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Re: 99% of 18-24 Year Olds On Social Media, But Only 22% Use Twitter

MichDdot — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:41:22 -0000

I am not very surprised at the figures honestly. Twitter although it has gotten the lion share of attention is a rather restrictive bland and boring site. Those on twitter not concerned with 'growing their followers' or getting out a message to the masses have little reason to like it. I have had an account for over 2 years now and to be honest the first year I hated it, never logged in and only posted via apps with next to no conversation. Not until you get into the hundreds does twitter become interesting, not until your in the thousands does twitter become more than an overly restrictive instant messenger.

Most people between 18 and 24 are only concerned with school parties and friends in the social sphere. The few who use social media beyond that are mainly concerned with jobs. Hence twitter is not a good option. Every college kids [almost anyway] will have a facebook page and most will have a myspace. There you can find your friends and share all your 'stuff' all in one place. On twitter it takes lots of work to even find people you know so it becomes a small platform to talk in your own circles or a limited replacement for catching new and gossip.

Twitter may be the 'big dog' in the media but they have a vested interest in this type of communication. Business is in the same spot, Twitter is the only safe public format for the avg person to talk direct with companies or stars. They have reason to make sure twitter is known and used but have virtually no impact in the 18-24yr old market, let alone the sectors below. Today's 12-18 year old person may not have a credit card but they will be the future customers and makers of what the web becomes. The 'know it all' syndrome we claim all teenagers have carries over as we think we become older and wiser. Today's youth lead their parents friends and family on the web many even help with product purchase and price comparisons. We ignore the true customer by accident to often.

Twitter will have to change how it works greatly if they want to remain a real player in the 'new web' just being the first to use realtime information wont secure them in the long haul. Everyone is or will do it themselves and most will do it better. Just my POV but hey, I could be right ;) Either way it's nice to see a good pie chart with some research behind it.

Re: UStream Redesigns With an Eye Towards Twitter Users

MichDdot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:50:02 -0000

So far Ustream has kept a rather solid balance of features and stability, at least compared to the alternatives. The new twitter friendly feature I think enhance it greatly. Allows more 'virtual immersion' in the shared experience.

Re: Is Tom MySpace’s Default Friend No More?

MichDdot — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:45:15 -0000

Ashton Kutcher???

Re: BlueBlog: Win A Kindle 2

MichDdot — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:35:20 -0000

This has been assimilated..... now if only enough points can be accumulated.... 'I can haz kindlz tu' :)

Keep being sticky folks

Peace
Mich D.

Re: How to Use Twitter to Find Your Next Job. What is YOUR story?

MichDdot — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:06:58 -0000

Awesome topic @MrTweet im writing a resource and reference post about twitter for a non profit blog, I would love to quote you if that is ok with you.

Just chirp me a tweet im always there :)

Peace
Mich D. aka @MichDdot

Re: Kwippy is a Micro-Blog w/ IM

MichDdot — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:47:19 -0000

Nice breakdown I will have to get back over there, forgot I liked it :) til now thnx bra

Re: The First of Many

MichDdot — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:04:10 -0000

Glad to see you in the web O sphere beyond Twitterville and FB :)

Re: 10 Free Website Traffic Tips and Top Ten Ways to Increase Website Traffic Quality with More Web Traffic Free

MichDdot — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:44:45 -0000

No kidding I still find SERPs and get metrics based on press releases I our others I worked with did from years ago. A good press release written by a solid author can do more for you than even a FP [Front Page of Digg.com] can do. With better site related results to, higher quality more relevant links direct to you, instead of dozens of scrapers, blogs and social sites. PR may not happen in huge floods but the long term results are excellent.

Thnx for following up my tweet http://twitter.com/thelazyslacker and glad it was useful.
Peace,
Mich D

Re: 10 Free Website Traffic Tips and Top Ten Ways to Increase Website Traffic Quality with More Web Traffic Free

MichDdot — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:37:28 -0000

Thanks its all stuff already out there actually. I just compiled and updated it some. With so much hype based on social media and 'blackhat' tricks now days, I just felt a real approach may have been needed. All of these have there use but are ignored so often.

Was cool to catch up with you on http://twitter.com/rampantheart to :)

Peace
Mich D

Re: Don’t let the SEO snitches ruin it for all of us…

MichDdot — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:22:17 -0000

It is a shame that the sham has run its course. So many years SEO has been able to be lazy, now they no longer have the option. Cheating, lying, stealing all come back to you when you least expect it. If you become the best by doing your worst the fall will be fast and hard when they find out.

Any real SEO will know the one simple thing, its just math. Figure out the math and you do it right. try to 'buy your election' to top serps and your gonna fall. You may become the President or your search for a bit though, so they do it.

The web has changed we must all learn and adapt or shut up and get new jobs.

Peace, Mich D

Re: louisgray.com: Is Lifestreaming a Catalyst for What's Coming After Web 2.0?

MichDdot — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:58:21 -0000

I think Lifestreaming is the lead off for a type of total immersion between life and web for the coming generation of semantic technology.

JMO, Peace
Mich D

Re: ProBlog Power Tools List Blog Pingers Blogging Software 172 blog things

MichDdot — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:06:39 -0000

Glad you found it useful :)

Re: ProBlog Power Tools List Blog Pingers Blogging Software 172 blog things

MichDdot — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:32:32 -0000

The best would depend on your needs. If you have multimedia or international base the largest distributions make more sense. On the other hand if your english based with majority text or image content some other options serve your needs, doing more with less. Autopinger is the easiest of course, if your list of sites is modest it takes the headache out, if your list is large it may be your only option to save time.

Re: ProBlog Power Tools List Blog Pingers Blogging Software 172 blog things

MichDdot — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:45:09 -0000

Glad it was useful, did so much research for a project it just seemed a waste not to share. :)

Re: SEO Blackhat SMO Tricks Can Hurt You Even if You Didn’t Do it Yourself!

MichDdot — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:42:16 -0000

We all pass links and in an environment ripe with spam and devious manipulative scammers... you have to think. In this case it was an old friend from Digg but just as I was push to the stumble crumble point breaking, so had he. It turned out great though I apollogized and explained, we reconnected the icon to the meat behind it.

I gues that brings home your point. The communication is the key. NOT the begging or personal greed for clicks. Sharing because you get along browse together at times. Its natural to talk both to and with friends sharing links and interest comon or outlandish.

This is the internet, that is how people act. With thought its easy to see the difference. Whats good and new is simple, whats driven by secondary motives always smells just like sh..ort stacked servings.

Just my rambled extended opinion.

Re: SEO Blackhat SMO Tricks Can Hurt You Even if You Didn’t Do it Yourself!

MichDdot — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:07:36 -0000

So true Kim so many now blend between the lines. The is a strange feeding ans symbiosis between the dark and light side of business. A finance fueled yin vs yang that ultimately breeds total chaos. Change is always for the better even when it harms the now, later it led to what was.

Re: Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown

MichDdot — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:03:33 -0000

Any government is doomed from the beginning. Hopefully we get an easy pass on total breakdown this time, yet I cant help but wonder .... are we about to go beyond thunderdome? Is the time of MadMax about to become real? Americans are already stealing car parts food and gas just to make it another day, what happens when there is no gas or food and they cant work? Things are about to change its only a matter of how hard the change is and how fast the system falls.

Re: Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown

MichDdot — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:51:30 -0000

I was a day trader about 10-5 years back. There was no bailout then for the people, there should be no bailout now for business. Sad truth to it is there is no way to fix it all unless we let it fall. Scary as hell to do yet no other option will really fix it short of uniting the North American continent and making a united currency to level the current playing field.

Re: My 2yr Dipity Timeline LifeStream › Mich D dot Mobile SweetCron LifeStream

MichDdot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:06:02 -0000

I am still getting used to the mixed interface and code. In the longer run each entry in the visual timeline will link to a sweetcron page so all will have comments enabled. Then i will switch it to a specific page with a vertical stream also possibly the homepage.

Re: My 2yr Dipity Timeline LifeStream › Mich D dot Mobile SweetCron LifeStream

MichDdot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:20:16 -0000

Hello my friend, you pegged it perfect. Plurk is what started the hunt for now ways to display the information. Of course this is still a first try but it seems very promising. Your biased though ... lol, cause you know I am building yours next.

peace bra

Re: My 2yr Dipity Timeline LifeStream › Mich D dot Mobile SweetCron LifeStream

MichDdot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:17:02 -0000

Its just one of many new ways we can display data online. The timeline lifestream I will admit while visually interesting can be confusing when your used to 2d web structure.

That is one of the great 'new things' coming from the web3.0 movement and the new semantic coding. The internet itself gas become capable of 3d vs 2d information, unlike TV this means concepts can bee tied to data instead of visual depth.

Re: RDFa goes to W3C Proposed Recommendation - Creative Commons › Mich D dot Mobile SweetCron LifeStream

MichDdot — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:57:25 -0000

This is a groundbreaking event in the future progression for semantic web platforms.

Re: The Blog is Dead! › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

MichDdot — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:42:50 -0000

You are hitting the nail right on the head as they say. I have been beating kicking tweaking hacking and abusing wordpress to force a 'blog' to be a lifestream. I have at the same time spend several years talking business into using 'blogs' for a website.

I think some place between weblogs and blogs the human touch drifted apart, now with the broad choice of online life, the blog as you say is dead. Your sweetcron system is so beautifully simple and clean ... anyone who lives in the grid could mold it to a surreal live cornerstone of YOU!

lovely thanks so much, i am enjoying it greatly.

peace
Mich D aka @MichDdot
the worlds fastest at ... stuff :)

Re: Czar's Top Firefox-3.0 Add-ons

MichDdot — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:15:59 -0000

Nice list but what about shareaholic .... ???

Re: Comment tool Disqus launches v2.0 with automagic backup | Software news, tips and opinions from Download.com editors - Download.com

MichDdot — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:32:09 -0000

This is great news and a cool read. Thanks for always getting the scoop for us little folks. I'm running over to get my new plugin and check the feature set on Disqus right now. I have been waiting for this ... YAY