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Last February, social media blogger karmen reed made a very complete revision list of twitter applications. Since we found it very interesting, we have decided to transcribe it here, hoping it will be useful to you.

Data/ Search

ReTweetist – Tracks the most popular retweets.
TweetBeep – TweetBeep is a “Google Alerts” for Twitter.
Twitbuzz – Tracks the latest conversations as well as most popular Twitter links.
Twitscoop – Twitscoop shares what’s hot on Twitter at any given moment.
Twitter Search - Twitter’s search function. You can subscribe to a search via RSS.
Tinker – Aggregates Twitter conversations around topics.

Monitoring:

Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on Twitter every 5 minutes, categorized by types of content: images, video, audio, blogs.
Twemes – Tracks Twitter memes.
Monitter – Monitter is a real-time keyword-based monitoring service that lets you watch three columns of keyword streams side-by-side.
TwitClicks – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks.
Bit.ly – Shortens URLs, counts clicks, shows who else shortened a URL and provides metadata about that URL from across the Web.
Twitlinks – Tracks most popular tech links from most popular tech Twitter users.

Network Building:

LocalTweeps – Find Twitter users near you.
Mr. Tweet – A recommendation engine that also provides statistics on your Twitter usage.
Twellow – Twitter directory similar to Yellow Pages.
TwitDir – With this Twitter directory you’ll be able to search for people and categories including top followers and updaters.
TwitterLocal – Twitter Local is a desktop app that finds Twitter users within a fixed radius of a city or zip code.
WeFollow – User powered Twitter directory.

Twitter Management and Organization:

TweetDeck – An Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter that organizes followers, lists and social networks. Available as iPhone app.
Hootsuite – Organize your followers, feeds and tweets, connect with other social networks and assign admins. Available as iPhone app.
CoTweet – Enables multiple people to collaborate and manage one (same) Twitter account.
SocialOopmh - Let’s you schedule Tweets and analyze followers.
Seesmic Desktop – Available as web and desktop app, as well as iPhone app. Organize followers, lists, searches, connect with other social networks.
PeopleBrowser – For extreme power users or for those who love challenge and learning. This is an amazing full featured and complicated tool. Available both as desktop and web app, full and light versions.

Promotion and Sharing:

Twitpic – Upload your pictures and share them on Twitter.
Twitvid – Upload your videos and share them on Twitter.
Twit(url)y – Tracks popular links and displays them in Digg-like fashion.
Hashtags.org – Hashtags are designed to track the most popular Twitter posts that include a #hashtag.
TwitterFeed – Feeds your blog to Twitter, Facebook and more.
TweetBurner – Share links, and track their usage.

Rocío Bravo from Ideas4all

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It’s so straightforward, simple and useful, we should all have a “wineglass hanger” at home for our dinners and parties. That’s the name of this clever invention by Japanese company Furnish.

It is made out of polyester, and by placing it on the neck of our wine bottle, we can carry the bottle and glasses, all in one hand. You can purchase them through Frunish’s website.

Maria Mazariegos from ideas4all

As you all now, the second stage of the Big Bang Challenge begins today, November 28th.

Yesterday saw the end of what we have called Phase 1. “Laying” the idea, a period during which we have collected ideas for future projects. There has been a total of 540 submitted ideas, most of which are related to the Internet and new technologies.

From this moment on, we will study the 20 ideas with the most Community votes, and make sure they all fulfill the conditions to take part in the challenge, as described in the terms and conditions (http://es.ideas4all.com/web/bigbang_bases). The 20 finalists will take part in Phase 2. “Idea Incubation”, during which the 20 selected ideators will submit a mini business plan. But that will begin on December 7th.

The criteria the team at ideas4all will use in determining the 20 finalists from the 540 submitted ideas will be, firstly and as we mentioned above, their compliance with the terms and conditions, such as -for example- the number of valid positive votes obtained without using “clone” users. The idea must be innovative and technology-based, or at least make use of platforms such as the Internet or mobile phones in a way that is innovative. Lastly, we will only consider business ideas that may be realistically implemented.

We will announce the finalists on December 7th.

Good luck to all participants and all the best to those of you supporting the ideas of others.

Rocío Bravo from Ideas4all

It is an obvious fact that personal and professional relations are currently living a golden age. And it is unquestionable that the Internet has something to do with this.

Thanks to Social Media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin…and various other networks, we are only a click away from meeting great, and not so great, people (let’s not kid ourselves, we can find all types in the Internet…).

These digital encounters often help us give life a conspirational wink  

People who, like ourselves, use words, twitts, posts, and belong to different communities and groups, that manage to provoke an admiring exclamation in us (!), as well as help us see reality as it is, as it should be and, occasionally, as it shall be.

Today’s journalist is @cimino and the interviewee in this Twitter interview is @anamaríallopis

Concepts such as Social Networks, Transparency, Democratization of ideas, Innovation, Web 2.0, Authenticity, Community and Crowdsourcing are a reality, and when spoken, or rather twitted, by Ana María Llopis, they make me think of her project, Ideas4ll, a site she puts her heart and soul into. If we look for a word to describe this concept, we can only think of Passion, and if we dig deeper into her project, the bigbangchallenge, we come up with the concept of Innovation.

Lastly, with respect to the final question of the interview, I agree completely that “one has to measure oneself against him or herself”, this is for me the road to success. That “chance helps the prepared mind”, as the interviewee says, seems to me very true, and I would add that learning to overcome obstacles -be these represented by people or situations- make us stronger and drive our lives forward.

I invite you to read the interview and come up with your own conclusions.

In summary his 3 very well explained ideas were:

1.    A fiscal scheme that allows for option plans as retribution and incentive

2.    Work / Labour contracts that can be undone without problems once the business case has proved it is no longer valid

3.    Return the VAT tax to the companies during their very first’s years of life

I tried at the beginning of July posting my contribution as a comment in his blog, but it did not go through, I suppose it was because it was too long or? … Fortunately I had saved it in Word just in case and I am able to recuperate and use it today. What I tried to convey then I will repeat here today:

Jesus lets add to your initiative, I was about to do the same as you and write on my own my ideas when that day I encountered and read yours on twitter… so I thought is best to collaborate and build on Jesus initiative we should all cooperate and do it, continue building on his … among all we should write a Manifesto about these very important area of concern and build on your ideas, this suggestion is my contribution.

While at a dinner in Malaga with Sebastian Muriel of red.es and other authorities of Andalusia, Directors of Technological Parks, Pro Malaga, Ayuntamiento (Town House), with Miguel Angel Lopera CEO gs1, with guru and MIT Professor de Sanjay Sarma, Brian Subirana MIT and IESE, Bocherini from San Telmo Business University, Benigno Lacort CEO of Sandetel Consejería for Innovation Andalusia Seville etc… We had an interesting discussion that surfaced similar preoccupation and concerns in front of the Mediterranean Sea and my recently operated and splinted left arm.  So Jesus I add 3 of my then suggested and exposed ideas to your 3 published ones.

1.      Change the contracting with and bidding to the Administration bodies and enterprises that now requires you are an established company for 3 years in the market in order to start qualifying for the Administrations and Governments to buy from you products and services. Let’s stop it right away, end that law/requirement for SMEs and start-ups, so that they can then sell and compete without demonstrating any antiquity. This would give them some breathing economic air from day one and increase their possibilities to have income at a very early stage in the game.

2.      Greater interaction among the Markets needs and Professors/Universities/Enterprises in the implementation and transfer of projects into SMEs start-ups, spin-offs via promoting strongly new and disruptive technological projects for example give more and larger prizes/salaries/bonuses to the University entrepreneurs Researches, Professors Students and associated University sponsors.

3.      Implant the option/choice that allows the taxpayer citizen to elect/choose which new activity/industry  he wants his taxes help develop, like in France with a limit for France I think of 50.000€ for those that earn more and pay more taxes.  Such a program has been implemented in France initiated by the Minister Legarde and according to her last year in Paris at le Web 2008 it has reported in the last 2 years close to 2 billion euros for stat-ups and SMEs creation. In this program the taxpayer can chose where his tax paying moneys go in this case to funding/investing specific new technological start-ups, SMEs or spin-offs. How much money of the ones now going to churches could go to this end  initiatives if the citizens new  how much they contribute in the activation of the economy, the employment generation, and productivity improvement of the country.

Sanjay Sarma the father of new radiofrequency technologies at MIT said that night we have to install Meritocracy in Europe and Spain in particular (this phenomenon is not only ours he had found it in the UK and India and other countries as well an much less so in the USA). We have to end with Cronysm. Google’s definition of Cronyism “favouritism to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to public office without regard for their qualifications”

I  invite all of you to add ideas/suggested measures  in this same direction to promote the development of technological new companies.

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