Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Social media’ Category

Lists bring sanity back in twitter use – Part I

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on November 24, 2009 |

I have been a big opponent of the vanity twitter use (aka harvesting followers, hoping that “followers” equals “audience”). In practice, this meant that from a point on,  I completely stopped looking who is following me, did not reciprocate at the cost of being perceived as arrogant and kept my follower/following ratio to 4. Still not [...]

Read Full Post »

The partial feed sacrilege and the ad benefit

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2009 |

  I remember a time (not so long ago) when people were disgusted by partial feeds and most of the major blogs and bloggers abided by this unwritten law. Publishing a partial feed was synonymous to cheap exploitation, putting ad revenues over readership, alienating your readers etc. I, myself, am guilty of accusing blogs for [...]

Read Full Post »

Is Social Search a threat to SEO?

Posted in Business, Social media, Technology, tagged , , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I think it is, and I tweeted so  yesterday.  And the reason is obvious. What is SEO about? Ultimately, it is about one thing: the ‘website’. It’s about making a website and its pages discoverable, ranked favorably in search results, described appropriately so that searchers hook on the description etc. But ‘websites’ are not ‘in’. Check [...]

Read Full Post »

Web 2.0 without javascript?

Posted in Code, Social media, tagged , , , , on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A couple of days ago I came across this terrifying presentation from John Graham-Cumming. Although the topics covered weren’t entirely new to me, put together in one presentation, had an impact.  I came to wonder if and how would the major web 2.0 sites work, if javascript was out of the picture. I decided to [...]

Read Full Post »

What twitter considers as spam

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on September 13, 2009 |

The recent update  of twitter’s  Terms of Service, brought to my attention this page from twitter support :  The Twitter Rules. Is it not a long read but it is quite educative as to what twitter considers as spam or spamming behavior. It is interesting to note that there is no rigid definition of spam: [...]

Read Full Post »

What is a conversation?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2009 |

Maybe the reason why Twitter succeeds is because people don’t really want to have conversations. They just want to be able to scream out into the void and listen for echoes. says Victor Ganata. If true, then all web 2.0 product developers should go back to the design desk. The real underlying question though is: [...]

Read Full Post »

Bookmarklet Fu

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

These little javascript programs can mean a lot to personal productivity and social media engagement. I came to this conclusion only recently, while I am using bookmarklets for years now. The oldest I can remember of is the delicious bookmarklet. Honestly, without it my delicious account would be empty.  There is also a firefox add-on [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s retweeting that counts, stupid. Or not?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Conventional twitter wisdom has it that being retweeted is a measure of value. This sounds very reasonable as being mentioned (=retweeted)  is a form of recognition and entails visibility as it, usually, includes the twitter name of the originator retweeting distributes a piece of information virally and, therefore, retweeting  is used as a measure of one’s [...]

Read Full Post »

No place for twitter in Social Technographics?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , on January 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Cover via Amazon A few minutes ago I saw in a tweet of Steve Rubel that Charlene Li is going to deliver a webminar by the end of this month. Thinking of Charlene Li, my mind jumped to her book, Groundswell, and then to the Social Technographics methodology of classifying social media participants (for those [...]

Read Full Post »

Who reads your tweets or why short is beatiful

Posted in HowTo, Social media, tagged , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Image via CrunchBase I own various blogs. Most of them I channel to twitterfeed to generate notifications on twitter about new posts. I prefer twitterfeed to blog  add ons as it is a generic solution independent of  blog platform. It can be slow sometimes, but, then, who is in a hurry? I do not run [...]

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts - Older Posts »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.