Thursday, 8 July 2010

ReTweet relativity


One of the tools I made recently is my own Search tool that I use to make hashtag Tweet Collections. Its output is HTML but it's also valid XML (just change the extension), but the real beauty of it is that every tweet has a timestamp, including seconds - so I can tell which tweets can be human, and which must be automated

How?

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

The Social Sh*tpile: Social Everything


Social CRM: pleonasm or tautology?
Every now and then wikipedia fails me, and this is such a moment.
In ancient Greek pleon comes from pleioon, meaning more: you are actually saying more than need be, overstating it. Dark night, green grass, bright light, etcetera. That's what a pleonasm is and does: adding redundancy, exageration
In ancient Greek to autos logos means the same word: you are using words that mean the same. I'm ticked off and angry, happy and delighted, dazed and confused. That's what a tautology does: it repeats the same word, synonyms

Enters Social CRM

Friday, 2 July 2010

Growth flows naturally from the inside


In a tweet conversation with Erik Roscam Abbing today I was proverbially struck by lightning: (read from bottom to top)