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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Top Social Media Network Sites October 2009

Instant Shift has created a comprehensive list of top social media network sites as of October 19, 2009.

See:

List Of Top Social Media Network Sites | Showcases | instantShift

Twitter and Facebook Prototypes existed more than 60 and 100 Years Ago

Just how innovative are social media networking applications? Or are they merely successful (or less successful) digital conversions of concepts that have existed long before them?

The social media networking application hosted at Facebook.com has become very popular in recent years, but the idea of a "Face Book" is at least over 100 years old.

"Twitter" as gossip can be traced back more than 60 years.

Jenna Wortham reports at Bits Blog in the New York Times in The 'Face Book Fad' Is More Than a Century Old:
"Bryan Benilous, a historical newspaper specialist at the digital-archive company Proquest, said he and his colleagues came across a Boston Daily Globe article from August 24, 1902, titled, "Face Book The New Fad," describing a party game where revelers sketch out cartoony caricatures for fun."
As Wortham writes in addition:
"[Benilous has also] uncovered a 1942 Washington Post article titled "Think Before You Twitter" about gossiping and a 1903 article referring to the first "pocket telephone.""

How Twitter Search Will Help Google, Microsoft Bing

Clint Boulton of eweek.com writes in detail about How Twitter Search Will Help Google, Microsoft Bing.

Boulton writes:
"One week ago today, Microsoft and Google each announced deals to index Twitter tweets at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Microsoft launched its Bing Twitter site for indexing tweets in real-time. Not to be outdone, Google promised Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. One week ago today, Microsoft and Google each announced deals to index Twitter tweets at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Microsoft launched its Bing Twitter site for indexing tweets in real-time. Not to be outdone, Google promised Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot."

125 Twitter Addresses of Blawgers at LawPundit

LawPundit - Law Technology IP Media Politics Sports Lifestyle: "Twitter Addresses of Legal Blogs (Blawgs) as Referenced on the LawPundit Law Blogroll"

About 125 Twitter Addresses of Law Blawgs on the LawPundit Blogroll are provided.

PunditMania: TwitterBar Useful for posting Twitter Tweets : See the Widget

Punditmania has a post about TwitterBar.


PunditMania: TwitterBar Useful for posting Twitter Tweets : See the Widget