Feb 19, 2009

Delicious hotlist Using social media to market your business is a good idea. Just don't plan on getting your whiz-kid nephew to do it for free. (Read More)

Feb 15, 2009

Submitted by Badgergravling from blog: Tweeght is a new site described by it’s creator as offering Digg-like voting for ‘thoughtful tweets’ - although the voting is actual more like Reddit with a simple up or down arrow. It was built by Aditya Kothadiya in under a week, and is pretty simple to use. You can either post a tweet by submitting [...]. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Congratulations! You made a big announcement and got great reviews, feedback and an influx of people to your website. Yesterday. Today, any number of other organizations and individuals are having the same experience and except for (hopefully) a long tail of residual late bloomers stumbling through your door - you run the (Read More)

Oct 27, 2008

TechCrunch Bootstrapped by Pete Field and based out of Whistler, B.C., Canada, HearWhere is a search engine for live music which was launched in May 2008 but has managed to stay largely under the radar.The live-performance search engine claims to list over one million music shows. The service tells you who is playing nearby, but also (Read More)

Oct 13, 2008

Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Die Sendergruppe ProSiebenSat.1 sichert sich - wie bereits berichtet - die Mehrheit an der News-Community Webnews (www.webnews.de). Zunächst übernehmen die Münchner 67,6 % des Unternehmens. ProSiebenSat.1 besitzt aber bereits eine Option auf die Mehrheit. Die restlichen Anteile hält Investor Holtzbrinck Ventures. Zu den (Read More)

Oct 11, 2008

Submitted by Gautam: Plaxo has started fan pages like Facebook, but in its case it’s only around TV shows. (Read More)

Oct 11, 2008

technodad's shared items in Google Reader  I have to admit that I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by today.  I’ve just about glazed over as I’ve gone through blog post after blog post talking about how grim and dire things are for us. I realize that the week has been legendary in terms of the stock markets plunging, but the response from many startups and bloggers has be (Read More)

Oct 06, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy’s AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, which will be released this month, adds support for Digg, (Read More)

Oct 07, 2008

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Oct 06, 2008

Submitted by Dobata from Google Reader: Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion has written a blog post saying that Google Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence, although he does admit that it’s not perfect. As a little exercise in analysis and logic, I am going to take his thoughts and see whether or not I come to a similar conclusion.First, however, I (Read More)

Oct 01, 2008

Submitted by Hutch from Google Reader: There is an interesting article (and useful graphic) by Hutch Carpenter today, picking up a Tim O'Reilly post reminding people that the original concept of Web 2.0 was far wider than just Social Media (in fact, in the original definition Social Media hardly featured it).Over the summer we've been doing a little bit of analy (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Mashable! Of all the companies and social platforms that showcased at Web 2.0 Expo NY, LiveWorld was definitely one of my favorites. Why? Because they were the only service that could explain that they understand how social media functioned and actually prove that their services provide a platform for conversation and interaction wit (Read More)

Oct 26, 2006

Paylancers An article in the New York Times highlighted an interesting new political tactic: campaign resources are being used to promote certain newspaper articles online, such that they appeared at the top of a Google search for a candidate's name.This makes for a powerful propaganda tool. For example, a Democrat could promote a neg (Read More)

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