Don’t play with your news. It’ll stick that way

Social Media,Web Culture 11 July 2008 | View Comments

As “news fatigue” sweeps the nation’s youth and increases the difficulty of presenting in-depth news, MSNBC has a new suite of tools to present news in an interesting way. Called NewsWare, the new collection of offerings lets visitors play with their news and take it places like Facebook when in widget form. GAME TIME! The [...]

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MySpace gives in to Facebook by redesigning for a second chance

Web Culture 17 June 2008 | View Comments

MySpace gives in to Facebook by redesigning for a second chance

One of the biggest knocks against MySpace — especially from me — was that the design of the profile pages was just too busy. Too much color, flashing boxes, music and spam. photo credit: freezelight I never even made a profile on MySpace because I never saw the need to enter that public online chaos. [...]

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Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

Web Culture 22 May 2008 | View Comments

I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment. If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into [...]

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Help A Reporter Out!

Social Media 24 March 2008 | View Comments

Help A Reporter Out!

photo credit: skampy Although it’s gotten its fair share of blog posts and media hits in NY Times, Marketing Sherpa and MarketingProfs over the last several days, Peter Shankman‘s Help A Reporter Out project deserves a mention here as well for those of you who don’t have your finger on the pulse of the marketing [...]

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Syncing Social Updates: Using Twitter with Facebook and Pownce Syncing

Wannabe Viewpoint 17 December 2007 | View Comments

Twitter has the hype. Competitors like Pownce are springing up to offer more, but it’s hard to beat a simple 140-character messaging service. It’s simple. Marketers and public relations professionals have embraced the service and seen how useful it can be to connect with publics. Some analysts champion it as the best new opt-in direct [...]

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Will Facebook’s “pages” create a new market for domain moguls to make millions?

Great Ideas,Wannabe Viewpoint 14 November 2007 | View Comments

I haven’t played around with Facebook pages just yet. Basically, they provide a free profile/page for any company/brand that wants one. In putting up Facebook ads, I have noticed the Facebook boys and girls are pushing hard to have advertisers all make one. One fellow blogger over at Leveraging Ideas recently posted a possibly business [...]

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Facebook vs. Google: If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em–Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook Ads

Social Media,Wannabe Viewpoint 7 November 2007 | View Comments

Losing a bid to for a profitable investment to one of your major rivals is bound to be upsetting. It might even be so upsetting that you take a blood oath to destroy that investment or bend it to your will… Facebook may have missed out on the chance to be a part of Google’s [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book

Legit Moguls 6 November 2007 | View Comments

Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book

I think it’s appropriate in this new media landscape that we start off the profiles by talking about an entrepreneur that is as close to my age–part of the reason I get so antsy about getting my own startup together. No matter how exactly Mark Zuckerberg got the idea, he has quickly established himself as [...]

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