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Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped)
Nearly a day goes by on Twitter without yet another social media “expert” choosing to stalk me. At first it started innocently — back in the day (about a year ago) various techie friends started to...
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Grandma Just Added You! Boomers Invade Social Media…
If you’re a geek and you’re reading this, to you social media is old news — which is why it’s now mainstream (and about to get worse). But first a history lesson: The real story behind the sucess of...
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Something is Technically Wrong: That’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature!
Being on Twitter every day I’m always reminded of the web 2.0 mantra that software should always be in beta — so being creative I started to wonder “why not take this to the next level and turn a bug...
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Deciphering Digg: Itchy Trigger Finger and the DiggBar
Disclaimer: Reverse engineering the mechanisms of Digg is always a guessing game — and a hard one because Digg is always changing the rules of that game to stay one step ahead of spammers. So...
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Is Cable News Twittering Past the Graveyard? A Little Birdie Told Me…
On November 22, 1963 along with President Kennedy newspapers received their first fatal wound and they’ve been slowly fading ever since. Most people learned of the assassination of JFK via their TV...
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{ twitter } What are ‘Curly Brackets’ and when to use them?
Having previously used several social media websites I faced a dilemma when I first started using Twitter: My problem was that several unique groups of people who had very different focuses were...
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Twitter Invades Comic Books!
Eventually life imitates art, or is it the other way around? The first issue of Forgetless by Image Comics features Twitter tweets on the first page intermixed with the rest of the action. This ties...
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Viral Video Maker Mocked by His Apathetic Cat
No I didn’t swipe that headline from The Onion: The subtle genius of this video is that it’s the perfect “man bites dog story” and speaks volumes about social media — if you’re willing to look under...
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How To Kill Serial Retweeters
Anyone who uses the Twitter retweet functionality to do anything but share something of value is spamming your tweetstream. In fact I’d even go further and say that anyone who retweets more than once...
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Emoticon Sushi Rolls to Replace Twitter
Sure everybody is making a fuss over Google Buzz, but the minute I watched this Emoticon Sushi Roll video by vlogger Taro I knew that I was looking at the next big thing in social media. When he’s not...
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Google Buzz: A Deft Analysis from Digg’s Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose is famous for Digg, which has lost a bit of steam to Google when it comes to breaking news. However any illusions one might have had that Rose was on a siesta can’t be dispelled when you...
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MyOuterSpace.com: Proof That Hollywood Doesn’t Get Social Media
At first your reaction to myouterspace.com which is a social networking site for sci fi fans might be that it was lifted from the pages of The Onion, but alas this is no parody. And what breaks my...
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How Digg Became Unsocial: A Potential History of How It Happened
After many years of joy today was a sad day for me: My ranking as a power user on the website Digg has killed. I didn’t do too badly as I was in the top 300 — although since the elimination of shouts...
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Mixi Makes Manga New Year’s Cards
Pity us poor anime and manga fans who have to settle for mere Facebook for in Japan the social media service Mixi will be rolling out a series of premium manga themed new year’s cards for 2011....
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How Do I Know that Google+ is Brilliant? Well It Just Ate My Weekend!
As an old time BBS user I tend to be cynical about every new site that comes along, but not only did Google+ impress me — but it passed the ultimate test: It just ate most of my weekend. On the...
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