Micro blogging: Is this the hope of tomorrow?

 Micro blogging has become an important phenomenon in social computing a web 2.0 Paradigm,and is a form of blogging allowing users to send brief text and updates that can be submitted by a variety of means of source. That can be used as a source of personnel knowledge management, a collaboration tool, performance support or Knowledge management application used by organizations and communicators.

 

A research by Emily Pronin of Princeton University and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University ,micro blogging involves feelings of elevation, power and creativity. As well in a recent survey by Pear Analytics, a U.S. market research agency, looked at the typical ‘tweets’ sent using the service over a fortnight. Rather than finding that most users were passing on information of any value, 40 per cent tapped into the micro-blogging site to send apparently futile messages. Just 8.7 per cent of all tweets were deemed of ‘value’ with worthwhile news content. The remaining 9.6 per cent of tweets were classed as self promotion and spam. In a recent report by Nielsen it is estimated that 60% of new twitter users fail to return. With contrast to 1000 % climb in users.

 

It also is becoming evident about security with Gartner recently has commenting about security problems raised in consumer grade micro blogging platforms with TinyURL attacked recently  .Also with malware used as a botnet and utilizing micro- blogging websites such as Twitter, Jaiku and Tumblr for its command center operation.

 

Micro blogging gives us the opportunity in reaching thousands of people inminutes.Developemnt organizations like UNHCR has followers of around 150 thousand. Organizations like Instedd has developed a tool called geoChat that can be used in disasters and crisis.

http://instedd.org/geochat. MuniGov 2.0 is a coalition of federal/state/local/municipal and international governments focused on exploring the use and principles of Web 2.0 in an effort to improve citizen services and communication via technology. https://sites.google.com/site/munigov20/Home .

 

Recently the launch of TipJoy a social micro payments site funded by Y Combinator has raised $1 million. There are tools like Riotfeeds, Jively, CitySpeak, sFeed, a third party tools that can be used to integrate with Twitter.

Twitter that has around 22.4 Million indexed pages has announced the addition of micro search engine that might search and sort results by relevancy and integrate it to googles web search engine. When coming to open source Transmedia has designed Glide Engage tool with a lot of social media sharing functionality layered. Google too announced the release of source code of Jaiku and move the project so that it can run on Google App Engine.http://www.edmodo.com/ is a private blogging platform that can be used by teachers and students that recently has released its version Edmodo 3.1

 

Micro Blogging websites :

 

Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/

Soui Io : http://www.soup.io/

FrienfdFeed : http://friendfeed.com/

Plurk : http://www.plurk.com/

Blellow: www.blellow.com

TipJoy : http://tipjoy.com/

Jarche : http://www.jarche.com/

Blip : http://blip.fm/

GoalPostR : http://goalpostr.com/

Twitter : http://twitter.com

TinyURL : http://tinyurl.com

Bit.ly : http://bit.ly

Yammer : http://www.yammer.com

Shoutem : http://shoutem.com

Edmodo : http://www.edmodo.com

Plurk : http://www.plurk.com

Shoutem : http://shoutem.com/

Blippr : http://www.blippr.com

Blip.fm : http://blip.fm

Seesmic : http://seesmic.com

12seconds : http://12seconds.tv

 

Some of the applications created by the twitter users:

 

Today's Meet : http://todaysmeet.com

Tweetdeck : http://www.tweetdeck.com

Twhirl : http://www.twhirl.org

TwitPic : http://twitpic.com

Twiddeo : http://beta.twiddeo.com

Twitterfall : http://twitterfall.com

Twitscoop : http://www.twitscoop.com

TweetVolume : http://www.tweetvolume.com

TwitterVison: www.twittervision.com

TwitterHolic : www.twitterholic.com

Twitterment: www.twitterment.umbc.edu

 

Open source micro blogging tools list

 

http://chyrp.net/

http://code.google.com/p/twoorl/

http://www.revou.com/

http://www.folkstr.com/

http://www.gelatocms.com/

http://smob.sioc-project.org/

http://sweetter.net/

http://laconi.ca/

http://jisko.net

http://identi.ca

www.jisko.net/public

www.yonkly.com/timeline

http://p2theme.com/

 

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