Tweet I monitor my reputation basically on a daily basis as part of my routine. I Google myself and see how things are stacked and if there is anything new. I have a pretty unique name so I pretty much dominate all the listings. Today a new profile site showed up on my first page [...]
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Tweet ReadWriteWeb is posing the question Have Facebook Apps Peaked? The hype is gone and what is left? Not to many useful tools that we can use. Next we should see a bunch of truly usable business applications that we can use in our everday life. I would like to to see some truly Web [...]
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Tweet A while back Google released a new reporting feature in their Google Checkout payment system, and now they have added an Order Report API for getting access to your Google Checkout orders. They seem to be have found a nice flow to their feature rollout and extending it through the API shortly thereafter. Nice [...]
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Tweet I really like Google approach to extending their applications beyond their core features and encouraging research and development by the masses. I was just reading a post on the Official Gmail Blog: Gmail Greasemonkey API issue. They outline how they have updated Gmail Javascript to load in an iframe. They talk about how this [...]
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Tweet I was just playing around with the new widget builder from Sprout Builder, I found it over on Techcrunch – Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash. It is a damn sexy flash tool for building widgets. It is to do and obviously targeting the non programmer wishing to deploy and syndicate their content [...]
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Tweet I was reading a blog entry by Lisa McNeil called The Marketer’s Foray Into Social Media, where she talks about her experiences with clients and the top questions they ask. Anyways, the post was great. I noticed a comment at the bottom by Geoff Livngston the author of Now is Gone. His comment asked [...]
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Tweet I just finished reading Now is Gone last night by Geoff Livingston. If you are thinking about getting involved in Social Media Marketing from a professional standpoint this is the book to read. It is tailored as a primer for the executive or marketing professional that is looking get more aware of social media [...]
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Tweet Everyone is a little intimidated and overwhelmed about where to start with your social media marketing campaign. There are so many sites and so few metrics for evaluating your success. You really can’t ignore social media for your company anymore, if you do your competitors are going to eat your lunch. So where do [...]
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Tweet Sonian is about to launch their new data archive services dubbed the Sonian Archive SA2. The server runs almost completely in the Amazon Cloud. It was designd to be a highly-scalable cloud application that specifically used four fo the Amazon Web Services: Amazon S3 Amazon Ec2 Simple Queue Service SimpleDB Their goal of the [...]
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Tweet I was reading, Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on Social Search on Techcrunch tonight. Delver is a social graph search engine that allows you to easyily connect with people. Delver is attempting to solve two key search-related problems: The first is that current search engines do not take into account [...]
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Tweet Came across a post of Google Blogoscoped today on Google testing using Google Gears for offline Google Docs access. This would be huge in taking more market share from Microsoft Office. It would allow users to work with documents much in the same way they do with the desktop Microsoft version. They seem to [...]
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Tweet Was reading the post on Techcrunch this morning called Huddle uses new apps and Facebook to take on Basecamp. Its interesting on several levels to see another Basecamp competitor as well as someone leverage facebook as a marketing tool for their new web applications. How launching a Facebook can be a tool to drive [...]
Tweet Great article in the Sunday Times Online called Learn to love social network sites, it is about the widespread perspective of social networks and how allowing them to be used at work will contribute to employees wasting time and losing money for companies. It talks about how many companies have banned social networks all [...]
Tweet Was just reading some of Now is Gone by Geoff Livingston. There is a great paragraph I just came across that really sums up a lot for me: Companies and organizations should look at social networks as a way to engage potential community members outside of the confines of a corporate URL. By participating [...]
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Tweet It isn’t quite embracing OpenSocial, but with their latest joining of the data portability as well as now opening up the JavaScript client library which allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site, Facebook is getting closer to being fully open. Since the library does not require any server-side code on [...]
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Tweet Ever wish you could show your ads to a specific group like women aged 25-34? Want to see how your ads perform with certain demographic groups and then adjust your bids accordingly? Google is introducing a new demographic bidding feature from AdWords. Demographic bidding helps you display your ads to specific gender and age [...]
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Tweet In 2008 I have started really using Blogger as an extension of my idea and content platform. With this post I now have 42 posts for January of 2008 which beats the 41 entries I posted in the entire year of 2007. Really feeling my voice this year.
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Tweet The Youtube team recently release a couple of new features for the Youtube video platform. They added: New View for Videos tab which improves the video browsing experience by fully exposing the search options on the videos page. This makes it easier to find what you’re looking for quickly Also Added a display of [...]
Tweet Not everyone knows you can about the Amazon Web Services Platform let alone that you can use it to create highly scalable applications for Facebook. Amazon Web Services is an ideal hosting environment for these applications. Developers can start small, test and prove out their ideas, and then rapidly add processing and storage resources [...]
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Tweet I wish Google would go ahead and make their move with Jotspot. I have a Jotspot account, but I forget about it when using all my other Google Applications. Hopefully soon they get Jotspot integrated withe the rest of the Google Universe. A Wiki environment will really tie everything together.