links for 2008-01-08

Try interacting with Twitter through the devices featured below—and watch this space, because even we don’t know what might show up next!

Third party services are being built around Twitter

TwitterPoster is a visual application based on Twitter API.
It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users

Chris Garrett: “Quite a few times recently I have been asked why if I am ditching social media sites such as Facebook I am still putting so much effort into Twitter.” Chris offers tips from Twitter folks thesmselves.

Local is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s also more complex than the general search market, which features an ecosystem built around a small number of large and highly visible companies.

Colin Mulvany is the new multimedia editor at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. A still photographer for the first 18 years of his career, Mulvany transitioned to shooting video for his newspaper’s online site Spokesmanreview.com in 2005.

A listing of social networks used in educational environments.

While wordpress is one of my favorite CMS platforms, out of the box it isn’t search engine optimized. Combine this with people who aren’t SEO aware, and publish a blog, and you almost always end up with an implementation that’s sub-optimal.

Leveraging the social behaviors and technology of social news and bookmarking sites can be very effective as an active content promotion strategy.

When you are on a website that you want to submit to Social Websites: select text and click the button to pre-populate submit-form with information from the current page.

Post Toaster is a time saving social bookmarking service which includes an option to select sites that do not support the nofollow attribute.

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness!

Huge list of social bookmarking tools.

Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0′s success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds.

SES presentation by Lee Odden of TopRankBlog

Marshall’s list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. He surveyed his nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies.