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Simler Adds Likes, Favorite Tags, Revamps Homepage
Many social networks are working on ways to improve the relevancy of content - either through finding shared relationships between people through common people they know or through similar likes and dislikes. Simler, which I first talked about back i...
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
Technology, Community, Relevancy: The 3 Social Pillars
Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the bes...
Technology, Community, Relevancy: The 3 Social Pillars
Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the bes...
Inefficiency of Interaction Driving Need for Social Leverage
"It is a complete joke how we interact with people on the computer right now," believes Brad Feld of the Foundry Group. With multiple devices and scads of Web services needed to consume information and engage with others on the Web effectively, Feld ...
Inefficiency of Interaction Driving Need for Social Leverage
"It is a complete joke how we interact with people on the computer right now," believes Brad Feld of the Foundry Group. With multiple devices and scads of Web services needed to consume information and engage with others on the Web effectively, Feld ...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
Video: Trends and the Future of Social Networks (With TurnHere)
Morgan Brown of TurnHere and I sit down to chat about social networks, business and trends. Both videos were recorded earlier this summer. More: louisgray.com | RSS | FriendFeed | E-mail | Cell: 408 646.2759 ...
Video: Leveraging Social Networks to Build Web Traffic
Courtesy of YourBusinessChannel, filmed while in the UK with Ecademy, some of my comments on how being active in social networking can aid business and Web sites' search engine visibility. (Apologies for looking and sounding tired. I was.)More: louis...
I Don\'t Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More
This morning, Google introduced a feature called SideWiki for Google Toolbar users that lets people add comments and annotations to Web sites. This is not a new approach, and it has been tried with varying lacks of success in the past, as most people...
Find Similar People and Interests With Simler\'s Microblogging Platform
One of the most challenging issues with today's social networks is rapidly finding people who share the same interests. As you migrate from network to network, you can find commonalities between platforms, but the most likely route taken to gain a ba...
This September, I'm Headed to London to Speak With Ecademy
If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you in on a little secret. I've never been outside North America. Despite having lived three years in Guadalajara, Mexico at a very young age, the rest of my life has been spent locked up in the United Stat...
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For The Month Of July 2009
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is the eleventh edition of the monthly FriendFeed to follow member list. Louis Gray has done a superb job covering for me for the past three months, and has kept the tradition alive. Th...
Google Reader "Likes" Find the More Shy Blog Readers
Since Google Reader introduced new social aspects to their popular RSS reader last Wednesday, there have been a number of reactions to the additions - most specifically around their introduction of a "like" feature, enabling readers to essentially gi...
Venture Capitalists, But In Text Form
On Monday night, during a blogger briefing, I struck up a conversation with Dave McClure (he being the Master of 500 Hats) around the process of blogging, and participating in those social networks where we have put our energy. And during this exchan...
Status Search: Updates from Your Social Graph on Facebook, Twitter
Status Search: http://www.statussearch.net/We used to value a search engine by its sheer size. How many pages did Google or Yahoo! know about in their crawling of the Web, assuming that the engine with the largest number wins, offering a greater perc...
