Social Media

What Is Your Twitter Grade?

It seems as if we’ve been seeing a wave of various sites that rank you among other Twitter users. Like Twitterank and TwinFluence. I came across another one called Twitter Grader. It ranks your Twitter profile up against other users of Twitter, based on things like number of followers, the power of your follower network, [...]

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Is Social Media Killing the Blogosphere?

I find it rather funny, but this question (or bold statement, I should say) gets repeated all the time on the Internet. In fact, I just came across a story from Wired which states that Twitter, Flickr and Facebook Make Blogs Look so 2004. Here we go again with the whole “blogging is dead” argument. [...]

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Digg, The Server Killer And How To Rescue WordPress From It

I love WordPress and I’ll continue to recommend it to anybody over another blog platform. On top of a great product, you also have a HUGE library of available plug-ins available which allow you to extend WordPress into almost any situation. That said, that same extensibility also beefs up the code-base of WordPress. This leads [...]

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FriendFeed Point System: My Proposal

The Internet is serious business, as I’ve been told. It is very competitive and we’re all out for blood, right? In order to be able to keep track of this fact, we need a point system and it looks like one has been informally developed over at FriendFeed. The exchange goes like so: [blah blah] [...]

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Tip: Finding Companies on Twitter

I know that a lot of smart companies are using Twitter these days. They are using the service to keep in contact with their customers, to field new ideas, to let their customers know of new announcements, etc. The commercial uses for Twitter are many. As a consumer who might be using Twitter, it can [...]

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Introducing Twitter to Your Non-Geeky Family

A lot of us who use Twitter realize the value of it. We participate in it, gain value from our contacts, offer value to others, market our own sites, etc. Twitter is a valuable resource of knowledge when used properly. OK, I get that. Perhaps you do, too. But, most people don’t. And nothing makes [...]

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Does FriendFeed Politics = Leftist Politics?

I might have been a bit slow to warm up to FriendFeed (wouldn’t be the first time), but today I am a pretty avid user. Yesterday, I actually spent quite more time on the site than I usually do, participating in discussions and monitoring the little squabble I got into with Scoble. But, one thing [...]

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Political Correctness Goes Overboard on FriendFeed

Part of me says to let this issue drop because, yes, it started out with me making a stupid ass of myself. But, the other side of me is a blogger and you don’t become a blogger by being a chicken when you make an ass of yourself. It all started with a tweet I [...]

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Ma.Gnolia Going Open Source, More Exciting Than The Guy Made It Seem

Here at Gnomedex, the guys at Ma.gnolia have announced that they are going open source. This is actually very interesting news. If you look at what WordPress has done for the world of blogging, you can see the power of what an open source social bookmarking platform can do for the world of social bookmarking. [...]

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Tweeple Twak Will Help You Track Your Twitter Followers

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Tampa with Josh and Sarah Perez. Josh showed us what he was working on. It is called Tweeple Twak. I’ve been wanting to talk about it since I saw it, but this morning I saw that Sarah blogged about it and I’m taking that [...]

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