Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
Inside Affluence.org – a Social Network for the Rich : Interview with Russell Rockefeller
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...
How to Search for People Across Many Social Networks
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...
Belkin Caught Buying Fake Consumer Reviews
The Belkin company has been busted by The Daily Background for paying $.65 per fake consumer review via the Amazon service Mechanical Turk. A Belkin...
Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008
2008 proved to a historic year for Twitter both in adoption through the sheer number of twitter users signing up to the services, but also...
Take Advantage of .TV Domains for SEO and Reputation Management
There is a very large untapped market of creating .TV niche and business oriented online video sites which your business may be overlooking in your...
Shall We Prop Up Propeller.com?
I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted...
Digitizing Books with the Help of Millions of People around the World
I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Measuring Social Media Marketing: It’s Easier than you Think!
We all remember from Marketing 101, that the ability to measure the effectiveness of marketing activities and calculating ROI is imperative to a company’s go-to-market...
Plaxo 3 Beta Review
Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform...
SEO, Meet SMM Session at SMX Advanced
Social Media Marketing in 60 seconds: Social media is here to stay. Google and Ask recently embraced social sites with massive updates. If you want...
Spoken Word Versus Written Word
People often underestimate how much is actually lost when spoken word appears in print. A statement can be interpreted several different ways depending on your...
Pro-Obama Hillary Clinton ‘1984’ Video Posted on YouTube
Someone has posted an anti-Hillary version of the famous 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial on YouTube which ends with the message : “On Jan. 14,...
Social Media Linking & Email Spam Requests
Being a website publisher, I receive my share of mass emails asking to join linking networks or trade sitewide links with other sites. Generally, as...
Who Will Acquire Digg.com .. Google?
Michael Arrington writes on Techcrunch that Digg has recently been in multiple acquisition discussions with a host of potential buyers, including News Corp.’s Fox Interactive....
Del.icio.us Hits 1 Million Member Mark
Del.icio.us Hits 1 Million Member Mark Think only the elite opinion leaders of the tech and online worlds are using social bookmarking services such as...
Yahoo Acquires WebJay : Exclusive Interview
Yahoo Acquires WebJay : Exclusive Interview Another week, another Yahoo acquisition. After reading through ‘Gorgeous’ Bill Slawski’s fine write up of Yahoo Acquisitions over the...
Flickr Acquired by Yahoo?
Flickr Acquired by Yahoo? Yahoo may be interested or may have already closed its acquisition of Ludicorp, the parent company behind the photo blogging /...