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10 Minute Guide to Plurk - Part 1

19 June, 2008 (19:41) | 10 Minutes, Help, Hints, Plurk, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

There are a lot of people there who won’t “get” Plurk. It’s scrolling timeline and raging chats will throw them off. For those who are brave enough to spend a few days exploring, hopefully this guide will help ease the transition.

Save the Fail Whale, Block a Twitter Spammer

16 June, 2008 (13:26) | Friends, Help, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A couple days ago, Mousewords mentioned that there was a guy on twitter who kept unfollowing and refollowing her. I said that following numbers had been going up and down for a lot of people, so maybe it was [...]

The Death of Twitter - The Whale has Fallen

9 June, 2008 (13:46) | FriendFeed, Social Media, Twitter, social networks

Perhaps it would have been better if Twitter had died with a bang. Instead, Twitter is dying with a whimper, a sob, and a sigh.

10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed - Part 2

6 June, 2008 (14:39) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, FriendFeed, Guest Bloggers, Marc Berry, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof, making it easy to keep up with what everybody is doing.

10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed - Part 1

5 June, 2008 (20:53) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, FriendFeed, Guest Bloggers, Marc Berry, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof.

How’s Your Spaghetti?

23 May, 2008 (06:54) | Revenue blogging, Social Media, Twitter

Staples are the things that people are going to look for and what will keep people coming back to you. If you do well at those, you will have fans.

You Gotta Have Friends

26 March, 2008 (09:54) | Friends, Guest Bloggers, Social Media, Twitter

Friendship has been on my mind a lot lately. Social websites brought people together who most likely wouldn’t hang out on traditional forums or chat rooms

Starting Over with RSS Readers

20 January, 2008 (14:13) | RSS, RSS Readers, StumbleUpon, Twitter, social networks

As part of my New Year’s resolution to get more organized, I decided to pare down the RSS feeds that I subscribe to and create a “newspaper” that fits my daily needs. To do that, I’m going to delete almost all the feeds that I currently subscribe to, and then look over several of the feed readers, to see which one(s) I like the best.

How would you describe Twitter?

21 November, 2007 (22:58) | Beginner, Favorites, Research, StumbleUpon, Twitter

Yesterday, Vince Bank, who subscribes to Guy Kawasaki’s tweets on Twitter, complained that Guy was “over-promoting his Truemors site” which prompted Dr. Mani, a friend whose blogs I really enjoy (and learn a lot from), to ask this question, “What is Twitter to You?”