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The secret for effective marketing (not only on Twitter) is to say your message to targeted audience and on of the ways you can do this on Twitter is to build your audience by auto-following twitter users depending on keywords.

Such method can bring you a lot of potential costumers for your business and below you can find some of the best auto-follow by keyword tools – from free to advanced paid systems.

SocialOomph

SocialOomph is really great and very popular tool between online marketers. It will be the only thing you will ever need for managing your twitter account and it offers Facebook integration as well. Sign up for free account and test for yourself - unfortunately auto-follow feature available only for professional version.

AddNewFollowers

AddNewFollowers is one of the most advanced platforms for getting Twitter followers. It is the most complete tool that I have found and seams like it is working great. It can bring you a lot of attention on Twitter. Sign up for free account and try for yourself.

The features include automated tweets, auto-follow by keyword, hot trends chart, stats and many more.

If you are planning to use auto-follow tool for a long period of time it may be wise to purchase AddNewFollowers as it costs $37/$67 which is one time payment.

Continue reading: 6 Auto Follow by Keyword Twitter Tools

New war in the mobile phone business brings to the fight Google and Apple – two of the biggest whales of Silicon Valley. Here is the chart done by Business Week comparing these two different philosophies.

Check out also Business Week article.

Just received an email about new Twitter tool called TwitterValue – it shows how much is your Twitter account worth. Of course you can’t sell your account because it is against Twitter ToS but it is interesting to know what’s the possible price tag may be.

Here is our blogs Twitter account worth:

And how much costs your twitter profile?

I think many of you will agree that Facebook photo uploader is far from being perfect and many of you have trouble making your photo albums and uploading pictures. In this post you can find some alternative solutions to solve this problem and make photo uploading process less painful.

Here you can find solutions that will cover most of users whatever you work on a PC, Mac or keep your photos online.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto

Plugin for iPhoto (Mac) that will let you easily export photos to your Facebook account. This plugin have also tag your friends feature.

Continue reading: 6 Facebook Photo Uploaders That Works

For years, voice transcription technology has been available but terrible.  Unless you talked like a robot, the typed result looked nothing like what you said.  Now there’s a new round of services for those who are better at talking with your mouth rather than your thumbs, and they’ve gotten a lot better.  Here are our six faves.

Dragon Dictation (iPhone)

This new transcription app has been slobberingly adored by Mashable, The New York Times, and the rest of the web.  It’s free for a limited time only, and does a mighty fine job.  Once you’ve spoken, you can save the text in an email, SMS or onto your clipboard.  The basic design is very user-friendly, and the price is right.

QuickVoice (iPhone)

This one costs $0.99 and doesn’t let you email your notes out of your iPhone, but it does have a handy “pause” feature that allows you to take a little break without having to start a new file.

MyCaption (Blackberry)

This is a useful app for the Blackberry, but don’t let the $1.99 download price fool you.  They have a slate of complicated and expensive plans for emailing the transcriptions out of your device that should make you wary.

Continue reading: 6 Speech-to-Text Transcription Apps and Services

Amazing visualization on how many apps iPhone/iPod touch users are downloading and how much money they are spending on apps every month.

Did you know that users downloaded an average 3,7 apps each?

Did you know that one quarter of apps users download via AppStore are paid?

Did you know that average iPhone/iPod touch user is spending $10 on apps every month?

Did you know…

via GigaOM

You probably already know (and use) the TwitterKeys put together by TheNextWeb. If not, TwitterKeys is a small tool that helps you quickly copy/paste UTF-8 symbols to Twitter. It is a fun way how to customize your tweets and make them stand out of the crowd. TwitterKeys works not only with the Twitter, but also Facebook and other sites supporting UTF-8 encoding.

It works great if you tweet from the web or desktop clients, but as may of you use iPhone for tweeting it is nearly impossible to use special symbols there. But I have found a way that will let you, at least, use some of the symbols – follow some simple steps described below to add this feature.

Continue reading: iPhone Hack: TwitterKeys on iPhone

In new year, everything starts afresh and so do bloggers. Aside from resolutions and blogging plans, it’s time to evaluate our blogging progress from previous year. Some of you may not be a fan in tracking stats but in order to plan well ahead, at least a simple review is needed. I don’t plan to bombard you with multiple tools, but some easy, accessible ways you can do for your blog evaluation:

1. Number & Quality of Comments

Most of the time, we are advised to track which post received the most comments as an indicator of its popularity. Truth is, quality factor is equally important as to get 50 times of ‘good post!’ is unable to compete with 40 comments with insightful, continuous discussions. Of course, time factor can affect since newer posts may need longer times to accumulate comments comparing to older ones.

2. Number of Retweets

You don’t need me to explain to you how ‘big’ Twitter is nowadays. If you’re going full force with social media as an publicity tool for your blog, you need to install tweetcount widgets like Tweetmeme (http://tweetmeme.com) or Backtype (http://www.backtype.com/widgets/tweetcount). Their reliabilities are unquestionable. Further more a visible widget earns you 50:50 chance for readers to retweet. Blog author has nothing to lose but a higher chance to get discovered. Therefore make sure you have the ‘WIIFM’ (What’s In It For Me) factor for all your posts, make them irresistible to go viral in various social networks.

Continue reading: 6 Easy Ways to Track Your Blog Success

Recently, I’ve found myself lying in bed at 3am, eyes wide open, thinking to myself, ‘there’s NOT an app for that!’

What I lack in technical expertise, I make up for with ideas.  Unfortunately for me, these days, the guy with the coding experience is the guy who makes bank.

But there are workarounds.  Wix helps my Flash deficiencies.  SquareSpace helps me avoid WordPress updates.  And now AppMakr can turn me into an iPhone genius.

A combination of RSS feeds and searches will help make your Website’s content available for app building. Multiple feeds?  No problem.  Mash up your Twitter, YouTube and blog feed – add a few customizations – and you could be on your way to earning cash. Continue reading: Anyone Can Create an iPhone App With AppMakr

Here is the visualization from a study by University of California at San Diego about Amrica’s daily data consumption. 1 zettabyte = 1 099 511 627 776 gigabyte – wow, that’s massive!

I have seen some cool profile pics for some of my friends over Facebook and Twitter and I always wanted to create my own. As it turns out there are plenty of free online tools to have fun with and cartoon yourself.

Below you can find some of the best tools including South Park and Simpsons character generators. Of course that’s not all – you can find many more apps for this online. Feel free to share your findings in comments!

Simpson Avatar Generator

Face Your Manga

Continue reading: 6 Tools To Cartoon Yourself For Facebook and Twitter

Latest Version of Facebook application for iPhone 3.1 now have push notifications for you to always be notified when something new comes up on your FB profile.

When you first start your updated application you will be asked to allow push notifications, but remember to configure them trough settings later to leave only important updates pop up.

Another great feature is address book syncing. Now you have the option to add Facebook profile picture and homepage to your contacts saved on iPhone. You may leave already assigned pictures and links that are on your device.

To be honest, I noticed that some of the pictures added to my contacts isn’t right – maybe that’s just me naming my contacts awkwardly.

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