This morning my friends from college woke up at 6am, ate breakfast, watched the early morning news, put on a tie, and dragged themselves to work for another grueling 8-10 hours.  The traditional, corporate life has consumed 100% of their time during the weekdays and is the ball-and-chain that dictates what time they wake up, [...]

Why Larry Hryb and Veronica Belmont
Larry Hryb and Veronica Belmont are two of the most recognizable faces in gaming. You probably know Larry Hryb by his more famous online moniker, “Major Nelson”. He and Veronica run two of the most important gaming video blogs for their respective gaming platforms, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation [...]

If you’ve used Twitter long enough, you’ve probably heard of sites like Magpie and What’s Your Tweet Worth. With everyone trying to figure out different ways to make money, it was only a matter of time before people would start paying you to ‘tweet’ out to your followers their advertisements. While many argue that you [...]

What are some great ways to listen to your customers on Twitter? Well, I’ve put together 5 great monitoring tools for listening to Twitter conversations about you and your brand using web tools (as opposed to apps like CoTweet and TweetDeck, which are just as useful). Have your own personal favorites? Please add them in the comments below.

Twitter influence has been measured over and over by a multitude of companies, none of whom have gotten it right yet. Twitalyzer, Twitter Grader, Twitter Friends – these are all sites that have made attempts to measure a user’s Twitter impact. However, many of them still focus far too much on number of followers, number of following and update frequency. These numbers, though important and interesting, do not tell nearly the whole story. Lists has a prime opportunity to help complete the picture for us.