BeatBlogging.Org » Push notifications http://beatblogging.org Pushing the practice of beat reporting Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:03:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Monday Dose of social media: Facebook to top $500 million in revenue this year http://beatblogging.org/2009/07/06/monday-dose-of-social-media-facebook-to-top-500-million-in-revenue-this-year/ http://beatblogging.org/2009/07/06/monday-dose-of-social-media-facebook-to-top-500-million-in-revenue-this-year/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:44:44 +0000 Patrick Thornton http://beatblogging.org/?p=4251 Facebook’s ‘09 Revenue to Top $500 Million — Facebook is starting to take off as a company and expects to have billions of dollars of yearly revenue within five years. See, you can make money off the Internet.

News orgs need to start developing platforms and communities. Making money off of just reporting will be a tough sell moving forward.

How I tweet: Just the FAQs — This is how a master tweeter Guy Kawasaki tweets. Learn from the best.

A few tidbits:

  • Guy follows everyone back because that allows people to Direct Message him. DMs are limited to 140 characters and Guy finds them much more efficient than e-mail.
  • Guy uses TweetDeck on his Mac. It’s probably the best desktop application around (available on Windows and Linux too).

Search photos on Twitter with twicsy — This is the best photo search for Twitter that I’ve found so far. A useful tool for content producers.

14 iPhone Apps With Push Notification for Productivity — By far our favorite use of Push notifications on the iPhone so far are instant messaging applications. Now a content producer can stay logged into IM on the go and the iPhone will pop up notifications when new IMs arrive.

Twitter Cops: Nobody cares what your eating — This is a hilarious Twitter spoof video. The video highlights something to take note of, however. Most people probably don’t care about the mundane details of your lives. But Twitter can be a fantastic tool for work. This video contains strong language. (link via @NickHeller)

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