Today, people started mentioning that they noticed changes with their list of followers on Twitter.

Twitter just rolled out a new feature for following and friends lists for a everyone. You now have the option of viewing your followers as a compact list as such:

Or you have the ability to expand the list and see the most recent tweet, like so:

Additional options include mentioning, following/unfollowing, blocking, and DMing those on your own list, as well as quickly adding accounts to your SMS notifications list. This feature set is extremely useful to the power user, and in a smaller way to the casual or new user. Of course, it’s just nice to see Twitter actually turn something on. They usually kill features to stay up. Perhaps now Twitter is confident enough in their server stack (which I contend is four Mac minis and no backup) to actually use their developers for something other than putting out fires.

Twitter has money, and clout. But they have (perhaps for the better) done very little to change their product over time. Yes, Twitter …

Allen Stern of Centernetworks just wrote about Best Buy looking for a “Sr. Manager – Emerging Social Media Expert”. So what are the requirements of this job? I hope you get a good laugh out of this one folks

1. 250 Followers

2. Graduate Degree

Yup that is right, your followers are just as important as your degree. Wow. Someone at Best Buy is just downright ignorant. I am not sure if they are aware of this but Twitter is known for this lovely thing called gaming and having 250 followers means jack. Honestly, give me ten minutes and I can get 250 more followers, if not more. A follower count should mean absolutely nothing when getting a job. I hope they actually look at these applicants Twitter accounts to see if they actually engage with their community, but for some reason I doubt they will.

What Best Buy should be looking at are these people communication skills. In my opinion these applicants don’t even need a Twitter account to get this job, as long as they can communicate with the customer then they’re good! It is ridiculous such an insignificant number is on the same level as a degree for getting a …

Looks like Android users will be left out no longer, Tim Hoeck has been developing a Friendfeed app for Android and it is looking pretty spiffy. Currently Tim is calling on beta testers to try it and give AndFeed a try.

Based on the current screenshots AndFeed is showing a lot of promise. At first glance it seems as if all the standard features are being included very intuitively. Android users that happen to be FriendFeed addicts will be on this like white on rice when it goes to the Market Place. As for pricing, there is no word of that yet but I think people out there would be willing to pay a reasonable price.

Until then we here at Socialgeist hope to get our hands on this and we will be looking forward to using it in the near future.

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Previously a random beta feature for Flickr addicts, you can now tweet any of your photos via Flickr2Twitter. Any photo you have uploaded or previously uploaded will now have a twitter button under blog this. To activate this feature simply go here and instead of having to log in with your Twitter credentials like Yfrog or Twitpic you authorize Flickr to post to your Twitter account via Oauth.

Flickr has a vibrant community on Twitter and the ability to share photos direct from Twitter is going to be a hefty blow at current leader Twitpic. So far though, Twitpic is holding its own even with the onslaught of better photo sharing services coming out of the woodwork (sounds like Twitter vs. FriendFeed doesn’t it?). Never question the power of being first.

As for how Flickr shortens their URL’s for Twitter? They use their own shortener which is actually a good thing. People will definitely know that they are going to see a photo when they click on a Flic.kr shortened URL removing any question of safety. It also opens some doors for other features, such as analytics, which have become commonplace amongst shorteners. You …

I find it really surprising that a lot people don’t know how to share web pages on Friendfeed via what is called a bookmarklet. A lot of people who are unaware of the bookmarklet take the time to copy and paste the item they’re sharing instead of just clicking a button. While copying and pasting doesn’t sound like a terrible thing it can become a tedious act and eventually activity can decrease.

What Is A Bookmarklet?

Think of a bookmarklet as a regular bookmark with some muscle added to it. Instead of just taking you to a regular web page, a bookmarklet usually lets you perform some sort of action for a certain service, a simplified plug-in if you will. These bookmarklets are usually stored in the bookmarks toolbar area of your browser for easy access, but you can also store them a bookmark manager, they will fulfill the same purpose both ways.

What Does The FriendFeed Bookmarklet Do?

The FriendFeed bookmarklet allows you to share items in your FriendFeed activity stream at the click of a button. This means you do not have to visit the site nor do any copying and pasting. Simply click and go and if the content warrants discussion …

For all of you life streamers out there, there is some big news.

Last week, Qik released an app to the Android Market. You can stream over WiFi and cell networks, and with a couple of quick clicks, you can easily share your stream via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Qik for Android is still in alpha, so you can expect some hiccups to occur. I think I was troubled by about six or sever force close issues before I was finally able to get all set up. Other than that, the few times I’ve used it, I have had very little issue. Some claim that live chat is available, but I have yet to make that work properly.

Qik is already available for several handsets running WinMo and Symbian, and you should also expect support for the iPhone 3GS soon.

Firefox 3.5 is out and ready to roll with one million downloads and counting and Firefox is letting you know it via their real-time tracker. The real-time tracker displays a visual map of where the downloads are occuring as well country by country download numbers. While this real time tracking is truly pointless it does look cool and it is neat to see the enthusiasm that the Firefox 3.5 community has.

If you want to go check out the real-time tracker here it is, if anything else it is neat to look at. If you want to feel special and show up on the map yourself go download Firefox here and see if you can find yourself as your downloading it.

Cross Tumblr, Myspace and Facebook, and add in a dash of the now defunct Swurl, and what do you get?

The slickest looking social aggregator out there, Virb.

“But I already use an aggregator like FriendFeed,” you may be saying. Well, there are things that Virb does that even FriendFeed can’t.

First thing when setting up an account with Virb, you’re asked which kind of profile you would like: Personal (for individuals wanting to create a personal profile or tumblelog), Audio (suggested for bands, podcasters, and comedians), Portfolio (for photographers, bloggers, and filmmakers), and Other (recommended for companies and brands). This option makes it easier to present yourself and you can change this at any time.

Here at NextTech we live and die with Clicky Web Analytics, day in day out. It provides flexible and powerful analytics that we use to segment out readers, find wholes, and focus content. More simply, it makes us better bloggers. But while Clicky is the best of the traditional analytics platforms, what about taking analytics from its realtime perch to the social world? What would that look like, and what purpose would it serve?

Analytics suites tend to track users, domains, and the like. The top tier all do this well, even though some recent competitors seem to struggle with basic visitor accounting. I have a vision for the next step. Here at NextTech, parents company of Tech and SocialGeist might build this, so I will spare the nitty details, but an overview is still interesting. Imagine you blog. You have several authors, and people at the team sometimes submit a story of two from the site to social news sites. But, more often than not, someone else does it. A reader, usually, perhaps a friend who was feeling bored. Whomever, the stories from your blog are submitted.

How the hell do you track them? Aside from trying to …

Last night, @nams lovingly brought up she would like like a tool that imports her Facebook events to her calendar and I realized I would particularly enjoy that also. I tend to be a forgetful person, and I am pretty dependant upon Google Calendar and no matter how hard I try I often forget Facebook events myself, simply because they are not in my calendar. That is why I was pretty  pleased when @nams discovered fbCal.

What Is fbCal?

fbCal is a Facebook application that lets you port your Facebook events and birthdays into Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook or Mozilla Sunbird. You can also download the raw data in XML format and port it over to any other application of your choice. fbCal is owned and created by social site Mixin.

Pros

fbCal is simple to use, just approve the permissions and click the calendar you want your events ported into. You also get some pretty decent control over what events get ported into your calendar. If you only want the events you are planning on attending, so be it, but if you want to include the events you are attending and the events you might …