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A couple of days ago I noticed Jeff Pulver was putting together a new conference in the field of social communications. 

Today he announced it officially: The Social Communications Summit will take place in New York next February 10-11 and he’s looking for talented and passionate speakers to bring their experience and standpoint of the current status of the intersection of IP Communications with Social Networks.

Deadline for the submission of speaking proposals is Dec 5th, so please get in touch with Jeff if you want to be part of this event.

This latest news confirms that February and March are going to be very hot for the IP Communications industry, starting with ITEXPO East in Miami on Febr 2nd to 4th, going through  this new event by Jeff in New York and ending with the second edition of eComm by Lee Dryburgh in San Francisco.

I like being part of this!

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A couple of days ago I blogged about Qwitter, a service which informs you when someone quit following you on Twitter.

In the last week I received five emails, where Qwitter informed me about people no more following me.

You know what? All of them started “following” me just not long ago, maybe “waiting” for me to follow them back. Since this hasn’t happened, they unfollowed me. The point is that their only aim was to increse their followers’ number, without really caring of my tweets. Their only aim was to catch my attention and to make me follow them back.

Unfortunately, as stated many times, I follow people I really care about. If you follow me but I don’t think I can be interested in what you write on twitter (with all my respect, of course) I will never follow you back. At the same time, if I follow you it’s because: 1) we know each other personally (well, in that case I would appreciate if you follow me as well) - 2) I care about your thoughts and I don’t care if you follow me back.

It’s great how Qwitter gives me a confirmation about this bad behavior by “marketing-only” twitter accounts. Here is an example for all, Mr iphone reviews unfollowed me after just a couple of days he started (on October 21st) following me, “much interested” in my thoughts and opinions:

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Twinfluence is a service which lets you measure your Twitter influence and see who are the twitter users with more influence.

It basically puts together a couple of parameters from which it calculates your “reach“, “velocity” and “social capital“. Here is adescription of these attributes, taken from their website:

Reach is a measurement of potential audience and listeners, a best estimate of the number of people that a given Twitterer could quickly get a message to.

Velocity merely averages the number of first- and second-order followers attracted per day since the Twitterer first established their account. The larger the number is, the faster that Twitterer has accumulated their influence.

Social Capital: It’s essentially a measure of how influential are a twitterer’s followers. A high value indicates that most of that Twitterer’s followers have a lot of followers themselves.

The last one in particular, Social Capital, could potentially be a very interesting way to measure if someone’s followers are just, let’s say, unknown Twitterers with a couple of followers or “important” influencers and opinion leader themselves. Unfortunately, at first sight, it’s not working very well because some users on top of the list looks like anonymous and not certainly “famous” twitterers.

In the Top 5 - Reach we found some well known names:

1) Jason Calcanis

2) Ewan Williams (Twitter’s CEO)

3) Chris Brogan

4) TechCrunch

5) Guy Kawasaki

Other famous bloggers / internet opinion leaders can be easily found in the Top 50, like Loic Le Meur (7), Robert Scoble (10), Mashable (11), Kevin Rose (14), Jeff Pulver (20). There are many others, you can take a look by yourself at this link.

Ok, what about me (I don’t consider myself a heavy Twitter user) ?

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The idea behind Qwitter is simple: when people stop following you on Twitter, they send you an email with your last tweet before the “unfollowing”.

What to say? Simple, smart, useful. Try it out at http://useqwitter.com. Praises to Eoghan McCabe, another smart irish entrepreneur.

BTW, take a look at the “smart” tag line at the bottom of their webpage…

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Causal and not engaged one-shot readers or faithful subscribers? Well, no doubt, the latter.

I was noticing that while the number of pageviews of this blog is growing more and more (in the range of 1200-1500 / day) the number of RSS subscribers is quite frozen since I crossed 500 readers. Now it’s usually in the range 500-600, while I noticed that there are many recurring visitors that don’t use RSS but come straight to the website. Why ?!?

My invite is: SUBSCRIBE. With the new format of this blog, there will be news and articles which will be available for RSS subscribers only. Those will be tagged with the category “RSS Only” and I’ll not make them available to visitors. Those will be indexed by Google of course, but will become fresh content for subscribers only.

Here are some ways to subscribe. Just click one of the links below to subscribe with you default RSS reader or, my recommendation, Google Reader.

Generic RSS reader

There are many other methods to subscribe. If you want to get more information about RSS, take a look at this article, very well done, which explains what RSS is and how it can save you a lot of time letting you consume more news very quickly and effectively. That article basically responds to this question:

“I don’t have a lot of extra time but I find that blogs can eat up the little bit of time I do have. I find that some people don’t update their blog daily or even weekly but I can’t remember if I checked their blog today or I check again later in the day if they didn’t update. … Do you have a good way to set this up? I don’t subscribe to blogs either, because I don’t really understand why I would do that.”

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Just realized that a new beta version of Friendfeed has been released a couple of days ago.

I’m testing it out, I’ll post my impressions soon.

I haven’t seen anything special so far, but I need more time to test it better.

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Two of the key people of the popular and historical browser Netscape, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, invested in the popular mobile video streaming service Qik.

Both of them joined the Qik’s board of advisors and I believe they will offer a very important contribution to the growth of the company. They have been key figures in Netscape, Ning and Opsware (recently acquired by HP) and this investment proves that the guys at Qik are definitely doing a great job.

The financial terms have not been disclosed, but I believe that’s a secondary aspect of the deal. The contribution of people like those can be priceless sometimes.

Congrats to my friends Bhaskar and Jackie!

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