: Amazing new feature there Jason! It can help me follow socialmedian even when I am pretty busy...at lease I can get a quick glance of what is going on! Keep up the good work!
Submitted by Solacetech:
Soon, anyone with a Facebook account will soon be able to use it as login for micro-blogging service Twitter, we've learned.That's because Twitter is at this very moment working on an integration with Facebook Connect -- the service that allows Facebook members to login to third-party Web sites using their Facebook account. (Read More)
: Serious? Ok, so combine that with the fact that Google just announced Twitter is coming to Google Connect. Does that mean you can use that as a workaround to login to Google Connect using your Facebook account??? :)
: This was a great closing speech. This man speaks so much truth, it would be great to finally have a another great leader who people can be proud of an not ashamed. 'Solid as Barack'
Submitted by Robdiana
from blog:
Image via CrunchBaseAs usual, Chris Brogan has a very good post regarding people in the real world and social media. The basic idea is that “normal” people live in a different world than the social media crowd:Sometimes, it’s worth flashing a bit of a public reminder that even though it seems like lots of us [.. (Read More)
: As many of us are trying every new social media toy, the security of FB is getting the mainstream involved in social networking. Thanks for a great post, Rob. I have been trying to put your concept into words for months.
: @joespake Thanks for the kind words. We are really just starting to see more application integration, so it will be interesting to see what people do.
TechCrunch
My new favourite Twitter desktop AIR application (a UK product), Tweetdeck, has released a new version and overall it’s a doozy.Lone developer Iain Dodsworth has made the interface is much cleaner, and has more useful icons. It has some UI tweaks like rolovers, a bunch of new URL shortening services so you can pick th (Read More)
: I am addicted to it. I like the column system, the R and D functions, and specially the twitscoop tag cloud. Well, basically I like the all- in-one feeling. Everyone is there at hand for you to follow. Great stuff.
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics.
Followers and/or RSS (Read More)
: I semi disagree. Using blogs as an example, I know several well known and highly influential beauty and fashion blogs who previously held a page rank of 6. When Google last did it's major shake up a few months ago and stated that affiliate links needed to have a "no follow" tag in the code, these blogs suddenly became a 3. They had been using affiliate links in their posts without no follow tags. To any advertiser, marketer or PR person coming upon these blogs for the first time after the Page Rank striping, a 3 is mediocre and it would be assumed that they may not have much of an influence in the blogosphere--and they would be mistaken. Of course, you also have those bloggers who have been around a while that may be jumping off of the Blogger.com bandwagon and establishing their own domains. Automatically they start from scratch with page rank even if their traffic came with them.
However, I do agree that it is something that takes time to build and is earned and I do think page rank is part of a well rounded look at the quality of a site.
What do you think of the splogs out there that have gained page rank despite being entirely stolen content?
: as the web becomes more dynamic (some people call this 'flow') - we'll need different search experiences. one example already exists. live search (summaize/twitter).
: @karenswim This is exactly what I was discussing with someone the other day! Influence is more spread out and not solely contained to one location for a specific "influencer." The conversations that take place may be fragmented because of this, but it doesn't make them or the person initiating the conversation any less important or influential due to the page rank being higher or lower for a particular profile/page.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
We're currently working on enabling socialmedian users to easily and automatically add your own content to socialmedian. The first sites we will be working on are: (1) connect your blog feed to socialmedian, (2) Google Reader shared items, (3) Digg submissions and Digg's, (4) Tweets, (5) Delicious. For each of these, we (Read More)
: On connecting twitter, our idea is to enable users to either (a) have all of their tweets shared with their socialmedian page, (b) have only tweets that match certain keywords (e.g. I could say only tweets that contain the word "news"), or (c) any tweet to #socialmedian. What think you?
: @tabrez I also really like the idea of our finding a way to make our bug tracking system public. Prob makes most sense to do that when we make API available.
Submitted by Vincent Wright:
Etiquette in the Age of Social MediaAugust 14, 2008office pool I’m no Emily Post, but I have some things I want to share with you. Many come from my own experiences. Others come from thinking about how people might use the web in a less-than-polite way. In some cases, you might have a difference of opinion. Consider this a (Read More)
Submitted by Manogr:
What exactly is Twitter? And what does its exploding popularity say about the state of the tech industry? Inside the hottest Web startup since ... gosh, February at least. (Read More)
: I use Twitter daily, multiple times daily. What do I use it for? I keep in touch with the wide world with world news from the BBC; I get hurricane alert news; Cricket scores, and local weather. I also keep track of some of the local bloggers and them of me, as we tweet snippets during the day. I also use it to keep in touch with my wife when we in different places, as it's easy to use via SMS on a cellphone. It's the brevity that's good too. Not a huge amount of options - just 140 characters of text (which can be a URL) and away you go.
Submitted by Manogr:
Half of U.S. adults use social media. That is, they do according to the latest findings from Universal McCann's "Media in Mind" study, an ongoing research effort that analyzes how consumers relate to media and products in their daily life. However, it's worth noting that in this particular study "social media" includes text (Read More)
Submitted by Manogr:
Friendster, the social networking site that has been long-forgotten by most in the United States, is looking to ramp up its business with a fresh influx of cash and the hiring of a new CEO. The company is hiring Richard Kimber, an ex-Googler who ran the South Asian operations at the search giant. This makes a lot of sense c (Read More)