I have been out of the office for a few day and noticed a new feature in Twitter – Who To Follow.
Twitter Who To Follow
Clicking through on their suggested users link produces a list of Twitter accounts who share similar interests.
Users You May Be Interested In
I haven’t followed any of the “User you may be interested in” and don’t whether I will yet or not.
Want to learn what your followers on Twitter are interested in?
Plug your name into TwitterSheep to get the picture – a picture of their tag cloud.
TwitterSheep
This is a word cloud generated from the bios of my followers on Twitter.
TwitterSheep Followers
Based on the majority of their cloud tags, it appears my Tweets content attracts Twitter users with similar interests to mine.
A TwitterSheep cloud tag analysis of a Twitter account can illustrate whether or not a particular account stays on topic by the type of followers it attracts.
In my case and based on the size of the tags most common to the Twitter followers I attract, Marketing, Social, Media, News. Internet, Web and Online each confirm my Tweets are congruent with my business focus.
Not to often you see one of these in Google – a single search result.
A Single Google Search Result
Coincidentally, the single Google search result is from my blog.
I didn’t coin the term in question – Insurgatory – Stephen Colbert did.
I did however like the term so much – I bought it.
Hmmm… what could Insurgatory.com become?
Google Maps still has some issues with providing relevant and correct results.
In this search for “pools” Google provides a listing for an “Ale House & Cafe”.
Local Business Results For Pools in Google Maps
Creative Sandbox is a Google event that brings to life the collision of art and science.
This video recap from Creative Sandbox 2010, held in San Francisco, features highlights from the event.
Some insight for connecting with the mobile consumer.
I saw this cover of the current Time magazine while waiting for a flight at LAX.
The article poses an interesting question – is three months of downtime each summer causing American children to fall behind?
The Case Against Summer Vacation
I think the answer is obvious.
What would happen to American adult jobs if they took off three months each year?
Others would surely step up and take their place.
Just days before seeing the Time Magazine cover I was at Disneyland where I saw a kid wearing a T-shirt that made an impression on me that coincidentally illustrates the differences between American kids mentality and those who weren’t as lucky to be born here – the kid’s shirt said:
“I work mine off so I can kick yours.”
The kid wearing the T-Shirt didn’t appear to be anything like the one characterized in the illustration above.
Nor did the kid have any illusions about what it takes to succeed in America let alone the world today.
If only American kid’s were so lucky.
I thought the following definition of a brand from BrandTags.net was both accurate and instructive.
“… a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, a brand is whatever they say it is.”
Brand Definition
Indeed if a brand only exists in a consumer’s head, logic dictates that any opinion a consumer would have about a particular brand would be expressed first through their speech and use of words.
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