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Twitter Cards are becoming the smallest unit of 'web'

My thoughts on Econsultancy: > Furthermore, because Twitter Cards can be based on existing metadata of websites, they can be simply generated at scale. For example, Amazon can immediately translate any product listing into an accompanying Card. At that stage, what’s to stop you making a page of the cards,

Vine is Twitter's route to selling visual ads in your stream

Imagine you have a stream of info with riveted users but all you can put in there is text. Want to expand the options? What better way than to introduce something for your users first and foremost that can be monetised in more powerful ways later on. Sponsored tweets are

Overtransparency and the Dilemma of #Client Vs Integrity

This time last year, there was some fuss about The SarcMark [http://sarcmark.com], a new piece of punctuation designed to make the use of sarcasm explicit by putting a little marker at the end of each relevant sentence.* Naturally, it was met with near universalderision and ridicule [http://www.

Thank Me Later: The Role of Gratitude in Social Media

[https://i0.wp.com/www.maxtb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thumbs-up.jpg?ssl=1] Good manners are great- like social alchemy, they lubricate the processes of every day life, giving a little advantage to those who use them effectively. But as with all things, they require balance. Perhaps it’

North/ South Twivide

Couldn’t resist putting this up. Trendsmap [http://trendsmap.com/] is a service that layers tags on top of a World map to show what is trending where. Let’s have a look at the image below: In the area around London: Grammar, investment, debate. Over toward Liverpool: @mrpeterandre [http:

Follow Friday - 4 Sept 09

A sprinkling of favourites for my first official Follow Friday blog post. Enjoy… @danworth [http://twitter.com/danworth] – Journalistic chap who tweets those interesting thoughts that pop up throughout the day. Also has an interesting blog [http://www.danielworth.blogspot.com/] on things like books, journalism and crisps. Example Tweet: