Insights on emerging technology, marketing and digital culture.
One of my frustrations with Twitter is that there's no easy way to track the hot trending topics within your personal stream. So, with that, I went ahead and created a tool that does just that. All you need to do is follow @Tweetertrends or simply subscribe via RSS. The app is a mashup that uses Dapper, Feedburner and Twitterfeed. It's wonky at times, still it works for the most part and is handy for tracking what's hot on Twitter today.
Want to know what's cool and emerging? Me too. That's why I subscribe to dozens of blog feeds from cool companies large and small. They include all the Google blogs, the Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebbook blog and many more.
I have decided to share these with you by rolling them up into single feed, which you can browse or subscribe or even download the OPML file. I have also published a list of all 60 blogs that are in this bundle below. I am constantly adding/removing companies from this list so please leave a comment if I omitted some big ones. (Note, some are Edelman clients.)
Also, I might at some point port the feed over to Twitter via Twitterfeed and/or add it to post to my Linkstream site so that we can discuss these items as well.
Call me crazy, but I love email. I tend to gravitate to services that integrate with it. For example, like Jesse Stay, I often use Gmail to interact with Friendfeed. For the same reason, I am back with Backpack since I can shuttle to-do's back and forth via email. Evernote too works great with email for notes and other data. But this just scratches the surface - email is also a massive social network that's just waiting to be unleashed through APIs. Here's a taste.
Steve Rubel (bio) is SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman - the world's largest independent PR firm.
He is charged with helping clients identify emerging technologies and trends that can be applied in marketing communications programs. Rubel also explores these topics on his site and in monthly columns for Forbes.com and Advertising Age. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook as well.
Steve can be reached via email at steverubel@gmail.com.
Note: Everything posted on this site is Steve's personal opinion. It does not represent the views of Edelman or its clients.
