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posted on 1/26/10 by Whitney Shaw
While working on a Facebook Page for a client project recently it came to my attention that beyond the great differences between Groups and Pages, there are also differences between Pages and Pages.
Wait, what?! I thought a Page was a Page, but I was wrong.
posted on 1/15/10 by Dave Dohmeier and Meghan Wilker
For many people SEO is a subject that is shrouded in mystery, but it is one of the leading factors in having a successful website presence. Making things more complicated is the fact that the SEO landscape is littered with shady providers, which can make it a difficult task to tackle well. Still, there are a lot of things you can test for, and best practices to help guide you.
posted on 12/2/09 by Martin Grider
For the benefit of anyone who hasn't heard of it, foursquare is a GPS-aware smartphone application that allows you to "check-in" pretty much wherever you go. It's a social network, and you have friends who (if you want to, and they want to) can be notified whenever you check-in anywhere (and vice versa, of course). Additionally, there's a game element to it. The more places you check-in, the more points you get, and you can get achievements and "badges" based on various criteria. If you're the person who has checked in the most at a given location, you become the "Mayor" of that location.
Recently, foursquare put up a page targeted at businesses who might want to leverage foursquare users to drum up foot traffic.
posted on 12/1/09 by Sharyn Morrow
Today is the big day. A kidney transplant is happening in the Twin Cities this morning, thanks to twitter.
posted on 9/16/09 by Martin Grider
The blog, Daily Patricia, had an interesting post today positing that Facebook's future competitor could be...telecom? Yeah.
posted on 4/3/07 by Meghan Wilker
I heard about Twitter on Future Tense last week, but it kind of went in one ear and out the other. Surprising, since I'm a known social-networking whore. If you build it, I will sign up.
posted on 2/27/07 by Meghan Wilker
One of my favorite things about Internet technologies over the past couple of years is the ability for people to create awesome mashups. When my younger sister was looking for an apartment in NYC, I was able to send her a link to a site that placed apartments listed on Craigslist on a Google map for super-simple browsing by neighborhood. Tonight, via Parent Hacks, I discovered Listpic - a site that allows you to browse Craigslist posts by photo. BRILLIANT! How many times have I wished I could just look through all the pictures without having to click on every post?! If you're a fan of Craigslist, you'll be immediately addicted to this interface. Continue Reading | Add a Commentposted on 5/6/06 by Chuck Hermes
INDIEKARMA is a user-driven support network. With an indieKarma account, you can directly support the independent voices on the web you enjoy. How does this work? Easy. Join the indieKarma network and add one dollar to your account (for the first 5000 accounts, this dollar is free). Each time you visit a website or blog on the indieKarma network, your account is seamlessly debited just one cent. It's the smallest of micro-payments, directly supporting the blog or website you're enjoying. More on IndieKarma at this Kottke link. Continue Reading | Add a Commentposted on 2/8/06 by Martin Grider
Here's a quick link to Wired's recent piece on "Making a living in Second Life". For those who haven't heard of it, Second life is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), but without the trappings of many of the other popular role playing games. In second life, most of the content is created by the users themselves, making it a perfect breeding ground for entrepreneurs. Of course, it helps that Second Life encourages this sort of thing. Continue Reading | Add a Commentposted on 2/5/06 by Nancy Lyons
AOL and Yahoo both recently announced a special email delivery service with an associated postage fee. For a penny per email both services will deliver your mail to the intended recipient using a 'certified email system' that bypasses the recipient's spam filter. The thinking is that businesses relying on email communication might be willing to pay to end spam confusion and ensure that their legitimate messages are never mistaken for spam again. Is this the start of something much bigger? Will all of those urban legends about paying a required per-email delivery fee finally come to pass? I doubt it. A precedent has been set and the public has an expectation around how email service is accessed and used. The public will likely demand that spam filtering be improved, spammers be forced offline, and AOL and Yahoo go back to improving the high quality services they're already commited to delivering as part of their existing agreements with customers. Continue Reading | Add a Comment