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
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Crossposting: Pros, Cons, and Etiquette
Crossposting has sometimes been dubbed as duplicate content, however, if that was so, then even social bookmarking would probably be put in the same boat sometimes. To get a better understanding, I have included a definition of crossposting: As defined by Wikipedia: Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing
[Continue Reading...]Social Bookmarking and Spam – Further Insight
As a few know (and for those who do not, now you do know), I intern for the wiki named FanHistory.com. Unfortunately in the past they were banned from Digg because of apparent spamming, and partially past wankage (wank), this is a case based on a past grudge. This was done originally as one of
[Continue Reading...]DandyID Releases More Services For Your Social Identities
I blogged back in March 2009 about DandyID Plugin for WordPress. DandyID allows user to share their social network identities on their blog, Facebook, and other places by simply applying their code or widget. This eliminates the issues of manually coding each social identity you have online and placing it in your blog’s sidebar. Recently,
[Continue Reading...]Understanding Blog Spam And How Not Do It
I had the most interesting encounter in Reddit recently with a user who accused me of blog spam. Of course, having a slight understanding of what the term was, but not that it was a real term, I decided to do a little research. I know this might sound a bit know-it-all, but I am
[Continue Reading...]In The Case Your Favorite Internet Services Go Down…
No, you do not go and scream (well, that is a bit dramatic, but some people were a bit overkill in their reaction) on Twitter as if someone died and flood the social network streams like with the recent Gmail downtime. Rather than wonder and ask like TechCrunch’s post – Why Gmail Failed Today, there
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