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First Look: Likaholix Makes Liking Mainstream
FriendFeed made “liking” things cool, but Likaholix is trying to make “liking” its own activity. Started by two ex Google employees Likaholix tries to apply the simple action of liking and commenting on everything into one place one place on the web. The site is in currently in private beta so you must request an invite to start using the service.
6 Reasons Facebook Is Not A Threat To Twitter
Today the interwebs are buzzing with the latest announcments from Facebook. With today’s announcements Facebook is taking direct aim at Twitter. It has been reported, that last year Facebook tried to by Twitter for $500 million and Twitter declined. Twitter is really hot right now and many celebrities and businesses are using Twitter to reach their fans. With these two groups goes a lot of money and potential for being profitable. That is why today Facebook rolled out changes to its service to make it more real-time, like twitter and removing friend caps and private pages to make it more celebrity friendly.
Examining Trends To Make You Sound Smarter
One of the best things about the social web and the Internet in general is the access it provides to people’s reactions. Services like Twitter search make monitoring for real-time reactions and trends free and easy. Understanding trends helps each of us to better comment and provide feedback on trending issues.
CoTweet: Web-based Tool For Corporate Tweeting
Twitter is hot right now, I mean it is freakin on fire. I can’t turn on the TV without a TV news person asking me to tweet them.
How To Use FriendFeed And Why You Should
FriendFeed is a service that I did not adopt right a way. Mainly because I didn’t appreciate the value of what it had to offer. When I first registered, they didn’t have many users. In the past few months I have come back to FriendFeed and realized its value as a platform to discover news and have micro conversations around news, images, and videos.
AirBed & Breakfast: Couch Surfing Meets Orbitz
Some times web apps need a renaissance to fully be discovered. With so many new apps launching every week, I find myself going back and rediscovering apps as they become more relevant to my life. In the case of AirBed & Breakfast this is a web service that I think we see growth due to our current economic recession.
How To Use Brightkite
I have recived a lot of questions lately about Brightkite recently and why people should use it. Here is a quick walk through video of the interface and a discussion on the value of using the service.
Skitch Rocks
I often need to take screen shots, edit them and share them with others. It has always been a pain, but Skitch does these things better than any other application I have ever used. I am a huge fan and it is easily one of the best applications of the year. I could tell you [...]
Why Digital Capitalism? Why Now?
The obvious questions are: Why did I wait so long to start this blog? and Why this particular blog? Well I have many answers. I have been involved with and learning about social media for about the last three years. I have helped many others start their own blogs, but never took the time to [...]
