July 9, 2010
Mathew Ingram on Twitter, Esquire Magazine, and bars: It’s called social media because it’s social. In other words, it’s a conversation; and yes, sometimes it’s like a conversation in a bar.
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May 20, 2010
How do you make news fun? Or, how do you make moderating often fractious comments on news stories fun? You follow FourSquare’s example and introduce badges: The Moderator badge allows you to more actively participate in this process. If you are a Level 1 Moderator (earned by flagging at least 20 comments that we deleted, [...]
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March 26, 2010
Retrevo claims to help electronics shoppers decide what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy it,” so their recent survey on social media addition is probably more significant as link bait than as serious research. Despite my concerns about confirmation bias, I’m as amused as anybody by the numbers. 8% of adult respondents say [...]
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July 21, 2009
All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the .02% CTR Bob Gilbreath got a year ago?
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May 31, 2009
Why BuddyPress? “Build passionate users around a specific niche.” Do you have to become a social network? “No, look at GigaOM Pro,” a recently launched subscription research site based on BuddyPress. But, yo do get “BYOTOS: bring your own terms of service.” That is, you get to control content and interactions. And your service won’t [...]
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April 21, 2009
Facebook’s guide to sharing details some meta tags to make that sharing work better: In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news story could have the following: As shown, title contains the preview title, description contains the preview [...]
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April 20, 2009
If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site. It turns out that people liked the old chap, and in this age of social media, it’s probably prudent to have a corporate avatar (it looks a lot better on Facebook, anyway). There’s more about the resurrection at Search Engine [...]
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April 16, 2009
A study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following: WiFi and college choice 90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers 57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi 79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder 60% [...]
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September 24, 2008
Social Media in Plain English and RSS In Plain English, among others from Common Craft among the best explanations you’ll find.
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September 22, 2008
DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo. From DataPortability.org: The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity. [...]
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September 22, 2008
Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both). I’m not the only one to misuse WordPress that way. Viddler is a cool YouTube competitor built atop WordPress that allows [...]
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April 3, 2008
All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about. The service promises to help organize conferences in some new 2.0 way, but it looks to be about as preposterous a social network as WalMart’s aborted 2006 attempt at copying MySpace. There are [...]
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January 17, 2008
A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace. the biggest reason being that they feel the current methods (in-person, email, IM) are more than sufficient. 14% said no because they [...]
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November 7, 2007
There are so many cool things in Fred Stutzman’s recent post, but this point rang the bell for me just as I was considering the differences between World of Warcraft and Second Life. More on those games in a moment, first let’s get Stutzman’s description of ego vs. object networks: An ego-centric social network places [...]
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November 6, 2007
NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.
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June 21, 2007
MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. myspace, second life, twitter, social software
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