Apr
30th
Posted by Keirsun on April 30, 2008 at 9:12 am
Mark Hendrickson shares details on Insoshi, which has developed social network creation software based on Ruby on Rails, and has officially released the code to the public.
Chris Winfield uses his Twitter contacts to essentially write a blog post on how to best utilize Twitter.
Jon Rognerud opens up the front door to social media marketing with this informative beginner’s guide post.
Apr
28th
Posted by Keirsun on April 28, 2008 at 10:55 am
David Chartier reviews Yahoo’s recently unveiled plans to merge all of its user services into a massive social network.
Hutch Carpenter looks at the growing popularity of FriendFeed as a primary platform for collecting, viewing and sharing social media based updates.
Justin Smith points out Facebook’s moving of the link to a user’s News Feed Preferences, which allows users to voice preferred news stories and people, to the bottom of the page.
Apr
18th
Posted by Keirsun on April 18, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Members of the YouTube Team spell out changes to YouTube’s policy enforcement system, including a six month term for community guidelines violators.
Details of Google Video’s redesign, which includes a list of “hot” videos.
Gabriel Goldenberg digs into the difference between regular analytics and tracking social media relationships.
Apr
16th
Posted by Keirsun on April 16, 2008 at 11:41 am
Michael Arrington tells how Facebook users who want to post to their blog without leaving Facebook can do so using Six Apart’s BlogIt application – supports Typepad, LiveJournal, Vox, Wordpress (org/com), Moveable Type or Tumblr.
Harrison Hoffman reviews Microsoft’s recently released Google News competitor – no real info from Microsoft yet on how bloggers can get their news content included.
Nick O’Neill highlights a report of ads showing up on Twitter messages, and a report of the ads being completely false.
Apr
14th
Posted by Keirsun on April 14, 2008 at 8:59 am
A January 2008 Arbitron-Edison Media Research study finds audiences growing in the past year for both podcasting and online radio. “An estimated 23 million, or 9% of Americans had listened to a podcast in the past month.”
Jennifer Laycock, of Search Engine Guide, boils down to the essential reasons Twitter is her social media tool of choice.
Video site Hulu makes it simpler for users to post favorite videos to social networking sites.
