May 11, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Feeling a little overwhelmed by your social networking and the choices you face while you’re just trying to talk to people? Don’t feel alone. Most of the people I talk to are really just trying to figure out all of these tools; how to use them, what they’re all good for, and how to not waste all of their time with them.No i (Read More)

May 12, 2009

ProBlogger Image by nickwheelerozThis is a guest post by Kevin Geary from This is Broken Blog, a blog exposing important things in our daily lives that are broken and need to be fixed. It’s entertainment and education. Come visit us to see more of what’s broken (and even submit your own ideas).For every great blog promotion strategy (Read More)

May 08, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Illegal movie and TV show downloaders, rejoice. Soon, you will no longer have to wait and hour or two to start watching your favorite obscure dramedy series. Streaming torrent site Bitlet.org is preparing for instant gratification beyond your wildest dreams: Streaming video from torrent files.About a year and a half ago, we (Read More)

Jul 11, 2008

Mashable! Social media can be an incredible tool for your business, providing you with more customer insight, direct communication channels and the ability to measure the effectiveness of these conversations very closely.But as the proliferation of social media platforms grow, participating can turn into little more than a giant ti (Read More)

May 07, 2009

Delicious/fabcomm Twitter is a wonderful social tool, but did you know that it’s also a goldmine of information? You can use Twitter to get the latest scoop on current events as well as topical interests. Read on, and you’ll learn about 50 tools that will help you use Twitter to get the information you seek. (Read More)

May 05, 2009

TechCrunchIT It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.I haven’t been in Google Reader for months. Google Reader is the dominant RSS reader. I’ve done the math: Twitter 365 Goo (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

Ecademy: user blogs Jason Baer consults public relations firms and corporations on their social media and email marketing strategies. Jason has worked with more than 700 companies (and 25 of the Fortune 1000) since starting in digital marketing in 1994. The following slide show captures and conveys the many uses for social media for both busin (Read More)

Apr 30, 2009

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Apr 29, 2009

Mashable! Events, whether they are a local tweetup, a championship game or the world’s largest conference, can be notoriously difficult to plan, promote, and execute. But the end result can be amazing, and that is why we plan them in the first place.Whether you need to work with organizers, generate buzz, or share post-party photos, (Read More)

Apr 27, 2009

Mashable! It hasn’t even been a day since Facebook opened up its developer API stream, but companies and applications have already jumped on the opportunity by expanding the functionality of their products. Just today, we’ve already highlighted the upcoming Facebook updates by Seesmic Desktop that will utilize the new Open Stream AP (Read More)

Apr 27, 2009

basketball - fresh news by plazoo.com In today’s game many NBA players get nicknames, but not many basketball moves get nicknames, and this is the list of the most memorable plays and moves by some great and less great players to be honored by getting nicknamed. Yes, they’re that awesome. (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Patricklantz from Digg: know all the clipper fans agree...its time to fire dumbleavy. (Read More)

Apr 23, 2009

Submitted by Avi from Google Reader: If you’re thinking of signing up for Twitter or Facebook to give your company a competitive edge, what I’m about to say may surprise you. It’s not strictly necessary to be involved in online networking to succeed in the business world. Don’t get me wrong, social media tools are terrific arrows in your marketing quiver, but (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

Mashable! One of the claims from those defending and supporting The Pirate Bay in the recent trial (but also other similar sites), is that the entertainment industry is suing something that’s not much different from a search engine. Using Google’s Custom Search Engine, someone has created a Google based torrent search engine. The ide (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Twitter is everywhere. Is it overhyped? Or is it another case of Macromyopia; over-estimating the short term effects and under-estimating the long term impact. No doubt there is a lot of hype and attention around Twitter, fueled by Ashton Kutcher, CNN, and Oprah. Many are saying Twitter has “jumped the shark”, is overhyped, (Read More)

Patrick Lantz

Young lobbyist in LA, professionally interested in transportation, harbor/port, goods movement, water/environmental policy; hobbies include: apple/mac, web 2.0, sports & dog training