Scene on The Net » Blogging http://www.sceneonthe.net A great little web development partnership Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:37:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Four cool aps to Twitter with http://www.sceneonthe.net/four-cool-aps-to-twitter-with/ http://www.sceneonthe.net/four-cool-aps-to-twitter-with/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:07:08 +0000 Max Brockbank http://www.sceneonthe.net/?p=241 Micro blogging is big news, and Twitter is the name of the game. Here are four simple ways to play.

TweetDeck

Based on on Adobe’s Air platform, TweetDeck splits up your Tweets into handy customisable columns: All Updates, Replies and Direct Messages. But it goes further by providing filtering to separate the wheat from the goats. There are many other goodies, but they don’t get in the way. The in-built Tweet “growth predictor” is something to keep an eye on.

Best Feature: fine-toothed filtering

Download From: www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

TwitterFox

This is an Add-On for Firefox which you soon won’t want to be without. It sits quietly in the status bar and checks every few minutes for updates. These can be set to pop up as they arrive, meaning that you never need to explore further, but if you’re away from your keyboard and the Tweets mount up, you can click on the icon and see all the latest entries.

Best Feature: Multiple Twitter accounts accessed in the wink of an eye.

Download From: TwitterFox@Firefox Add-ons

TwitterBerry

The essential Tweet tool for the Blackberry, allows you to keep in touch with those you follow without using the browser. And the cool text entry means you can Tweet anywhere you have network access.

Best Feature: Access your friends’ Tweets in two clicks on the 9.32 from Lewisham

Download From: orangatame.com

Digsby Tweet Icon

One of the best features of multiple IM client Digsby, is the ability to connect to social networks such as Facebook, Google Talk and Twitter — which puts it streets ahead of its rivals.

Best Feature: Like TwitterFox, it also allows you to run multiple Twitter accounts.

Download From: digsby.com

]]> http://www.sceneonthe.net/four-cool-aps-to-twitter-with/feed/ 0 How we let a customer lead the way http://www.sceneonthe.net/how-we-let-a-customer-lead-the-way/ http://www.sceneonthe.net/how-we-let-a-customer-lead-the-way/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:14:53 +0000 Max Brockbank http://www.sceneonthe.net/?p=191 It’s early days for the new Scene on the Net. The sad fact is that we’re not getting the level of spidering by the search engines we’d like.

The major reason for this is that the old Scene wasn’t really updated very much: we said what we needed to say and got on with making great web sites. As a result, the search engines had no need  to check us over all that often because they believed that we obviously had nothing new to say.

These days, Scene is much more a platform for information, discussion and community (and the odd pitch to build you a website at a jolly nice price). That means we have included more ways to update the site, including blogging and microblogging.

We’ve been shown the way by the masterminds behind CasinoUpdate.co.uk, a site we developed for an independent casino news organisation. The good people of CUUK set out to make their web site interesting and regular, so from the very beginning they posted news items at least TWICE a day.

After just three months, CUUK found their pages were being indexed every 20 minutes or so, with stories appearing at similar intervals. That has contributed to CUUK becoming a trusted news source with a regular following inside and outside of the gambling industry, not to mention good search engine rankings, impressive PR and a popularity among advertisers.

To be honest, I’m not sure we partners at Sceneonthe.net have the time — or the imagination — to post something original and interesting every WEEK, let alone twice a day. We’ll see.

But we do hope that we can be interesting some times. We’ll try, as often as we can.

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