Back at RE BarCamp SF 2008, RealSeekr & RealEstateZebra teamed up and produced some fun RE.net trading cards (see below). These cards are brilliant. Growing up collecting baseball cards stirs the compulsive desire to complete my collection.
So, if you’re going to REBlogWorld 2009: bring ‘em if you got ‘em!
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Highlighting social monkeys on Twitter is a great way to make friends and more importantly get links & web traffic, so here are 10 influential monkeys to follow on Twitter. The foundation for this recommendation; all 10 monkeys have 1000+ followers. Surely any monkey with 1000 followers must be influential. When these monkeys tweet peel a banana, followers go ape shit. Monkey see, monkey do. Three cheers to influence!
If you are a monkey and aren’t on this list yet, don’t despair. Goto wefollow.com, type in “monkey”, and start clicking the button. Other monkeys will follow you back and soon you will have 1000 followers and be eligible for inclusion in the followup to this post, “I’m a Monkey Too”. It’s really that easy. Again, it’s that easy.
One school of thought making it’s way around the inter-web is that follower counts are the foundation for determining influence. Does this account influence you to do anything?
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I recently created my fifth Twitter account for an upcoming iPhone project called MortgageZen. Each of my accounts has a specific intended audience. Each one, a loose set of rules that guide decisions on who I follow. Some of my twitter id’s are focused on building a strong following, others I’m less concerned with # of followers.
Because of the multiple accounts, I’ve noticed that “follow” philosophies can be simplified into two main camps. On one hand, there is the “Follow me, Follow you” approach. The network happens on the mutual expectation of a push of the button resulting in a “follow” action. The other, more selective approach is the “If I’m interested, I’ll follow you” technique. This approach is different in that you only follow people that you like or that add value to your life in some way.
For my primary account on Twitter, I’m selective about whom I choose to follow. I keep my follow counts down to a reasonable number that I feel comfortable keeping up with. But as I meet new folks that I’d like to follow, the noise level inevitably ratchets up. Programs like TweetDeck offer temporary relief by allowing me to place people into groups, but these applications (I’m looking at you Nambu) don’t yet support group membership syncing between devices and as follow counts grow, so too, does the noise level.
So what might solve this problem?
My hope is that Twitter will continue to introduce methods for users to optionally reduce noise. Two suggestions, the ability to selectively hide excessive Re-Tweeters and the ability to hide @replies between people I follow. Granular control over aspects of the conversation that I want to toggle off would make Twitter more valuable. More thoughts, ideas, & jokes, less regurgitation & water-cooler banter. Don’t get me wrong, I like the banter but I want the ability to limit the noise.
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Zipeg is a cross-platform utility that extracts zipped files. It tackles zip, 7-zip, rar, BZip2, GNU zip, tgz, tar, arj, LHA/LZH, LZC, cab, chm, ear, war, cbr, and cbz archive formats. The application is free.
The best thing about the utility is the ability to drill down into the contents of any zip package and look at the files before you extract them to their intended destination. For those folks concerned about security, this adds another level of opportunity of protection by giving you the option to see what you are putting on the computer. Great app.
For more information, Dan Frakes at MacWorld wrote about Zipeg back in May.
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