As the promise of Web 2.0—collaborate, share and connect!—continues to be delivered within websites, Facebook Connect offers a somewhat natural expansion: if sharing with your friends inside the site is great, isn’t sharing your friends with other sites greater? Let me explain…
They Are Watching You: How Public Forums Can Make You (or Not)
What do Comcast, Dell and most recently, Rogers have in common? They’ve felt the burn of online criticism and taken solid hits to the reputation of their brand because of it. Unhappy (and creative) customers are a powerful force—it’s the online version of that old saw about how a happy consumer tells one person while an unhappy experience leads to 10 times as much sharing.
Productive Social Media. Huh?
Lifehacker has an article on how to Get Productive (and Stay Sane) with Social Media.
Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It’s nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a way that adds value to your life.
Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It’s nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a way that adds value to your life.
Long Tail Getting Long in the Tooth?
Over at Harvard Business Review Anita Elberse has published a critique of the long tail based on a study which looked at sales figures from online music vendor Rhapsody, on-demand video vendor QuickFlix, and Nielsen VideoScan and SoundScan services, as well as performing less rigorous analyses on Amazon and other online “entertainment and publishing” vendors.
Dot Books, Not Dot Com?
Change may be afoot in the way you name your domain: the net’s regulator Icann is in debate to determine if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If so, you might be able to purchase domain names like www.bookstore.books or www.loblaws.supermarket.Index Tweet Tweet
One of the things about twitter is that it happens fast and often! Depending on how many people you’re following, how many accounts you have, you can miss tons of posts. I’ve also been trying to figure out how useful it is to have twitter tweeting away at you if you have to sit on top of it, watching for the good stuff. Enter hashtags.
New Social Network for Books
Having just received a press release of the newest book-focused social network, Juicespot , I am now thinking about my virtual shelves rapidly collecting virtual dust on both Goodreads and Library Thing. I sign up for book-focused social networks (can I just call them BFSNs? thanks) thinking I’ll get really into them and then…I don’t.
Fun with Twitter
Tiny URL: Good Thing, Small Package
Hyperlinking is the shorthand of Internet culture. A good link can enhance or create personal and professional connections, clarifies communication and can be rich currency in the information economy.
But not all links are created equally and the longer the character extension, the more likely a link is to break or create a nightmare for design and formatting. Enter Tiny URL—the free service that allows you to quickly and easily create short links that you get you where you need to go with no muss and no fuss.
