Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics.
Followers and/or RSS (Read More)
: I semi disagree. Using blogs as an example, I know several well known and highly influential beauty and fashion blogs who previously held a page rank of 6. When Google last did it's major shake up a few months ago and stated that affiliate links needed to have a "no follow" tag in the code, these blogs suddenly became a 3. They had been using affiliate links in their posts without no follow tags. To any advertiser, marketer or PR person coming upon these blogs for the first time after the Page Rank striping, a 3 is mediocre and it would be assumed that they may not have much of an influence in the blogosphere--and they would be mistaken. Of course, you also have those bloggers who have been around a while that may be jumping off of the Blogger.com bandwagon and establishing their own domains. Automatically they start from scratch with page rank even if their traffic came with them.
However, I do agree that it is something that takes time to build and is earned and I do think page rank is part of a well rounded look at the quality of a site.
What do you think of the splogs out there that have gained page rank despite being entirely stolen content?
Submitted by jasongoldberg
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The hands-down lamest excuse of Americans attempting to deny accusations of prejudice has long been: "But, some of my best friends are (African-American/Latino/gay/fill-in-the-blank)."In the flurry of news stories that first started coming out about Sarah Palin following John McCain's choice of her as his running mate, it w (Read More)
: Getting back to the article at hand, ahem. It makes the valid point, which apparently we have to keep making over and over, that Palin lies extemporaneously, and effortlessly, about just about anything.
Submitted by jasongoldberg
from blog
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What tastes better than chocolate and peanut butter? Not much. But, we think we may have found something. socialmedian + facebook have now been brought together. Check it out the next time you log in to socialmedian.... (Read More)
: Would like some more control over what gets posted to my profile. There are some stories that I would like to maintain on my status versus browsing, liking or disliking etc. How about more granular setting or a confirmation to post to FB?
Submitted by michaelfidler
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For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy’s AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, which will be released this month, adds support for Digg, (Read More)
Submitted by jasongoldberg
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Here at team socialmedian, we think that this is how product development is supposed to work.Just last week we surveyed a sample of socialmedian users on a range of topics including potential new socialmedian features.Based on a user's suggestion, we included in the survey the potential new feature of enabling our users to (Read More)