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Are You Really Ready to Offer Social Media Services?
Many web focused organizations are making moves to provide “social media management services”. While I would normally be the first to applaud entrepreneurial spirit in...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
5 Useful Social Bookmarking FireFox Extensions
1. StumbleUpon toolbar (for registered SU users). Most useful features: review, vote for and tag any page you visit; search for pages submitted by your...
Social Media Guide for Big Brand Corporate Businesses
The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites...
2 Ways to Get Intimate with Blog Readers
Like we all know, blogging is not only (or even not at all) about a blogger talking to his readers; it is primarily about communicating...
Igniting Viral Campaigns Session at SES New York
Most talk about or plan to do it, while the reality is that very few companies do. A viral campaign is probably the best way...
Become the Next Presidential Candidate with Social Networking
CNNs Rick Sanchez reported today on the new Rolling Stone article on the success of Barack Obamas campaign. I havent read the article myself yet...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web...
Yahoo Mobile Service Aggregator oneConnect Merges Mobile IM, Mail, & SMS
On Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Yahoo introduced a new mobile service called “oneConnect” which is designed to aggregate contacts and communications...
It is Time for Putting on Some Link-Condoms!
Warning! This post uses metaphors and some phrases that are not suitable for children’s eyes and ears. It is directed towards other bloggers and not...
Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica
Arnold Zafra posted about Google’s KNOL service (derived from the word “knowledge”) already on Friday here at SearchEngineJournal.com. Yesterday Brook Schaaf from Schaaf Consulting reported...
How to Add Content to Wikipedia the “White Hat” Way?
I gave tips to people about editing Wikipedia or getting missing content into Wikipedia over and over again, via email, blog comments etc. So I...
Facebook Users Flip on Beacon: Lesson in Social Community Ethics
So, you’re the largest growing social media site and you think you can do whatever you want and users won’t care? Think again Facebook. When...
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until...
Facebook Ads: Google AdWords Should Be Afraid
Adding to today’s announcement of MySpace SelfServe Ads and AOL’s acquisition of Quigo, Facebook just released the news about its much anticipated and overly hyped...
MySpace’s HyperTargeting Ad Platform Enters Second Phase
Sometime in July, MySpace rolled out a new sitewide advertising program called HyperTargeting by MySpace. From the words of Michael Barrett, Chief Revenue Officer for...
Google and MySpace Officially Announce OpenSocial, How Open is OpenSocial?
The much talked about OpenSocial APIs which Google is spearheading is officially announced jointly by Google and MySpace. Touted as collaborative tool that would spark...
Fun Ways of Learning What Should Not Do
There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line....
Has Social Networking Damaged Your Social Life?
Has social networking damaged your social life? A strange question to ponder don’t you think? Your sitting there thinking to yourself what is this guy...
Podcast Marketing and Distribution 101
The Podcasting & New Media Expo and SMX Social Media just past and the next conference for bloggers and podcasters is just on the horizon,...
SMX Panel Recap: Effectively Leveraging Social Networking
Day two opened up this morning with the Effectively Leveraging Social Networking panel, featuring: Dave McClure, Entrepreneur & Startup Advisor, 500Hats Cindy Krum, Senior SEO...
SMX Panel Recap: Linkbait – Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites
The second panel of the day was “Linkbait – Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites” and it was of course focused on creating and...
10 Easy Ways To Keep Your Blog Traffic Coming Back for More
Imagine this. Let’s say, that like a whirlwind romance, you all of the sudden get popular on StumbleUpon or hit the Digg homepage and hoards...
Digg Rolls Out New User Profiles
Digg rolled out a new feature for its user profiles which is clinging towards transforming the social news site into a social networking site. Think...
Demand Your Presence on Digg With 6 Simple Steps
Digg, much like many other social bookmarking tools, is built around a small community of highly “ranked” users that control ninety percent of the overall...
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Bebo
Yahoo and Bebo, UK’s number one social networking site, reached an advertising agreement that would let Yahoo serve advertisements on Bebo’s sites in both UK...
AOL Says Goodbye to Netscape Social News
Netscape has announced that it plans to revert back to its old self with AOL powered news stories and send the Netscape Social News Community...
StumbleUpon Phenomenon : An In Depth Look At A Social Networking Giant
With more than two million registered users, StumbleUpon has rapidly become a major player in the social networking craze that has swept through the computers...
PliggSites.com : Directory of Pligg Powered Sites
The effect of Digg style sites on link building, SEO, and driving traffic has helped fuel the social media marketing movement. But did you know...
SEO Bashing : First Pasternack then Calacanis and Now Scoble
You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge...