Twitter has taken off like a Chinese Firework in the last few months. It wasn’t long before other started to cash in by creating their own Twitter using sites with a twist. For example, we reviewed Trazzler in June and a host of other twitter inspired sites.
Now we have TwiPho.net . Upon seeing the URL, I assumed it was twitter on your phone and I didn’t really see the originality of it all. Then I jumped on in and discovered it was Twitter Photo. Basically, this is a platform whereby people can submit their photos (usually taken at events, news stories etc on mobile phones) and submit them to the service.
Then when a user goes on (such as me) and types in say … Michael Jackson, I’ll be shown the latest Photo Tweets like hundreds of people gathered around the Millennium Stadium in the UK holding candles. Developed by Mark Goddard, it’s still in the Beta phase and as such operates on a small scale in comparison to its older brother.
Where as in Twitter tweets come in on the second, tweets only come by on a specific subject such as Chuck Norris or Dog every few minutes (or even hours depending on how specific you search terms is).
I can’t see it catching on as photos don’t have the same simplicity adored by fans of Twitter. However, it’s a cool website with easy-to-use functions. It serves a purpose – the Flickr of Twitter.
VidPay is an online service that allows users to advertise their websites or services on the internet through videos. Here’s a quick rundown of how it works. Basically, you sign up and upload an advertisement video to the site. You select your target audience (i.e. age, gender, nationality, interests, hobbies) and select a daily budget for your advertising campaign. Then you’re up and running.
Your video will appear as a featured video on websites and the more people that watch it the more you pay VidPay for promoting your site until your daily budget is reached at which your point your video is removed until the following day.
I don’t think that this is anything special or useful. There are better and more effective ways of promoting a website such as through networking, social media and SEO. Paying a company to put your video on the internet no matter who they’re showing it to, seems silly. Could you not simply do the same thing on YouTube leaving a link at the end of the video whilst having the added bonus of a channel page and user comments etc.. ?
Another drawback that limits the effectiveness is that the videos you pay to have plastered on the net are restricted to only being featured on Metacafe sites. All in all, if your advertising budget is big and you can’t be bothered to do an hour a week on Youtube, Twitter etc… or indeed on any of their affiliate programs such as this one, then by all means visit VidPay.
It’s a recession out there, but it’s also summer. Holidays, shortbreaks and long weekends litter the calendar. What to do? Trazzle of course!
Many websites are catching the twitter bug and beefing up their websites with tweets . If there was ever a time to jump on the pigs back it was now. Trazzler was no exception. It’s a travel website offering reviews, news and profiles of places and attractions from the four corner of the globe. Now, they have introduced Trazzler Buzz.
Trazzler Buzz allows people to tweet cool deals they seen for hotels, flight, B&Bs and anything else remotely related to travel. I think this is actually a good place to start your travel planning as you get unbiased deals from real people.
For example, a couple of the good deals I spotted when I logged in this morning were:
- New York City 4.0 Star Hotel, $169.0/nt Times Square – Theatre District: Wed Jul 22 2009 – Thu Jul 23 2009 http://rubyurl.com/MDvt
- Frankfurt 5.0 Star Hotel, $64.0/nt Frankfurt: Sat Jul 18 2009 – Sun Jul 19 2009 http://rubyurl.com/CexF
There are some links which are quite obviously spam or just the hotels themselves trying balance the books but they are few and far between. For the most part you’re getting great offers shot at you left right and centre. And let me tell you, I don’t mind having money saving deals thrown my way. From previous experience of running around travel agents and browsing never ending travel websites, Trazzler is a breath of fresh air. In addition, because it’s updated in real time using the twitter system your getting a constant stream of ‘great offers’, ‘discounts’ and ‘low air fares’. Trazzler is useful and innovative – just the kind of thinking we need in an economic depression.
