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Video is Now a Must Have for Marketing and PR
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr So after much ranting on my part it turns out that the new Flip will be getting WiFi. The next Flip camera will have Wi-Fi Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi – Pocket-lint Why do I care so much? ...
Just because you can update all you networks at once doesn’t mean you should
Drinking from a fire hose LinkedIn announced that they’re playing nice with Twitter. Status updates can now get posted in both places at the same time. First off, they alreayd could with the right plugin. Second, this is not the right sol...
Posterous Overtakes FriendFeed, Set to Overtake Delicious.
Image via CrunchBase Posterous has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Most people see it as a great way to fill that gap between a tweet and a blog. Some people see it as a next generation content management systems for the Web. Other peo...
What the Heck is a Lifestream?
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday at day 1 of BlogWorld, I sat in on Steve Rubel’s presentation on Lifestreaming and business. He had some solid observations and recommendations for businesses to become ubiquitous Online. If you’re fam...
Social Media is a Wicked Problem
I know this is a ‘no duh’ for most people but I had an epiphany about the way I think about content “consumption”. We don’t consume content. In fact every interaction with every piece of online content only serves to create more content. Ev...
I Don’t Care What Google Thinks I Should do with My Content
I’d like to ask your forgiveness while I re-use an overused analogy here. If your only marketing objective is to drive awareness of your message then why do you drive people to a site? This is like going to a cocktail party and trying to get a girl...
The Tweet Stream [v2]
Recent studies and observations have showed that 90% of tweets are made by 10% of the people which is closer to the user behavior of Wikipedia than Facebook (see links at the bottom of the post). One of the primary uses of Twitter by working professi...
How to Win the Real-Time Web Publishing Battle
Image by Army.mil via Flickr As the Web moves into hyper-drive the ability for organizations to turn out high quality content has never been more important. From my own experience as well as what I’ve seen others publish the life span of lin...
Why URL Shorteners Are Important
Image by bpedro via Flickr There’s probably hundreds of URL shorteners now. Seriously, I don’t think that’s an exaggeration. They’re really easy to build (there’s even a WordPress plugin that makes them out of your bl...
FriendFeed is Reaching Critical Mass
Image via CrunchBase Three months ago, while some were proclaiming that the Twitter shark had been jumped, I made the statement that Microblogging was about to go Supernova. Three months ago doesn’t seem like that long ago but in the real-ti...
Please Stop Saying Viral Video
Image by Quiplash! via Flickr I’m pretty lenient when it comes to buzz words. But there are a few that make my skin crawl every time I hear them. The worst is “social media expert” and in a close second is “viral video̶...
On Being a Human Filter
I read a lot of blog posts. Not as many as some but more than most. Of the articles I read I ’share’ the ones that I find most interesting. Those shared items get pushed to my FriendFeed account which then in turn get pushed to my Twitter...
What Makes for a Well Balanced Media Diet?
Image via Wikipedia What Makes for a Well Balanced Media Diet? Farhad Manjoo over at Slate really kicked up a storm in a tea cup 2 weeks ago (wow, that was a really bad mixed metaphor) with his Kill Your RSS Reader post. Mashable covered it and di...
