Kevin Rose has resigned from Digg. The founder and former CEO who helped put in place the debacle of Digg V4 is founding a new startup with a $1mil+ round of funding according to Techcrunch.
How to Keep Kids Safe on Social Media
March 17, 2011 by 11 Comments
Despite age restrictions on most social media sites, children below the TOS age are finding ways to get on social media sites such as Facebook. The age restrictions are normally under the adult age, so even “legal” use of social media puts young people on them.
Wherever the kids are, bad people will try to find them.
Get Optimized: How-To Tap into your Local Community with Google Places
March 16, 2011 by 8 Comments
Times have most certainly changed. Gone are the days of searching a phone book or yellow pages to find a local restaurant or business, technology has replaced the need for paper location searches with search engines that have upped their ante through adding local searches. Customers do not want to have to go to various websites to find you; they simple want to search for your business and for your business to appear in the search engine results.
Why is your Business not easily Found on Google?
It is most likely that you have not added your business to Google Places. It is not too late to optimize now.
Understanding the Social Mindset of the Internet
March 16, 2011 by 4 Comments
One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today is adjusting to the use of the Internet as a community and conversational tool rather than simply a broadcasting medium. It’s human nature to want to “belong” with other like-minded people. As a result, groups have been forming on the Internet to facilitate this.
It can be traced back as the origin of social media.
Techcrunch and @alexia Are Right (and it hurts me to say that)
March 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
When AOL bought Techcrunch back in September, 2010, they announced it with a story titled, “We Got Techcrunch!”
The first thing that came to mind was, “Yes, but do you really know what you’re getting?”
Most Blogs Have More Facebook Likes, But @Soshable’s Are Awesome
March 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
ReadWriteWeb has over 30,000.
Techcrunch has over 170,000.
Mashable has over 450,000.
None of them are leet.
The Future of Digg
March 14, 2011 by 18 Comments
If you’d come up to me just a couple days ago and asked if Digg were going to survive for the long haul, I’d have sadly opined, “No.”
After lobbing a few hand grenades in the form of questions at (relatively) new CEO Matt Williams the other day, I’m happy to report I can upgrade that to a Magic 8 Ball-like response of “Cannot Predict Now.”
Social Media Links: If It Gets Your Attention, Don’t Click. #sundaymusing
March 13, 2011 by 1 Comment
It happened. I got hooked. Despite all of the discipline that I put into making sure I don’t click on unfamiliar links on Twitter or Facebook, I ended up clicking on a headline that was so outrageous, so OMG, that my right index finger was pressing down before my mind could tell it, “NOOOOOOO!”
The Bing-Twitter-Tsunami Debacle: Intentions Speak Louder Than Tweets
March 13, 2011 by 6 Comments
Twitter is a realm of news, sharing, and communication. It can also be an excellent venue for marketing and promoting a brand message. As Bing learned, attempting to sneak marketing into news of a tragedy under the guise of good intentions is an insult to the intelligence of the Twitter community.
Twitter: Changing the Games
March 12, 2011 by 4 Comments
If you hadn’t heard, Twitter is a pretty big site. It may not be Facebook in either the number of users or the average time that users spend on it, but those who are passionate about Twitter are ever-attached, always Tweeting, and watching everything that happens hour after hour, minute after minute.
Rarely do videos get made that include all of the key players as well as some major people in tech and social media. Thanks to Bloomberg, we have such a video in our possession.
