Since the rise of services like Twitter and FriendFeed, blogs have been at war with them. Last year, the war turned into bloodshed as linkbacks to blogs started to decline, while retweeting via Twitter continues to shoot up to stardom. Don’t believe me? Name 5 blogs that don’t host the tweetmeme button that you read […]
Read moreHow To Motivate Yourself To Blog Without Looking At Your Computer
This is a timeless question, that even experienced bloggers have to come back and revisit, myself included. And for the past month, I’ve done so extensively. It has been one of the most frustrating processes for me and I’m sure I’ll still struggle with it after writing this. First I’d like to note that I […]
Read moreApp Development Request: The Web’s Opinion About One Topic
I want to see every conversation happening around the world right now about one specific topic. ANY topic. Notice I said conversation. Twitter search nor the many other search tools accomplishes this for me. They’re just real-time people search engines. FriendFeed comes close. For short conversations, it’s great. However, their way of threading conversations makes […]
Read more5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Buy Followers Or Friends
It seems as if you just can’t get any social media mojo without followers anymore. I don’t mean 20-50 followers either. People are anxious to hit 1k followers or Oprah numbers like 1 million on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It’s not impossible either. There are tons of recommendation, auto-follow, and spam tools that […]
Read more5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users
Are you familiar with the Twitter client TweetDeck? If not, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. With the release of Tweetdeck’s iPhone application, I’ve noticed something that every Twitter developer needs to pay attention to: Tweetdeck is locking users in for a very long time. How so you ask? Tweetdeck for the iPhone […]
Read moreHow To Make It Into My Inbox Without Getting Marked As Spam
A few days ago while doing some cleanup on my StumbleUpon profile, I opted in for StumbleUpon to email me recommendations. StumbleUpon is great for finding articles, sites, and all sorts of neat things across the web. However, I’m getting to a point where I submit content to StumbleUpon for others to discover, but I […]
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