Everyone knows we are in a bad economy. Many companies are cutting staff and costs. This is all due to the typical budget season known as the fourth quarter. For most companies, the fourth quarter of the calendar year is when budgets get approved for the next year. This is probably a very likely reason… Read More For Marketing, Social Media is Budget Friendly and Powerful
For some reason, many people have the idea that if they use a social network or other popular website they can say whatever they want. People feel that sites like Facebook are their playground. They can talk about their employer or former employer without any recourse. People are finding out that this is not true.… Read More Facebook Is Not The Place To Blow Off Steam
FriendFeed announced that they are now enabling their users to post their updates to Twitter. Overall, the idea could flood Twitter with a lot of out of context information. Granted, this is not any different than most of the content on Twitter, but now people could be getting comments on other FriendFeed posts in their… Read More FriendFeed the New Twitter Client
About a month ago many speculated that StumbleUpon was for sale. EBay is asking for the equivalent of a king’s ransom, rumored to be $75 million. Given that StumbleUpon has revenue in the range of $5 to $7.5 million, the asking price is not completely unreasonable. There are not many companies that can buy up… Read More Google Should Buy StumbleUpon
Image via CrunchBase Digg has done a lot of interesting things over the years, but recently they did something that confuses me. First, they banned Zaibatsu, possibly the third most active user of Digg. A few days later they announced new funding for what they call international expansion. About one week after that announcement, they… Read More What is Digg Planning?
Image via CrunchBase As usual, Chris Brogan has a very good post regarding people in the real world and social media. The basic idea is that “normal” people live in a different world than the social media crowd: Sometimes, it’s worth flashing a bit of a public reminder that even though it seems like lots… Read More Facebook is the Key to the Mainstream
Obviously, people like lists. The problem is that if people do not end up on the list they get upset. This week’s installment of “you forgot about me!” is started by Robert Scoble. He posted a list of “tech” people that he considered the most interesting on FriendFeed. I know I complained at first as… Read More FriendFeed is a Tool, Use It However You Want
What an interesting news day! Everyone knew that the gPhone was being announced, but that is not what I am talking about today. At the TechStars demo day, it was announced that Automattic acquired IntenseDebate. This was unexpected. It is also news that creates a very interesting situation, because Disqus, the other major blog commenting… Read More IntenseDebate, It’s Automattic!
When I first heard the news that Yammer had won TechCrunch50, I scratched my head. Yammer? Is that the “enterprise” twitter application? Yes, it is. There was nothing better? According to the conference, no, there was not. Thankfully, I am not the only one who feels that way. Eric Eldon at VentureBeat feels the same… Read More Yammer? Nothing Else Was Better?
Yes, I have another guest post over at LouisGray.com. The post is titled “Increased Activity Streams Boost Social Median’s Chances” and is loosely summarized as follows: The one problem I have been having with SocialMedian has been the need to manually “clip” stories that I find interesting on the internet. Many social news sites, i.e.… Read More YAGP: Social Median and Activity Streams
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