Archive for May, 2009
Free Stock Photos stock.xchang
http://www.sxc.hu/ Stock.xchang is a free stock photo service with a blog and tutorial feature. It doesn’t have the selection of istock, but does hold good high resolution quality images that seem to be unique to stock.xchang. As far as I can tell all the images are free but like Flickr, the copyright of each picture […]
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You Heard It Here First
Semantic technology Open Calais gains a foothold among publishers, according to CNET. Of course Enough has been using it for a couple of months on Drupal, and WebTech is trying out a module on WordPress.
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The Ever Expanding Twitterverse
There are so many tools for mapping, monitoring and feeding Twitter that it takes a blog to list them.
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Redesigning TPM
Talk about a smart grid
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Free High-Quality Stock Photos!
A new stockphoto service has just launched, but this one is allowing you to license 10 photos a day for free with proper attribution. It’s called PhotoXpress. I did a quick search for health care-related photos, and interestingly, it seems to have at least some overlap with iStockphoto. I can spot a couple here that […]
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Social Media Listening Tools
I found a great article on tools for monitoring social media. There are 13 of these tools listed. Some I am familiar with, others I need to explore. But as we get deeper into engaging the social web, these tools will be very useful. The full article is here and the 13 tools are below: […]
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Twitter is already the best place to find out what is happening in the word. And soon, http://search.twitter.com will include results drawn from the webpages Tweets link to, in addition to the content of the Tweets. This will make Twitter even more useful as a news and trend monitoring tool. More on this here.
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Video Games as Editorial Content
The Wired Campus blog picks up on a research group at Georgia Tech looking at the intersection between journalism and video games. The aptly named Journalism and Games project offers a smattering of examples in their blog. The primary lesson here seems to be straightforward to those familiar with infographics: the rules of different mediums […]
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7 Golden Rules of Social Media
Great post on how to succeed on social media from 100 Musical Footsteps: The 7 Golden Rules of Social Media
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Interesting article on the importance of a social media strategy for engaging audiences that are increasingly using social media: More marketers are counting on social networks. Benny Evangelista, SF Chronicle. May 3, 2009 “When a prank video of a Domino’s Pizza employee adding unsanitary ingredients to sandwiches became an instant hit on YouTube, the chain […]
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