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TimesOnline: media140 is hosting microblogging event in London

3. April 2009

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The UK’s first event devoted to Twitter will take place at the Southbank in London on May 20. “In keeping with the subject matter, the Media140 event will be short and sweet, lasting just four hours, from 2pm”, writes TimesOnline and continues to report: “Packed into those four hours will be a host of top-grade speakers, [...]

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Laconica going commercial: status.net coming soon!

31. März 2009

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As previously denoted here in the MBC09 blog Evan Prodromou, founder at Control Yourself, creator of the Laconica open microblogging software and identi.ca service, has announced yesterday a commercial hosted service - called status.net: I’ve been telling people for a few months that one of our plans for commercializing the Identica software and getting more people on the [...]

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The 140 Characters Conference - June 16/17 in NYC

23. März 2009

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A very warm welcome to Jeff Pulver and his announcement of the The 140 Characters Conference - June 16/17 in NYC! This is great! I’m excited and planning to visit the event in New York. Jeff is an Entrepreneur, Chairman and Founder, well known in Germany for his many visits to the DLD in Munich: Jeff Pulver [...]

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40.000 German Speaking Twitter Users

3. März 2009

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Thomas Pfeiffer has analyzed recently the German Twitter community and came to the result that there are probably about 40.000 Twitter accounts, which of them 27.000 actively are sending tweets themselves and the rest passively only listening. The investigation period was from Monday, February 23, 2009, 00:00 to Sunday, March 1, 24:00 clock. If Thomas’ assumptions are [...]

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Facts as Art

3. März 2009

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Generated with Wordle and the German version of the MBC09 Summer Camp fact sheet.

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Blogroll with Blogs about Microblogging

21. Februar 2009

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Meanwhile there are numerous blogs who report and analyze the microblogging world and give some insights. Here are some you might consider and put into your feed reader or blogroll: Touchbase, a valuable ressource and blog of Pistachio Consulting, a renown expert in microsharing from Boston. Pistachio is founded by Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton and consults in branding and [...]

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Microblogging.com launched today!

20. Februar 2009

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Shaun Morton from Dayton, Ohio, USA, has officially launched Microblogging.com a couple of minutes ago. Congratulations! Microblogging.com is a site dedicated to bringing you the latest news from the microblogging world. Shaun is monitoring the scene for quite a while and you may know him as @microblogging in Twitter and Identi.ca. In the last months we had [...]

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“What has your attention”! Interesting thought…

17. Februar 2009

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…says Björn Ognibeni, who quotes a slide from Min Xuan, who is a student from Singapore in California. Here is the quite motivating presentation [via SaschaLobo]: View more presentations from Minxuan Lee. Works for almost any microblogging platform. Not just for Twitter.

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MBC09SC: Ticketshop opened!

16. Februar 2009

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Just opened the ticketshop for MBC09 Summer Camp with early bird tickets. Join and enjoy! Details about location in Cologne, Germany and sponsoring will follow later on in this blog. The MBC09 blog will be redesigned, get a new theme and the ticketshop will be embedded in the blog in the next few days. The MBC09 logo will [...]

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The Complete Guide to Creating Effective Square Banner Ads on MBC09 Blog

6. Februar 2009

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MBC09 events are open to everyone who wants to attend. The ticket price should not be a real barriere for anyone. It’s more something like a small personal sponsoring, your contribution to the particular event and a commitment that you are really attending the conference. This is important for our calculation of the budget. But the [...]

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