Guest Post written by Ahuvah Berger Ayelet sent me this powerpoint presentation and I felt strongly that the readers of our blog must take a look at it. i know we are all sick and tired of hearing the words “social media” but we all know that the internet is *all about* being social. The user statistics are staggering and growing. If you find the language a bit offensive I apologize.. What the F**K is [...]

This week we asked you “What would Yoda tweet”?  Just like in previous weeks, we found our contest hero already has an active twitter account: @yoda, Quite an entertaining one actually. In his last tweet he dissed the twitter community saying: “RT you all do. Original force there is little of”. So let’s see what you guys thought Yoda would say.  @ilan_peer wrote: “i feel the tweet is strong with this one”  @HeziAbrass said: “Powerful you have [...]

Guest Post written by Ilan Peer For the past two years I have been active on twitter and only recently (as of June 2008) my close friends and colleagues began to show up on twitter and therefore increased the amount of related and relevant content for me. twitter has become a daily tool of communication which I use via Web browser, additional applications and on my mobile device. Unlike other social networks, twitter is about [...]

Guest Post written by Ahuvah Berger Everywhere you turn you hear the words social media, user generated content, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc but the real question remains – what is the purpose of social media? How can companies leverage these tools to engage and monitor their brands online? We have watched an evolution occur on the internet- from a period of time when there was a distinctive line between the content creators and the content [...]

“Imagine.” Imagine if John Lennon were still alive and on Twitter. That was the theme of this week’s contest, what would they tweet? Unlike previous contestants, I haven’t found a fake Twitter account for the late musical genius, but the site historical tweets does have one tweet for the musical legend “I said we were bigger than the WHO” (in response to Lennon’s famous statement that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus). @sageeb had a [...]

This past weekend, Qype expanded its European presence and launched its Italian site.  For anyone who hasn’t heard of Qype before, the site originally  launched in 2005 in Germany. Qype now boasts over 350,000 active users, who have contributed over 1 million local reviews. I previously wrote about Qype when I visited them at Seedcamp. You can now access Qype in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Brazil and Italy. Qype lets users discover places based [...]

This week you guys really rose to the occasion and came up with great responses to our weekly contest. This week we asked Twitterville what would Jesus tweet about. As with Marilyn Monroe and Ari Gold, it appears that Jesus really does tweet.” Here are some of the best responses we received: By far my favorite response came from Raanan Avidor on Facebook. He says that Jesus would tweet “BRB” Mottipeer writes:  ’Jesus tweet at Microsoft “What [...]

MyHeritage is a social network and software for genealogists. Launched in 2005, MyHeritage has since accumulated 33 million users worldwide. The company helps people build family trees, share them with their relatives and stay in touch with their loved ones. They are the most popular free family tree website according to ProGeneologists.com. Family Tree Builder, their geneology software program, is the most popular free geneology application. MyHeritage started only as a free software program. With [...]

Hashtags are becoming a useful way to organize information in today’s information age, when data is spread over a multitude of platforms. It is incredibly time consuming to log into Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and every other niche network that you have an account on and update the same information over and over again. However, with the launch of a new hashtag service from Mobypicture, it is getting easier. Mobypicture uploads all of your mobile pictures [...]

“Lloyd!” Apparently people are afraid of Ari Gold. Or didn’t want a hug from the fictional Entourage character.  That must explain why the Twitterati were a bit afraid of tweeting for him in this week’s #wwtt contest. Or perhaps they just didn’t want to be too vulgar on Twitter. On Facebook, there was a bit more participation. However, like Marilyn Monroe, the fictional Ari Gold apparently DOES tweet on a very rare occasion at @TheAriGold. [...]