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Month: July 2009

The New Twitter Home Page, Does It Matter?

The New Twitter Home Page, Does It Matter?

So there has been a lot of buzz this week revolving around the launch of the new Twitter home page, which features trending topics that are hot at the moment, hot for that current day, and hot this week, as well as a hot this month.  But more importantly Twitter’s home page is now dominated by a search feature.  The new focus on search has people talking about Twitter being the next big thing in search when it comes to…

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Celebrities, Brands, and Social Media

Celebrities, Brands, and Social Media

There are a number of celebrities using twitter and social media these days.  Some of them have their people do all the updates, some of them only update occasionally and others update regularly and interact with their fans on a regular basis.  However last night I saw a level of interaction from a celebrity that I hadn’t seen previously. Hannah Montana star and pop music starlet Miley Cyrus spent a good chunk of her night interacting with female fans on…

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Would You Give Up Your RSS Reader For Twitter?

Would You Give Up Your RSS Reader For Twitter?

I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately on how to make my online blog and article reading more efficient.  I am subscribed to over 200 blogs in Google Reader and what used to be easy to skim on a daily basis is becoming next to impossible.  I used to have more time at the last company to catch up on blog reading throughout the day, but since the switch to PlasticSurgery.com I just can’t dedicate the kind of time…

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