http://ttrumble.com Musings from a geek marketer. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:56:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://ttrumble.com/facebooks-publisher-privacy-settings-the-game-changer-against-twitter/ When Google released Google Reader Bundles last week I suggested that it would be great to have those as HTML in order to add to my blog.  Well, Google didn't quite do that, but they just rolled out Google Web Elements which is a step in that direction. Google Web Elements ... http://ttrumble.com/google-web-elements-new-widgets-for-your-website/ I added a custom Twitter landing page the other day.  This an idea that I got from @Pistachio who has her own custom page.  Since Twitter does not have profile pages where you can explain a little about yourself or include links to other social media sites, the point of ... http://ttrumble.com/custom-twitter-landing-page/ Google Reader added a new tool that allows the creation of sets of RSS feeds that can be shared with friends and used to discover new feeds around topics that you are interested in.  The sets are called Bundles and they are very easy to make. To get to the Feed ... http://ttrumble.com/share-sets-of-rss-feeds-with-google-reader-bundles/ 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 ... http://ttrumble.com/podcamp-boston-4/ Refresh Boston is looking good this month. Think that I'll  be stepping downstairs to attend. Note: I'm not affiliated with Refresh Boston I'm just in the general industry and work upstairs from the event. Refresh Boston: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? Thursday May 28, 2009 at ... http://ttrumble.com/refresh-boston-may-2009-what-makes-a-design-seem-intuitive/ 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 ... http://ttrumble.com/the-seven-virtues-of-social-media/ Evidently the thin streets of some European cities caused some trouble for a car mounted with the Google Street View rig, so those ingenious guys at Google came up with the human-powered tricycle above.  This idea is great, but what I love even more is the face on the rider ... http://ttrumble.com/google-street-view-trike/ I travel a lot. I do almost all of my work online.  I need internet access alot when I am traveling.  Want my loyalty and travel dollars?  Here's how to earn them. Give me internet access anywhere I'm waiting for more than an hour. I am a captive audience and I ... http://ttrumble.com/earning-loyalty-through-wifi/ 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 ... http://ttrumble.com/google-latitude-blog-bling/