While Facebook has been inching closer to Twitter-like functionality for awhile I see the publishing privacy change that they are rolling out in the next few weeks as the first real run at assuming Twitter’s position in the online attention marketplace.
So far Facebook’s functionality changes to publishing; the addition of the News Feed, more general [...]
Podcamp Boston 4 has a date, August 8-9, 2009 at the University of Massachusetts Boston Harborside campus and registration is open. The schedule has not been determined yet, as a matter of fact you can register to lead a discussion yourself. Keep an eye out for updates.
Again, I’m not associated with Podcamp Boston, but [...]
Search Engine Journal’s Jennifer Horowitz wrote last week about the The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media, which got me thinking about the Seven Virtues and reinforcing the positive rather than the negative in order to reap the rewards of marketing in social media.
1. Chastity (which I am defining as “Courage and boldness. Embracing of [...]
Monday Google published two new applications that take advantage of Google Latitude. The first is a widget that allows you to show your location on your blog. I’ve currently got it added to the right column of my blog, but I don’t think that it fits the blog layout and probably won’t last. I’ve [...]
A couple weeks ago Skittles changed their website so that rather than Skittles.com leading to a brand website it now leads to one of several social media websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. along with a widget allowing visitors to navigate between them. Relying on these sites rather than their own releases their control of [...]
Sara Taylor is the former political director of the Bush White House and she has one idea [about what will be next in harnessing grass-roots political support via technology]. “We’re at a place in the country where almost everybody has a cell phone, but not many people have a smartphone, meaning a video-enabled phone. But [...]
Michael Phelps is the most discussed olympian, at least according to Nielsen Online who is tracking discussion about Olympic athletes on message boards and blogs. I don’t doubt it. In Korea last week during conversations with colleagues, cabbies and folks in the elevator America + Olympics = Michael Phelps. His distinctively spelled last name was [...]
I’ve fallen a bit off the blogging wagon in the last few weeks because of travel for work, a new agency of record agreement and a lot of deliverables, not to mention trying to spend some family time. As a result there is a bunch of news that I’ve thought about over the last few [...]
All I can say is that if Scrabulous can get the Facebook crowd going why shouldn’t WuChess be able to do the same for Hip-Hop and Chess.
Play live chess with people from all over the world and get your learn on.
But in all seriousness with them donating “a large part of revenue” to the Hip-Hop [...]
Since discovering TwitterLocal on Friday I’ve been checking it consistantly. TwitterLocal is a site that aggregates the tweets from a given local; for example my hometown of Cambridge Mass. This is an awfully good way to find like-minded folks nearby, but it also has a leaderboard of the Top Tweeters by the number [...]
