Aug 24, 2008

Submitted by Raavi: I don't recall if I ever listed my favorite services in one post. The reason that I'm doing it now is because I feel something has changed from last year. The main change is my use of recommendation services such as: Digg, Stumbleupon and Reddit - services that I was so addicted to and somehow now are no longer my main inte (Read More)

Sep 09, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: Social Media properties just may be the focus of the next big “slap”. While its both popular and profitable right now, it seems obvious that in short time the people who are using them right will excel… and those who are simply using social media ‘for promotion only’ will find their success short-lived…. (Read More)

Sep 09, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: What’s better indicator of the value of an online site than a group of people who have assembled into a community and suggested their chaps that they really should “check out” a particular Web site? Here is a list of top 50 social bookmark websites, places where people share their links with purpose to recommend one another (Read More)

Sep 10, 2008

Submitted by Styletime from Digg: The web is full of resources, but they’re often hard to reach. This is the reason why I think it’s important to organize them with a coherent structure and share it with you. (Read More)

Sep 10, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: socialmedian members can now watch and share videos. To share your videos on socialmedian, add your YouTube account from the "Add something > Site" widget. Then, every time you upload or favorite a video from YouTube it will be shared on socialmedian. You can share all your videos or only videos matching certain keywords. (Read More)

Sep 12, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: Writers write, and we like to think we do it well. But sometimes what we were taught in writing classes and have learned from reading will mean death in online media. This is because the medium is so vastly different and people have different needs from the new media than they did from the old. Here are some tricks and tips (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Submitted by Ian Mac Millan: A List of Social Media Marketing Examplesby Peter KimI've been thinking about how social media works.  For example, applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns.  This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

TechCrunch A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire, says that users generate up to 500 daily page views per day on the application trying to hunt down the right card to complete a coll (Read More)

Sep 14, 2008

TechCrunch At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend. LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from advertisers that it will be launching its own ad network on Monday. In conjunction with ad network (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Submitted by Dobata from Google Reader: Yammer, as much of the free world seems to now know, won “best of show” at TechCrunch50. Yammer is an enterprise 2.0 company. The blogosphere had a fairly negative opinion about this. I read a number of these posts, and the table below outlines the reasons Yammer was viewed negatively:Links to source posts: Dennis Howlett, (Read More)

Sep 16, 2008

ReadWriteWeb A new report about Enterprise adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, by Awareness, Inc., shows that employers are increasingly allowing staff to use social media applications in working hours. Awareness puts the figure at 69 percent of businesses in 2008, up from 37 percent last year. It's the latest in a string of reports this (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Online Media Cultist Obvious statement: there’s a lot of information and conversations floating around the internets. Not-so-easy questions to answer: what do we do with it, how do we harness it, and how do we make sense of it? An area of social media that I think about a lot these days is the prospect of pulling data – usually in the for (Read More)

Sep 16, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: Last week, I wrote an editorial entitled “When it Comes to Politics, Don’t Listen to Me.”  It was fairly well recieved, at least by the contingent of Mashable readers who don’t tend to agree with me politically.  It struck on a number of themes and memes common to social media circles, though and my sentiments were echoed b (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Mashable! Sometimes we discover interesting websites that we want to save to check out later because we’re busy with other tasks. For such occasions, there is a new breed of browser addons, bookmarklets, and special bookmarking services available to help save those urls and retrieve them easily later. Here are 11 of them.Do you (Read More)

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