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Don’t know what StockTwits is? It’s a way to talk about stocks on Twitter. Is it popular? Yes! Is it profitable? Yes! (Advertisers love an audience of people who are trading stocks). Is it using Twitter in a unique way? Yes!

So, how is StockTwits doing it? Well, Rocky and I traveled to New York to find out and we met up with Howard Lindzon, founder of StockTwits, to find out the inside scoop.

Lindzon is also an investor in other businesses and now owns a stake in Twitter itself.

This video is part of the Buildin⡧ community which is for people who are fanatical about the Internet.

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Heh, Tom Foremski reads too much into traffic numbers, he notes that my blog’s traffic is down by half recently. Well, duh! If you don’t blog people don’t read.

But my numbers are way up elsewhere.

Who cares where the audience is? I don’t. Now thanks to working on my FriendFeed aggregator you’ll see my words whether I write them on Wordpress, on Tumblr, on Posterous, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Flickr, on Upcoming.org, on Building43, on YouTube, or a number of other places.

I noticed that traffic on blogs was flat. Techmeme’s traffic hasn’t gone up very quickly. FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook have. Here’s a chart comparing Techmeme to FriendFeed.com to Scobleizer.com.

So, I went where the traffic is. By the way, most of the people reading my blog this week came from Twitter or FriendFeed.

So is blogging back? Yes, as a way to feed FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook.

Is it a hub anymore? No. My blog used to be the center of where you’d find everything I was thinking and doing. That hub has now moved for me to FriendFeed and for most other people to Twitter or Facebook.

By the way, my experiment of trying to stay off Twitter and FriendFeed this week is going fairly well, I’ve only slipped a few times. But there are some things that need longer than 140 characters and there are lots of things that are lame to do on a blog, like saying I’ve gone surfing.

Dave Winer, though, added that he predicted a return to blogging as people discover that it’s nicer to finish a thought that requires more than 140 characters. That I agree with.

By the way, today FriendFeed got nice new Themes. I like the new Helvetica one.

Original post by Robert Scoble

Heh, Tom Foremski reads too much into traffic numbers, he notes that my blog’s traffic is down by half recently. Well, duh! If you don’t blog people don’t read.

But my numbers are way up elsewhere.

Who cares where the audience is? I don’t. Now thanks to working on my FriendFeed aggregator you’ll see my words whether I write them on Wordpress, on Tumblr, on Posterous, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Flickr, on Upcoming.org, on Buildin⡧, on YouTube, or a number of other places.

I noticed that traffic on blogs was flat. Techmeme’s traffic hasn’t gone up very quickly. FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook have. Here’s a chart comparing Techmeme to FriendFeed.com to Scobleizer.com.

So, I went where the traffic is. By the way, most of the people reading my blog this week came from Twitter or FriendFeed.

Original post by Robert Scoble

Item. Thomas Hawk praises Cooliris as the coolest new way to see photos on Flickr.

Item. Mashable has list of six cool Twitter visualizations.

Item: Micah Wittman releases translation engine for FriendFeed.

It’s interesting that I’ve been to several conferences lately and one has really stuck out in my mind: 140: The Twitter Conference by the Parnassus Group. Why?

Out of all the conferences and events I’ve been to lately it was the one that had a lot of developers doing things that no one in the mainstream understands are important. I remember the last time I felt like that. 2000-2002. Right during the last downturn. What came out of that period? Oh, all sorts of blog tools and blog networks.

Jason Preston, who helps plan that conference, wrote why so much is happening around Twitter and notes that Facebook will never be the new Twitter because Facebook is “so damn worried about Twitter not because they want to be the hot new thing, but because they can’t let open, platform-level technologies siphon user activity out of their black hole.” I’m trying to get a writeup of all the Twitter services that were featured at the conference. It was quite a few.

Jason, it’s not just Twitter, either. There are rafts of interesting things going on because of open APIs. Have you ever used TripIt? I love TripIt. It uses APIs to hook up to other travel services to find me all sorts of stuff.

Or, since we’re talking about Travel (I’m headed to London on Saturday, so am interested in the topic), how about Offbeat Guides? You fill in your desination city and it uses a bunch of APIs to build you a travel book.

Don’t you love the new API world? I do. Got any cool API uses? Please leave them in the comments here for us all to check out.

Oh, and who is that picture of? It’s Alex Payne, API lead at Twitter. Think of the power he now wields over a building infrastructure of API users. Even Flickr today joined the Twitter world.

Yeeeeehhaaaaaawwww!

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An article just published in Computeworld, “Domain-name wars: Rise of the cybersquatters” confirms ICA predictions that if brand owners are able to implement their unbalanced Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for new gTLDs they will quickly move to use the same illicit, backdoor process to have it imposed on incumbent gTLDs — including .com.

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Setting up an affiliate network for your existing Volusion store is quick and easy, but what do you need to do to manage it? Below are some affiliate network best practices to help you run a successful affiliate network.

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