Have you ever noticed how many bloggers and social media marketers just tell people that they should go out try social media? How you shouldn’t worry about learning social it? That you’ll learn it on the fly and everything will be fine. Well, I’m not one of those. It’s absolutely in your best interest to …
Category Archives: Social Networking
Yahoo is about to do what others have been wanting to do for so long now – integrate Facebook in their online service. Just announced is Yahoo’s soon to be implementation of Facebook Connect. This practically means that once implemented you can now share Yahoo’s various content including ratings, photos, article comment and more to …
“To all the girls I’ve loved before Who travelled in and out my door I’m glad they came along I dedicate this song…” Willie Nelson / Julio Iglesias Having gone to search conferences for 4 years now, I feel that I’m pretty well-dialed into the peculiar networking / social dynamic that surrounds each well-attended show. …
We have seen a few social as well as real-time search engines previously, and this whole week is all about a new-comer: Leapfish. In fact , there’s so much buzz around it that I found it necessary to review the tool here and discuss it with our SEJ community. Leapfish is a new social and …
Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine’s search capabilities has already been done, they come up with another idea. Let’s face it, in some cases the innovations are dumb and do nothing more for the company than get them another press release and a few hundred …
Recently, @MichDe wrote a post entitled “New Media Concepts, The Digg Bury Brigade and How to Fight it.” I took a personal interest in this post because I have also recently found myself as the target of a Digg “Bury Brigade.” As you can see from the screen shot below, when you go to bury …
Earlier last week, and with much anticipation (from me anyway), Facebook launched their new ad manager. I was lucky enough to get access to the beta, but I have to admit that I’m very disappointed with the new interface. Which is way worse than being angry, right? According to Facebook, the new ad manager includes …
Playing around in Reddit tonight I found several threads being attacked by what appears to be an XSS (cross site scripting) virus. If you go to these threads and view the code being put out by the script, it will take over your commenting and replies for the thread outputing the same code. The best …
StumbleUpon’s founder Geoff Smith, recently announced to their Beta group members that SU is testing a new interface they plan on implementing. The new design is based around simplicity, which can be seen in the beta changes to the user homepage, submission comments, subscriber options, and even the rating system. The new interface has also …
Google continues making moves toward establishing a monopoly on the web, with today’s announcement of SideWiki. SiteWiki is basically a Google Toolbar addon which lets anyone with a Google account comment about your site or add content, to the SideWiki, which can appear on the side of your site. This gives Google expanded presence on …