Twittertise

Twittertise is a neat application that lets you send out scheduled "tweets." Check out the video below. Anyone plan on using this?


Twittertise Overview from whalewisdom on Vimeo.

YouTube Adding Links

YouTube is adding another source of revenue to its site: links to iTunes and Amazon. Recently, YouTube added banner ads to popular videos as a way to monetize the site. This form of advertisement should be much less intrusive than a banner ad. It will also make more sense.

Take a look at the top videos of all time. What do you notice? An overwhelming amount of them are music videos. Adding a link in the video to purchase the song will help drive sales. The Pandora Application has this feature built-in to it, which has cause me to spend at least $50 on various songs.

Making Social Networking Productive

USA Today featured an article today on how companies are engaging in social networking.

Main points from the article:
- There has been a big shift with companies in the last two months toward social networking.
- 85% of employees work on projects with people in other offices
- Companies are getting involved in "company only" social networks (check out Yammer for an example).


So what?

As companies are realizing the benefits of internal social networking, I imagine they must also realize the advantages of getting involved through social networking with their customers. Many companies have leveraged social networking for their products, but I expect many more to jump on the bandwagon in the future.

One of the best social networking sites set up by a company comes from Saturn. Check out ImSaturn.