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May 27, 2008
Brightkite is a new social networking site that seems to have found an interesting niche somewhere between Dodgeball and Twitter. I've had a chance to play around with it over the past week and have a few observations to share....
January 24, 2008
Naymz is a social network that appears to be going after something close to Linkedin.com's market. Their slogan is, "Empowering Reputable Professionals." I was turned on to the site through an invite from a friend and have had a chance...
January 22, 2008
Brian McConnell's recent post about the history of social networks over at GigaOm was a great summary of where we've come from with a few insights into where we may be going that are worth paying attention to. One projection...
December 18, 2007
I tend to prefer blogging over participating heavily in sites like MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter, but hadn't put much thought into why that is. Luckily, I no longer have to since Brian Clark from Copyblogger nailed it: Are You Someone’s...
December 10, 2007
Why do we call people participating on our websites "users?" Aren't users drug addicts? Questions like this cames up in every panel I attended at Search Engine Strategies where social media was a topic of discussion. The point here is...
October 7, 2007
In case you haven't noticed, kids these days are very open online about what's going on in their lives. Personally, as someone who's 33, I don't consider myself to be a kid, but friends of mine my age have a...
September 17, 2007
Should social networking sites make it easy to import updates from other social networking sites? Yes and no. On the Yes side, it makes it easy to consolidate one's social network updates from your blog, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, etc. On...
August 31, 2007
Lately, I've been working on the concept of "virtual resident experts." I define the term like this: People participating in an online group with identified and respected skills. In the offline world, groups of friends manage to identify who the...
May 30, 2006
The thing I like most about traditional web search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN is that they ask very little of me as a content creator. All I have to do is make my web site easy for to crawl by their search engine spiders. The beauty of this is that it's a fairly easy thing to do, and I don't have to change a thing if additional search engines are launched. New search engines can index my site's content and display results from my site without any additional work on my part.
May 17, 2006
This is a list of web sites and products mentioned during Roald Marth's presentation at Dynatek's 14th Annual User Conference at VisTaTech Center in Livonia, MI:
March 17, 2006
The following is a list of current technology stories that I find interesting but haven't had a chance to write about yet. If you happen to be familiar with any of the concepts listed below and would like to contribute some thoughts on your experiences, please contact me using the options listed on my bio page or post a comment in the comments field below.
March 13, 2006
Our next interview in 'The Innovators' series is with Mr. Frank Gruber. Frank is a hardcore blogger who gives us some fantastic tips on everything from how to start a blog, as well as how to monetize, advertise and get...
February 7, 2006
My wife likes to kid me about how many people I claim to know, but haven't actually physically met. These are people I've met through online forums or engaged in conversations on this or other blogs. Occasionally, while hanging out with my wife, I've let out a random chuckle, causing her to question my spontaneous laughter. She tends to look at me like I'm crazy when I explain to her that I was laughing about something a friend posted about in an online forum or blog.
December 23, 2005
Dodgeball.com - as they describe it ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú is "mobile social software." The site is designed to build social networks based on popular bar and restaurant locations. The site allows you and your network of Dodgeball friends to update each other on what bars and restaurants you're at using short text messages from your cell phone.
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