The Realtime Report

JULY 27, 2012

Smart people are posting ideas for new business models based on an open API , lamenting what could have been had Twitter become an API company rather than an advertising company, and raising money to build an alternative realtime feed API. ” First, Twitter needs to build the wall, and that means reining in developers.

API 180

API Eventful Aggregator Twitter 180

Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? Who is protecting OUR content?

Communities 108

Communities Social Media Journal Diagrams 108

Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

It wasn’t until a couple of months later, that the #SanDiegoFire hashtag was sparked to aggregate tweets and updates about the California wildfires. Foursquare’s geolocation API was used for geofilters and location tagging in apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. They earned virtual mayorships while they were at it.

Social Media 145

Social Media MySpace Tumblr Foursquare 145

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. aggregators. Customer Support. POPULAR TAGS.

Crowdsourcing 245

Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Ive found out, that it is far too easy to be dragged to only one larger and very live community (Facebook for example) and to forget about all of the rest web 2.0 aggregators. One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. POPULAR TAGS.

Class 274

Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. This is the reason why they have been so conservative making an API available as this is where the value of their business resides. aggregators. That is easily fixable by LinkedIn.

LinkedIn 109

LinkedIn Google Directory API 109

Convince & Convert

JUNE 21, 2012

I think the thing that struck me as particularly worthwhile talking about today was the deal with Radian6 / Salesforce and Twitter to give them real time firehose access to the Twitter tweets API , which as far as I know Twitter has never done that, has never given an individual vendor access at that level. I agree, it’s interesting.

Radian6 118

Radian6 Social Media Statistics Company 118