You’ve got a Tweet!

By Budi Putra | May 7, 2008

Started over a few weeks ago, I got back to my Twitter account. Despite the fact I have been a member of this service more than a year ago, frankly speaking, I didn’t use it regularly. Twittering two times a month is a kind of luxury thing for me.

So why did I finally come back to Twitter? My answer is simple: I started to use Twitter as well as other social networking service in order to expand my networking, to looking for more friends, to find out more strangers.

What is Twitter?

According to Wikipedia:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

Right now, I frequently send my Twitter messages from my BlackBerry Curve 8310 (rather than its web version in PC). I am using both GTalk and TwitterBerry-client.

If you’re on IM all day anyway, why not read and receive Tweets? GTalk is an excellent application for this.

But, for writing Twitter messages, I prefer using TwitterBerry that kindly always reminded me to write less than 140 characters (which GTalk can’t do).

Ah yeah, I am also putting a Twitter badge in the sidebar of this blog.

You can follow me through Twitter by adding this: http://twitter.com/budip .

Happy twittering!

Topics: Social Media, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »

Facebooking every day!

By Budi Putra | April 7, 2008

Not all Internet services could force me to log-in into their applications almost every day except Facebook.

This damn service also forced me to keep connected even in my BlackBerry!

Due to my unlimitted data plan for the powerful device, it means that I always be connected to the Facebook 24 hours a day!

Now, Facebook added another new feature to keep me (OMG) more addicted to: Facebook Chat!

Its blogger said:

This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament—they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap.

Enough is enough, Mark. Hahahaha. Two thumbs up for all of your team!

All images taken from the Facebook blog.

Topics: Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 12 Comments »

TechCrunch suing Facebook for $25 million, Daily Blog Tips acquired for $168,000!

By Budi Putra | April 1, 2008

It’s the big shots in today’s blogosphere:

Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages - TechCrunch
Daily Blog Tips Has Been Acquired for $168,000 - Daily Blog Tips

Happy April Fools!

Topics: Blogging, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »

Mixx: When users become the newsroom staff

By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008

“Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters“.

The user-generated-content site, Mixx, doesn’t have an editor who decides the headlines. Instead, users decide all the editorial items!

Here’s how it works:

Only Super Mixxers can tag a story as “Breaking.” If you haven’t achieved Super Mixxer status, just keep Mixxing: add great content, vote and comment—you’ll get there!
It takes two to Mixx a Breaking News story. Two Super Mixxers, that is.
Only a limited number of stories can be in the Breaking News category at any one time, and only for a limited time.
Once a Breaking News story gets enough votes, it will move over to “Popular,” and to any other category with which it was tagged (entertainment, politics, science, etc.).

It looks like more simple rather than the biggest social news digg.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing how it works out!

Topics: Content, News, Social Media | No Comments »

Web 2.0 ‘imperative’ for business: Oracle exec

By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008

Bill Kearney, general manager of enterprise content management at Oracle Asia-Pacific, gave an advise for advertisers to target niche audience: just approach “web 2.0’s commercial appeal”.

There is a fierce reason behind this idea: “Web 2.0 and web content management facilitate collaborative communication,” he explained.

Focusing on the-also-called-new media would be a next-gen strategy to compete and win.

Source: ZDnet via Silicon via eCocoma | Image: GettyImages

Topics: Business, Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Voila. Enterprise Wiki for everyone!

By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008

It’s an enterprise wiki with document management capabilities.

Source: Digital Asset Management

Topics: Quicklink, wiki | No Comments »

When web 2.0 meets GPS

By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008

The new gadget offers two-way communication between the device and user, instead of one-way like other devices did. Yes, it can connect your gadget back to the company’s servers over cell phone or Wi-Fi wireless Internet connections.

“There is an element of Web 2.0 meets GPS here,” said Mark Williamson, director of services for Dash. “Others get you from point to point. We can tell you what is around you.”

Source: VentureBeat

Topics: Gadget, Web 2.0 | No Comments »

How much is your blog worth? $150 million!

By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008

Blog would be a worthy property today and in the coming years. If your blogs have your own niche with millions of readers, please be aware, the capital owners will keep eye on you, I promise.

Douglas A. McIntyre wrote about The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs (is it one of them is yours?) and mentioned that The Gawker Properties is worth of $150 million! Others: MacRumors ($85 million), Huffington Post ($70 million), PerezHilton ($48 million) and TechCrunch ($36 million).

Many internet business practitioners started to run their blog networks have one of the exit strategies: selling them or asked the venture capitals to join with. Otherwise, their blogs worth would take their companies values were sky-rocketing and ready to go public (IPO).

Yes, blog is not only a kind of online diary that you handle just in your spare time, but it already shifted to be a serious journal that worth of hundreds thousand million dollar!

It’s a new media, a new business, a new empire where money will go in the coming years.

See full list here.

Topics: Blogging | 2 Comments »

The best taglines around the Internet

By Budi Putra | March 21, 2008

Do you know the taglines, don’t you? It’s usually put under the blog or the web title. It consists of a few words, but sometimes in form of a sentence. This blog, for instance, has the tagline: “Talk with me.”

DailyBlogTips has a collection of the best taglines around the Internet, which might inspire you to create your own and proudly put in your blog :-).

Below is the complete list (please put in the comment forum under this post if you had or read any other favorite tagline):

The Straight Dope: Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought).
Maxim Philippines: The best thing that ever happened to men … after women!
The Consumerist: Shoppers bite back.
Random Acts of Reality: Trying to kill as few people as possible…
Joshuaink: Same old shit, different day.
The Superficial: Because you’re ugly.
Smashing Magazine: We smash you with information that will make your life easier. Really.
The Best Page in the Universe: This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.
Scaryduck: Not scary. Not a duck.
The Art of Rhysisms: Chronologically inept since 2060.
Needcoffee.com: We are the Internet equivalent of a triple espresso with whipped cream. Mmmm…whipped cream.
Ample Sanity: Life is short. Make fun of it.
Rathergood.com: The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom - a load of stuff by Joel Veitch that will probably crush your will to live.
The Breakfast Blog: In search of the best eggs in town.
Dooce: Not even remotely funny.
Pink is the new blog: Everybody’s business is my business.
Shoemoney: Skills to pay the bills.
Oh No They Didnt’t!: The celebrities are disposable, the content is priceless.
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself.
Waiter Rant: Do you want Pommes Frite with that?
Newshounds: We watch FOX so you don’t have to.
Sabrina Faire: All the fun of a saucy wench, none of the overpriced beer.
Defective Yeti: A maze of twisty passages, all alike.
All About George: All about George Kelly… you know, if you go in for that sort of thing.
Go Fug Yourself: Fugly is the new pretty.
kottke.org: Home of fine hypertext products.
Slashdot: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Gawker: Daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Reporting live from the center of the universe.
Get Rich Slowly: Personal finance that makes cents.
hi5: Who’s in?
Fotolog: Share your world with the world.
Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women, Without Aribrushing.
Autoblog: We obssessibely cover the auto industry.
Boing Boing: A directory of wonderful things.
Perez Hilton: Celebrity Juice. Not from concentrate.
DumbLittleMan: So what do we do here? Well, it’s simple. 15 to 20 times per week we provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.
Lifehacker: Don’t live to geek, geek to live!
Gizmodo: The gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.
John Cow Dot Com: Make Moooney Online with John Cow Dot Com
WebWorkerDaily: Rebooting the workforce.
The Simple Dollar: Financial talk for the rest of us.
TrafficBunnies: Making your hits multiply like rabbits.
Mighty Girl: Famous among dozens.
The Sneeze: Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
Buzz Marketing: Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.