May 06, 2009

ReadWriteWeb A little startup called Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as the default link shortening service on Twitter. This isn't just about shortening links, though. "The truth about Bit.ly," enterprise software analyst James Governor said today, "is that its not a URL shortener, its a trend management and metrics platform."The key idea (Read More)

May 05, 2009

PR Squared Right now the battle (such as it is) in the PR world is between the “Social Media Release” and the boring, text-only, narrative and puffed-up “Traditional News Release.”It’s the wrong battle to obsess over.First off, the Social Media Release will win-out over the Traditional version.  I’m not just saying that cuz I invented (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Mashable! Do you remember how, a couple of years ago, you could tell someone who was clueless about computers to simply switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and that action alone would fix 90% of all their security problems?This hasn’t been true for a while now, unfortunately. The fact that Internet Explorer is still the most wi (Read More)

May 04, 2009

louisgray.com By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)Everyone knows a good reputation is a valuable thing. With all of the activity on social media Web sites, your reputation can now come from a number of sources. You could be a well known blogger or entrepreneur, or even what some people call a social media whale, describing t (Read More)

May 04, 2009

Mashable! Twitter has a wealth of data - it’s a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise?Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavi (Read More)

May 05, 2009

Social Media Explorer Jason FallsThe ever-present and seemingly omniscient Jeremiah Owyang has authored another report from Forrester well worth reading. “The Future of the Social Web,” was released to Forrester clients on April 27. You can purchase the report or become a client on their website.Owyang, along with editors and co-authors Josh Ber (Read More)

Apr 12, 2009

Submitted by Stewbagz from blog: Louisgray.Com Are Your Writing Your Headlines For Google Or For Twitter. (Read More)

Apr 12, 2009

Mashable! Today one of our favorite sites, TwitterTwitter reviews, was hit with a particularly nasty exploit: one that could infect users simply by visiting a friend’s profile on Twitter.com. (At the time of writing, the exploit is still at large.)The nature of the attack was far more serious than previous exploits, since there was (Read More)

Apr 09, 2009

KyleLacy.com Ahh… welcome back to the Myspace and Facebook debate. I love talking about the business models of social networks across the Internet.I was reading a post from Edmund Lee at theBigMoney called Why Facebook Can’t Succeed (via alisa at socialized) and I found myself agreeing with Edmund on some of the community versus busines (Read More)

Apr 08, 2009

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Mar 31, 2009

dudeblogyourbusiness.com How many small businesses have you heard say something like “I only operate locally, social media wouldn’t really benefit me”. Having been to many small business networking events I can tell you that this is an attitude you often hear. No matter how you explain to people that social media is a way to start conversations w (Read More)

Mar 25, 2009

ReadWriteWeb According to the UK site Blogstorm, Google has started ranking Twitter search pages for topics (think hashtag-style words) higher, often making the front page for certain queries. This is despite the fact that Twitter blocks Google's spider from indexing search result pages. Which begs the question, how is Google determinin (Read More)

Mar 25, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The day appears to be fast approaching when Twitter will offer a paid level of service for some users. It could be just for corporate accounts, it could be just for people with more than a few thousand followers, it probably won't be for even a majority of users.But imagine if it was required that you, dear reader, had to (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

ReadWriteWeb This morning, Face.com announced that they're bringing advanced facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of a new application called Photo Finder. Using proprietary facial scanning algorithms, this application scans through your photos and those public photos belonging to your friends in order to identity and sugges (Read More)

Dec 24, 2008

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