By now you must know that social media behemoth Facebook has thrown itself into the fast-growing location marketplace with its Places product. Places allows smart phone users (for now, just iPhone or phones with a mobile browser via touch.facebook.com) to “check in” at businesses and other locations and share their location with their friends on Facebook. If [...]
Category Archives: social media
Twylah Turns Your Twitter into a Blog
August 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Twylah may be the best yet online upgrade to the default twitter.com interface, particularly if you’re desiring to build interactivity with your account and the brand it represents. Twylah automatically collects all your tweets on a nicely-branded, blog-like page. When you send out a tweet via Twylah, the program automatically appends a bit.ly link to [...]
Lowering the Barrier to Video in Your Social Media
August 10, 2010 – 1:18 pm
It’s a no-brainer that including media brings life to any campaign. This is especially true in the hyperactive world of social media, where a constant barrage of posts vies for the attention of potential fans and followers. Of course, when it comes to attention-grabbing, a picture is (perhaps literally) worth a thousand words. And a [...]
FriendFeed Is Your SEO Friend
July 28, 2010 – 12:53 pm
Just thought I’d pass along something I noticed since Caffeine (Google’s new search ranking algorithm) kicked in. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this? The meat of what I’m going to share: feeding your site updates to FriendFeed may bring great (and fast!) SEO blessings. I have a personal blog (the League of Inveterate [...]
Facebook Community Pages Suck
May 14, 2010 – 11:24 am
If you’re a Facebook user, you were recently forced to either allow Facebook to turn all the keywords in your profile’s Info tab into active connections to “Community Pages” or have them removed. Entirely removed. No middle ground. That sucked. But it wasn’t even half the suck. I had reluctantly said yes to community pages, [...]
Two Sites Turn Facebook and Twitter Into Personalized News Clippers
May 10, 2010 – 1:28 pm
Social web services like Facebook and Twitter present us with a daily avalanche of information, much of it in the form of links to outside sources. While much of it may be trash (as far as any individual reader might be concerned) there are often many jewels among the garbage. Jewels that can be easily [...]
New from Twitter: Embed Tweets in Your Web Page
May 4, 2010 – 12:34 pm
HOW TO: Embed a Tweet – http://bit.ly/bhXAlWless than a minute ago via bit.lyPete Cashmore mashable The above tweet was embedded directly into this blog post (look, Ma, no screen capture!) using Twitter’s new Blackbird Pie app.
How to Archive Conference Tweets Using Google Reader
March 8, 2010 – 9:17 am
Since its inception people have found many creative uses for Twitter, but to my mind one of the most useful has been as the collective, real-time public notebook for conferences and special events. Smart conference organizers establish and publicize a hash tag for conference tweets, enabling participants to converse about what’s happening and for non-attenders [...]
Should Your Business Be on Buzz?
February 25, 2010 – 2:17 pm
Just when you thought you had your social media game plan (you do have one, right?) all nice and set, Buzz happens. It’s like the NFL suddenly announces a new team halfway through your fantasy league season. What is Buzz? In brief, it is a Google-developed social web platform that is tightly integrated with other [...]
My New Social Web Flow: Buzz to Twitter to Facebook
February 22, 2010 – 2:18 pm
I’ve been an enthusiastic early adopter of Google Buzz since it appeared in my Gmail inbox the day after its unveiling. As a one time huge fan of Friendfeed, the interface was immediately familiar (though lacking in some of Friendfeeds best features). I’d often been frustrated by how awful Twitter is for carrying on any [...]
