I finally got around to checking the RSS reader, so sharing some articles and posts here today.
The Haiti Disaster was and unfortunately still is major headlines. Google not only donated $1M but also helped assess damages using their extensive damages. Here’s a post showing before and after satellite imagery, and a link to Google’s Haiti page.
As with the Iranian Elections, Twitter and other social media were central to sending in news and pictures right from the scene and Mashable covered this aspect in this piece. There is also a downside to this, as Twitter and Facebook were used for related hoaxes and worse: SCUM: Haiti Disaster Attracts Hoaxes and Scammers.
Twitter News
The Twitter Flatline: Why Doesn’t Twitter Grow? [STATS] seems to have provoked quite a few responses, the consensus being that Mashable’s Ben Parr got it wrong by ignoring the fact that many Tweeps do not use the Twitter website, opting for desktop application such as Tweetdeck instead. Robert Scoble talks about that and also offers more advice on growing Twitter here: Twitter’s traffic in trouble?
Useful Stuff
Some cool tools that I am definitely going to explore some more:
18 Online Productivity Tools for Your Business
And Other Stuff
I really enjoyed this futuristic piece of prose, describing our future life under Google’s (benevolent?) rule:
