Everyone is all about Twitter these days. It’s all anyone was talking about last weekend.
I like Twitter, too, as you know, and what’s totally cool is that since JV Alert, I’ve picked up almost 300 new followers. Wahoo!
Yesterday, Andrew Devine (@adevine1) posted an awesome tweet about 14 cool Twitter tools from Kenny Hyder. Some of them I’ve not heard about before, and I thought I’d share. Check this out: 14 Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users
- Ever wonder if you should follow someone or not?
- Check out the plethora of # tags that exist
- Stalk people on Twitter (Follow them incognito.)
- Get some very cool stats about your usage
- Download and Save a copy of your Twitter account
- Get beyond TweetBacks
- Enter yourself in the Twitter Business Directory
- Host your own short URL
- Add your photographs to Twitter easily
- Post to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (I like TwiterFox for that better, really.)
- Post to your Google Calendar by sending direct messages
- Find stats on your Twitter relationships
- Grade yourself as a Tweep
- Schedule and post Tweets
All there!
I started this yesterday, so sorry I’m behind. We started a new program at Overcome Everything — ListBuilding 411, where members can ask one question per day and a member of our crack OE staff will answer in video. It’s pretty cool for the members, but we’re experiencing some growning pains and guess who gets to manage all that?
Moi.
So, I’m behind.
But not for long. Bear with me. 
So, the social milieu is ever morphing, and one of the very old standards is changing in a big way.
Social bookmarking practically started with Del.icio.us, but what a handle! I always thought it was suicidal in terms of marketing, but people found it and use the social bookmarking service all the time. I guess I learned about it in 2005 from Tim Linden, my old friend at StartXchange.
I thought it was kind of cool then, but didn’t have any idea how HUGE this stuff would get.
Anyway, Delicious is now Delicious.com–easier to deal with when typing the URL into the address bar. Easier to find for anyone who didn’t know the old .us domain.
And it looks a bit different. Still that nice four color square logo, but inside, Delicious is totally revamped and looking sweet.
You can check out bookmarks or tags on the front page, which is pretty cool. But it also lets you subscribe to tags.
To check it out, I subscribed to the tag “internet marketing,” and got a bunch of interesting stuff back.
In fact, I learned that Mozilla just came out with Ubiquity, which will allow you to, and I quote from the Mozilla Labs blog:
“Ubiquity 0.1
- Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.
- Find and install new commands to extend your browser’s vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism
- Read about Ubiquity In Depth, or see a number of the commands in action (with screenshots) in the Ubiquity Tutorial.”
That’s pretty cool, no? I mean, I’m going to check that out. But if it weren’t for Delicious, I may not have found that intersting tidbit of information.
Web 2.0 rocks, and Delicious is a total cornerstone of it.
Wow! Imagine if they’d had this when I was researching stuff all the time. I go way back to pre-Internet days as a writer, and I can assure you that going to the library or running across town to interview the local expert wasn’t cutting it. Now, all the information in the world is right at your finger tips.
I feel blessed. Going to add Ubiquity now.
