Almighty Link

The Orange County Register welcomed Anna Bourland into its newsroom this week to manage the @OCReggie Twitter account for about an hour. Here is how the idea was born on Twitter. #embedly_twitter_48887719{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/176812799/ocreggienarrow.png) #ffffff; padding:20px;} #embedly_twitter_48887719 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} #embedly_twitter_48887719 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} #embedly_twitter_48887719 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} #embedly_twitter_48887719 p span.metadata span.author [...]

Embedly is an incredible technology that converts links into embedded content. The screenshot above shows how Embedly’s Parrotfish plugin (for Safari, Chrome and Firefox) works with Twitter.com to convert a shortened URL into an actual excerpt from the content on that page. Storify and other so-called curation tools (see my What is curation storify) use [...]

It’s nearly impossible to find out how many times a web page has been tweeted. At 11:45 Thursday night, I gathered these numbers to help explain what I mean. Tweet button: 12 A Mashable blog post about Bit.ly was tweeted 12 times (as of 11:45 Thursday night). At least that’s what the official Twitter button [...]

I created this BackType bookmarklet to quickly measure the reach of articles and blog posts in social spaces. Drag this button BackType Stats to your browser’s bookmarks tool bar. If you are using Explorer, make sure your “Links Toolbar” is showing, then right click on BackType Stats, click “Add to Favorites” and save the link in [...]