Teens don’t tweet (in other news, bears indeed poop in the woods)
When I saw an article on YahooTech titled “Media execs rocked by 15-year-old’s blunt, blistering analysis” I got pretty excited. I am always eager to see examples of teens defying the ageist perception that only “grownups” (heck, I’m in my forties and I am still waiting to “grow up”) can do real thinking or contribute [...]
Facebook.com/your-name-here
Now’s the time to get your vanity URL at Facebook! The race is on! If you want to claim your own name on Facebook.com, you better hurry. What I mean is this: Up to now, the URL for your Facebook profile was something like this: www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/728843290 (that’s not a real link, btw) But wouldn’t it [...]
Best Twitter applications
Leena Lao over at TechCrunch lists the best Twitter applications, based on data from Compete. I’m already using TwitPic and I like it. Twhirl is my Twitter posting ap of choice, and I strongly recommend TweetDeck as well. I also dig Monitter, although I haven’t used it much yet. But go through the list (I [...]
Is Facebook flighty like a fox?
Facebook is driving internet marketers bonkers. First it was the rumors that Facebook was trying to buy Twitter; then it was all the bruhaha about Mark Zuckerberg’s “secret” Twitter account. (Personally, I think that if he meant for it to be a secret, his avatar wouldn’t have been a PHOTO of himself – LOL.) And [...]
A review of the flock browser
Links: The Flock browser Ed Dale’s Thirty-Day Challenge
Holy Social Media!
Yesterday I was busily listening to Ed Dale (or more accurately, Ed Dale’s canned YouTube visage) teach me the proper way to use Google Reader, when I got a twit from Guy Kawasaki letting me know that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now on Twitter! Needless to say I was blown away by these [...]
Flocking, thanks to 30DC
I’ve been listening to the 30-Day Challenge, and they’ve turned me on to Flock. I’m learning how to post from Flock. (This might look like dogfood – we’ll see.)
Fed up with Social Media?
You got an invite to Hi5. You got an invite to Plaxo. You got an invite to Friendster! A friend wants you to follow her on Twitter. You coworker tells you to check out her MySpace. Your wife put your kids’ pics on FaceBook. An old friend is on eConozco, and another just got on [...]