SocialMediaPop Mashes Social Media Sites

May 16, 2008 | Filed Under News, Social Media | Leave a Comment

Ryan Caldwell, of Performancing fame, had an idea:
Why not build a tool that only shows the stories that went popular on at least two social voting sites?
The result, via Suffolk Software, is SocialMediaPop. Cool project, in beta for now. I wonder what the social media sites think of services like this?

How Is Twitter Helping or Hurting You and Your Blog?

May 12, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Social Media, Twitter | 9 Comments

At more and more conferences, Twitter is becoming the conversation of choice. Instead of live blogging, people are twittering live reports from conferences, as well as chatting among themselves as if Twitter were a live chat or instant message service.
Twitter is easy. It’s accessible from the web and cell phones. Anyone can do it. […]

Minnebar: State of Technology in Minnesota

May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Minnebar, Social Media, conferences | Leave a Comment

Now in the panel discussion on State of the Technology in Minnesota with speakers from Microsoft, Split Rock Partners, Dow Jones, Geek Squad, and elsewhere…
Discussion around the level of talent in Minnesota - and seeing more folks moving back to Minnesota from silicon valley in order to work for some organizations here. Adobe has […]

If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…

May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Editorial, Features, General, Social Media | 2 Comments

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?
WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.
I see many of […]

Minnebar: Enterprise Data Mashups Session

May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Minnebar, Social Media, Social Software, conferences | Leave a Comment

U of MN professor teaching the session - also works at IBM.
First mashup - Mapdanjo. In the words of one participant “most crap thrown up in one place”
Again, audio/visual problems in this session (same room as last session).
Some of the mashups allow for integration of behind the firewall information as well - he’s referring […]

CNN Pushes Mixx

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under News, Social Media, User-Generated Content | 2 Comments

TechCrunch notes that CNN is featuring Mixx, the Digg competitor, separately from other social bookmarking services. The “Mixx it” link and logo goes beside the E-mail to a friend and Share links, so that’s quite more space than the competition gets. Should be a good boost to the Mixx userbase. I wonder what they paid […]

Followup to PR Agencies pitching Bloggers - an Interview with Justin Kistner of Voce Communications

April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Interviews, PR, Social Media | 2 Comments

Last week, I blogged a story about how to pitch bloggers in response to a post by Marshall Kirkpatrick over at Read Write Web about the best way for PR firms to pitch that website and its bloggers.
I was able to spend some time last week interviewing Justin Kistner of Voce Communications via email about […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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