Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for
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Social Media: Coping With Negative Responses
Recently Best Buy had one heck of a run in with a negative crowd in their Best Buy Facebook community after posting the following question: What do you think about offering Bestbuy.com in Spanish? Maggie McGary writes the article Best Buy Asks The Wrong Question On Facebook on Social Media Today and asks basically why
[Continue Reading...]WordCamp NYC Logo Contest -What Happened to Democracy?
Well, I won the WordCamp NYC logo contest by more than 50 votes on my individual piece. My entry was #2 (I will include a pic of it too – to get a larger view, right click to open in a new window.) However, they decided to go with 4 similar logos from several people.
[Continue Reading...]TechCrunch vs. Twitter: Boycott TechCrunch? Why?
Since the recent article TechCrunch published, Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”, it has gotten a lot of attention. Both from its own readers, the web community and Twitter too. TechCrunch had published confidential information about Twitter. However Evan Williams of Twitter had said otherwise that TechCrunch did not
[Continue Reading...]Yahoo!GeoCities – Why Get Rid of a Good Thing?
I know it is a couple months old, but being me, some things need some cool off time, like why in the world is Yahoo! closing Geocities? Believe me, I did need the time. I had to go out of my way to go and download old files before I forgot. Being me, October 2009
[Continue Reading...]Flattered, but…
In the past 2 weeks, I received contact forms from various places basically asking me to blog about their product. I like to blog about a lot of stuff, but some of the applications, means I will need to sign up and download. Usually that is no problem, but it takes time. I am not
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