< a href=’http://blog.rssapplied.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/logo.png‘>Since Twitter owns the lion share of micro-blog participants, it becomes the benchmark for all new micro-blog communities that pop up. Plurk gets compared, Jaiku, Tumblr to some extent, FriendFeed, and now identi.ca. Twitter is a phenomenally addictive site, and as a social network it’s one of the most flexible [...]
If you weren’t participating in Digg, Kevin Rose announced today a reason why you should start. Digg is going to learn about your “Diggs” overtime, and begin to provide better intelligence about other Diggers that might be interesting to you. Digg calls this The Recommendation Engine, and it launches in Beta this week. [...]
Zappos is one of the top retailers on the web, selling loads of shoes and building a stellar reputation for customer support. Great support has been a mantra of the organization since inception, and recent changes to the company marketing strategy simply reinforce this. Zappos is successful, because they embraced the web early [...]
For those of you not yet connected on Twitter, this picture on the right has become a frequent sight to Twitter users. This wildly popular micro-blogging platform was the belle of the ball at SxSW two years ago and is one of the first major social networking sites outside of Facebook and Myspace to [...]
Facebook finally tallied more visits than Myspace. It doesn’t seem surprising, but while everyone is focused on whose side to take or why Myspace’s redesign came too late - I see something bigger. Here are the statistics: According to Comscore, in May 2008 Myspace pulled in 114M visitors while Facebook captured a remarkable [...]
Web 2.0 seems old now. Twitter is swelling with people, Myspace has been around long enough it’s not cool anymore (depending on who you ask,) and Linkedin just got a $1 Billion dollar valuation. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might even be able to grow facial hair now. Don’t worry about Web 3.0 [...]
At an e-commerce conference recently, I was speaking with an online marketing director for a mid-sized retailer. They are purely online (no brick-and-mortar presence,) and I was surprised to hear him refer to social media as being on the way down. He seemed convinced that, by the end of the year, there would [...]
Myspace finally decided to break their design, in a move that is sure to make a huge improvement and likely lead to an increase in adoption from people still on the fringe. Why is this relevant to businesses? Good question. Myspace finally getting around to doing a redesign means they could reach [...]
There is no shortage of news and information about social media which can typically be placed into two camps: buzz and confusion. I read an article today by Mark Walsh that got me thinking about why I believe in social media, and how to help keep people from feeling blinded by the buzz.
Let me start [...]