Lift: reward-based self-improvement system
Some information about the next venture by Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have emerged, and although detail is scant, it is very intriguing.
Dubbed ‘Lift’, at the moment we are being told that it is a prototype relating to how ‘technology can help unlock human potential, especially through the use of positive reinforcement’.
Good infographic here comparing the Top 10 social networking sites. It says they account for closing on 1.5 billion users between them, but more than a third of that, of course, belongs to one company. As well as the big names of Facebook and Twitter it looks at some of the smaller ones that still have millions of members each. The surprise is maybe that MySpace still boasts 100 million members.
It estimates that seven out of 10 web users are active on at least one social network and that nine out of 10 marketers use social networking to promote their business in some way. Take a look. Read More
Celebrities including the lovely Lisa Kudrow of ‘Friends’ fame, Alyssa Milano and Denise Richards of ‘Starship Trooper’ and Charlie Sheen fame have told AP what they like to tweet about.
Some like to set their followers a challenge while Kudrow talks about tweeting as her character @drfionawallice character in The Web Therapy show while Richards says she likes to use Twitter to dispell the odd rumour such as the one that she was “roasting Charlie”. Apparently this does not refer to the oven. Read More
Having beefed up its communications team Twitter is on the hunt for a PR agency and is said to be in talks with a mix of large and small agencies with offices in New York, Ad Age reports.
The move follows the appointment of Sean Garrett, Twitter’s VP of communications, who joined Twitter last year. He is overseeing the search. Read More
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