Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Thomas Beard.
Yesterday I received this tweet:
I clicked on it and couldn't bring myself to install Silverlight on my Mac. Boooo. This morning, however, I realized I could install it in Parallels and that would be fine (which is a bit of a rationalization, but whatever.)
What I found was pretty amazing. Bing Twitter Maps.
I was a bit put off by the fact that you have to install a maps plugin to see this, primarily because this decreases the number of people who will use it significantly. But still, I think this can be an incredible tool for small businesses.
If you are active in the community, running specials, advertising a new location, or planning an event, using the new geo-tagging feature in Twitter is a must.
This feature is off by default in Twitter, so if you want to leverage location aware tweets, you have to go into your Settings (here: http://twitter.com/account/settings) and "Enable geotagging". See below.
Take note you can also kill your location data later if you so choose.
via Tableau Software:
Using some recent data from Comscore we have created a dashboard examining the year-over-year change in traffic at the world's largest websites. The data for Average Daily Visitors tells an interesting story: although Yahoo clearly trumps Microsoft for daily visits in the US, worldwide Microsoft is leading and has been pulling away from Yahoo. However, Google is still the undisputed champion in both realms. Explore the different metrics and find your own angle on this internet street fight.
data visualization by tableau public
Artwork from the year 2000, originally uploaded by tastybit.
In finding my image libraries, I uncovered this.
Retweet inline FYI, originally uploaded by tastybit.
Twitter has a nice little way of helping you learn about this new feature.
