Pollr – my simple RSS to twitter engine

I wrote about it some month ago – I was looking for a RSS to twitter service – but couldn’t find one. My usecase is quite simple: In Google Reader I have a blogroll of appr. 200 blogs I am following. But to be honest – I’m using Google Reader less and less. Even Reeder…

RSS to twitter

I’m looking for a RSS to twitter service. With that I don’t mean something like twitterfeed which posts my RSS feed under my twitter account, but a service which I give my opml to, and which sends me e.g. dm’s (or a @fredl mention, so that it appears in my timeline) everytime a feed is…

Twitter as Sales tool – yet another story

I just stumbled upon a german platform called susuh.de, and they are offering a service to find local service-providers like haircutters, groceries or what ever. So what makes them unique is the ability to send a request via twitter to the platform. I personally haven’t tried the service yet (just because there’s no party to…

twitter sales becomes reality

I was looking for a hotel in London the other day, and tried an experiment: post my search on twitter and see what happens. And there you go: Just some minutes after my post I got retweetet by @frau_one and about 3 minutes later, @ukseries (service with trips to england, tickets, events etc.) followed me.…

Selling products on twitter

A friend of mine works for a pr agency, and she is currently evaluating the use of twitter for one of their customers – an online shop in germany . She came up with an idea, which from my first impression, sounded brilliant: use the direct contact to potential customers from twitter, and tell them…

„Sell your soul on twitter “ or how to find new business models in the recommendation age

What I was asking myself today was, if publisher would be willing to pay for inbound links. There are several reasons for a clear „yes“: e-commerce sites know how to calculate their traffic-earnings coming from the conversions in their shops news-publisher know what they get for their visits, by selling volume-based ads Now, wouldn’t that…

The not working picture twitter

No, I don’t have too much time, but sometimes hacking some stuff is more fun in the evening than watching TV. So I’ve made a crappy twitter for pictures 😉 Just Drag’nDrop Upload your pictures to a public timeline. This is not safe, it is not really working, but it shows my idea of having…

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