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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last night I was talking with NowSourcing. He has an experiment going on where he’s taking social media “to the streets.” For the next 10 weeks, he wants to start meeting the people that he’s interacted with, bringing a [...]

I’ve been thinking about Plurk, and what could be done to improve the site.
One complaint that I have heard quite often is the steep drops in karma that can occur when you away for a while, even for something as simple as sleeping!
This had never really bothered me until recently, because I work from home [...]

This post was written with the help of my Plurk friends, and contains some insights from them that may just help you to build strong online friendships.

I began by asking a series of questions over the past day or so about their relationships on Plurk, and other sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Contrary to the [...]

Okay, I know that Teeg is the explorer, and I’m the writer, but today I think that I may just have scooped her by signing up to Posterous first!
Posterous is a very simple blogging site that you can post to by using email or sms.
You can link your account to Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress [...]

When Allan told me he was thinking of making some changes and moving different topics to new blogs, I knew the perfect place for his social media writing.

Allan Cockerill is the Facebook expert I call on whenever I have questions. He has been instrumental in bringing attention to much needed changes in some Facebook apps.

My favorite thing about StumbleUpon traffic is that for the most part it is directed traffic. When you register on SU, you select topics that you’re interested in. If you click the stumble button and visit a new site, you are taken to a site that fits one of the topics you’ve chosen.

Over the years, I’ve been told multiple times that I needed to get on SL. I don’t know how many times I’ve downloaded the program, ready to start, but for some reason I’ve never once completed the registration to use SL (or if I have, it was so long ago that I’ve forgotten and the system has erased me).

Kwippy is a fun new service that allows you to post comments from Gtalk or Yahoo! It is very easy to get set up on kwippy, which is nice, and makes it a great site for introducing people to microblogging.

I am no longer trying Disqus for a few reasons: 1) I was getting complaints about it. People weren’t being allowed to comment on my site until they’d registered at Disqus (and yes, I had it set to allow anoymous comments).

julep67 asked, “I can’t figure how to text to plurk from my phone. It says in the terms that I can, but I can’t figure it out. Any help would be great.”