Over the last several weeks I have beta tested any number of startups which represent what we might call “refined walled garden” approaches to social interaction. Typically, and walled garden approach has met with great criticism from proponents of cloud computing. The dogma for many in the social networking, marketing and even technology spheres has been one of liberal damnation for anything not free, or akin to a desktop application.
After almost two years of existence, Facebook Marketplace is finally getting a much needed boost by way of Oodle, an online classifieds company which has built a new Facebook Marketplace interface. Tweet Buffer
PitchEngine is a great free service that allows to create a social media release for your business news. The site is easy to use and offers quite a few great features you will love. Basically, with it you can create a page on your company news fully customized for distributing it around your social media …
I am often asked what the future of social media is. And always my answer is “No idea“. I am not very good at making predictions… unlike those smart people who shared their work at W3C workshop on the future of social networking (kudos for the find to PageOneResults via WebmasterForums). The workshop lists a …
Delicious is a widely used social bookmarking tools – it stores a wealth of information on people’s web preferences and on how useful they find each web page. There are a few tools that can retrieve that data and represent it to you in more or less comprehensible way. Analyze any site / URL Similicio.us …
Today we are featuring an interview with Russell Rockefeller, an online marketer who is currently planning to start working as VP of Marketing for Affluence.org (ref link) and I decided to go ahead and talk to him about this recently-discussed startup. Affluence.org (Affluence Corporation Clearwater FL) is a social network that caters to the rich …
Today it is a common practice to join each and every social media network if not to participate then at least to prevent online identity theft. On the other hand, when building a new social connection it is essential to find a new friend across all known social media networks and befriend him everywhere – …
I have already listed Greasemonkey scripts for Google search and for SEOs. This time I am reviewing a few scripts that social media marketers will find useful: they allow either to easily bookmark posts or search and analyze social networks (please install Greasemonkey extension to use them). Digg scripts: Note: please be careful with Digg …
The diversity of social media communities has brought one huge Internet marketing problem: online identity theft. If you are lucky enough to own a fairly popular unique brand name and smart enough to use it for social networking, you might have already fallen prey to this abuse (though you might be unaware of that). Someone …
With a few days left for all us to do our last minute Holiday shopping, what better way to do it but using some digital coupons courtesy of Coupons.com? And to make it easier for us to find great discounts on various consumer goods, Coupons.com has launched a Facebook app featuring various discount coupons which …
