To many Internet power users and early adapters, the online search experience has gotten slightly predictable lately. It’s almost as if users have come to expect the same results from the big three search engines: an official page for term searched towards the top, followed by a Wikipedia page, some news results, a blog or two, some text ads, and a heap of spam pages. 

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Twitter has put together the official guidelines for best business practices for their users:

1. Share.

2. Listen.

3. Ask.

4. Respond.

5. Reward.

6. Demonstrate wider leadership and know-how.

7. Champion your stakeholders.

8. Establish the right voice.

Source: Twitter.com

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This is our first release of “Interesting Stuff”:

• http://www.twazzup.com – Real-time search engine.
• http://ycombinator.com – Helping startups develop and get investors.
• http://www.kosmix.com – Social media, organised by topic.
• http://www.mahalo.com – Learn anything (?)
• http://www.netbase.com – Social media analytics

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I hearken back to the good old days when people were tweeting about interesting and relevant things. I miss the days when I could catch up with everyone I was following while I enjoyed my morning coffee, during the last 5 minutes of my lunch break and when my wife checked on the kids to make sure they were sleeping instead of playing their PSP.

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There’s no underestimating of the heated rivalry between Facebook and Google for all sorts of different reasons and whilst Facebook has grown to over 500 million users (making it the largest and most successful social network), Google has struggled to date to show it even has a grasp of the social network concept (Orkut and Buzz anyone?).

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When it comes to email marketing, you will find that the process can be slightly complicated. By not having the right email campaigns in place, you can potentially cause yourself some unnecessary stress and end up hitting a black list. Instead, a good idea will be to focus on the elements that can help you it be successful in this process.

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Whenever I ask clients if they are on twitter, the reaction is pretty much the same across the board: “Why do I care what people are having for breakfast?”

Poor old twitter – it seems that most people think it is a dumbed down version of the Facebook “status” update when the reality is that it can be an amazing business tool if used right.

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The 21st century has become the Information Age. Access to the wealth of resources and news available on the internet has converted humanity into a population of information-seekers, hungry for the latest and greatest information and technology. Mobile phones, wireless networks, social networks and other advancements have placed people in closer contact with the world around them than ever thought possible.

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