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| Google, Twitter Join Forces For Good Posted: 01 Feb 2011 08:20 PM PST
These two online giants teamed up to create a communication stream, amidst the uprising and protest against the Mubarak regime. Egyptian residents have been left with little resources for outside contact, as result of the nationwide Internet crackdown. Until now. Speak2Tweet, a service recently acquired by Google, allows users to call a select set of numbers, and have their voicemail tweeted at: twitter.com/speak2tweet. As of right now, (9:19pm, Feb. 1st, 2011) tweets and voicemails are coming in from Egypt every 5-10 minutes. I was taken back for a second when I landed on the Twitter account. As you can see, there's no fancy logo insignia – it looks more like an abandon affiliate venture. Yet, minute by minute, voicemail is flowing in with support or opinions about the situation in Egypt. As most of you know, this is nothing new for the good people over at Twitter. In June 2009, the U.S State Department requested a delay in their regular upgrade – as to not risk the interest of Iranians protesting the June 12th Presidential election. On a slightly different note, last month it was reported that North Korea's official Twitter was taken over by South Korea hackers and made to call for an uprising against Northern leadership. I could go on for a while with smaller examples of how social media companies have led the way in doing good. If any readers are interested in using this, Google put the following info on their blog: We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It's already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet Update earlier today – Update Feb 1, 12:47 PM: When possible, we’re now detecting the approximate (country-level) geographic origin of each call dialing one of our speak2tweet numbers and attaching a hashtag for that country to each tweet. For example, if a call comes from Switzerland, you’ll see #switzerland in the tweet, and if one comes from Egypt you’ll see #egypt. For calls when we can’t detect the location, we default to an #egypt hashtag. No, they didn't JOIN forces for good. More like, join forces for GOOD. These two online giants teamed up to create a communication stream, amidst the uprising and protest against the Mubarak regime. Egyptian residents have been left with little resources for outside contact, as result of the nationwide Internet crackdown. Until now. Speak2Tweet, a service recently acquired by Google, allows users to call a select set of numbers, and have their voicemail tweeted at: twitter.com/speak2tweet. As of right now, (9:19pm, Feb. 1st, 2011) tweets and voicemails are coming in from Egypt every 5-10 minutes. I was taken back for a second when I landed on the Twitter account. As you can see, there's no fancy logo insignia – it looks more like an abandon affiliate venture. Yet, minute by minute, voicemail is flowing in with support or opinions about the situation in Egypt. As most of you know, this is nothing new for the good people over at Twitter. In June 2009, the U.S State Department requested a delay in their regular upgrade – as to not risk the interest of Iranians protesting the June 12th Presidential election. On a slightly different note, last month it was reported that North Korea's official Twitter was taken over by South Korea hackers and made to call for an uprising against Northern leadership. I could go on for a while with smaller examples of how social media companies have led the way in doing social good. If any readers are interested in using this, Google put the following info on their blog: We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It's already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet Update earlier today – Update Feb 1, 12:47 PM: When possible, we’re now detecting the approximate (country-level) geographic origin of each call dialing one of our speak2tweet numbers and attaching a hashtag for that country to each tweet. For example, if a call comes from Switzerland, you’ll see #switzerland in the tweet, and if one comes from Egypt you’ll see #egypt. For calls when we can’t detect the location, we default to an #egypt hashtag. .
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| Reason’s You Don’t Make Money Online Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:59 AM PST
tlined the top reasons why you are not making money online. #1 You Don’t Work How many of you show up to REALLY work online every day – all day? Do you treat your business like a job and set daily goals? The answer to both is that you probably don’t. I get frustrated by people who think that because I work for myself (sometimes at home, sometimes at the office), that I am free to take their chit-chat calls about nothing, or go to lunch on a whim. The truth is, that I don’t have the time for those shenanigans . . . why? Because I am working! To make a true success of working online full time, you have to put in the hours and really set your nose to the grind stone. AKA – you have to work! I encourage you to set regular hours, set goals, and really treat your online business like a normal job . . . at least until you have a few million in the bank. #2 You Don’t Provide Anything Be real for a just a moment and answer this question. “What do you have that other people want?” Do you think people really want another cheese ball click bank product that doesn’t really provide any real value to the end users? Try hard to make sure the business you are in is providing some kind of real value to your clients. This goes for both products and services. For instance, our client’s want to be #1 on Google for their keywords . . . hence when we launch off large scale SEO campaigns, we are providing our clients with a valuable service. We help them get better rankings inside of Google. When we launch off a software, or DIY service . . . we make sure that the product has a real value to the potential customer. You would be amazed at how often this simple exercise is over looked! #3 You Never Created a Business Model Did you write down your business model? How much are you profiting on the sale of your fancy new widget? Do you know in advance how much you plan to spend on marketing or support? As they say, the devil is in the details. Spend some time and really wrap your mind around your project. You might be amazed at how often I have thought that a particular project or service would have all of the elements to success, only to find out that I could not make it “profit” on paper. Thus, I was empowered to pull the plug before I ever got started. #4 You Really Don’t Want To Make Money Do you really want it? I mean do you really really want it? Because you have to want it to succeed online. The old saying of “Build it and they will come” does not apply to building websites and creating profitable projects. You have to truly desire the success your after. This is getting into a certain mind-set theory, but I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked to help someone get started working on the internet (it happens weekly). Then when I explain to them all what is required, to wake up on time . . . head to the office . . . work for peanuts for weeks or months . . . they seem to all disappear. The bottom line is that the biggest battle you will face is between the space of your ears and you MUST mentally prepare yourself every day to show up and fight the battle and conquer your competition. Other Related Articles |
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