- "Forward thinking marketers leverage the power of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and more to connect to consumers in a more personal and meaningful way. That's why Experian Simmons is focusing on social networking in this issue of Consumer Insights, featuring the freshest insights available from the latest Simmons New...
- Via Techcrunch: There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook’s product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That’s because they’re already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers, and once two people know a secret, it isn’t really a secret any more. One of the new features we’ve...
- By the numbers, it's easy to say 2009 was the year social networking went mainstream. After all, if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third most populated, behind China and India. Images But the numbers only begin to show how social networks, led by Bay Area companies Facebook and Twitter, are reshaping the way people...
- Ivor Tossell writes, "It turns out that technology doesn't make people antisocial – people who use the Internet are more likely to have a larger cadre of real friends"
- Guaranteed to make you laugh
- YouTube will soon drop support for IE6 and Digg is thinking of doing the same.
- Interesting read about why teenagers don't gravitate towards Twitter. A report was written at Morgan Stanley by a 15 year old intern.
- I will be first in line
- Totlol is a video website designed specifically for children. It is community moderated. It is constantly growing. It is powered by YouTube. The videos were submitted, screened and rated by parents. The selection is huge and if you like, you can participate too.
- Better watch out Microsoft
- Overview: Use iTunes "Get Info" to pick a start/end time that spans not more than 40 second for any MP3 you have. Convert it to AAC (creates new file). Export the file out of iTunes so you can change its extension from m4a to m4r. Drag it back into your library. Sync your phone.
- Over 7 million URLs are shortened via the service each DAY, the company says, and 2-3 million of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs are clicked on 150 million times per week across a wide range of services
- 1. Promoting Content 2. Interviewing 3. News Gathering and Research 4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List 5. Publishing with Social Tools 6. Blog and Website Integration 7. Building Community and Rich Content 8. Personal Brand 9. Ethics: Remember, You’re Still a Journalist 10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
- There's more than a few trying to solve this area of search.
- A billion brilliant business books (or so) pave the road to the cover of Fortune. But who has time to read and remember them all? ReadItFor.me does it for you. This idea packed, weekly video podcast reveals the best takeaways and instantly applicable ideas from the world’s best business brains.
- Watch the video to see this in action. There's no limit to what people can dream up for the right device.
- Sixent will use OAuth to connect with Twitter securely. Follow this link to learn more about it. OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why one should not share their private...
- The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
- Do you read a book a week? You could at least get the core message of a great business book every week using this site. It's all video and they're to the point.
- Add a tag, click to add more tags and then click a "planet" to view the photos. Quite cool.
- Carrying 245 million users isn't cheap!
- The adoption of OAuth (alonside OpenID) continues. On its Web site, OAuth is likened to a valet key given to a parking attendant--the key only allows access to, say, drive the car, but doesn't enable the trunk to be opened. "You give someone limited access to your car with a special key, while using your regular key to unlock...
- Friend Connect API's enable developers to: * Integrate social flows and data directly within a page's markup, via the OpenSocial standard specification. * integrate existing login systems, registered users, and existing data with new social data and activities. * Create social gadgets & services that are embeddable within...
