NYT No Doubt About It - Oprah Brought Lots of New Users to Twitter Oprah's well publicized first tweet on Friday was definitely a boon for Twitter. According to Hitwise, 37% of all visits to Twitter last Friday were from new visitors, and Twitter's overall share of U.S. Internet visits increased 24% on Friday. It is important to note, though, that Twitter, being the new and growing service that it is, usually gets… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Lifestreaming Windows Live Becomes Even More Social: Integrates Facebook, Last.fm, Digg, and Others Windows Live received a major makeover last November, and part of this makeover included the ability to aggregate updates from third-party services like Flickr, Pandora, or Twitter. Today, Microsoft announced that its users will now also be able to import their updates from 20 additional partners, including Digg, Last.fm, SmugMug, and Facebook… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers Firefox Could Offer New Ways to View Data (Mock-ups) Bees can see ultraviolet light that the human eye cannot see. Snakes and mosquitoes can see infrared light. The Firefox (browser) can see things that the human eye can't, too, but a lot of it doesn't get used for anything. So far. Microformats are one thing that the browser notices while serving up web pages. This type of markup designating… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Blogging Bad Stats: Are There Really Almost As Many Professional Bloggers As Lawyers? This morning, the Wall Street Journal features an article about professional blogging, a topic that is obviously very close to our hearts here at RWW. Mark Penn, the article's author, even cites some of our own numbers, though the most astonishing number he arrives at is that America is now home to over 452,000 professional bloggers who use… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Open Thread: Is Web 2.0 Dead? Answer to Win Our Web 2.0 Swag You've heard the grumblings. Web 2.0 is declining, it's so last year....no wait, maybe Web 2.0 is just dead. But is it really? Or has it just become so ubiquitous that it no longer needs a special label anymore? Former Forrester analyst and Groundswell author Charlene Li predicted that social networking would become "like air" - that is, social… Sarah Perez View comments