Tag Archive | "social networking"
March 2, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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Italy-based social networking company, Dada S.p.A., is partnering with Google AdSense to pay users for allowing ads on their space. Dada’s new Friend$ is an opt-in revenue sharing program that rewards users for adding friends and updating the content of their Dada space. According to Dada, Friend$ is, “the only program that rewards you both […]
March 1, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise
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Today, on Webpronews, Steven Bradley addresses some interesting questions raised in a couple of other blogs – namely: Is there an optimal post length? Will shorter posts help to retain readers and even lead to more links? What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed? Bradley’s ultimate conclusion is that the best blogs have […]
February 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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I read a great review of Ning in yesterday’s TechCrunch. So, today, I thought I’d give it a whirl myself. Michael Arrington’s review was right on the money… Ning is pretty cool! It lets you create your own customized social network – complete with RSS feeds, blogs, forums, and more. Almost everything is customiseable – […]
February 26, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Internet search engines and social networking sites are enabling companies to do their “due diligence” on prospective employees more extensively than ever before. According to an article I read this morning, Google (and other big companies) are researching prospective recruits by investigating their on-line presence on social networking sites. But, businesses aren’t the only ones […]
February 23, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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In case you were wondering why this blog went from daily to naught this week – One of my best friends was in town this week, visiting from England, so I took a break from blogging to play tour guide. As of today, I’m back to blogging as usual. If you’re wondering what’s next in […]
February 16, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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If you’re into Twitter, try Nowthen. Nowthen is the newest brainchild from the folks at Blinkx. It’s everywhere messaging like Twitter, but besides written updates/broadcasts, you can also send pictures from your mobile phone using MMS. You can set up privacy features to use it with specific groups of friends or with the world. You […]
February 15, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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The BBC reports that University of Maryland Lecturers Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece are proposing “community-driven websites to be run by trained volunteers working in conjunction with the 6,100 local 911 services around the US.“ The BBC article is really interesting and points to the potential applications of social networking sites in local and/or national […]
February 14, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Today at 3GSM in Barcelona, ShoZu Inc., an emerging leader in the mobile social networking space, announced the addition of some great new LBS feature enhancements for GPS-enabled mobile phonw. According to the press release: Share-It one-click image uploading service now offers location tagging for photos and video clips sent from GPS-enabled phones to Flickr […]
February 13, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Web 2.0 is changing the way that people publish, access, and spread news. Newspaper subscriptions are down, and the number of bloggers is up. Blurb is changing that. Blurb is capitalizing on the rising interest in on-line self-publishing (e.g. blogs) and the continuing popularity of books. In their beta release, they’ve made it simple and […]
February 12, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Barack Obama just launched a social media/ social networking website to further his presidential campaign in 2008: my.barackobama.com. While I haven’t made any decisions about who I will support in the 2008 presidential election, I signed up for a “test account” on My.Barackobama.com to test the social media functionality of Obama’s website. The features/functionality of […]
