Interesting news and cool stuff I've spotted this week

I haven't had much of a chance to sit back and absorb my RSS feeds this week due to constantly being out at various bashes here, there and everywhere but here's some interesting snippets of social media-related news that thought I’d share:

Not sure if any of you manage or maintain a Wordpress blog and Twitter feed for your clients but if so, this is well worth a read:

http://mashable.com/2009/12/12/wordpress-twitter-api

One trend in digital we should all try to avoid in 2010:

http://no-mans-blog.com/2009/12/08/one-trend-in-digital-we-should-all-try-to-avoid-in-2010/

A free ‘To Do’ list app:

http://teuxdeux.com/

Two new free tools I’ve just discovered for finding the traffic of a popular website (and comparing it to another site) by entering the URL into compete.com . Or quantcast . This data is far more accurate than the charts Alexa and other free tools offer.

Daily summaries of your friends’/clients’ Twitter posts:

http://mashable.com/2009/12/11/feedera/

Five Free Facebook Tools to Enhance Your Social Media Campaign:

http://www.contentandmotion.co.uk/resources/five-free-facebook-tools-to-enhance-your-social-media-campaign/

Nice post on Google real-time search:

http://clickingandscreaming.com/2009/12/09/google-to-go-live/

4 Functions of Social Media:

http://www.newmediahire.com/profiles/blogs/4-composite-functions-of

M & S Christmas rant:

http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-is-not-just-christmas-rant-its-m.html

Post on content:

http://econsultancy.com/blog/4977-five-reasons-your-content-is-damaging-your-brand

An average day on the internet:

http://raxraxrax.com/2009/12/11/an-average-day-on-the-internet/

Some thoughts on Tiger Woods from an old colleague:

http://www.calacusblog.com/1/post/2009/12/tiger-woods-lets-down-more-than-just-his-wife.html

Tied to the Noughties:

http://ciarannorris.co.uk/2009/12/09/tied-to-the-noughties/

Cool/interesting/creative stuff to watch :

http://raxraxrax.com/2009/12/10/the-decade-according-to-nine-year-olds/

http://raxraxrax.com/2009/12/09/this-is-how-i-woke-up-this-morning/

http://arealfake.blogspot.com/2009/12/motor-ambient-reel.html

http://arealfake.blogspot.com/2009/12/urban-abstract.html

http://thegingermonkey.blogspot.com/2009/12/lego-stop-motion-animation-car-racing.html