Mar 20, 2009

PR 2.0 In a conversation recently with good friend Jeremiah Owyang, he encouraged and motivated me to finally publish this post...Over the last decade, Social Media has slowly evolved not only as a new content publishing, sharing, and discovery medium, but more importantly as a peer-to-peer looking glass into the real world conver (Read More)

Mar 20, 2009

TechCrunch Two big trends in search right now are semantic and social search. Worio, a startup in Vancouver, BC, is combining the two approaches today by tapping its semantic search engine into Facebook Connect. The fundamental technology behind Worio is a semantic tagging system that analyzes the content of indexed Web pages and ca (Read More)

Mar 15, 2009

TwitLinks There are a few established players in the world of Twitter directories. We have covered several directories, including Twellow and Just Tweet It , as well as compared Twitter directories based on their usefulness. But after this weekend, they may find themselves struggling against a new competitor. (Read More)

Jan 26, 2009

PR 2.0 I recently discussed the viability of Twitter evolving beyond a micro community into a standardized platform for macro conversations. It's certainly the path Facebook is traversing and both are making significant progress in the race to syndicate and aggregate the discussions that are important to us within our respective s (Read More)

Jan 26, 2009

TechCrunch This guest post is written by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama), also “bloggs” at kevinrose.com.Ten Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers:Explain to your follower (Read More)

Jan 25, 2009

Everyone's Blog Posts - PitchEngine If you’re in business and trying to cultivate clients online, you cannot underestimate the value of Social Media. I recall a time – not too long ago – when You Tube and Face Book were enjoying the cachet of two frat boys vying for the attention of everyone in the dorm. Their robust synergy relegated them to the ilk of an el (Read More)

Dec 28, 2008

ReadWriteWeb The end of the year is typically a time for prediction posts and although we have our own thoughts on what we expect the future to bring, we've decided to take a look at what some of our friends are talking about online. While not everyone offers a prediction for 2009 we hope their wishes for the future of the Web and thei (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

Submitted by Vcfreak from Twitter: 5 Trends: Where Social Media Marketing is Heading, in 2009 and Beyond http://ff.im/-vLT6. (Read More)

Jan 05, 2009

TwitLinks By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. The tools are great and give us big advantages, but they are simply extensions (Read More)

Oct 13, 2008

Mashable! How many online profiles do you think you have right now? I know, too many to even count! Such is the case with anyone that uses Web 2.0 sites these days. Whether you have boatloads of profiles or just a few, you need a way to manage your profile information. Here are some tools that you can use to share your profiles onlin (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

social|median We launched a new feature today on socialmedian, "News Flash" -- it will be fun to see where this one goes and how it develops based on user feedback.Disclosure: We're pretty darn excited about this one! The foundation for the News Flash feature came from user requests to make it more meaningful to be a Newsmaker on (Read More)

Dec 03, 2008

PR Squared I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  There’s something about a 4–day weekend that makes me think that every weekend ought to be 4 days long.  It not only allows for DOWN time, it allows for THINK time.  Here’s what I thought about…There’s no question: Social Media is having an enormous, life-altering impact on the communic (Read More)

Dec 04, 2008

Broadcasting Brain OK, here’s the thing. Social media are media and means to an end. They help us communicate to other people.However, I’m feeling like focusing solely on the tools of social media isn’t enough. There’s just too much material being written about “social media”. Some people do a really gr (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: Blogging is a really important tool for personal branding. So is being present on social networks, having your photos on Flickr, share thoughts and ‘mindfarts’ on Twitter etc. etc. But here comes the question, if blogging is a must in personal branding, how come that there is no ultimate personal branding blogging theme for (Read More)

Sep 13, 2008

TechCrunch Microsoft, for all its problems, is a great software company. Its core products, the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, still dominate their respective markets and, while they are continually facing more capable competition and hence have declining market share, Windows and Office remain strong pro (Read More)

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