Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from blog:
What tastes better than chocolate and peanut butter? Not much. But, we think we may have found something. socialmedian + facebook have now been brought together. Check it out the next time you log in to socialmedian.... (Read More)
: Would like some more control over what gets posted to my profile. There are some stories that I would like to maintain on my status versus browsing, liking or disliking etc. How about more granular setting or a confirmation to post to FB?
Mashable!
As I noted (to much derision from the peanut gallery) back in August, Tina Fey bears a striking resemblance to Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. It seemed like an innocuous observation to me - they both looked pretty similar to me. Vindication from comments like “you are trashing the site with the political dri (Read More)
Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett:
We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want.
FriendFeed Badge
Create a customized FriendFeed badge to show off the services you use and your recent FriendFeed activity. (Read More)
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 Catepol:
The simple dictionary definition of "Twitter" is "microblogging/social networking platform that places a 140- character limit on each individual post/tweet." However, describing Twitter thusly would fail to encapsulate the power of this new omnipresent medium. Twitter can be viewed at as a "marketing tool, feedreader, track (Read More)
: I think we're so much more aware of our own idiosyncrasies now, and feeding them to each other like this is creating this really odd global neurosis in increments of 140 characters.
ReadWriteWeb
Continuing our coverage of the mainstream web, in this post we look at some of the most popular websites for kids. We've gathered information from a recent report (pdf) from Nielsen Online, via Marketingvox, which studied the online habits of Britons under the age of 23. We also polled friends of RWW via Twitter.The Nielsen (Read More)
Submitted by Vincent Wright:
With as many right things you can do with a blog to make it successful, there are nearly as many things you can do wrong. Below are 3 common mistakes companies make with corporate blogs, why they make them and what you can do to avoid them. (Read More)
The Retail Email Blog
Retail email marketing statistics and benchmarks from the past month:Stat: The number of marketing emails sent by U.S. retailers and wholesalers this year will hit 158 billion and grow 63% to 258 billion in 2013. Source: Forrester’s US Email Marketing Volume Forecast, 2008 To 2013>>This highlights the increasing need for tw (Read More)
No man is an iland
Part 13 of an ongoing series...(We're looking at the strategies and tactics that distinguish a smart email marketer from a bulk email marketer. See the New Email Marketing index page to access the rest of the series.)What has ethics got to do with email marketing?*Now there's a topic that can rapidly descend into pretentiou (Read More)