June 26, 2008 · 3:51 pm

Video: Social Media Overview

Social Media = Blogs, Podcasts, Video and Photo Sharing, Wikis

This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say. Courtesy of “CommonCraft.com”.

How social media affects business and learning:

  • Companies can learn directly from customers.
  • Free customer reviews were more valuable than costly advertising.
  • The way is created for customers to find exactly what they wanted.
  • The combination of new technology and new ways to work with customers creates a sense of community. 
  • Everyone has a chance to contribute, thanks to free tools like blogs, podcasts and video sharing.
  • Today, we now have new ways for real people to play a role in providing feedback, organization and promotion.
  • Whether you’re a big, established company. An Individual with loyal fans…Or simply someone with ideas and opinions…Social media means new opportunities to create and communicate with people that care.

 

 
 

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June 24, 2008 · 10:35 pm

Twellow

 

Twellow is a great new search tool and directory for discovering Twitter users that could fundamentally change the way people use the microblogging service. 

This article is taken from www.twellow.com

The explosive growth of online social media has led to unprecedented opportunities for finding and connecting with people of experience and expertise in your areas of interest. However, sifting through the overwhelming volume of content and services in order to connect with people you want to find can be daunting and frustrating. Enter Twellow.com from the producers of WebProNews.
Twellow.com has been designed from the ground up to help you “cut through the clutter”. From the home at Twellow headquarters, they actively search and categorize millions of inter-personal exchanges available on the internet every day. Twellow.com is thereby able to assist you in finding real people who really matter. Twellow does the hard work of sifting out people who can help bring your vision to reality, whatever that vision might be.

Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the twitter.com microblogging service. They then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific categories they help you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for. In addition to Twitter, they’re actively working on adding more social media services to broaden your capacity to find people who matter.

 

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June 24, 2008 · 9:25 pm

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com

www.salesforce.com  founded 1999 by Marc Benioff;  San Francisco, CA

Salesforce.com is an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution vendor.

Salesforce.com was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff. In June 2004, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange (CRM).

Salesforce.com has been a pioneer in developing enterprise platforms through its innovative AppExchange directory of on-demand applications, and its Force.com “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) API for extending Salesforce.

 

Salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with regional headquarters in Dublin (covering Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Singapore (covering Asia Pacific less Japan), and Tokyo (covering Japan). Other major offices are in Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, and San Mateo, California. Salesforce.com has its services translated into 15 different languages and currently has 43,600 customers and over 1,000,000 subscribers.

 

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June 10, 2008 · 9:41 pm

Powerset

 powerset.com – launched in 2005, based in San Francisco, CA

Powerset is a semantic search service.

It searches wikipedia only at the moment but may go further in the future. It appears to be an implementation of Tim Berners Lee’s “Semantic Web”, where we have a searche that is based on “meaning” rather than on matching words or phrases.

This could be the emergence of a Web 3.0 technology.

Powerset’s goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.

Powerset’s first product is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008. Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.

 

 

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