Posted by DBiles on June 18, 2009
Today, in a press release, CheapTweet announces a partnership with DealTaker.
CheapTweet is a site that aggregates deals which are passed along through Twitter. There, a growing community of bargain-hunters vote on the best tweeted deals, making it a great resource for anyone to see real time information about the best deals out there.
Check out the DealTaker/CheapTweet cobranded page here. It’s a great way to see all of the great deals that the DealTaker team tweets and resulting conversations.
We are exited about this partnership with CheapTweet and look forward to seeing our communities grow together!
Posted by smccarthy on June 16, 2009
The Wonderful World of APIs
API or Application Programming Interface is a ubiquitous term used in the tech world everyday. With the popularity of online social networking sites and the need to add features and content easily into your own site, executives are starting to understand the benefits of using and or providing a public API to third party organizations. The term has become so popular that most executives now use API in their repertoire of business terms. They should, considering users want these features and most organizations such as Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace and LinkedIn provide an API for the public. So, what exactly is an API?
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Posted by ellisgl on June 1, 2009
I’ve been thinking about a how to geocode tweets and here’s what I’ve come up with.
1.) Get the location’s latitude and longitude (IE. 33.017262, -96.98494).
2.) Make sure you have 3 numbers before decimal point. So we would left pad with a ‘0′ and we would end up with 033 and 096.
3.) Add the + and – to our result, so +033 and -096 would be our result
4.) Take the first 3 numbers after the decimal point and add it to the end of result, so we end up with +033017-096984.
4.)Take the first 3 to 6 numbers after the decimal point and add it to the end of result, so we end up with +033017-096984 if we used 3 or if we used 6 we would end up with +033017255-096984955
5.) Post a tweet with the hash tag of #geotwit, the result and the rest of what your tweet.
Here’s an example of a full tweet: #geotwit +033017-096984 http://twitpic.com/6eh1a Spotted this car Friday in Lewisville, TX.
Posted by Siddeley on May 11, 2009
In one of the many newsletters I get via email I ran across an article on Social Media:Â Our Take: Social Media Lose Their Edge.
A pretty interesting article about how the businesses we work for will eventually, in the author’s opinion, control what we blog or tweet or discuss on the web.
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Posted by Kstraw on April 28, 2009
A few years back I read an article about a new website called Wesabe. Wesabe is what they call “part money management tool, part community”. Being that I am very detail oriented when it comes to money management, seeing a place I could go online, that was secure, and that allowed me to relate to and with others about ways to save was brilliant. The process of setting up accounts is simple enough and the number of tools available to keep track of spending is great. They even have a tool that allows one to use Twitter to send in expenses to accounts via a cell phone using the direct message functionality (perfect for me since I enter every receipt and hate it when the gas pump receipt jams). I have used Quicken for as long as I can remember, but now it is time to use the tools that fit my life now – online,community, and cutting edge – Wesabe. Check it out.
Posted by smccarthy on April 22, 2009
Twitter is micro-blogging, real-time blogging, or better yet, just users who send and receive short, real-time messages known as tweets. Each account has followers, but followers don’t necessarily have to be friends. These tweets are stored, searched, and shared between followers who see your short, whether relevant or not, updates.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder described his creation as â€â€¦ an idea to make a more ‘live’ LiveJournal, Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it.”
Google’s CEO described Twitter another way when he called it a poor man’s email system, “Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems.”  Although, his statement is rudimentary, it does have merit. If you think of Twitter from a technical standpoint, it is easily a poor man’s email system, but a SPAM proof one at that.
You can SPAM your followers who, for better or worse, actively opted in to follow your conscious activity. However, you won’t get your follower’s tweets unless, of course, you choose to follow them. So, what we really have is just the evolution of a poor man’s email system that happens to solve what today’s email system can’t, that is SPAM!
Everywhere we turn information is being pushed on us – from ads, emails, text messages, RSS, etc. – we are living in a world of information clutter. Do we really need another communication system? Does it really matter what your friends or Ashton Kutcher are doing right now? “Brushing my teeth, just got off the elevator, flying the red-eye in a silver tube at 600mph over the Rockies,” can be too much. Who really gives a tweet?
Either way, Twitter has become unbelievably popular and is most likely here to stay. Twitter’s active users have increased 900% in a year which leads all social networks including the all–powerful FaceBook. So for now anyway, the clutter is here to stay.
You can follow DealTaker on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dealtaker
Posted by DBiles on March 31, 2009
The Twitterscape was all abuzz yesterday with the news that DealTaker handpicks deals and posts them on Twitter. This article explains a bit more about DealTaker on Twitter.
How does it work? Official DealTaker bargain hunters do the hard work of finding the very best deals and then post them to the popular Twitter site, which sends the updates or “tweets” to followers. Tweets can be received via the web, instant messaging or mobile texting. From there, deal takers simply click on the offer to buy online and save. It’s fun, useful and easy.
To follow DealTaker on Twitter, simply go to http://twitter.com/dealtaker, signup for an account if you don’t already have one, and click “Follow.” It’s that simple!
Posted by DBiles on February 16, 2009
Who says you can’t do two things at the same time? If you tweet for DealTaker you can win at the same time!
Check out the Tweet for DealTaker Contest and put your Twitter account to work for you!
Posted by DBiles on February 6, 2009
If you listen close, the tap, tap, tapping of keys that can normally be heard in the DealTaker offices has increased in intensity this week.
That’s cause we’ve all become enchanted with Twitter. For those of you uninitiated in Twitter… well… you’re missing out on quite a party!
Come follow us. Our main account is @dealtaker, but you can also follow all of your favorite Content Coordinators too!
My twitter is @dylanbiles. You can follow our President, Kevin Strawbridge, @kstraw.
Follow all the content coordinators -
BrattyJeni – @Kaligrl69
fheenix33 – @LisaD35
DraginFli – @Ro11erGirl
Siddeley – @Siddeley
BananaFrog – @LanaMarie101
So come tweet us up and join in on the conversation!
