CheapTweet - Scans Twitter For Deals

What is CheapTweet?

CheapTweet scans Twitter for the best deals, coupons and sales that people are tweeting about.

How does it work?

CheapTweet lets users rate deals by saying It's Cheap (it's a good deal) or It's Lame (it's not a good deal). Deals move to the Cheapest Tweets section if they get enough votes.

But that's not all... CheapTweet also uses the power of Twitter. If lots of people talk about a deal, CheapTweet tracks that too and that contributes to a deal getting on the Cheapest Tweets list. Spammers beware though, we're filtering you out.

Visit and find a deal at CheapTweet.com

Rypple - Social Networking Meets Performance Evaluations

Rypple is a simple application that lets anyone ask for feedback from a group or team of people. Rypple takes an old concept of asking for feedback and brings it forward to a Twitter/social media society.


Features

* Create instant micro-polls
* Identity protected feedback
* Instant deployment company wide or just within teams
* Trend analysis





How companies use Rypple

* Empower employees to gather quick, frequent feedback on themselves, their projects, and anything else
* Quickly poll small teams or the entire company ("How can we beat our competition?")
* Get managers and employees talking. Before the annual review. ("What can I do to help you meet your goals?")


Benefits

* Greater productivity through continuous feedback and improvement
* Save time and money vs. expensive surveys
* Real-time insight for employees and managers
* Know what really matters to your people
* Transform culture and improve retention

Visit Rypple.com and try it for free to obtain some valuable insight in record time.

Twitter Meets Job Hunting - Tweetmyjobs

TweetMyJOBS.com, a Charlotte, NC startup, is doing its part to help jumpstart the economy. The company has built a sophisticated job distribution system on top of the widely popular online service Twitter.com, which allows users to send short messages to people’s cell phones as a text message. Companies that are looking to hire can post a job opening for free through TweetMyJOBS.com, and anyone interested in that type of job will automatically get the job posting sent to them as a text message.

In addition, if the job opening has been created as a result of the U.S. stimulus package, it will be identified as a Stimulus Job and will be featured and headlined on TweetMyJOBS.com.

“There are currently a lot of unemployed people who have a family to feed and bills to pay,” said Gary Zukowski, President of TweetMyJOBS.com. “President Obama has stated that 3.5 million jobs will be saved or created by his stimulus package. TweetMyJOBS.com is designed to help get these jobs into the hands of people who need them as quickly as possible. By using TweetMyJOBS.com, job seekers will get instant notification of any new job openings in their desired field and location. In a competitive marketplace, this speed of notification could be the difference between getting a job or not.”

In addition to U.S. job postings, TweetMyJOBS.com is already expanding internationally in response to demand from employers interested in using the service to post job opportunities outside of the U.S.

YouTube Surpasses 100 Million U.S. Viewers

comScore , released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 4 percent versus December 2008.YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed versus December, as it surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time.

Google Sites Adds to Lead in Video Market Share

In January, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 6.4 billion videos viewed (43 percent online video market share), with YouTube.com accounting for more than99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 552 million videos (3.7 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 374 million (2.5 percent) and Viacom Digital with 288 million (1.9 percent). Megavideo climbed 15 percent (103 million videos) in January to capture a spot in the top ten for the first time.

Google Sites Surpasses 100 Million Viewers in January

More than 147 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 101 videos per viewer in January. Google Sites grew to 102 million online video viewers during the month, or more than two out of every three Internet users who watched video. Fox Interactiveranked second with 62.1 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites (41.9 million) and Microsoft Sites (30.0 million).

Other notable findings from January 2009 include:

• 76.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
• The average online video viewer watched 356 minutes of video (approximately 6 hours), up 15 percent versus December.
• 100.9 million viewers watched 6.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (62.6 videos per viewer).
• 54.1 million viewers watched 473 million videos on MySpace.com (8.7 videos per viewer).
• The duration of the average online video was 3.5 minutes, up from 3.2 minutes per video in December.
• The duration of the average online video viewed at Megavideo was 24.9 minutes, higher than any other video property in the top ten.

Twitter Frenzy - The Daily Show's Jon Stewart Rips Washington's Twitter Use

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has some fun highlighting recent Twitter usage at Obama's first congressional address. Twitter seems to be becoming more of a mainstream communication channel every day. Enjoy.



Reporter Sam Bee says Twitter has become such a big deal among legislators and the media elite because it's awesome.

Using Social Media to Keep Your Job and Grow Your Brand

The job market continues to be unstable in ways that we have not seen in decades. This is the time to solidify your skills and become the strongest asset you can be for your company.

Below is Rohit Bhargava's list of six ways of "Using Social Media to Keep Your Job." They are solid principals that can be used in good times or bad.

1) Grow your personal brand.
2) Be an accidental spokesperson.
3) Invite testimonials.
4) Network internally.
5) Join or start the social media team.
6) Go beyond your job.

See the full article here. Using Social Media to Keep Your Job

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Adjix for Twitter - Embed Ads and Manage Tweets

What is Adjix?
Shorten a long link, embed an ad, and tweet it

Adjix is a way for people to create short links to Web sites, tweet them, track clicks, and earn revenue.

Adjix also ties in very nicely with Twitter using our Adjix2Twitter feature that allows you to tweet a link now or have it scheduled to be sent later from multiple Twitter accounts.

Embed Ads in tweets
Linkers can also earn revenue with Adjix2Twitter using the new Embed Ad option which allows you to embed an ad directly into your tweet.

Shrink a link
For example, you can turn this link:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/11/ten-tiny-apps-t.html/

into this link:
http://adjix.com/c6qe

When people click on the Adjix link an optional text ad from the Adjix ad network at the top of the page. You'll earn revenue from these ads provided that you were logged into your free Adjix Linker account when you created your short link.

Ad-Free Links
You also have the option to not have any ads associated with your link. Simply choose "No Ad" from the pop-up next to the "Shrink Link" button. The ad-free links are simple redirects to the destination Web site. But, Adjix will still collect click data for your ad-free links.

Link Data
You can see your link's data (who clicked on the link?, when?, how many times?) when you log into your Linker account - just make sure you see your e-mail address under the text field where you entered the orginal link (URL).

Why shorten a link?
Long links may not work when you send them in a text message or in an e-mail because they wrap from one line to the next. The link in the above example would be too long to send in a text message.

Not only are Adjix links shorter, but, if you've logged into your free Linker account on the Adjix website you can also track exactly who has clicked on your links plus you earn revenue from the Adjix ads which run when your shortened link is clicked.

Additionally, you can shorten your links even further when every character counts, such as when sending a link via text message. Simply replace adjix.com with ad.vu:
http://ad.vu/rg33

Business branding (Use your own domain name) You can also use your own domain name in place of adjix.com or ad.vu when you shorten a link.

This service is free and seems to be worth a try.
Visit Adjix and see how it can help you manage your tweets.

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