Atif Unaldi » twitter http://atifunaldi.com Web Log, We Blog - Web Rain, We Brain Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/172f75c1a8ce272921d01aa24d3685d6?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Atif Unaldi » twitter http://atifunaldi.com Power users and internet celebrities needs verification http://atifunaldi.com/2009/06/07/power-users-and-internet-celebrities-needs-verification/ http://atifunaldi.com/2009/06/07/power-users-and-internet-celebrities-needs-verification/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:16:47 +0000 atifunaldi http://atifunaldi.com/?p=166 ]]>

I think we solve the problem of authentication by facebook conect but we have now a verification problem. I think that there must be a new verification company that most of the sites must trust. I think the company is Eczacibasi Holding, one of the pioneer brand in Turkey. The name of the company of the holding is  Tasdix ( unfortunately and unbelievebly the site is Turkish http://www.tasdix.com/Default.aspx ) . And their facebook application is Gercexiz http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=32219934928

Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts

It looks like a lawsuit was the final push Twitter (Twitter reviews) needed to announce a verification program to thwart celebrity impersonators on Twitter.

This week, Twitter has been dealing with a lawsuit from St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. The lawsuit stemmed over an individual impersonating La Russa on Twitter. There has been no systematic way for Twitter to verify that a celebrity tweeter was real. Until now, that is. Twitter has just announced a verified accounts beta program to make sure there are no more lawsuits of this nature.

Today, Twitter stated the following on the La Russa case:

Reports this week that Twitter has settled a law suit and officially agreed to pay legal fees for an impersonation complaint that was taken care of by our support staff in accordance with our Terms are erroneous. Twitter has not settled, nor do we plan to settle or pay.

The summary: Twitter did not settle, as was reported yesterday, nor are they intending to settle. However, the lawsuit was indeed a trigger for them to announce verified accounts.

Verified Accounts Twitter Image

So what exactly will the Verified Accounts system entail? Well, according to the Twitter blog, there will be a special seal on any account that is verified by Twitter as being authentic. This seal, which you can see in the image above, will appear at the top right of profile pages. This is targeted toward public officials, public agencies, athletes, and other high-profile individuals.

As to how actual verification will work, it seems that Twitter will look to see if an official channel of the person in question links to his or her Twitter account from a place like an official website. This is a perfectly logical way to verify accounts, in our opinion. Details are scarce on the full plan, though.

The Verified Accounts program will begin as an experiment this summer and will expand as Twitter gets more feedback. We’re glad to finally see a system in place that will hopefully put an end to impersonators and expensive lawsuits.

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My comments about Jason Goldberg’s press meeting http://atifunaldi.com/2009/06/07/my-comments-about-jason-goldbergss-press-meeting/ http://atifunaldi.com/2009/06/07/my-comments-about-jason-goldbergss-press-meeting/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:28:51 +0000 atifunaldi http://atifunaldi.com/?p=161 ]]>

Last week Jason Goldberg (XING Chief Product Officer) was in Turkey.  I have some comments and notes, that I like and  disagree in his speech.

First of all I like to say the points that I don’t agree with Jason.

He told us that internet is in perceptual beta. But it is not in that way I think. Beta is a need to say that you cannot  sue us in any problem even if it is free of charge. But the internet world is changing day by day so as an enterpreneur I think that he have to change his point of view. We are not part of conventional world anymore, and we also dont need to make our speech to this world anymore.

The second interesting thing is the example of facebook country. Most of you must know that if facebook is a country it is the seventh biggest country in the world. I dont like and even care about this explanation. We are trying to break the borders as a netizen. But now i realize that we are not only fight with the conventional but also the enterpreneurs, which want the power of conventional world.

In the new world the description of some words are changing. Power is also have a new description and it is not about quantity, it is about quality of people you are working with. Xing must be happy with this new dscription, becouse if they act like in this description, they will not challenge with facebook anymore.

But Jason also said good things mostly about the production processes… First of all the slogan was very impressive; SHIPIT… If you have an idea just do it and ship it and see if it is working. There is nothing worst about it… Just ship it and try to learn something from the feedbacks. By the way just take feedbacks from anywhere, twitter, facebook  just from anywhere.

Also if you are a web developer; I learn great websites from Jason… Once you launch your website get customer relations from; http://getsatisfaction.com/ (People-powered customer service) and http://uservoice.com/ which has a slogan “Your customers have great ideas. Are you ready to listen?”. They are great websites, you have to learn…

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Too much social network problem is solved!!! http://atifunaldi.com/2009/05/11/too-much-social-network-problem-is-solved/ http://atifunaldi.com/2009/05/11/too-much-social-network-problem-is-solved/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 17:53:10 +0000 atifunaldi http://atifunaldi.com/?p=131 ]]>

I am a big fan of mashable… Ben the guy wrote a great article about managing multiple profiles on internet which is a big prob for me… I hope it will also help you!

HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles

Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook (Facebook reviews), Twitter (Twitter reviews), Flickr (Flickr reviews), and YouTube (YouTube reviews) are just the start of it – for people active on social websites, you could have several dozen social media profiles, half of them using a really old picture of you. Heck, some of them probably have inboxes filled with strange messages from some girl named “Leota” who wants you to visit her sexy singles website.

While inbox spam and old pictures may not be the end of the world, keeping up a consistent image across the web and keeping your content fresh is vital to good business and strong relationships. With a little upfront effort, the task of maintaining multiple profiles can be less tedious, freeing up time to better connect with other people.

Step 1. Understand your Current Position

The first step is to exactly know where you have a social media profile and where you do not. Start by checking with Check User Names, which will search dozens of popular social media websites to see if your username is active. Check any you normally use. If any don’t ring any bells, see if it’s yours or if somebody already owns.

Tip: Always keep note of other people using your most common username. Making sure people don’t confuse you for somebody else is important for friends and potential employers alike.

Step 2. Choose Your Platforms Realistically

People may disagree with me, but I believe you should sign up for the most popular social networks regardless of whether you are going to use them all. This prevents someone else being mistaken for you and protects an account that you may want to use later.

This doesn’t mean you should be active on all of these services. Take a long, hard look at all of the services available and your time constraints and choose the ones that pique your interest the most. Keep some focus when choosing platforms. For the rest, place a note on your profile with contact information and links to your favorite social profiles.

Step 3. Organize!

This is the most important step! Don’t be satisfied with a disarray of bookmarks and email notifications. Organize a bookmarks folder or two for the social media services you are using. Filter your email so that all of your notifications fall into their own inbox/label. Schedule time to log into these accounts and make sure they are in order.

Tip: The most important thing to remember is to find a system and stick to it. These are the profiles that need your attention consistently; keep them free of spam and outdated information.

Step 4. Automate and Combine Your Profiles

No, I am not suggesting using a bot or having autoresponders. Instead, I am talking about grouping similar tasks together. One of the most common actions on social media is sending an update that you have updated your blog. Normally, you would have to copy and paste this type of message into Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace (MySpace reviews), not to mention Plurk (Plurk reviews), Brightkite (Brightkite reviews), or FriendFeed (FriendFeed reviews).

However, with services such as Ping.fm (Ping.Fm reviews) and Twitterfeed, this can be done without any work on your end. Find tools that can help you spread you reach without eating up your time.

Tip: Atomkeep is a cool tool for updating all of your social media profiles at once – it connects to your Twitter, LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Facebook, and other accounts and allows you to change bios and profile pictures with one action.

Step 5. Keep it Fresh

It’s easy to tell if someone has abandoned an account and left it to grow weeds. If you intend to use a service, keep adding new content! You can’t expect to meet new people on Digg (Digg reviews) or Stumbleupon (StumbleUpon reviews) accounts without digging or stumbling. And it can be confusing for other people if your profile has an old email address or says you’re still in a relationship with your high school sweetheart.

Tip: Use a Firefox extension like Shareaholic to help make adding new content to your profile easier.

Go Forth and Network!

Once you’re organized and understand where you really want to spend your time, managing multiple social media profiles becomes less of a chore and more about sharing experiences, discovering new content, and building new relationships. That is why you made these profiles in the first place, right?

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Bored about checking your all social network sites every day? http://atifunaldi.com/2009/05/02/bored-about-checking-your-all-social-network-sites-every-day/ http://atifunaldi.com/2009/05/02/bored-about-checking-your-all-social-network-sites-every-day/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 11:35:18 +0000 atifunaldi http://atifunaldi.com/?p=124 ]]>

I read an article about ppl who are bored about checking social networks everyday. There is a good solution for it.. But for those also like to followed by others maybe my second solution which is a really big hype in Turkey the friendfeed will also be a good solution.

The Sledgehammer: NutshellMail It might seem counter-intuitive to sign up for another web service to majorly reshape the others, but you have no idea what kind of power NutshellMail can give you. It solves what we’ll call the Email Alert Circle, which goes something like this: * You log into social sites and speed-read all the new stuff, but it’s destroying your free time, and your brain! It’s just too much. You stop visiting so often, but wish you could still get the most relevant stuff from them. So you switch to… * Oh, look, email alerts! Now you can get just the direct messages, replies, and relevant friend posts. Two weeks later … * You’re now avoiding your email inbox and decide it, too, is just too much. So get a free account at NutshellMail. Authorize it to parse your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and/or LinkedIn accounts, and it takes all those “John Smith commented on your status” and “Lindsay Jones sent you a direct message” emails you really don’t need to see Right This Minute and delivers them in a digest whenever and however you want them. “But my Twitter replies are crucial to my self-est..I mean, it’s an of-the-moment service!” you say. Fine—go ahead and schedule your NutshellMail updates to arrive every so many hours, depending on your addiction. You’ll still get all the updates for everyone you’re following, and you won’t even have to hop into Twitter.com/TweetDeck/Tweetie/whatnot to reply, because NutshellMail lets you @ reply via email links. For those who can be realistic about how connected they need to be, NutshellMail takes the constant back-to-work hurdles of email updates, known as bacn in some circles, and pounds them into one flat page of your kinda-need-to-know.

Friendfeed

It’s fast and easy to start a conversation around shared items, or to show that you like something a friend has shared. You can subscribe to updates from individuals and groups, such as your family or a team of people you work with. On FriendFeed, you and your friends contribute to a shared stream of information — information that you care about, because it’s from the people that you care about.

You don’t need to install anything to use FriendFeed. You can read and share your FriendFeed however you want — from your email, your phone or even from Facebook. If you make your FriendFeed publicly visible, your friends can see what you’re sharing without creating an account, and you can embed your feed in your home page or blog. FriendFeed also lets you pull in updates from other sites around the web, and even publish your feed to services you already use, like Twitter.

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Ranking is becoming a big problem for Google http://atifunaldi.com/2008/10/10/ranking-is-becoming-a-big-problem-for-google/ http://atifunaldi.com/2008/10/10/ranking-is-becoming-a-big-problem-for-google/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:13:13 +0000 atifunaldi http://atifunaldi.wordpress.com/?p=85 ]]>

Alexa, webtrends, google analytics. The measurement and the degree of trust of websites, is becoming a problem for all the web for years. Google’s CEO is also have some problems about it.

Google’s Schmidt Says Internet ‘Cesspool’ Needs Brands

Says the Solution Is Quality Content; Tells Publishers and Editors to ‘Increase Your Relevance’
The internet is fast becoming a “cesspool” where false information thrives, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday. Speaking with an audience of magazine executives visiting the Google campus here as part of their annual industry conference, he said their brands were increasingly important signals that content can be trusted.

“Brands are the solution, not the problem,” Mr. Schmidt said. “Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.”
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: ‘We don’t do content. You all create content.’
Welcome words
Those were welcome words for the editors and publishers who have been watching the internet draw more and more ad spending every year. Mr. Schmidt took aim, however, at the Association of National Advertisers for opposing Google’s planned ad deal with Yahoo. The association has said the deal will diminish competition and help Google and Yahoo increase ad prices.

“If you’re going to criticize us, criticize us correctly,” Mr. Schmidt said. “We’re guilty of many things, but that’s not one of them.”

In a talk that he structured mostly as an invitation for questions and ideas, Mr. Schmidt declined to advise magazines on looking more popular to Google’s page-ranking programs.

“We don’t actually want you to be successful,” he said. The company’s algorithms are trying to find the most relevant search results, after all, not the sites that best game the system. “The fundamental way to increase your rank is to increase your relevance,” he added.

On the subject of print, especially newspapers as we have known them, Mr. Schmidt was decidedly gloomy. “The evidence is not good,” he said, guessing that the print business will eventually comprise a smaller piece of publishers’ much larger online businesses.

A ‘natural partnership’
That said, magazines and other professional content creators are essential for Google’s efforts to help people find desirable content, he explained. “We don’t do content,” he said. “You all create content. It’s a natural partnership.”

But when asked where the industry ends up if there aren’t outlets willing to pay journalists to create quality content, Mr. Schmidt was a bit Palin-esque, saying that he didn’t have an answer but one thing to look at is whether journalism should be a for-profit enterprise.

The future of quality editorial is, moreover, hardly certain. “It’s a huge question in the world,” Mr. Schmidt said, “particularly in the United States.”

Branding, on the other hand, may be an essential element that helps people navigate the world, he said. “Brand affinity is clearly hard wired,” he said. “It is so fundamental to human existence that it’s not going away. It must have a genetic component.”

His talk came as part of a broader program organized for the magazine executives by Google. Eileen Naughton, Google’s director of media platforms, spoke first — greeting many people she knew from her years as a magazine executive. She joined Google after Time Inc. eliminated 105 jobs, including hers, to cut costs in December 2005. Attendees also listened to tutorials from Twitter’s chairman-chief product officer, Evan James; YouTube’s head of client solutions and ad programs, Jamie Byrne; and RockYou’s CEO and founder, Lance Tokuda.

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