The Next Web
Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. This time we’re interviewing Stefan Fountain from Dutch start-up Soocial. You might remember the David Hasselhof incident at The Next Web Conference. He was the guy behind it. TheyR (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Free socialmedian T-shirt to any socialmedian user who correctly guesses either Obama's or McCain's running mate selection before it is announced. You can only guess once for each and should do so by leaving a comment here. (Read More)
: Congrats to Tinch72, Rickbenavidez, & Brianhorn on correctly guessing Biden as Obama's VP selection! For correctly guessing you have all won Socialmedian t-shirts. I'll be in touch shortly to get them out to you.
Submitted by Ramskill:
The aim of this article is to give you more of an idea about how to use Twitter (and by association other micro-blogging services, such as Pownce or Jaiku) for following and engaging with the world's top bloggers and top websites. I call this 'Smart Twittering'. (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher:
Thomas Hawk has been enjoying playing with FriendFeed a lot the past few months and thought it might be time for a post on what he feels are currently the top 5 ways to improve FriendFeed. (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs:
According to a rather speculative report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013. The report, however, also warns that the business models might differ from what most analysts are expecting today. (Read More)
Submitted by Islamcrunch:
Plurkify Rooms is a IRC style chat room client based on Plurk. When you want to host a live chat with one of your fellow plurkers, all you need to do is copy your “plurk code” that you see in the”share your page” section at the bottom right of the page into the box and you end up with something that looks like this. (Read More)
Submitted by Techn0tic:
There is considerable talk among social media "experts" on how companies, particularly PR and marketing companies, are failing to utilise social media wisely - often getting it so wrong that they end up pissing people off. I think that we are currently seeing a change in how to communicate online which is both an evolution (Read More)
: I know in my company it is hard to convey the "social media" cadence and why its important to treat bloggers with respect/ and to treat them as experts in network building