I have a love-hate relationship with content marketing. I’ve been doing search engine optimization (SEO) since 2002, blogging since 2006, tweeting since 2007. I also co-founded one of the first influencer marketing companies in Europe in 2006. But to be honest, while getting some pieces right, all this time I had trouble to grasp the…
Tag: Microblogging
Twitter Early Days
I have finished reading the Twitter founding story. I remember when I signed up for Twitter in April 2007 and instantly fell in love. I loved the concept of ‘blogging via SMS’ and did it using my Palm Treo at the time. Learnings: Twitter was born because Odeo — a podcasting company — has failed and needed a new…
Congrats to Jaiku!
As I already pointed out, i love microblogging. Now Jaiku has been acquired by Google. Congrats Jyri and Petteri! What will happen with my favourite microblogging-service Twitter? How will Google leverage on the topic of microblogging? Links:# Jaiku Homepage# Jaiku on ScobleShow (Video-Interview)# Techcrunch-Coverage
Great speech: Jyri Engeström (Co-Founder of Jaiku) about Microblogging
I heard this speach of Jyri the first time at Reboot9, and now I watched it a second time after Loic pointed me to it again. My Learnings: Social Networks that are just “Social Networks” will fail (= Butterfly effect) Every service needs social objects (Flickr = fotos; Amazon = books; MySpace = music; etc.)…
Why I started using twitter
First of all, this interesting podcast with twitter co-founder Evan Williams (and co-founder of Blogger.com) made me sign up. Things I learned: #1: Twitter is so freakin’ easy. It just answers one simple question: What are you doing? #2: Twitter is like mini-blogging. Because its so easy that I can do it whereever I am…