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A real digital jewel: A fancy way describing what the Internet thinks about you… More details available here.

I’ve been discussing this “oh my god, we’re all becoming so visible in the Internet” topic so often, this interpretation is really nice!

Via Jens Meiert.

Enjoy the evening,
– Till.

Somehow my tweet-rate droppped dramatically. Same with my blog-rate. What’s the reason?

Many studies showed, that this is a typical behavior of young tweeters: Only 40% of them tweet on after the first month. They just get bored by the type of information that are published through this media. Do I fall in this pattern too?

Honestly, I don’t think so. It’s true that I almost quit twittering, but the reason is another one: If I look at what happened in my life when I started and stopped twittering, there is one factor that clearly pops up: the iPhone.

I started twittering when I got it, I quit when it broke. Same applies to my facebook usage. Am I happier with or w/o twittering? I honestly don’t have the feeling myself that twitter & facebook were stealing me valuable time. I used time that was unused before to read & post.

So the real question is: Will I get an iPhone again? I don’t think in the near future. But I think that a proper twitter/facebook client will definitly be on the must-have list for my next smartphone. Until then I use Daniel’s old E90…

Have a good night & a good working week,

– Till.

So, my iPhone is still dead. I still didn’t manage to get in touch with the insurance to get it fixed…

Anyway, there is another recent finding: W/o an iPhone at hand I have far more free time to spend. I used to spend a couple of hours playing with my phone every day – I think. Now this time is all free. You might notice a drop in posting frequency on twitter, facebook, even on my blog: Reading less RSS feeds I have less stories to re-submit, so less content for the blog.

Although I spent quite some time playing with my iPhone, this one is far worse.

Who knows who my online-times will be with a Android phone or a Palm Pre? Is online time a measure of quality for a smartphone? Currently I use the old Nokia E90 of a colleague: It has a lot of functionality, but surfing is no, twitter is no, facebook is no no. The whole thing is just built for business…

So long so good, have a good night,

– Till.

While thinking of how one could use the upcoming, modern ways of communication, I raised the question of size and user numbers. Here is what I found out:

• Twitter: There are no official figures of the number of Twitter users. Estimations go up to 8 million. Others state 3.5 – 4.5 million users.
• Facebook: More than 175 million active users
• Xing: Reach over 7 million highly qualified experts

Now these are pure top level figures. Let’s have a look at how many of them are from Germany:

• Twitter users in Germany: Some 10’000+
• Facebook: aprox. 1.2 million
• Xing members in Germany: 2.2 millions

So what do we learn: In Germany, Xing is by far the strongest network. Addionally, Xing users are to a large extend paying members (aprox. 8%). There awareness about what’s going on in their Xing network is probably much higher than the one people who just logged in once…

When browsing around and trying to understand how to develop apps for those social networks, a technology popped up: OpenSocial. It seems to be an API or a dev model to develop social apps within existing “Social App Containers”. It’s supported (if not developed) by Google. This document looked interesting to me. And I also found this article quite intersting.

So, what do we do with this enlightenment? Let me know if you have a good idea.

Ahoj,

– Till.

PS: You can find me on Twitter, Xing and Facebook of course