Submitted by Workmedia
from blog:
Jerry Work here. I have returned to the business of finishing our next book, on the subject of social media marketing. It has been 90% written for a couple of months; I just haven't had the enthusiasm for the project to finish. But I've rededicated myself to getting it done and out to the public.It's funny...as I read throu (Read More)
Submitted by Workmedia
from blog:
I'll admit. I've seen those cool Flash ads that have things you can click or that provide some kind of interaction with the user and always thought they seemed really cool and something that we could take advantage of for our clients...if we had time to do such a thing. But I always thought those things were created in Flas (Read More)
TechCrunch
Twitter has just quietly rolled out a set of changes to its user interface on the “Following” and “Followers” sections of its website. These changes will clearly make it easier to manage who you follow as well as take actions, such as @replying someone or direct messaging them, directly from the page.There are two new views (Read More)
: I think that twitter eyeballing the potential purchase by google so everything they do is to generate humangous traffic and inter-connectivity among people to take as much spot - living space as possible to at least pretent to be on the forefront of everyone/s attention. I think they over do it.
Submitted by Jasonslater
from blog:
I have been thinking a lot about logo design recently, mostly for my cartoon panel sites at Monk And His I.T. Junk and Bev And Catey but also for my search engine research project Eggnchips. ... (Read More)
Submitted by Panda88:
According to a recent article by the UK publication The Sunday Times, people who use Twitter are insecure, egocentric, and narcissistic, and feel that their lives are "marginalised, empty and pointless." One went so far to suggest that "They don’t have an inner life.”We are calling Bulltwit on this. Here is some insight and (Read More)
: Well one thing I have to agree with is “We are the most narcissistic age ever,”our lives seem to be centered on what we want not on what we need.
Now addressing the Twitter bit - I'm not the best of twitterererers mainly because I'm a bit over the fact that people tell me they are going shopping, doing the house cleaning and range of other inane communications - I have yet to work out how to use Tweetdeck as I hear twittered about I can filter those that insist on being inane and concentrate on those who have something interesting to share.
So can you really blame the pyschologists for thinking what they think - perhaps they've heard the sqawking from their offices and decided to twit on about it!!
Inside Facebook
The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150. However, in a recent interview with The Economist, Cameron Marlow, a research scientist at Facebook, shared some interesting stats on Facebook user (Read More)
: I believe “theoretical cognitive limit" is one of those "magic numbers" that Joel Best(More Damned Lies and Statistics)warns us about. And 150 is "generally accepted". It is, really?
TechCrunch
In the first of several major product changes that will sweep through AOL in the coming months, the company is adding more lifestreaming capabilities to its Bebo social network today, including activity stream updates from rival social networks Facebook and MySpace. It is also introducing a visual timeline called a . (Read More)