Socialmention.com has an interesting tool called the "Real Time Buzz Widget" that lists mentions of your site or blog in a scrolling window in "real-time". I'm exploring their site right now. Here's a widget aimed at "quantumcommunications". They're kind of weird so far.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Well...sometimes anyway.

As we continue to progress throught the "new" marketing era...using blogposts, forums and incorporating social media into our marketing plans, it's comforting to realize that many, many of the same marketing basics still apply.

So Twitter is going to look to deploy commercial for-pay tools by the end of the year:

“We’re looking at who’s using Twitter and for what,” Stone told the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York via videolink from San Francisco. “Are there any commercial usages that are making a lot of sense?”

That's Biz Stone, Twitter founder (neat name?). I can imagine the Twitter's base will whine and moan for a while, then grow as they bring more services online.

Do you know the drill? Get to a computer...any computer, at home, at work, on your phone...and log in to Twitter. Then Facebook. Then Gmail. Then Reader, then Digg, then Reddit, then so on and so forth, and by the time you get to the end of all the sites/feeds/etc you MUST check, the replies are coming in for the ones you started with! Next thing you know it's an hour later, you're starving, and your cat won't look at you anymore.