Social Networking for Franchised Retailers – Just say No Thank You …
May 31, 2009 General, Social Media, Social Networking, Web
As I explained to my colleague (without trying to sound like a killjoy) I have no doubt that franchi.
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Social Networking for Franchised Retailers – Just say No Thank You …
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Hole In One International uses social networking to communicate …
May 31, 2009 General, Social Media, Social Networking, Video, Web
“Now, when we get a hot tip from a charity golf event organizer or receive a video of a player making a million-dollar hole in one, our subscribers and followers will be the first to know,” said Mark Gilmartin, CEO.
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Hole In One International uses social networking to communicate …
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Twitter and TV: The New Backchannel
May 31, 2009 Read/Write Web
ITV, the oldest commercial television network in the UK, just announced that it will use Twitter as a backchannel for its coverage of the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Everton tomorrow afternoon. The ITV Twitter app was built by thruSITES using Twitterfall, and the ITV team will use Audioboo Pro for moderating the Twitter stream. Given how popular Twitter has become in the U.K., this is definitely a smart move by ITV to use it as a backchannel.
While soccer (or football, for our European readers) might not be your thing, it is interesting to see how many TV networks have now made Twitter a part of their daily routine.
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Some of Twitter’s popularity in the TV world is obviously due to the novelty factor of Twitter, but Twitter does provide TV channels with an easy way to create a backchannel for their programs. 
CNN and other 24-hour cable news channels also regularly use Twitter (and Facebook). For example as a backchannel during live programming. Reading tweets is also a cheap way to fill airtime.
In addition, there is the now infamous Twitter TV show that is not made by Twitter or even about Twitter (the company).
As our own Sarah Perez reported earlier this year, Verizon is also looking into incorporating a Twitter widget into its FiOS TV interface. For now, the FiOS interface still looks a bit clunky, and writing tweets doesn’t look like an option given the lack of a keyboard, but it would be cool to see a constant stream of tweets about a specific show stream by on your TV, especially during live events.
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Bmlet: An Online Directory of Bookmarklets
May 31, 2009 Read/Write Web
Love bookmarklets? You know, those small bits of code that you add to your web browser’s Favorites menu? With bookmarklets, you can reduce browser bloat by replacing a number of your add-ons with bookmarklets that perform the same actions, yet without the need for extra software installed. And if your default browser is Google Chrome, bookmarklets are even more essential to getting things done since you can’t use extensions at all unless you run a developer build.
If you’ve been looking for a great resource for finding bookmarklets, you’re going to love the new site at bmlet.com, an online directory and search engine just for bookmarklets.
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On the bmlet homepage, you’ll see the highest rated, newest, and most popular bookmarklets listed and there’s a search box provided where you can query to find just the one you need.
If you’d rather browse through the listings, you can do so from the “browse” link at the top of the page, but here your only options are sorting them by date or relevance. That’s not all that useful, to be honest. (And how are they determining relevance, we wonder?) An alphabetical listing or listing them by category would be a lot more helpful. In fact, it’s almost not worth bothering with the browse option at all.
That’s really not a big deal, though, since the search engine works just fine. However, it looks like the site still has room to grow – we noticed that they were missing a few of our favorites. For example, we love the “share in Google Reader” bookmarklet, but a search for Google Reader only delivered two results: view feed source and note to Reader. Oh well. (You can see a list of great bookmarklets we’re using here). But on the other hand, a search for Twitter left us with so many options it was hard to even choose a favorite.
If, like us, you notice any missing bookmarklets on the site, you don’t have to wait for them to add them to their directory – you can just add them yourself. After creating an account, you can click the add bookmarklet link and fill in the title, description, javascript, source link, and tags for the bookmarklet you want to share. Hit “submit” and you’re done.
Be warned though – it’s very easy to lose track of time when delving into this resource. Instead of giving it a quick once-over, I found myself lost in there for over half an hour today. But what better way to spend a Friday, right?
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MTV Movie Awards: Live and Illegal
May 31, 2009 General, Mashable, Mobile 2.0, New Media, Social Media, Social Networking, Video, Web, Web Apps
I’m inadvertently watching the MTV Movie Awards…but not on TV. Rather, I just stumbled upon many of the live streamed versions , in which TV viewers set up a camera in front of their TV screens and stream live to a worldwide web audience
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MTV Movie Awards: Live and Illegal
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