Mar 29, 2009

Mashable! One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you’re a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great articles that you just want everyone to know about. But what’s the best way to share these posts?Luckily, there’s no shortage of (Read More)

Mar 10, 2009

Conversation Agent The differences between marketing, advertising, PR, and branding are now blurred with the adoption of social media. According to the definition of social media found in Wikipedia:Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a bro (Read More)

Feb 19, 2009

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Feb 14, 2009

louisgray.com By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed) FriendFeed, a content and conversation aggregation service, remains under fire by many who feel it is too much of one thing and not enough of another. They often draw parallels to the micro-blogging service Twitter, and how "easy to use" that service is as compared with Fr (Read More)

Feb 06, 2009

Mashable! Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter.As we battle a global recession, corporations are looking for new ways to sell their products and engage their consumers. Many have turned to the Internet, with Social Media in (Read More)

Feb 05, 2009

ReadWriteWeb When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you with tools to do it. Now, a ne (Read More)

Jan 25, 2009

TechCrunch While 2008 was Twitter’s hockey-stick year, Twitter’s little brother FriendFeed is also beginning to show hockey-stick tendencies in its growth. According to comScore, FriendFeed attracted 950,000 unique visitors worldwide in December. That’s a tenfold increase since June, when comScore counted only 93,0 (Read More)

Jan 20, 2009

TwitLinks Guest Post By Adam Singer of The Future Buzz (FriendFeed/Twitter)image credit: pshabI've written previously that Facebook and MySpace are the modern AOL and Prodigy. I stick by that. The great walled gardens of the web live on more than a decade later, resurrected by Web 2.0, but just as closed off, spammy and unexciting (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon. Is it (Read More)

Jan 14, 2009

L.A. Times Tech Blog Here’s a funny question: Did you pay to read this?It’s funny because it has two obvious and opposite answers. If you’re at your kitchen table holding The Times’ Calendar section, then of course you paid. Everyone knows a copy of the daily costs 75 cents.On the other hand, if you’re reading this on your home computer or offi (Read More)

Jan 12, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider 2009 is going to be a brutal year for the media industry. Barring some miracle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won't be the only casualty. Doug McIntyre at 24/7 Wall St surveys the landscape: No one working in the media industry will ever have seen a year as bad as 2009 will be...The most endangered of the media sectors (Read More)

Jan 12, 2009

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Jan 09, 2009

Submitted by Format01: From Foreign Policy: “Because the United States is such a huge part of the global economy, there’s real reason to worry that an American financial virus could mark the beginning of a global economic contagion.” – Nouriel Roubini, March 2008 Last year’s worst-case scenarios came true. The global financial pandemic that I and (Read More)

Dec 20, 2008

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Jan 07, 2009

Delicious/AramZS/journalism Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?. (Read More)

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