Aur3lie

Explorer of Social Media

Empire Avenue: Social Stock Exchange

Have you ever wondered about entering the stock exchange, what would you be worth? Now you can find out, through this new website which combines your social media network with an online game: Empire Avenue. The idea is not so much to become friends or follow other people or companies, you can buy shares in [...]

Not another Google+ Review

Thinking about writing a Google+ review, I realize there are already so many blogs and writers commenting no how great this new more social venture of Google is. Since I agree and have been using Google+ for little under 2 weeks now, I thought it would not hurt to do a short update on my [...]

Question: do you unfollow?

Posed this question on twitter earlier after some thought on the subject: do you unfollow tweeps who do not follow you back? To me the answer is pretty clear, but it seems that others might have a different opinion. I use twitter to follow tweeps I find interesting and I use lists to follow companies [...]

Twitter lists: follow a list instead of just one person

Recently I have been looking more at twitter lists. These can be made by others, or you can compile one yourself based on a theme. It’s easier to do when you are actually interested in a specific theme. For me the challenge is still to find out how life sciences and biotech can make use [...]

Twimbow: colorful twitter

Twitter apps are there to make it easier to follow tweeps, to read up on articles or to share news. But you can also share an account with others for your joint blog, company or because you have a themed twitter account. However, now there is also a twitter function that I am not sure [...]

Quora: what is your question?

One of the nice things about twitter is that it’s a very short message. In 140 characters you can express yourself, link to a website or mention someone’s comment in a retweet (RT). But what do you do when you want to track a tweet, like a question you posed, hoping one of your followers [...]