Tweet I have deleted my Facebook account. I’m not going to make a big deal of it. Facebook needs to change their approach to the Open Internet and privacy on social networks. The Internet is an important tool in our every day life. We can’t support businesses who don’t respect the Internet as an open [...]
Tweet Image via CrunchBase Facebook has long been a thorn in my side when it came to social application development. They just haven’t played nice with the other kids on the playground. They cause extra work for us developers, but we have to do it….because that is where your users are. It is very much [...]
Tweet I was setting up a demonstration event web site to show how events can become more social. I setup new accounts for the event at Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Facebook has their Fanbox tool that easily allows you to build a widget or badge to showcase your Facebook page on your web site. Twitter [...]
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Tweet This is from a response to a question I came across on LinkedIn Answers. I thought I should syndicate it here: There are many different approaches to using Facebook for business that I could go into depending on the industry your in and the audience you looking to engage. These variables heavily influence how [...]
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Tweet As I was browsing Bug Labs listing of little programmable gadgets I was getting all excited and immediately wanted to share with my other geeky friends on Facebook. So I started looking around for a share button….nothing. It is common to see all the common share buttons on blogs these days. Anywhere there is [...]
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Tweet I am just gonna paste this article I came across on Mashable, called Two-Thirds of Marketers Now Use Social Media because it says it all: Earlier this year, we reported that 63 percent of companies planned to increase their spending on social media in 2009. Thus, it’s not too surprising that a recent study [...]
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Tweet I was listening to my NPR today and I just heard an episode called A Dark Journey Into A Killer’s Personal Effects. It is a thriller novel about a serial killer, however I find very interesting is the are creating what they call a “multiplatform transmedia experience.” They do this by extending the story [...]
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Tweet For some reason I happen to go to my Twitter profile today. I almost never pay attention to my Twitter stream. I have moments where I pay attention using twhirl, but for the most part I just broadcast to it without paying much attention. So anyways I went to my profile today….saw I rolled [...]
Tweet Facebook is definitely a heavy player in the online world these days. I have Facebook open all day and spend moments interacting, posting and generally socializing with my network. I see some well done applications used by friends that casually list data from my friends usage of their applicaiton. Whether its their excercise statistics, [...]
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Tweet IPhone applications are a success, no arguement here. With this success there are a lot of of mobile providers mimicking this. We saw the recent release of the Blackberry application directory and we see other mobile carriers talking of the same. Having a platform development kit for your mobile platform will be a requirement [...]
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Tweet Reading various posts about application development platforms for IPhone, Blackberry, Vodafone, Android and many others. Being a big fan of Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing and all those visionary 2.0 concepts….I can’t help think….should every company have an open platform for their business? Is this R&D 2.0. Many companies can’t even afford an R&D Department, maybe they [...]
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Tweet Facebook is in the process of launching a new way for people to become fans of Facebook Pages using SMS text messaging. Now events, conferences and tradeshows will be able to get more Facebook fans by asking fans to text fan [your Facebook ID here] to FBOOK (32665). This is going to be a [...]
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