Social Media News 01-11-10

Nerdy fact, today’s date is a palindrome. Ok, moving on.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the yearly international tradeshow of the Consumer Electronics Association held every January right here in Las Vegas. It’s a pantheon of gadgets, computers, cameras, phones, TV’s, network technology and everything in between. At this year’s event more than 2,500 technology companies introduced over 20,000 new products, drawing 120,000 industry professionals from around the world. With more than 5,000 reporters, analysts and bloggers in attendence, the web is flooded with news coverage. If you have some time, explore social.cesweb.org, CES’s own social media aggregator.

With so much coming out of CES, this could have been a really long post. But it’s not going to be. Despite all the cool things I saw and heard from CES- 3D TV’s, a camera with a social sharing tool, a toy helicopter that you can control with an iPhone, a phone with a built-in digital protector… there’s no way I can feature all the important, new and geeky toys that relate to social media. It’s just overload. More and more, our everyday consumer electronics are becoming more social. Check out how MoSoNex is bringing your favorite social networking sites directly to your TV- this company was named Honoree for the Best of Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering in the category of social networks.

Media Post

Quantcast: Mobile Web Growing Fast

Apple Acquires Quattro Wireless In Mobile Ad Play

Google Hails Nexus One As Convergence Device

Losing Argument: Study Finds Spam Works For Weight Loss Pitches

TechCrunch

FriendFeed Clone Cliqset Upgrades Real-Time Platform With Sharing, Groups And Firefox Add-On

Songbird Lands Deal With Philips, To Come Bundled With Millions Of Portable MP3 Players

Denied AdMob, Apple Buys Competing Ad Platform Quattro Wireless For $275 Million

Mobile Ad Impressions On Android Double Since October

Photocheck.in: A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Foursquare Check-Ins. Or At Least One.

Nexus One Coming To Verizon And Vodafone, First Of A “Series Of Devices”

What Happened To bit.ly’s Market Share?

The Other HP Slate Runs On Android

Mashable

The Twitter Flatline: Why Doesn’t Twitter Grow? [STATS]

The Connected Car: Ford Introduces MyFord Touch

Vimeo to Launch Support for 1080p

Samsung to Launch App Store For HDTVs

DivX TV: Online Television, No Box Required [VIDEO]

Xbox 360’s Full-Body Motion Controls: Coming This Holiday Season

New Tweetdeck for iPhone Brings Geotagging and Maps

Foursquare Changes the Game … Literally

CES 2010: Google Nexus One & Apple iSlate Cast a Shadow

Blogs and Other News Sources

Social Media Marketing Becoming More Strategic (Social-Media-Optimization.com)

MagicJack’s next act: disappearing cell phone fees (Yahoo! Tech)

MSNBC Buys BreakingNews.com to Go With With @breakingnews [UPDATED] (ReadWriteWeb)

Facebook’s 1st CTO Launches His Next Company [Screen Shots] (ReadWriteWeb)

Congratulations CES for becoming the hottest, consumer advertising buy on the planet (Trenchwars)

CES: The Network Is Our Top Priority, AT&T Says (Digits WSJ Blog)

Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards (New York Times)

Freebie Twitter Listening Tools

Gotta love freebies. Yesterday, I started off my first day at the Consumer Electronics Show by attending a free session called “The Twitter Revolution: How The Real-Time Web is Changing the CE Landscape.” Steve Broback, founder of a social media agency called the Parnassus Group, was one of the speakers and shared some of his favorite freebie Twitter tools during the session. Here’s a recap of his recommendations:

search.twitter.com

This is square one. If you’ve never tried any listening tools, start with Twitter Search. Twitter Search can help reveal the current topics around your product, brand, industry, competitors, etc. It can also give you an initial look into consumer sentiment. Dave Taylor, who was another speaker on the panel, suggested combinations of queries that included, “I hate” or “I love”. There’s wealth of consumer research just at your finger tips with the humble Twitter Search.

TweetBeep.com

This is the Google Alerts of Twitter. TweetBeep allows you to get email alerts of keyword mentions on Twitter, every hour. TweetBeep also offers a premium version which allows you to get alerts every 15 minutes.

Trendistic.com

Trending Topics on Twitter.com are the top ten most mentioned words/phrases on Twitter in real-time. Trendistic is cool because it provides more information on the current Trending Topics, and it also allows you to search terms and view trend graphs for those terms, up to 180 days if you register.

PeopleBrowsr.com

This is a new one to me. It appears to be a Twitter management tool, like Hootsuite and Seesmic and Tweetdeck, but on a whole new level. I’ll have to play with this for a bit before I can really say much about it- but on the surface is looks very robust. If you’re a PeopleBrowsr user, leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Cloud.li

Broback called this “the cool Twitter tool that nobody knows about.” It’s a simple website that will create Twitter word clouds around your search terms, and will allow you to click on those terms to dive deeper. This is a good site for discovery.

BackTweets.com

All of the tools mentioned so far, Broback explained, have something in common. They are based on keywords. This last Twitter tool is different. BackTweets will allow you to enter in a web address and find Tweets that link to that address. This is really cool. It will show you the most recent tweets that have tweeted a given URL, and it even counts the short links like bit.ly and tinyurl.

Hope some of these can be useful to you. There’s so much you can learn about your customers by just spending a little time online and digging through Twitter. Happy hunting, I’m off to another great day at CES!