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WordCamp Victoria 2012
I have had the absolute pleasure of hosting WordCamp Victoria for the last 3 years, and we are set to have another one on January 14th, 2012. Unlike the last 2, I am going to speak at this one. My topic is Social Comment Systems: Integration and Comparisons. To make it easier for people to comment on your blog, there have been numerous social integrations in the past few years. The goal is to make it easier for people to authenticate themselves, and make it easier to login. So, rather than creating an account at every blog you post a comment on, you can login using Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, …
Top 5 reasons why t.co is a bad move by Twitter
Twitter announced, by e-mail to every user, that they are going to make their URL shortener (“wrapper”) mandatory on Twitter, and this will be applied to every URL posted, effectively eliminating the need (and, presumably, the functionality) of every other URL shortener in existence. Here are 5 reasons why this is a bad policy: It will put the nail in the coffin for competing shorteners, like bit.ly (which was just starting to look like it had a viable business model). If they go out of business, every Twitter user could be put in the position of having everything they ever tweeted with a bit.ly link become instantly dead. Twitter vaguely …
Social Media – Top 25
It’s been over 8 months since my last social media top 10 list, so I figured it was time for an update. Last time, my top 10 list was actually a top 18, so I figured I’d just bite the bullet, and make this one a top 25. If you are using social media for business, you are probably best to stick with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter (perhaps with a dash of YouTube or Flickr). But if you are a geek like me, you might find a few little gems in this list. 25. Google Buzz So much buzz, yet so little sting. It’s my new FriendFeed, although I don’t …
Emerging Geo-location Technologies and Social Media
The following is a guest post by James Mowery. Though it may seem that geo-location is the latest technology trend to enter the realm of social media on the Internet, the origins can be traced to the summer of 2006 in Manhattan. Game developer area/code debuted Plundr at the “Come Out and Play” street festival in New York. Plundr was a pirate adventure game that utilized Wi-Fi Positioning System and it mapped the players’ location in real time. In 2010, geo-location is causing quite a stir in the social media networks. The predominant technology is GPS. Other technologies used include: geocaching, Wi-Fi Positioning, IP address location, and data mining. Smartphones …
My Crappy E-Book – DELIVERED!
Want to get 10,000 followers on Twitter!?! No, I’m not going to charge $0.99 (or 2 for $1.97), as promised, and the first 1,000 people to retweet it will not get a free copy. This advice is free – for everybody: The number of followers you have on Twitter means absolutely nothing. Remember the old analogy: it doesn’t matter how big it is, it matters how you use it. If you engage with others in a spirit of community (you know, helping your neighbours…), you win and your followers win. Twitter is an amazing channel for communication, but there are a few things that make it awkward, or even annoying …
My Crappy E-Book
I’m approaching 10,000 followers on Twitter (9,546 … oh, I’m so very excited). Naturally I turned to all my loyal subjects, asking what sort of celebration I should partake in when I reach that elusive 5 figures: Should I have a little Twitter party when/if I reach 10,000 followers? Or, maybe I’ll promote some crappy e-book about it! More than zero responses began to pour in, including this nugget of wisdom: The crappy e-book idea will probably make you a fortune so is most likely the best way to go. So that was it, I decided right then and there, that I would write an E-Book (and that I must …
Why Echofon Is The Best Twitter App Ever
As an iPhone enthusiast and social media enthusiast, I’ve downloaded pretty much every social media app known to man. For Twitter, Tweetie 2 was good, TweetDeck was better, and HootSuite was even better than that. But I belatedly discovered Echofon, and I’m in love! Quite simply, it contains every single feature I’ve been looking for in a Twitter iPhone app (and then some): It has seamless bit.ly and Flickr API integration. I’ve seen some with Flickr, and some with bit.ly, but this is the first I’ve found with both. Very seamless integration of multiple accounts. You can even change the background colour, so you can keep track of what account …
Is Google Buzz the Twitter Killer?
Some have compared it to FriendFeed, some have called it Google’s answer to Facebook, and some are just annoyed and can’t wait to turn it off (in GMail, you can scroll to the bottom and click on “turn off buzz”, by the way). Others have predicted Google Buzz will annihilate Twitter! They make a compelling argument. It’s a sophisticated broadcast notification system, much like Twitter. It’s public. You can send images (and you don’t need third party applications like TwitPic). You can automatically feed Buzz from other services (Blog RSS Feeds, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, etc.). Your Google profile is now your Google Buzz profile, and has much more information …
Top 10 Social Media
I have written various articles on social media in the past, and a few people have asked what my favourites are. The following list is not “the best”, nor specifically “the best for application X”, rather my favourites – those I enjoy using or gain specific benefit for using. 10. Ning‘s (like Your Canada) Ning is a really cool product that allows you to launch your own social networks around specific themes. Your Canada is an example of one I launched to add a social component to our popular Your Canada website. 9. FriendFeed Everyone was getting excited about FriendFeed, the ultimate social media collaborator. It’s a cool tool because …
Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!
The Mozilla Firefox browser is 5 years old! Now that Internet Explorer isn’t nearly as awful as it once was, and Google Chrome has started to raise some eyebrows, we often forget the effect Firefox had on the world. They made a cool site, and a cool video. And, of course, they published it on Twitter and Facebook. Admittedly, I use Chrome most often these days. But Firefox is still an amazing product, and perhaps one of the best examples in the world of how a great open source community can contribute to a better world – literally.
