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Group 7Katie WatsonMaggie Harris

Micro-Blogging

+What is Micro-blogging?A form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates and publish them publically, through social media sites, or privately, through instant messaging, text messaging or email.

+Characteristics of a Micro-Blog140 characters or less

Can be submitted through a variety of media, including:Text or instant messagesE-mailMP3Social networks

+History of Micro-Blogging

Microblogging arrived in March 2007 at a conference in Austin, Texas when Twitter was first introduced.

Twitter was invented by Evan Williams and created a new power to short messaging.

Influences of microblogging: Instant Relay Chat (Windows Messenger, AIM and Gchat), chat status messages, and mobile phones.

IRC used “a rich language of protocols” that is now used in microblogging platforms, such as #namespace and @username.

Cartoonist Robert Crumb predicted Twitter in the 1960’s. (source: Christopher Herot

+History of Micro-Blogging

Evolved from personalized away messages on IM, to social network status updates as on Facebook.

This integration of real-time communication became a way of cultural behavior, and people started to express themselves through short messages.

SMS (short message service) on cell-phones was first available to use in 1999, allowing a maximum message length of 140 characters.

All these previous short messaging services were combined in to a short message service platform: know as Twitter.

As of November 2007, Twitter served 593,645 public accounts and gained over 1000 members daily.

According to Nielson.com, as of March 2009 Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, with 6 million unique monthly visitors.

Website

Twitter Timeline

TWITTER TREE

+Key to Successful Micro-Blogging: Very low barrier of entry: Simplicity is a must for users

Constraints on file sharing and long messages are part of the appeal

Twitter is successful because it doesn’t try to be more than it is

Make application and content development available for the users Applications such as Twitterific have been built by members

and allows a feeling of personal ownership with the product Constraints on file sharing and long messages are part of

the appeal Twitter is successful because it doesn’t try to be more than

it is

Pros

Cons

+Micro-blogging: A new language

Triqqr- Submit tweets directly to Twitter and view user profiles

Pwytter- Cross platform Python Twitter client with Asian character support

TwittIt- Extremely compact and simple app for submitting tweets

Twadget- simple gadget that allows you to see latest tweets from your friends

Twessenger- Updates Live Messenger status to reflect latest tweet

And many more…

TweeSpeed

+Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

Twitter 101

+Future of Micro-Blogging

+Photo Sharing …is the publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online, allowing for public and private sharing

Photo sharing began in 1990s from the service of providing online ordering of prints

In the early 2000s some of the first photo sharing sites emerged including Webshots, SmugMug and Flickr with the goal of providing permanent and centralized access to user’s photos and videos

Top 5 photo sharing sites today: 1. Flickr2. Zooomr3. Picasa Web Albums4. Photobucket

5. Photoshop Express

+File Sharing … is distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as documents, electronic books and multi-media (audio, video)

Napster is credited as the first P2P file sharing system

Constant legal issues and controversies

Google Doc allows for sharing documents which can be edited by anyone online or by inviting only certain people?

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgh2nb2m_0fwt7xqgz

Top 5 file sharing sites1. The Pirate Bay2. MiniNova3. IsoHunt4. BitTorrent.am5. Torrent Portal

+Slide Sharing

…allows users to share presentations and slides

Slide sharing sites include:Slideshare.netMyplick.com

Slideshare:Lets users upload presentations to their own account, which are then made

available publicly or privately to only people you are connected with Now lets users share slide presentations with their LinkedIn networks

MyplickYoutube form of slide sharing

+Future of Photo/File/Slide SharingPhoto sharing has already been incorporated into social network sites, however they will continue to stay around because it allows for people to share only photos

Illegal file sharing will continue until absolute laws are made. Sites will continue to find loopholes and the boundaries of illegal file sharing will always be pushed. Tools such as Google Docs will continue to be used more widely.

Slide sharing serves a great business use. It will continue to find new uses related to business such as its recent implementation with LinkedIn