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This week is Apple's annual Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC). Widely anticipated to be part of the week's festivities is the roll-out of an upgraded iPhone, and of course, its use of the long-awaited iPhone 3.0 software, which will contain a number of solid features, not the least of which is Apple-approved tethering (Read More)
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Following Twitter's mid-day downtime and "fatal software error" they reported on their blog Saturday, it looks like the site is no longer displaying what applications its users are leveraging to post updates. Regardless of whether you are using TweetDeck, Tweetie, PeopleBrowsr, Seesmic Desktop, or simply redirecting updates (Read More)
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As the blog has gained in visibility, so to have the inbound pitches. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they are horrible - and some are just downright off-topic, and get deleted. But one the more recent trends I've seen is a promise by the PR rep to push the story to Digg "if the review is great". Twice this month, I have (Read More)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)The Facebook Platform just got a whole lot more interesting today as the all-powerful Analytics company, Omniture, Inc. released a new suite of analytics libraries for developers writing for the Facebook Platform. The analytics aim to improve, in heavy detail how Facebook (Read More)
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Last September, when Google's Chrome Web browser was first introduced, I told you how I spent the day on Windows, just to use it. While Google is making headway in bringing their Web browser to the Mac platform, or so I've been told, it just hasn't happened yet. In the interim, Apple introduced Safari 4 Beta with many of Ch (Read More)
: @jasongoldberg Congrats! I knew you were up to something with, "Nice chatting with you yesterday, Louis". I'll admit that I was surprised to find out that you wrote the post. Thank you, for setting the record straight. I was starting to wonder. So, does this mean we're getting search finally?
: Some real questions now. Was Truesparrow involved with the development of the open social platform? How does the news differ with so many people using the service?
: @michaelfidler hey there ... yes, the entire socialmedian team (TrueSparrow) built the new apps on XING. That's why we've been slower lately on socialmedian.com updates, as we've been very focused on getting these apps running on XING.
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)A little while back Louis shared the importance of not holding a grudge, encouraging the LouisGray.com readers to try to maintain relationships regardless of any blips that may occur during that relationship. Twitter just released an API which, if you're one to hold grudg (Read More)
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The world of communication and product delivery is changing as the Web evolves and new services are introduced, enabling us to gain faster access to information, download richer media more quickly, and rapidly voice our opinions and feedback near and far in a wide variety of methods, including text, voice, video and imagery (Read More)
: Was just searching thru my archives of links and articles about this very subject to show a client when I saw this article above linked on Twitter in my stream. I love this about Social Networking - so often the information I need comes to ME before I have to really do much searching at all!
Great article, relevant information, and very, very timely - thank you!
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By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is a continuation of last week's post regarding creating social media outposts. The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic search engine traffic, and reserving the brand's identity on the given soc (Read More)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)It would appear that Twitter has launched a brand new format for their new follower notification E-mails they send out to users opting to be alerted to new followers. The e-mails are now in a prettier HTML format and include the new follower's name, Twitter username, and p (Read More)
louisgray.com:
Last night I told you that Adobe failed my expectations for an instant download experience of their Creative Suite, looking like the company preferred to review every single software download manually. Now more than 15 hours later, I'm no closer to having access to the product I purchased, and if their support infrastructu (Read More)
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After years of working on outdated desktop software, I was all set to bite the bullet tonight, and upgrade to the latest Creative Suite family from Adobe. Not interested in cluttering our already-cluttered home with boxes of software and CDs, I was pleased to see I could order a download version of the suite, and potentiall (Read More)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)It's no secret that I'm a huge proponent of self-hosted Microblogging. I've written numerous times on LouisGray.com and my own blog about the benefits business can see by "rolling their own" microblog with their own brand, look and feel. Not sold on this idea? Read what I (Read More)
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By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)During my morning reading, The Long Tail had a link to a survey of Web app business models. If you take a look at the charts listing the revenue models, you will see there are twenty models listed. However, that is not an exhaustive list of ways to make money. Some of the mod (Read More)