The Social Media Guide
A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Ev Williams and Biz Stone have just taken the stage at Startup School, where they’ll be taking many questions form the audience. You can submit questions by tweeting a question like this “@poll _________” (where the blank is your question). I’ll be liveblogging the session.Q: What was the original motivation behind Twitte (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Oh how the mighty have fallen. The one time king of social networks, MySpace, now has the honor of being the site where the less affluent members of the online population stake their claims by way of bedazzled profiles overrun with auto-playing videos and songs. Meanwhile, the upscale, financially solvent users have moved o (Read More)
VentureBeat
About six months ago, critics pummeled Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.He’d made questionable management decisions, or so it appeared from the outside. He’d fumbled the site’s redesign and botched the company’s terms of service agreement — moves that whipped up negative publicity and user backlash. Some people ask (Read More)
CNET News.com | Tech news blog
The newly acquired start-up has become the face (pun intended) of not just Facebook's further development of real-time streaming technology but also its forays into the open-source community. (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Yesterday was OneWebDay, a day to celebrate the open web and bring more awareness to technologies. I just wrote about one thing Google is doing to make the web more open, something I strongly support. I want to touch on something Facebook is doing which I don’t think is being fully appreciated. And it’s not what you think (Read More)
readwriteweb
Last week we took a poll asking for your favorite 'light' blogging service. These are blogging services that make it very easy for you to share content and media. While old-school blogging service Blogger.com got the most votes in our poll, newer slicker services such as Tumblr, Soup.io and the recently trendy Posterous are (Read More)
: Been using soup.io for a couple of months, and Posterous for longer than that, even though I've been blogging for a few years. Posterous really does offer quick and easy blog-posting direct from email - great for sharing stuff send by friends in emails.
Submitted by Jeremy Dent
from blog:
Speed of information is a challenge to individuals and organisations. Social Media Marketing is a logical response to warp speeds and may be more fundamental than just a tactical switch. (Read More)
mashable
Think you know what the next hot Twitter trend will be? Now you can put your money where your mouth is.Prediction markets have been a growing trend in recent year. It is essentially a stock market for future events and decisions. For example, people can buy or sell against a specific occurrence – like whether or not the (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
# Ship it! Stop debating, stop analyzing, stop featuring, and just ship it! Goal #1 should be to get your product to market as quickly as possible so that you can minimize the time it takes to start getting real user feedback. You are going to get a lot of the early stuff wrong so get it out there and start learning as f (Read More)
Submitted by Wowelster
from YouTube:
This is a cover of the awesome song Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park. I did NOT make up this picking pattern. I got this arrangement, as far as the guitar playing goes, from Joseph Kim, another youtube artist. Hope you guys like it!. (Read More)
SheGeeks
Are you familiar with the Twitter client TweetDeck? If not, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. With the release of Tweetdeck’s iPhone application, I’ve noticed something that every Twitter developer needs to pay attention to: Tweetdeck is locking users in for a very long time. How so you ask?Tweetdeck for the iPhone (Read More)
: I just purchased Tweetie and love it already. There's something about Tweetdeck that's never felt right to me. It's basically a UI issue. I feel comfortable when I'm using Tweetie. It's the same way I feel when I'm using Twhirl on the desktop. It just feels right.
Business Week
The word Entrepreneur holds a certain level of mystique in our society. On a daily basis we are reminded of the entrepreneurs who have started with nothing only to rise to celebrity status. Or maybe we see our next door neighbor who, while not a celebrity, has done very well for themselves starting and running small busines (Read More)
clipotech
So, I've been studying Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and Google's Wave and other things for some time.Last week I also visited Yelp, which is growing at a million new users PER MONTH.Twitter is growing at about 4 times that rate. Facebook is growing about 2x that rate.So, these are the big players. It's clear that they ar (Read More)
: Perhaps I'm stubborn, or set in my ways, or just old school. OK, I use many social media services, but for my primary online communication, it's still email for me.
I have a facebook account, and shove things into it, mostly from other services, but I can't say that I've embraced it.
Google, on the other hand, I use for email, docs, maps and IM.
Twitter is great for concise messages, and in fact, I don't even know the phone numbers of many local bloggers nad geeks, I simply Tweet at them.
Sometimes, I bemoan the fact that there are so many social media services around. So much to look at or update. In truth, although, I've joined many, my own habits have, over time, determined which I use most, and which I use so little, I've forgotten about.