Jab, jab, jab, right hook is the latest book by Gary Vaynerchuk. In short, in reminds all (and teaches some) brands to care about their customers and communities by providing value, engaging and building trust prior to asking for that sale (aka. the right hook). If you are familiar with Gary and his work you have probably read his first …
Geotagging your life online? Be careful.
Geotagging and location based services are all the rage these days. While they are very useful at times, these features should not be taken for granted nor should they be enabled on all of your devices and applications. Certain parts of your life are meant to be private and they should remain that way. Geotagging every move online for all …
Google social search
About a week ago I noticed (as I’m sure many of you did) a new feature of Google Search, Social Search (BETA). It basically leverages your Google Profile and the information you provided to expand your search into online posts of those you consider friends, followers, etc. While this is another great advancement coming from Google inline toward the “ultimate” …
Social networking travels fast
This past weekend a friend of mine got engaged, and while immediate families were informed of these great news that same day (hour?) the rest of us were finding out gradually over the past couple of days. However, the notification to the masses happened today as she changed her Facebook relationship status to engaged. Almost immediately the news spread like …
Designing a client friendly website
We have all came across websites with a mass of links and never ending scroll bars of text which have frequently left us frustrated and annoyed. Being able to quickly find what you are looking for is important and websites with a clear structure who have also been properly indexed (site specific search) are a joy to visit. Unorganized sites …
It’s quiet out there
On this morning of social networks outages where Facebook is iffy and Twitter is down it’s nice to enjoy a cup of coffee in “peace” 😉 By the way, I wonder if they both run on the same hardware or are in the process of merging? Update: As a was going through my RSS feeds I came across info on …
DIY Themes’ Thesis
I finally found some time over the past week to do some research (it’s what I do 😉 ) on the best WordPress themes out there and DIY Themes’ Thesis seems to come out on top. I decided to go with it and after playing around their code “sandbox” for less than a day I absolutely love the possibilities and …
Help me pick the best apps
As I’m in the middle of setting up my new work laptop I have some choices to make. I need to pick two apps, one for Twitter and the other as my main IM client. When it comes to Twitter, I normally use the web but am now in need of more features. I need support for multiple accounts as …
Is MySpace dead?
Looking at my personal usage of social networking sites and considering the recent “exodus” of executives from MySpace (and their features lag), I think that they are pretty much done. Am I wrong?
Twitter “celebrity” accounts own3d
Several Twitter accounts belonging to a few popular individuals and news agencies have been compromised today. Control has been regained on most of them in a matter of hours with help of Twitter’s support team. Above is a quick snapshot of a couple I was able to take while they were still own3d by someone else. Here is what Twitter …