Should Web 2.0 Embrace Localization?

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After reading Bernard Sunn’s blog post, “Re-Localization Opportunities – Local 2.0“  I thought how can Web 2.0 developers incorporate local business owners into their 2.0 business models?  Believe it or not, a world still exists outside of the blogosphere or Twittersphere.  The Internet is mainstream, but there is still a market of millions [...]

Cloud Agents Bring Personalization for the User

ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez blogged about a new Twitter app called Twitchboard in her blog post, The Rise of Cloud Agents.   The uniqueness of Twitchboard stems from its ability to tie together different services on the social web and automates their interactions.
What’s so fascinating to me is not the application Twitchboard, as I haven’t even [...]

State of the Twittersphere – Q4 2008 Report

Hubspot has released its first-ever State of the Twitterspere report for Q4 2008.  The report summarizes the trends of Twitter users based on real data pulled from hundreds of thousands of Twitter profiles accessed through the reports generated by Twitter Grader.
I found that the report accurately reflects my Twitter profile.  For example, I currently have a [...]

The Concept Dependent Social Phenomenon of Tag Clouds

On his blog The Impressions Scholarcast, Micheal Rees reflects upon the use of tag clouds.  Michael suggests that tag clouds might someday replace business cards, or the abstract that precedes papers and documents.  In addition Martin Weller on his blog The Ed Techie: You are your (tag) cloud, advocates the idea that tag clouds are [...]

Twitter in Real Life

For the Twitter users who have ever encountered this scenario, I though you would enjoy this cartoon I found on Hubspot’s blog.
What’s your opinion?  I always feel somewhat guilty if I don’t follow someone who follows me?

“Twitter In Real Life” by HubSpot is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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