Twitter scare

Reposted

Twitter sent a major scare through its user community over the last couple of days. A key to Twitter's success is the abiltiy to "follow" another user and to be "followed" by others. For pieces of two days, they lost all such connections. Those were restored by Thursday late afternoon.

Twitter enables its users to communicate via a mobile phone text. The user can determine which which users that it follows will be enabled for its tweets to be texted.

Addendum: See http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_twitter_anti-spam_bot_causes_chaos.php for more information on this outage.

FSBO and Cribfinder work together on Facebook

ForSaleByOwner.com announced that its listings will be included in the Cribfinder application on the Facebook platform. Cribfinder provides ForSaleByOwner.com customers with a free, innovative approach to marketing their home on Facebook.

Beginning today, all ForSaleByOwner.com customers will have their property listings automatically posted to Cribfinder at no additional cost.

Read more about this application by going to http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/forsalebyownercom-partners-cribfinder-place-all/story.aspx?guid=%7B8B0F9629-4101-4366-8239-323101AB8421%7D&dist=hppr

Blog about blogs

We've always encouraged website owners to start writing blogs. The reason is simply that blogs help generate traffic for websites.

We encountered a blog that has many great tips about how to write blogs. Check it out by visiting http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ You can read about how to create traffic for blogs, suggestions on how to monetize blogs, and much much more.

One million Apple iPhones

Apple reported that one million iPhones were sold during their launch weekend. Read more at http://techdigest.tv/2008/07/apple_sells_one.html

Example blogs

While most people understand the value of blogs, it is difficult to write a blog. We found an article about fifty influential bloggers. You'll be able to view those blogs. The article is at http://northxeast.com/general/nxe%E2%80%99s-fifty-most-influential-female-bloggers

E-mail marketing

Check out http://www.messageslinger.com as an e-mail marketing tool. It is currently available as a beta tool for a fee considerably less than Constant Contact, a market leader.

The company website has a free demo capability and is inviting people to join their beta program.

Twitter merger?

There are some recent rumors that Twitter may be acquiring Summize. Summize is a search engine that allows searching through tweets on Twitter. One source mentioned that talks have been underway for a couple of weeks.

iPhone goes on sale

There are multiple reports that say that Applie iPhones will go on sale on July 11 (Friday) at 8:00am.

Goolge search engines and swf files

Google reported that they are trying to improve how they can read and explore swf files. They are working with Adobe in a common effort to enhance the search experience for their users.

One of the places where this information was published was at http://www.ecombuffet.com/SEO-Blog/

Hands free driving in California

On July 1, a new law went into effect in California requiring all mobile phone usage while driving to be "hands free". This is a good law because it should promote safer driving.

We learned of a website that provides free headsets for your mobile phone. You pay only for shipping.

Check it out at www.FreeHeadset.org

Remember that "hands free" does not mean "accident free", so please drive carefully whenever you are using a mobile phone.