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There’s a startling assumption buried as a throwaway comment on this post from TechCrunch on Google Buzz’s recent arrival. Apparently, links shared on social networks have been growing to the extent that the mighty Goog is concerned that this phenomenon could start taking eyeballs away from all those juicy paid search ads that keep the lights on at the Googleplex. Is there any validity to this claim? It appears so, if these data points are to be believed:
The Big Money: According to Compete.com, Google lags behind Facebook in driving traffic to major portals like Yahoo, AOL and MSN.
Silicon Alley Insider: This report last year claimed 19% of Google traffic came from Facebook (and that number is growing).
Compete.com: As you can see below, Facebook is rapidly gaining ground on Google. Golden question is what proportion of this audience are clicking on links taking them out of the blue-walled garden and into the wider web?
Almost every event organsier talks about creating an engaged and involved audience. Sadly it rarely happens. On Thursday I spoke at the Media140, a Social Media Meetup in London. The event was mostly dominated by Social Media agencies and consultants. There was a lively atmosphere, a loud shouty man and most of all, lots of energetic interaction.
Eight hours ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined Twitter. Five hours ago, Twitter’s Caroline Mizumoto tweeted about it. And moments ago, @BillGates broke 100,000 Twitter followers.
If you’re looking for the breakdown, that’s about 12,500 Twitter followers per hour, or ~208 new tweeps per minute. In reality though, Bill’s follower count escalated after Caroline’s tweet, meaning his real rate of growth is about 20,000 new followers per hour.
The last time we’ve seen a new Twitter user with this kind of momentum was Oprah when she first joined. Mr. Gates is not only the world’s richest man, but one of its most popular it seems. His legacy as an entrepreneur and a philanthropist are far from forgotten.
They provide the essence and fundamentals of leadership and are therefore timeless. The acronym that you can use to remember these traits is JJ DID TIE BUCKLE.
Justice: Be a square shooter. Don’t play favorites. Keep anger and emotion out of your decisions. Be objective. Give every one of your people the opportunity to prove themselves.
Judgement: This comes with time and experience. Simply weigh the facts in a given situation to make a considered decision or sensible conclusion.
Decisiveness: Be able to make tough decisions quickly and accurately. This is especially important under stressful conditions. “Better to do something imperfectly than do nothing flawlessly.”- Robert H. Schuller
Integrity: Being honest with yourself and your people. Have and exhibit strong unwavering principles. This instills trust and confidence. People can accept mistakes but they will never forgive lying, cheating, or stealing. Without trust what else is there?
Dependability: Be unfailing in your reliability. Your people are counting on you to be there for them EVERY time. You can share responsibility but never accountability. After all, you are responsible for all your people do or fail to do.
Tact: The ability to use the appropriate force necessary to handle a situation. It is just as important to exercise tact with your subordinates as it is with your peers, leaders, or customers.
Initiative: If something needs to be done don’t wait to be told. Act. Take charge. You know what your mission is. Make an executive decision and drive on.
Enthusiasm: It’s absolutely contagious. Enthusiasm in everything you do. People naturally are attracted to and want to follow leaders with a positive mental attitude. Remember, this must be genuine. It can’t be faked. Your people will see through it and begin to doubt your sincerity or worse, your integrity.
Bearing: Encompasses the way you move, stand, behave, and comport yourself. Bearing is key to the establishment of your legitimacy as a leader. Equanimity. The ability to maintain a calm demeanor especially under stressful conditions. Exhibiting composure and evenness of temper you earn your people’s trust and confidence.
Unselfishness: Share your people’s hardships. Get the best equipment, tools, and training you can for them, all the time. Even if you, personally, have to do without the latest and greatest gadgets. You’re there to support them. By making their jobs and lives easier you’re enabling them perform more efficiently and effectively. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel said, “The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.“ Take care of your people and they will take care of you.
Courage: Demonstrate courage by gaining control of your fears and insecurities. Harness them to stimulate you to action. Courage builds with action. Stand up for what’s right regardless of the risk to you. Do the right thing even though it may not popular. With the benefit of title and position comes great responsibility.
Knowledge: Know your profession. Set the example by technically and tactically proficient. As the leader you are in the business of knowing. If you don’t know something admit it. NEVER bullshit them! You will instantly lose credibility.
Loyalty: It’s a two way street. It goes all the way up and down the chain of command. As a leader every word, every deed, must reflect loyalty. Back up your people when they’re right. Correct them when they’re wrong. Pass along directives as though they are yours. Relying on the position or title of a superior who told you to do a job is to weaken your own position. NEVER criticize your company, your superiors, or your peers in the presence of your people. Never dress down a subordinate in front of their peers. Pull them aside and address the issue privately.
Endurance: Your people look to you for guidance and to pull them through. Keep yourself physically strong, mentally sharp, and morally fit. Show them strength of character through your ability to take stress and difficulties in stride.
The author of a new book on London's best pubs selects his favourites from across the capitalFive minutes after the opening of the world’s first pub, the world’s first prohibitionist tried to close it. Pubs have to fight hard to survive and that struggle at the moment is as hard as its ever been. Today pubs are closing at an alarming rate.
If you work as a webmaster and maintain several blogs, or if you just maintain your own hosted somewhere, you would know that it has some extra management costs. WordPress represents the most used platform around the web, which means that vulnerabilities will appear constantly. And the last one it’s making a big impact around the blogger platform. This vulnerability that appeared recently attacked thousands of WordPress self-hosted blogs (WordPress.com blogs are excluded), and it’s giving a lot of users a big headache. But the good news is for those that upgrade their platform regularly and have already the latest WordPress 2.8.4 are also immune.
Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud, where everything is date/time and geo stamped and the sound files are automatically transcribed and indexed. Photos of people, of course, would be automatically identified and tagged as well. Imagine an entire lifetime recorded and searchable. Imagine if you could scroll and search through the lives of your ancestors.
How popular is Twitter? It's so popular that some would suggest it's worth billions of dollars. But as many of us who lived through the first .com bust know all too well, it's disappointingly easy to take something that looks like it has a future filled with success and turn it into fail.
In the case of Twitter, I think there are 5 things that the company's management needs to do to avoid that fate.
Can spam. Spam is the bane of Twitter and the problem is only getting worse. Spammers are getting more sophisticated and Twitter seems almost helpless to stop them. While Twitter spam may not be enough to repel Twitter's 'power' users, I think the spam problem is a real problem for more casual users.
Secure itself. Security issues continue to plague Twitter and unfortunately, most of them are its own doing. Some of the most serious Twitter security threats, for instance, are a result of Twitter's engineers not applying basic best practices for dealing with user input. If Twitter is to avoid becoming the biggest threat to the internet since Jessica Biel, it will have to deal with its security shortcomings ASAP.
Launch a business model. Twitter isn't exactly young anymore. It launched in 2006 and has gone through three rounds of funding. At this stage of the game, Twitter needs to start doing something -- anything -- to make money. While many entrepreneurs prefer to err on the side of 'getting it right the first time', the reality is that most startups develop a successful business model through an iterative process.
In Twitter's case, getting something out there sooner than later is especially important because most of the value being built around Twitter is being built by third parties (developers, consultants, etc.). The most successful are quickly establishing themselves by filling voids that Twitter is capable of filling itself. If Twitter doesn't get moving, it may find itself with leftovers.
Former Google exec and the cofounder/CEO of RSS service Feedburner Dick Costolo is Twitter’s new chief operating officer, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Costolo, who sold Feedburner to Google for $100 million in 2007, left Google in July. We’d heard he was looking to start a new company, but obviously Twitter swooped in and grabbed him. Steve Gillmor is going to love this, of course, since he proclaimed that RSS was dead and Twitter was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote , saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.”
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