Microblogging service TumblrTumblr is introducing a few new features today. My favorite is the Tumblr Wire, which is replacing the popular page. Tumblr Wire is a discovery page that shows a constantly-updating stream of images moving across a grid. Each image links to a Tumblog that was updated recently.
The selections are random and photo-heavy, but it also highlights text in a big, fancy font. The whole interface seems, um, highly-influenced by enjoysthin.gs. But it’s a good, visual interface (see also, WeAreHunted), and I hope to see more of it. It makes you just want to sit and watch all the Tumblogs go by. There sure is a lot of soft porn on Tumblr.
Tumblr is also launching Tumblr Projects, a marketplace that matches designers from the Tumblr community with professional publishers and companies who want a slick Tumblog. Designers need to be certified by Tumblr, but it’s a smart way to get higher quality Tumblogs created. Up until now, Tumblr has been designing many of the high-profile Tumblogs itself, so now it can offload much of that work and help its community make money at the same time… Read on at techcrunch.com
Simple blogging site TumblrTumblr will reveal its July stats later today, along with a claim that it is “taking over the world”. The site served 255 million pageviews in July, according to directly measured stats by third party analytics firm Quantcast. In August, Tumblr expects to serve 330 million page impressions, and is purchasing 5 new servers to cope with the demand. Other Tumblr stats are equally impressive: # 50 million visitors in the last 30 days # 650,000 posts per day (which equals 6 new posts per second) # 5,000 new users every day # 1.5 reblogged posts per second Read on at Mashable.com
TwitterTwitter just announced its new home page redesign complete with trending topics and search. Publicly launched at the 2006 South by South West interactive festival, users first flocked to the site as a way to communicate with friends and festival attendees. However, as we’ve seen in the past few years, the site has evolved into a multifaceted real-time tool. The community has given timely updates on earthquakes, the IranIran election and we’ve even seen professional poker players bluff in real-time Tweets. Twitter has evolved into a community where users can discover breaking news and trends and the new home page certainly matches that… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
What if TwitterTwitter understood what you were saying and could then take action on your messages? What if Twitter wasn’t just a place to post your random thoughts, but an A.I. bot that actually helped you get your work done? That’s the concept behind Akibot, a new enterprise microblogging service. At first glance, Akibot may look very much like your typical Twitter clone, but it does something very different: it combines the collective intelligence provided by microblogging with an artificial intelligence engine that lets the service take action on the messages posted… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
Microblogging. It’s fun, it’s useful. TwitterTwitter, Shout’Em and other microblogging platforms are fast becoming not just another way to pass the time, but also tools that we use to collaborate with each other on a daily basis. However, it can get tedious when you do it daily. Here are 25 simple ways you can get your microblogging habits back on track… Read on at Shoutem.com
According to Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native TwitterTwitter application as evidenced by engineer Blake Ross’ tweet from an application named “Penguin FB” on Facebook’sFacebook development servers. Asks Inside Facebook’s writer Justin Smith, “Is Facebook about to become the largest source of tweets?” The company did not comment on the “Penguin FB” project and Ross has since deleted the “Penguin FB” test tweet. For now, the public is left in the dark as to what all this means… Read on at RedWriteWeb.com
How do you measure the value of a visitor to your website? If the visitor is there to watch video, perhaps the most useful metric is the amount of time they spend viewing it before navigating elsewhere. As it turns out, users who visit videos from TwitterTwitter links actually spend the most time watching them, as compared to visitors referred by FacebookFacebook or DiggDigg. According to a study by TubeMogul, Twitter users view a video for 1 minute, 58 seconds on average, versus averages of 1:14 and 0:58 for Facebook and Digg, respectively. Read on at Mashable…
There’s a common wisdom that personal blogging has slowly given way to microblogging: online sharing through TwitterTwitter and FacebookFacebook. Popular blogger Steve Rubel is a prime example: he recently declared that he would switch from blogging to life-streaming on Twitter, FriendFeedFriendFeed and Facebook. Read on at Mashable…
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is introducing a few new features today. My favorite is the Tumblr Wire, which is replacing the popular page. Tumblr Wire is a discovery page that shows a constantly-updating stream of images moving across a grid. Each image links to a Tumblog that was updated recently.
