Author Archives: tristan

URL Crunching

By tristan | Published: May 7, 2009
URL shortener’s are not new, but with the growing popularity of Twitter there are more and more sites offering this service. We recently switched to use bit.ly http://bit.ly/ because we like their tracking information and they allow users to create custom URL’s. For example, we took  http://www.bigmethod.com and shortened it to be http://bit.ly/bigmethod. But that isn’t [...]
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To Ning, or not to Ning…

By tristan | Published: April 25, 2009
It seems like everyone is still hot on the idea of their own brand social networking website. Internal social networking platforms (like Ning.com) allow for the integration of social tools within a website unique to the hosts desired interest, passions, and services. There are great benefits to doing this but the question needs to be [...]
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Music Streaming Services vs. Music Ownership

By tristan | Published: April 15, 2009
Can music streaming services replace music ownership? This is one of the never ending questions I hear pertaining to the music industry. Because we are in a transitional state from physical retail album sales to digital distribution and online music streaming, answers to questions like this have the potential to reshape to how artists, record labels, [...]
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Tweetmeme Re-launched

By tristan | Published: April 13, 2009
I was reading this article “Tweetmeme re-launches to gun for top of the Twitter link tree” by Mike Butcher on TechCrunch about Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme allows you to keep track of what is most talked about or tweeted. I instantly thought how this could be beneficial to business by knowing what people are most interested in [...]
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Twitter “Discovery Engine”

By tristan | Published: April 6, 2009
I was reading a post by Robin Wauters on Tech Crunch (http://www.techcrunch.com) called “Twitter Confirms and Details New Discovery Engine”. The article was talking about Twitter’s soon to be newest feature called “Twitter Discovery”, a new search engine integrated within Twitter giving users the option to search for topics within their network and save results. [...]
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