internet….knickers…twitter
Just looked at my tag cloud and it seems these are the three most common words in my posts. *makes note to self* I must try to write on more high brow topics…
Author: Becky Green (was McMichael)
no communications? no holiday for me
This weekend, my husband and I took or daughter away in our new (to us) campervan for the first time and it was fab. Sea, camping, cooking outside, lying on a rug with the papers, drinking champers to toast the new van…all good!
I, however, forgot to take my blackberry charger and consequentially was without any Internet access all weekend. Big deal? well actually, yes it was.
I know some people’s idea of a holiday/weekend away is turning the PC off, not reading a paper or watching the news and generally switching off from everything and if that is the case, you will probably think I am a total saddo. However, for me, not being able to look stuff up during a discussion, prove my husband wrong in an argument, check the spelling to a crossword clue, pop onto Twitter, check the weather or the surf report/tide times or read the headlines online is my idea of hell!
As we packed up our lovely van and left the secluded farm up on the Cornish cliffs, I spotted a sign saying wifi available here…£1. So I booked us in next weekend but will remember the laptop next time.
the fourth emergency service?
I just love this. Thank you to Will McInnes for sharing:
Twitter and Summize…a match made in heaven?
So Twitter has bought Summize, not exactly unexpectedly and turned out to be a bit of a non-story…as with so many things, the story was in the speculation I guess with the main discussion happening last week.
So what will it mean for Twitter then and its loyal users?
A sketch of search inside Twitter
According to the Twitter blog….
Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand.
There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. We will be adding search and its related features to the core offering of Twitter in the very near future. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to access search.twitter.com—there’s no need for a Twitter account.
Good news if you ask me.
Summize is a great tool and in my opinion it is the best way of using Twitter for PR research. It provides an instant snapshot of the live conversation about any given topic, product, company or person at any time.
Combine that with 5 new engineers now on the Twitter payroll and it might just help keep the fail whale away too…
new kid on the block
I wanted to welcome another newbie who, like my good self, has finally succumbed and joined the ranks of the tech pr bloggers.
I almost worked with Steve Earl once, he and Wadds interviewed me for a job and then both left two weeks after I joined. Hope it wasn’t summat I said! Anyway, good luck with the blog Steve – I look forward to following it.
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