Mashable!
Social media is a relatively new phenomenon, but Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and other social media websites have become an increasingly important source of website traffic. This also creates a massive demand for data related to social media. Where are users coming from? What topics excite them? These are questions tha (Read More)
Submitted by Rita012:
As many of you know, Wordpress automatically is set up so that comment links are nofollow.
There are bloggers who feel that good comments should be rewarded with dofollow links, and I agree. I’ve now set up my blog where commenters can enjoy an incoming link back to their site.
There are some great plugins and hacks avail (Read More)
Most blogging platforms are already automatically set up for nofollow. You usually have to do something to make them a do follow blog. The plugin I use only makes comments dofollow only after the person has commented 3 times, which helps keep the spammers away.
: I was not aware of the way to make a wordpress blog a do-follow blog, and glad there is spam protection in the process. Thanks for sharing resources and opening your blog up for link benefit.
Submitted by Hugoguzman:
It recently occurred to me that just as Google made the inbound link (and anchor text) a valuable commodity - hence the rise of the paid link - Twitter has now made the retweet (a.k.a. “RT”) a valuable commodity as well. (Read More)
Submitted by Hugoguzman:
Fun little animated video and accompanying article highlighting how some big companies still don't understand the true meaning of social media. (Read More)
Mashable!
Some studies show that 11 percent of online adults are using status updates, but if you think about the history of the status message and its roots in instant messaging, that number actually seems pretty small.Even though we predict big things to come from these short status updates, the reality is that the present day stat (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however, hasn't really implemented any of this technology yet. Starting today, however, it seems Google is starting to surface some of this info (Read More)
: This is further evidence that Google is planning to turn the Internet into the largest social network in existence. They are leaving breadcrumbs everywhere.
: wonder if this couild be used in enterprise sense - looking for something that will allow social network mapping... without doing the questionaire :-)
Mashable!
Long before there was a Facebook, MySpace, or even Friendster, message boards were the de facto online communities. And while there are still thousands of popular boards scattered around the Web, there has been little innovation in terms of the software that powers them, minus a few upstarts we recently profiled. This wee (Read More)
: The service combines aspects of Userplanes other services like chat and IM with threaded message board discussion, creating a real-time environment that makes following conversations much easier.
ReadWriteWeb
ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to (Read More)
: It would be interesting to know which method "Other 19%" is since it is more popular than Facebook. Facebook and Myspace may be outdoing the regular social bookmarking sites due to apps that now allow you to automatically share it with your friends on those sites, something that until recently, had to be manually done.
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Another important breakthrough in the contextual UI approach is the realization that function is more important than design. The famous Apple mantra that design is the function is true, but not everyone can design like Apple. Lots of web sites in the nineties ended up with designs that were overwhelming and needlessly flash (Read More)
: Agreed. But it's always too easy to praise Apple for being the pioneer when it was most probably Kai Kraus. A name worth looking up if you're not familiar...
ReadWriteWeb
"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications great each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication is a lot more useful when you have a good idea who (Read More)
: I really like social|median so far. I'd participate a whole lot more, if I didn't have to earn some money during the day as well!
I've got this cute little avatar that a friend made me in his spare time a few years ago, and I tend to use that across the networks. It's a reasonable likeness. I've no issue with folks knowing basic stuff about me anyway.
Search Engine Journal
Putting aside all recent arguments and gossip as per privacy issues (yep, nothing is probably totally free and Google Analytics should be using its (your?) data in some way), I should confess, I love the tool and use it.I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities (Read More)
TechCrunch
Dan Ackerman Greenberg is a master at getting lots of views for online videos. Last year he wrote a less-than-well-received post here on TechCrunch called “The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos.” In the face of hundreds of negative comments he wrote a follow up post where he clarified some of his orig (Read More)