Last week Dell announced they earned over $6.5 million through Twitter alone. This message gained a lot of (social) media attention. But I doubt the credits of the success should go to Twitter alone. Dell is putting a lot of effort in social media like their blog, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and multiple Twitter accounts. Their social media effort generated this additional turnover not Twitter. Unfortunately till now Dell is the only good example of a successful social media strategy.

Keeping a close eye on the people in your social network is all we want. Most of us also know how hard and time consuming this can be. Last week I showed that Gist is a powerful application to keep up to date with the people in your social network. Today Google released their new Social Search which shows search results related to your friends.

Today’s Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) on both Facebook and Twitter and possibly several more services show how dependent we are on today’s technology. Moreover, they proved that it is rather easy to attack very popular services. It’s no surprise that both services are not too happy about what happened and they seem to have decided to investigate the cause together, and  more importantly, how to prevent it. Some sources claim that Google has been attacked as well. And that is something that we experienced in the afternoon. Mail was hardly responding or not available at all. So, what is a DDoS attack?

The whole Twitter phenomenon is slowly fading away. It was obviously quite predictable that sooner or later it would happen but the part when people start to make something more out of it is the part where the fun begins. Nowadays, browsing the Internet you’ll have a difficulty  finding a page that is not “tweetable”. This makes all the interesting stuff spread faster but I think that people pay less and less attention to the Twitter links they follow. It often boils down to just reading the headers, but there are some solutions which will help you follow the subjects that you’re especially keen on and relax while doing it.

As a business owner, it is crucial that you know how to use some of the social networking sites. You must understand that when you increase your social networking online, you will generate more leads and, in turn, more sales. Twitter is one method of social networking that many business owners are taking advantage of to increase their income. But how do you find your target audience on Twitter?After all, there are millions of people who tweet. The following are some tips to help you to increase your targeted following on Twitter.

For all you social networks fans there’s a new sensation coming to the party. It’s name is Goodreads – the perfect place for people who enjoy reading. The main reason why I got intrigued by it was that I like to keep track of what I am reading, have read, and most importantly, would like to read. Goodreads gives you all that and much more.