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The Twollow folks have developed a simple tool so you can auto-following other people on Twitter. The service is design to be very simple. You will inter terms of interest, the service will search twitter for that keyword term and will auto follow this twitters for you. This is cool, I hope the twitter admin folks do not shut our account down for following too many to quickly.

A friend of mine that lives in Texas owns several rental properties in Austin. He uses email, phone and now social networking to find renters for his buildings. It looks like everyone in real estate is using internet marketing as part of getting the word out properties from listing agents. The folks of HomeCity is providing full service to find Austin Real Estate and surrounding Dallas area properties. They provide real estate aerial property photographs, slide shows and virtual tours for area homes, town homes, condominiums and land. If you moving from out of town, they have some available property in Round rock tx homes for sale.

My friend needs get on the stick to start videoing his properties to increase his fill rate.

if you are like alot of internet folks you might have heard of  Twitter. Twitter is a way to communitcate with others on the net along with getting out a message or information that is of interest to you and to others. Now there is tools to help you get feed back on your Twitter account. These tools will give you the “ranking” in different ways of your Twitter account, these tools are promoting the use of  Social Media accounts to be taken seriously in marketing and business.

Twitter Grader and Twinfluence are two of the top tools for grading your Twitter account.

The Twitter Grader will base the score on the number of people that follow you, power of your network of followers, hmmm the pace of your updates and how complete the date is in your profile.

Twinfluence will break your Twitter ranking into the reach, social capital, velocity, and something call Centralization. Centralization measures how dependent your reach or your ability to influence followers who have a large Twitter following.

I spent some time tonight working on the Wikipedia. The folks at Wikipedia is a free internet content encyclopedia project. This project is is available in many languages. They tell me Wikipedia is a combination of words and their meanings of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. I been using Wikipedia for years as a knowledge base. It cover some good information on people, places, history and just about anything else when you are needing a question answered. Now you must be advised that this is a volunteer outfit and sometimes the data is enhanced to make people or things look good or bad in your eyes. But this encyclopedia is managed and regulated with mostly legit information. I finally got around to adding myself. This is start, more to come.

Over the years it seams that we have gone from a closed realm of you do your thing to get website traffic and other do their thing to gain visiter traffic.  Now it seam we are all one collective helping each other out with SEO issues, Search Engine Issues, Social media optimization issues with oneline at one time communications.  There seems everyday to be another new social stream site for use to communicate our selves and share news - services with others that make up the communities. Below is a list of Social steam internet user collaboration sites. I suggest we all take part in these top performers and  the many others that make up the social media world.

Social Stream Collaboration 

    * Social bookmarking: Google bookmark, Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, Propeller and StumbleUpon

    * Wikis: Wikipedia, PBWiki

    * People Search Stream: Wink

Social Stream Communication

    * Micro-blogging : Twitter - Jaiku - Tumblr - Pownce

    * Social Networking : MySpace, Facebook, Linked : the big three

    * Blogging Platforms: Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad and others

    * Social network aggregation:  FriendFeed

Social Stream Multimedia

    * Photo Streaming: Flickr, Picasa, PhotoBucket, Shutterfly, Webshots

    * Video Streaming: Blip.tv, Google Video, YouTube, MySpaceTV and Vimeo

    * Audio and Music Streaming sites: Last.fm, Pandora, Yahoo Music, imeem

Social Stream Entertainment

    * Virtual worlds:  Second Life

Did I leave any one out, send them to me and I will update

I came across another social networking site, there seems to more and more popping up on a daily. Keeping up can be a major project in itself.  Social Media progresses more and more into the internet. Some of the latest trends is to use your social media network to make money.  I am all in for that, because we like to make money. One of older social media money making websites is Qassia. Qassis gives you something for promoting the website like money. Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.  This type of site is becoming the next generation of social media, social book marking networks.

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal back links. Cool saves some time. The beauty is you will get unlimited back links. Qassia will give you rewards who will add intelligence.

1. More intel you add, the more back links you get. Back links You get one back link for every piece of intel you add.

2. When you add intel you will get credited for Qassia dollars. Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

3. You will get “Revenue” when your intel is displayed. Quassi gives you 100% of all the advertising revenue generated by your page.

Qassia sounds like fun, giving information and getting Qassic dollars. How can you loose.

Visit My Qassia site

Social news websites are a good way attract attention to your website or blog. And to test the waters on new ideas along with getting traffic and links. These Social news websites can be a powerful catalyst for viral internet marketing. You can get some good traffic from these posts and as the years progress the links stay and keep getting you traffic.

Some of the most popular social news websites are Digg, a very well known site. Propeller, Sphinn, Mixx and Reddit are social news sites that cover a wide range of topics. You will find by utilizing these sites taffic comes with little effort.

One of the fastest growing marketing areas on the internet is Social media marketing. It helps you to promote yourself and your business or products just like the millions of other businesses on the internet. There are many reasons to do Social Media Marketing. Here are a few

You can participate on the social websites for free. I like free. If you compare Social Media marketing with other form of marketing you are getting a deal.

In your marketing with social media you can control who accesses your contacts, your information and who/what will receive the information that you send out to your contacts.

Interact with new contact through social communities. You will find and talk to others just like you that will benefit you, them and everyone in the social community. Create a standard profile of your business and message on the social communities. This will get your customer reputation growing and bring quality visitors to your site. By building your brand this way you are growing awareness and most importantly potental sales for your site and business.

The biggest part of Social media is the time you take interacting with others in a form of so-called face to face marketing in online social marketing communities. You will also learn what others are doing to market their website and products, you get free valuable information in internet marketing that you normally could not pay for through social community marketing.

I will mention it one more time, it is free.

Social Community Catalyst