challenge!
Added: March 8, 2010 at 2:49PM EST
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Ryan said:
I'm a fan of any and all attempts to hook up data from Twitter to the physical world. This is no exception. Watch tweets from New York, London, and Paris move the needle on these meters.
Added: February 24, 2010 at 9:13PM EST
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Ryan said:
Gina Trapani's Twitter-based answer-sorting tool moves to Expert Labs to better parse feedback from, well, the American people.
Quote: ThinkTank piggybacks on existing social networks so that users don't have to sign up for Yet Another Service to ask and answer questions; ThinkTank archives conversations and contacts into a standalone datastore you control; and ThinkTank is open source and community-developed. Added: February 17, 2010 at 10:46PM EST
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- The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare)
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Ryan said:
Good advice from Robert Scoble on building social software.
Quote: 2. Measure behavior and report it. Do you want your users to check in? Then measure it like Foursquare does and report it. What’s the home screen of Foursquare’s iPhone app show you? Everytime someone of your friends checks in they show up there. Foursquare reports how big a loser I am because there are 34 people in San Francisco area who’ve checked in more than me this week. Added: January 25, 2010 at 9:59AM EST
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Ryan said:
Robin Sloan nails the important part of balancing the flow of updates, tweets, links, and general social participation with the stock of long-form writing, blog posts, articles, and even books. What's your stock/flow balance look like today? This week? This year?
Quote: I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for obvious reasons -- but we neglect stock at our own peril. I mean that both in terms of the health of an audience and, like, the health of a soul. Flow is a treadmill, and you can’t spend all of your time running on the treadmill. Well, you can. But then one day you’ll get off and look around and go: Oh man. I’ve got nothing here. Added: January 19, 2010 at 2:17PM EST
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Ryan said:
Here's a great example of a brand curating Twitter mentions of their product and running the best in a print ad. How's that for inexpensive copy?
Quote: We don’t know whether or not Trident’s unconventional Twitter ad will influence USA Today’s readers to buy the new gum more so than a typical advert, but it’s definitely an interesting tactic. Using the opinions of online consumers to sell a product is nothing new, but doing so in the world of print, to a mainstream audience, is a little out there, even for the most Twitter-savvy brands. Added: December 18, 2009 at 4:08PM EST
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Ryan said:
Anil Dash does a solid job of explaining what should happen next, now that the Twitter API has been adopted by WordPress and Tumblr as a standard of sorts.
Quote: Of course, I don't need to make any suggestions to developers about what to do with these APIs — I'm sure the gears in everybody's heads are turning about cool new applications to build. Instead, I'd like to make a series of suggestions for the entire Open Twitter API ecosystem, based on what we've learned from past successes and failures in APIs around blogging. Added: December 18, 2009 at 3:23PM EST
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Ryan said:
Twitter as performance: Follow all the Home Alone characters on this list to get a holiday treat, starting on the 22nd. I wouldn't mind if someone did this with a sitcom like 30 Rock on a weekly basis.
Quote: As stated the project will be playing out in real time (Central Standard time) as that's the time in Illinois, and will run for 3 days. Added: December 17, 2009 at 7:45AM EST
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Ryan said:
Hey, I'd actually use something like this, but, uh, not for every action my toddler takes. Like that plant that tweets when it needs water, but different.
Added: December 8, 2009 at 11:08AM EST
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