Sep 30, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: I accidentally unfollowed all my followers.I was testing out the unfollow all feature on my site, SocialToo.com, and just happened to hit the “delete all friends” button by mistake without realizing it. For that, I apologize.  I learned something valuable from it though – out of the 23,000 people I unfollowed on accident, I (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google web search results can be limited by timeframe using the "search options" link on every page, but one startup company CEO discovered today that searches can also be limited to results indexed minutes or seconds ago by making a simple change to the search results page URL.Startup search engine Omgili's CEO Ran Geva wr (Read More)

Sep 01, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Enterprise giant Oracle released its Database 11g Release 2 today, and it now supports OpenCalais, the Semantic Web service from Thomson Reuters. Native support for OpenCalais means users can now extract rich semantic metadata about people, places, companies, and events. Oracle directly calls the OpenCalais API though your (Read More)

Aug 25, 2009

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)

Aug 23, 2009

Mashable! Whether you’re artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy — design talent optional!Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use as filling i (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

TwitLinks Just when I thought I was closer to giving up on Firefox, a new application, in the form of a plugin, has become a major addiction for me (and a saviour for the spiraling browser). I’m talking, of course, about Feedly.Feedly was brought to my attention (as many other applications have) by the omnipresent Robert Scoble. He p (Read More)

Jun 21, 2009

Micro Persuasion I have been giving a lot of thought to what the future looks like for blogging and where it fits in my life. I have no plans to stop, but as more action moves to the statusphere and my world gets more mobile, I have been looking for a new publishing approach. Louis Gray, Steve Gilmor and I had a rather deep discussion (Read More)

Jun 09, 2009

Daniel W. Crompton - FriendFeed At some point in everything we get involved in as human being will suffer some sort of backlash, whether it be on a personal level or a group level. With the rapid growth of Social Media and all the services that feed off of it, like Twitter, it isn’t surprising that some people are feeling the crush of having to be immers (Read More)

Jun 02, 2009

Copyblogger No.And yes.It depends on how you do it.Some people do it horrendously wrong.Let’s take a look.Curiosity-Click Traffic is CrapIf one of your primary traffic strategies is to leave fast comments on the posts of larger blogs in your niche just to get a few clicks from the passing traffic, stop. You could get more traffic from (Read More)

May 18, 2009

The Next Web The image below here shows why in the age of Twitter, Digg is starting to get less interesting to bloggers. Making it to the front page of Digg is still cool but just as hard (maybe even harder) as it was 3 years ago. Having your message retweeted is a lot easier. Also, 1 Digg doesn’t get you any traffic. 10 Diggs? No traff (Read More)

May 16, 2009

louisgray.com This Is How My Social Media Data Flows. I'll Explain.If you're anything like me, you are constantly creating social data. From your blog posts and your tweets, your photos and videos, bookmarks and status updates, you are creating new information, big and small. You might do so in spurts, or you might be creating new conten (Read More)

May 18, 2009

Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums - Big changes are in the works for Twitter and their realtime search features, says new Twitter VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, changes that may spell the end of the status quo both for the microblogging platform in particular and the entire concept of organic searching in general.Jayaram, who previously worked on Google's (Read More)

May 18, 2009

David Risley The Twitter footprint into our society has been growing like crazy. Celebrities and news organizations are now parading the word “Twitter” around as part of our normal lexicon. Of course, this means Twitter is a huge communication platform now…for everybody….not just for the early adopters. This attracts marketers who see (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

Digg - sherid It’s #1 on Google … against over 30 MILLION competing pages! But I digress.A big part of my productivity optimization plan has been to post unique, targeted articles at a popular website with a proven strong connection to Google - like EzineArticles.com. Ultimately, you want to build your blog into that type of high quality (Read More)

Mar 03, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google -- whose search index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter's. So what does Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt think about Twitter?"Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man' (Read More)

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