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Top 5 Reasons why Twitter should keep the 280 limit and Trump is not one of them.

San Diego,CA-(blog) Twitter is experimenting with expanding the 140 character limit to 280. I am excited to say that I was lucky enough to be included in that beta group, and I dig it.

Back in the day when Twitter launched, I remember trying to explain what Twitter was. We used to say it’s mini blogging... which then led to the question...what is blogging? Well it's writing on a blog. OK what is a blog, etc. etc. etc. The explanation I like to give now is that it’s more like texting to the public. A normal tweet has 140 character limit, a text has 160 the new beta Twitter is 280.

TOP 5-10 Reasons why Twitter should keep the expanded 280 character limit.

1. Express Yourself : With the 280 character limit, I find it easier to craft a more natural complete thought. I also find myself actually being able to use adjectives rather than sacrificing them for brevity. This according to Twitter’s blog post is exactly the reason for the expansion, “9% of all Tweet in English hit the 140 character limit.”.

2. Quicker learning curve for beginners : For those new to Twitter or who never got quite started on Twitter, the 280 character limit will help attract a new or renewed audience.

3. Better Grammar: Speaking of using adjectives, you also get to write in multiple, more correct sentences. I find myself being able to express a complete thought and then add #hashtags. Yes, I am still including some of the text within a sentence structure #hashtagged, but it’s a lot more forgiving and interesting.

4. More characters means more #Hashtags: If your goal is to be read or seen and grow your Twitter following and increase your brand, then the consistent use of #hashtags helps.For example, #actorslife #setlife #entrepreneur these are hashtags I use often, and because of it I get new followers and traffic from those consistent and expanded hashtags.

"Twitter's new 280 limit means more characters which means more #hashtags which means more traffic." -DavidKamatoy.guru

5. Twitter is relevant again: Social media has a tendency to be quickly generational. (Those damn kids on MySpace. Back in my day we used Compuserve and we liked it.) This current generation has a tendency to move towards Instagram and Snapchat vs. Twitter and Facebook. I tell people of all generations that we must communicate with people on whatever platform that they are on. So while your friends are on Instagram, the people hiring you might be on LinkedIn and the people you need to impress may be on Facebook. That and posting a resume on Snapchat doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Twitter has a tendency to be more in the middle and have the best of both worlds. Which is why I focus my efforts here and I try get my clients both in entertainment and business to do the same. Even if you have a dominant presence on other platforms, I still have people focus on Twitter.

Many of the early adopters have a strong presence on Twitter: popular entertainers, business people, platforms, and yes even President Trump is part of the reason that Twitter is relevant. You can be as light or as heavy as you would like, but the fact that the platform allows that lean towards the intellectual makes a lot of sense. Also, Twitter algorithms are a lot less restrictive than Facebook. In Facebook your posts are extremely limited and you often need to pay to play for more exposure. In Twitter your tweets and interactions have a better chance of being seen, and vice versa. Especially now with the character expansion..

Also Twitter has been the most open towards API integration, it seems. The ability to use programs like Hootsuite, Socialoomph, Klout and Manageflitter to manage the data and build a following is exciting.

Random points: As a reference point you can read the blog post about their reasoning for expanding the character limit here.

https://blog.Twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html

Not everyone has the 280 limit (including President Trump), and so popular programs that allow you to post from their sites are still using a 140 character default. So I am actually copying and pasting into Twitter natively so I can expand my message.

Financially: Let’s face it Twitter is still trying to figure that one out. But they continue to hold their insane evaluation. So hopefully this experiment will be fruitful to them. If Twitter ever wants to fly my team in to brainstorm on how this thing can make money, I would love to do that.

Conclusion: I hope it sticks. I think it helps the English language. I think it helps us express ourselves, and finally I think that we as users get more out of it with the ability to add #hashtags and be seen by more relevant viewers.

Written by: David Kamatoy Editor: Stephen Prendergast

David Kamatoy is a juggler literally and figuratively. A Nationally Syndicated TV/ Radio producer known for The Big Biz Show and Sully’s Biz Brew. He host’s his own show, “David Kamatoy Blog Show” a magazine style format show covering entertainment, entrepreneurship and e-marketing. He is co-founder of Kamatoy Media Group and Jugglemail.com a CRM email marketing company As an early adopter to social media he understands the long term benefits of self-branding and content creation. 

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R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Here's to the Crazy One...

The Apple/Jobs model of pushing a project with HIGH CREATIVE and Technology through to the end and into production will ultimately endure. His leadership and vision changed the way we look and use computers, cell phones and tablet computers.

The original Think Different spot with Richard Dreyfuss by TBWA\Chiat\Day. Jennifer Golub who also shared the art director credit with Jessica Schulman and Yvonne Smith.  This take off was found at SteveJobsDay on youtube. Apparently created just a few days before his passing.

As you well know in the creation of any new project or product. Shortcuts are usually taken, especially in manufacturing based products. It's easier to use last years doo hickey because we can make it fit or better yet we have tons of them in storage. 

Jobs/Apple compared itself to the Auto Industry Creative process where often the Cool Concept Car never makes it to production. Jobs/Apples creations not only made it into production but continually improved the COOL factor along the way.

Remember the CUBE apple =).

My first computer was an Atari. My second computer was an Apple Macintosh. I believe that my personal trend of being an early adopter came from buying a Mac and having the experience of having a cool piece of technology that made a difference in productivity.

"I believe that my personal trend of being an early adopter came from buying a Mac.." - David Kamatoy

He showed us how to make money with that model, inspire generations and create items that we interact with everyday.

What jobs did as an entrepreneur creative was simply amazing. He redefined the large scale creative process and showed us that a GREAT IDEA can make it through R & D, past the number crunchers and into production. 

I found the following quote at Wired.com Steve Jobs 1955-2011. 

At a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Jobs shared the philosophy that drove him.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” Jobs said. “Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

I had to lay down because I just found out a friend of mine had passed away earlier this month, Larry Trouba. A teacher that I worked for that  always made me smile. When I woke up from my nap I saw that Steve Jobs had passed away. So I was doubly inspired to write. 

Here's to the Crazy Ones...Rest In Peace.

 

Blog This With David Kamatoy 7.8.2011:Twitter Klout PeerIndex Tweet.Grader Village Theatre

It was great to take a good look at Tweet.Grader, PeerIndex & Klout. Each have their benefits and bragging rights and theres no reason not to sign up for all of them. I have learned a lot about my own tweets patterns through all of them.

Enjoy!

For Immediate Release

"Blog This with David Kamatoy" covers the convergence of entrepreneurship, entertainment, and e-marketing.This episode covers Klout, Peer Index and Tweet.Grader, sites that help you measure your social influence on twitter. The latest installment additionally covers a birthday, 2 weddings and the reopening of the Village Theater in Coronado, CA. "Blog This with David Kamatoy" is a video blog extension of DavidKamatoy.com.

The show opens with David musing on the re-launching of "Blog This" on his birthday and a creepy rollover greeting from Google. He then moves on in Entertainment to discuss the wide-ranging coverage of the wedding of Doug Hutchison and Courtney Alexis Stoddard -- including a surprising post on a soccer site. The section ends with congratulations to Kamatoy Media Group team member Leo James on his marriage to Jessica Smith.

"You want to focus on being a 'Rock Star' in your own database."
-David Kamatoy, juggler

"Blog This" continues with the major focus of this show, a discussion of "Social Capital" and the amount of influence individuals and companies can have through sites such as Twitter and Facebook. In this section of the show, David Kamatoy looks at three websites that analyze social influence online: Klout, Twitter Grader, and Peer Index. "Sites like Klout, Peer Index, and Twitter Grader all rate or somehow come up with an algorithm to tell us how influential we are on social media, specifically Twitter," he explains. David Kamatoy goes on to review the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three rating sites, then details his strategies for improving social capital through Twitter. "I think of Twitter like a radio station that has the ability to turn into a conversation," he says. "You have to be willing to find some key people to have a good conversation with online that you know is public." They key, according to Kamatoy, is becoming a "rock star" in your database in order to have productive conversations and create "top-of-mind awareness" among the individuals in that database.

The newest episode of "Blog This" concludes with the video coverage of the reopening of the Village Theater in Coronado. This project is a joint effort with Creative Worldwide Media, Kamatoy Media Group and the Presidio Sentinel. The Village Theater closed down over a decade ago, and was recently restored by Vintage Cinemas, based in Los Angeles. The grand opening drew a huge crowd, including theater fans and the Mayor of Coronado, Casey Tanaka.

"Blog This with David Kamatoy" can be seen on YouTube.com/thejuggler and DavidKamatoy.com. Interested parties please contacthttp://KamatoyMediaGroup.com at 619-573-9456.

Entering the world of DSLR's

We've been shooting Standard Definition and HDV for the last year. It's funny for a guy who used to shoot on small form cameras because it was what we could shoot on at the time (Hi8, Super 8, etc.) to be shooting on a small form camera and it's what people are now shooting on.

If you want to know more about how to use different cameras for shooting and production, check out www.onlineuniversities.net for some photography and film production classes.

We used to make fun of all these production pictures of us with big crews and small cameras. Suddenly were back to small form cameras.

The thought that Technicolor used to be running three strips of film at the same time for Red, Blue and Green compared to the CMOS technology thats in a 7D or the Micro Thirds technology where the Lense is bigger than the body it's an interesting time. 

After years of sporadically being in production it's interesting now being in production for the last year just doing ENG stuff how much much were moving back into production. 

Very similar to my injury 10 years ago where I realized Wow! if I dont get physically active again its going to get harder to come back. I realize that's the case now with shooting and production. 

We're entering a very productive time for us. The only thing holding us back from publishing a TO OF CONTENT is the editing.

That being said I am going to back to editing after a short writing break...

FINAL THOUGHTS: My buddy Von Ware and I have discussed this often but HDSLR's will definitely be a game changer for us. Just watch...

We will be publishing a lot of the old stuff and the new stuff side by side so just keep that in mind...

How Big Is A Bloom Box? A: Bigger than a Breadbox and a lot more expensive.

Bloom Energy is starting to produce a FUEL CELL that apparently is about the size of a refrigerator that can power a house. Like a lot of newly publicized technology it's been around for a while but with the PR machine in play 60 minutes is on the Story...

Watch CBS News Videos Online

I found a press releases on Media Newswire...

Bloom Energy Set To Announce Fuel Cell Boxes News Wednesday

• Developed By NASA Scientist as a scalable energy source
• Millions of Dollars Invested
• Eight Years of Development
• 1 LARGE UNIT can power 100 homes and cost 700-800K

Regardless of price this is way cool and a good sign for the GREEN INDUSTRY IN GENERAL. As the current climate is FINALLY pro GREEN this should excite the market and help all Green Products as they develop.

The No More Geysers and Kamatoy Media Group team will be attending GREEN CALIFORNIA which should be a hotbed for Green products. This is an exciting story and makes me pretty excited to attend the GREEN CA Show. 

Palm Pre Plus Hits Monday, Palm has become the Apple of Smart Phones

The race in smart phones gets interesting this quarter with the introduction of the Nexus One First Generation Smart Phone. But palm is about to hit hard with the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi a second generation phone on Verizon. 

Palm Pre Pixi Plus Coming to Verizon

That and add that AT & T and Verizon just dropped their plans FINALLY taking the nod from Sprint. Any frugal buyer that had sprint coverage could see that oh saving $1,000 over 24 months on an unlimited plan was quite substantial. 

"Palm has become the Apple of the Smart Phone World."

The elegance of the Palm OS and it's limited number of applications sounds a lot like the the Macintosh a decade or so ago.

Apple was first to the market defining the market itself. We all were aghast at the interface 
  but many of us were locked out of the phone if we could not switch to AT & T. This left a lot of Mac Users (Myself, at the time.) out. 

So Palm the creators of the original Digital Handheld Assistant finally came to the table with Palm Pre and a new OS. Since Palm had it's own elegant os not connected to either PC or Mac that was it's original Strength and with a program like Synergy it's easy to see that they are hell bent on productivity. 

Android pops up and then DROID shows up only quickly to be surpassed by the Nexus One. What makes this interesting is Nexus One Sheer Processing POWER combined with the Google Applications being NATIVE. That and the geek factor of an open system lends itself to high creativity towards application. 

So that all being said the real questions are...

"What are you using your smart phone for?"

Business? Games? Social Media? School? Internet Company? etc. 

"What are you close friends or associates using?"

From a social bonding perspective and shared tips aspect as well as a financial friends calling circle this is a good question.

"Is this smart phone a liability or a productive tool?"

To borrow a concept from Robert Kiyosaki...Which phone is going to make you the most productive? 

If I were still an everyday apple user and an Itunes user I would be using an iphone. 

Palm Pre is exciting because it's trying to be elegant and stay true to its roots of a productivity tool. (Who remembers the little reminder "ding" from the calendar application.) That and this phone is second generation the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi will allow itself to be turned into HOTSPOT. THAT IS COOL. 

 
 Finally Droid like the Linux, Mozilla mentality comes an open system.GEEK ON BABY! I sort of want a Nexus One because its the first generation kick ass 1 mhz processor with ability to have 32 gb of ram. Come on my first computer had 16k. I like the turn by turn connected to google maps. 

The largest reason I consider the Nexus one really is because we are using a ton of google applications right now and the model of an internet company creating a phone means that they have googe users "me" in mind. 

My final word is on Applications. I don't really care about the number of applications that are available right now because that's not the kind of free time I have. I am worried most about being able to access a document for review, getting access to the internet for information and if I need do something for a client or customer online. I worry about managing a team via text or IM. (I have in the past directed a team in India via a smartphone IM chat program while sitting at a table with friends in the evening.) I worry about getting lost on my way to see a client or getting to a gig on time. 

So my suggestion is to answer the above questions in making a decision to what smart phone is best. The reality is that they are damn comparable.

"The Second Quarter of 2010 gives you the best options in 

Smart Phones with the release of the Nexus One to Verizon."

If you can wait, and I know some of you can't. The second quarter looks good. Nexus One on Verizon gives you an almost second generation phone with a really large network. Palm Pre Plus is on Verizon as of Jan. 25th. and with the drop in pricing you really do have more options. 

If I had unlimited resources I would probably grab a no contract Nexus One with a T-mobile plan. I like having a physical keyboard and the hotspot on the Palm Pre Plus so most likely that will be my next phone. The elegance of the OS and it's mindset to be a productivity tool is hard for me to ignore as a former daily mac user with a Palm/Handspring that's what most attracts me to Palm.

Please COMMENT, DIGG, BLOG, TWITTER THIS. I would love to hear your decision or feedback in using any smartphones...

PalmPreBlog.com The Palm Pre goes there with this video...Very Funny you win!

Above is a funny video staring Roger McNamee who is a major financial investor in Palm. In the video, McNamee has been chosen to be the official Pre spokesperson and goes on to make some completely ridiculous claims - or are they? Apparently the Pre responds to your emails before you even get them, qualifies you for a TARP bailout and causes you to lose 30 pounds. I better start camping outside the Sprint store for one tomorrow.

Text from their blog.

Check out the blog at palmpreblog.com

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately. Current Clients and Projects include NoMoreGeysers.com, and TheAirGorillaBlog.com.

Palm Pre Released on June 6th. Best Buy first to eat the $100 rebate

The technology world is all a glee with the newest smart phone from the ones that started it all Palm with the Palm Pre available on the Sprint Network. Best Buy is going to be offering an instant rebate versus the mail in rebate. Very Cool.

We have been really excited to get one of these damn things as I have always been a palm fan as previously noted on the blog.

I used to have a Handspring with an Omnisky Modem allowing me to send email from my Handspring and in addition I had a foldout full size keyboard so I could type like a real man.

Yeah I was on the cutting edge...

It's pretty amazing how things have changed and one thing is clear. This thing is poised to be a hit. I'm glad that the iphone has a competitor it makes the field a bit more interesting to say the least.

I look forward to working on this new phone and getting rid of the bulkiness of the Treo.

Great Phone. But I miss the the thin phones as well. Going to get one of those as well.

Netbook + Cell Phone Financing = Additional Market Share

AT&T Applies Cell-Phone Model to Netbooks

I was recently waxing on the reality of getting a netbook versus a cell phone and BAM. AT&T decides to go in this direction. I think this is a great idea and could easily lead it's way into a full blown $500-$750 laptop that is also connected to a wireless plan.

Netbook + Cell Phone Financing = Additional Market Share
NICE MOVE!

A few years ago it was stated that computer culture used to be more about accessories, printers and software. Now it's about the computer as a peripheral to the web.

I slowly have made this transition as well. As jugglemail.com is a web app it's important that I have access 24/7. I open the following web apps so I can work virtually.

• Gmail
• Yahoo
• Typepad
• jugglemail
• twitter
• splitweet
• twitter
• twitdeck
• skype
• myspace (Not as often because it still slows my system down.)
• facebook
• linked  (Working on getting more involved here.)

With the edition of google docs I can do a lot of rough drafting and basic spreasheet work there as well.

There is a work mode that I can go into now that is essentially virtual and all online.

Congratulations to AT&T for making a strong tactical move that is forward thinking.

(Remember the trimline phone.lol)

Palm Pre Webcast: Thursday, March 12, Sprint and Palm

11:00 a.m. PST. I am excited to see when this beautiful little device will hit the market. Giving the iphone a little competition and at the same time giving us fans of the original Palm systems and users of sprint something to be excited about.

Sprint and Palm hosting Palm Pre Webcast on March 12

That being said I am a fan of Mac and of Palm and I was remiss at seeing Palm fall so far behind the pack of late. Looking very forward to this release.

UPDATE HERE IS THE PALM PRE CES EVENT =) Enjoy...