Are you ready to ride the Wave on September 30th – when Google will start sending 100,000 invites for the early test of Google Wave

The real-time communication platform has captured the imagination of countless communication, social media, and tech enthusiasts that want to get their hands on its game-changing features. It can import Twitter, provide real-time chat, play back past conversations, and even allows for drag-and-drop file uploads.

There are a lot of features, but it is unlike any other web product yet and thus takes time to learn. That’s why in July we asked an important question: is the world ready for Google Wave? Will there be widespread adoption, or will the ambitious project fall short of expectations? Will developers jump on the Wave bandwagon and build apps for it like they do for Twitter () and Facebook ()?

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FriendFeed was founded in 2007 by four former Googlers: Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh. Before leaving Google, the guys helped design and launch several well-known products, including Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Groups. FriendFeed was their vision for a centralized sharing service — kind of like Facebook, only without all the extra stuff. It’s basically a content aggregator:

And so begins the next step in Facebook’s assault on Twitter.  Is this a marriage made in heaven?

Mark Zuckerberg and FriendFeed Co-Founders Celebrate Deal

Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself along with FriendFeed co-founders Paul Buchheit, James Norris, Bret Taylor to his Facebook account, with the caption “Photo from our negotiation / signing party last night with the FriendFeed founders.

Twitter.com subject to a so-called denial-of-service attack, according to the firm’s official blog. Denial-of-service attacks take various forms but often involve a company’s servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.

The outage began Thursday morning but the geographic scale of the attack is still not known!
“On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack,” said company co-founder Biz Stone on the company’s blog. 08/06/2009

Sent to CNN.com by Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder:

“There’s no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities. We are currently the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we defend and later investigate.”

08.07.09

Twitter Service Spotty as Attacks Continue (New York Times)

A massive denial-of-service attack that disabled Twitter for much of Thursday continued on Friday. Twitter said its defenses are keeping the site largely accessible to users, but some third-party applications, such as TwitterBerry for BlackBerry smartphones, are still having problems accessing the service. (Here at The Times, we’re having trouble getting on both through apps and the Twitter.com site — tell us your experience in the comments.)

October 27/28/2009 – Los Angeles, CA
November 10/11/2009 – London, UK

Kodak Brings Social Media into the Spotlight
140 Characters Conference (#140conf) takes center stage at the KODAK Theatre in Los Angeles; attendees will talk, tweet and discuss the future of Real Time social web.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 4 — A new wave of characters will take to the red carpet at the prestigious KODAK Theatre, to attend the 140 Characters Conference on October 27th and 28th in Los Angeles. The KODAK Theatre’s prestige and glamour is fitting in an age where social media is connecting individuals both in and out of the limelight. The LA event is expected to draw up to 1,200 attendees, seeking knowledge and insight regarding the effect the Real Time social web has on global business. During the conference, Kodak will exhibit their latest consumer products; feature red carpet photos and will host an “interview booth” for attendees to share their favorite KODAK Moments over Twitter.

“Kodak prides itself on helping people build relationships,” said Jeff Hayzlett, chief marketing officer and vice president of Kodak. “We’re extremely pleased to co-host the conference and help show the world how the social media platform has transformed the way we communicate, explore and interact with the world around us.”

The schedule for this two day event is unique and fast paced. It was the intention of Jeff Pulver to provide a platform for as many people as possible to share their thoughts and engage in conversation with the attending delegates.
For details please visit:
http://140conf.com

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Ms. B tweeted in May about mold in her Chicago apartment, and Horizon Group Management answered with a $50,000 defamation lawsuit. News of the lawsuit went viral on the Internet after a Chicago blogger caught wind of the complaint. Horizon, denied there was mold, said it was suing because that one tweet could be heard around the world. Ms. B had only 17 people following her on Twitter- BUT she had a public account that could be viewed by anyone searching for her comments and not counting the RT from her followers and their followers and the public searches etc….. The Power of the RT.

Is there a social media lesson here? Probably! Tweeple should be careful about what they tweet. Companies should also be careful how they respond to a negative tweet – handling it badly could result in a public relations nightmare. However, many many companies have turned customer complaints into pure gold! By monitoring Twitter and other Social Media channels, savvy organizations seek out legitimate complaints from displeased customers and proactively provide resolution.

Are we underestimating Twitter’s reach.  Twitter’s 140 characters is just enough to say something powerful for good or ……

With that said: @ChrisBrogan blogged “A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide”
“I love Twitter. I think the service is a wonderful tool that permits a whole new way of communicating. The thing is, it’s also a place where newcomers might often make some mistakes in their choices that will likely be taken in a negative manner, and will likely result in an unfollow or a block from other Twitter users.”

Here is a Chris’ take.
* It’s okay to follow people you don’t know on Twitter. They can choose whether or not to follow you back.
* It’s okay to unfollow people on Twitter. Unfollowing doesn’t automatically mean “I don’t like you.” There are many other reasons.
* It’s okay to @reply someone a question or comment vs direct message, especially if it’s an idea where others might weigh in or add a perspective.
* It’s better to direct message someone if you’re making 1:1 plans or having a very focused, personal conversation.
* It’s not polite to direct message people you don’t know well with your automated quiz results or similar. It’s great that YOU like those quizzed, but others see it as spam.
* Some people are not a fan of auto reply messages that are sent in direct messages when someone follows you on Twitter. They (and by “they,” I also mean “I”) consider these robot behavior.
* Promoting others and talking with others is a great way to show your participation to the community.
* Only blurting out your information and links doesn’t usually come off as friendly or community-minded.
* You don’t have to read every tweet.
* You don’t have to respond to every @mention.
* You aren’t obligated to reply to every direct message.
* However, the more you can respond, the more people tend to stay with you and build relationships.
* When retweeting other people’s works, it’s okay to truncate a bit to be able to retweet. Please preserve the link and also the original person’s Twitter name. (ex: RT @mackcollier “Twitter lives and dies on retweeting.”)
* When retweeting someone else’s retweet, it’s sometimes okay to drop the secondary source and just retweet the original poster of the information. (example showing a change to a retweet): “RT @chrisbrogan RT @mackcollier Twitter lives and dies on retweeting” turns into “RT @mackcollier Twitter lives and dies on retweeting.” (make sense? agree?)
* Want to avoid the above problem? Make your retweets more retweetable.
* It’s Ok to have multiple twitter identities (from Jack Bresler)
* It’s OK to disregard robots. (from Jack Bresler)
* If you’re running a customer service Twitter account, it’s polite to follow back the people following you. (from Ted Coine).
* Unless you have the author’s consent, it also may be unwise to pull from another feed stream, like mybloglog, and place the information into the twitter stream (from WWAHHMpreneur)
* Swearing/cursing might well be bad etiquette, and feels like swearing loudly in a public place. (from BizyBiz) . *Note: I sometimes swear. Sorry.
* Pitching your blog might not be the next best move directly after a follow. (inspired by cherylandonian)
* Don’t get hung up on the numbers, that’s not what matters. Its a case of who you know not how many you know. (from Justin Parks)

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Sarah provides a terrific outline for understanding how twitter works for your business

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Do You Make These Mistakes on Twitter

Truth is 99% of all marketers have social media DEAD WRONG!

In fact, I only know one guy that has it dialed-in like a funk radio station on a Saturday Night!

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My good friend, Perry Belcher really spilled his guts in this one.

He has single handedly built one of the largest Twitter followings in the marketing industry of over 101,000 followers

Not only is he amassing an army of followers

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Guy Kawasaki – Building Your Business With Social Media – 80 minutes

Michael Wesch’s Lecture

Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, “Michael Wesch and the Future of Education.” I found it fascinating! He describes how he so naturally incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theater filled class.

More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities.

Although the video is 66 minutes long…pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher.”

Dubbed “the explainer” by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17 (see video above).

During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future.

“It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online,” he explains. “We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn’t.”