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 Love Twitter and Became ProBlogger/YouTube Famous

Wannabe Viewpoint,Web Culture 7 May 2008 | View Comments

Last month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net asked his Twitter followers — that includes me – why they loved Twitter. He took those responses and turned them into a video slideshow on YouTube enhanced with a rocking instrumental track. Check me out around 4:03 AND AGAIN at 4:17. Yeah, that’s right — twice. Don’t worry. I’ll [...]

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The Moneyball Method of Marketing

Social Media 18 February 2008 | View Comments

I know that this post by Steve Rubel was posted last year, but in mining my RSS feeds from Google Reader today, I came across this post on the movement towards Moneyball Marketing as marketers look to online and had to talk about it because of how much I enjoyed Moneyball. In Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, [...]

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