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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Favorite – making things easily accessible is one of the tenants of the Internet. So marking a conversation or message, to be found easily later, should be one of the first features implemented.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Best, Isa 760 Media Reply Ben Cook February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm As I commented on sphinn, I definitely think social media is going to become more and more mainstream over the next year or two. People will share content on mobile devices through IR/SMS/email. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. I definitely prefer the networking environment of Plurk to the to broadcasting environment of Twitter. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide (10e20): I walked through some of the basics of StumbleUpon, and this guide still definitely points you in the right direction, but don’t be surprised if you see an updated guide posted sometime in the near future! guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. When we first reviewed 2or3things Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. ZapTXT also powers email, IM, and SMS alerts for sites like TheStreet.com. not via an RSS reader).

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