Here’s another great tool that can be used to find out who is tweeting links to your website, even if they haven’t mentioned your twitter username OR they’ve used a URL shortener.
With a short and simple homepage that closely resembles Google, BackTweets is a great service that gives you a list of every Twitter user who has tweeted a link to your site, including the entire tweet, their username, and when it was posted.
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Co-founders and siblings Vineet, Monica, and Anuj Agarwal has released his real-time image search engine to the public: NachoFoto. It was released yesterday and provides search results of images in real-time, similar to Google News articles and Twitter results. NachoFoto is a great resource, especially when it comes to image searches related to living persons or current events. NachoFoto searches for the terms “Masters” or “Paris Hilton” bring up images that have been uploaded online as little as a few hours previously.
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By Kaila Strong
An alarming rate of change occurs in the world of internet marketing. That’s why, as marketers, its important to stay on top of the changing trends in our industry. One way I stay aware is by attending webinars in addition to reading industry blogs, signing up for Smart Brief newsletter e-mails for the industry, checking out handy infographics on a regular basis (like “35 Great Social Media Infographics), and following industry experts on Twitter to hear their daily words of advice.
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UPDATE: As of Jan 2010, Facebook has blocked Seppukoo’s API access to their website.
If Facebook has taken over your life but you can’t find a way out, an “imaginary art group” has created a new web site that can help. Seppukoo.com allows you to deactivate your Facebook account with a virtual ritual suicide befitting of a samurai warrior.
Named after seppuku, an ancient Japanese samurai ritual in which samurai would plunge a sword into their own stomachs to escape defeat by their enemies, the web site invites users to “impress your friends, disconnect yourself” and “discover what’s after your Facebook life.” By entering your Facebook user ID and password (the site says no data will be stored on its server), you can customize a memorial page that will be sent to all your Facebook friends, who will have the opportunity to leave a farewell message.
If you later decide that life is just not complete without Facebook, you can log into the site to reactivate your account.
The creators of the site, Les Liens Invisibles (which translates to “The Invisible Links”) claims the site was not started to attack Facebook, but simply to help people “rediscover the importance of being anyone, instead of pretending to be someone.” Les Liens Invisibles even has its own Facebook page.
Karen Eisenbraun is a freelance writer and is currently residing in the Kansas City Metro. She has experience in SEO, content management, website design, and green living. When not working, she enjoys rock climbing, yoga, and occasionally throwing herself out of airplanes.
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