I bet when you woke up this morning, you thought to yourself, “Today feels like it’ll be a special day in social media history!”
Well, it could be, depending on how many MySpace users Simon Owens has managed spur to action. Today is the day that Owens has declared “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”.
Owens says [...]
According to TechCrunch:
Mig33 is a downloadable mobile social networking application with a bunch of utilities mixed in. Users can not only do the usual profiles and friending, but also includes VoIP calls, instant messaging, e-mail, text messaging, picture sharing. Long distance calls can be made by using pre-paid Mig33 minutes. They have an affiliate program [...]
Social platforms are playing a huge role in the political world, both for the voters trying to gather information or express opinions, and also for candidates who wish to get their two cents out to their younger, web savvy constituents.
No longer can anyone use the excuse “I didn’t vote because I didn’t have enough information [...]
Kristin Gorski has a fascinating article at techPresidents about a new town in Twitterville called Politweets.
Gorski says:
A new website called Politweets gleans the “tweets” which mention political candidates’ names and then displays them on its site in real time. What Politweets captures hints at public opinion and trends regarding the election. It has also become [...]
Simon Owens has had it with MySpace and has declared January 30 “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”.
If you’ve experiences the annoyances of MySpace, you probably don’t need much convincing to delete your account, but in case you’re still teetering on the verge, Simon’s outlined his main motivators for giving MySpace the boot:
Ashley Spencer, age 29, passed away on Tuesday, January 8 in a car crash, leaving her husband (Peter), brand new baby (Lucy) and a toddler son (Toby).
Almost immediately word spread throughout Ashley’s Twitter community and with shock and grief her online friends rallied together to do what they could for Ashley’s family. Together, in only [...]
Every one who has done some reading in the area of SEO knows of the supposedly magical properties that .edu domains have with search engines such as Google. The theory being that Google weights .edu domains a little more heavily, since they are less likely to be commercial, and thus less prone to abuse.
Digg (not [...]
Compete has just released a list of the top moving sites of 2007.
From the social platform genre, we have CafeMom, LinkedIn, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Squidoo, Webkinz, Six Apart, and WordPress, among others.
Are there any surprises in this list?
Perhaps you’ve heard your friends or colleagues make references to their adventures, exploits, or business endeavors in Second Life and have wondered “What is the DEAL??? Isn’t that a pretend world? Why are there so many people spending so much time and money in there?”
Sometimes you need something besides Akismet. I have Defensio on a few sites. But I’m testing the new version of WP Spam Hit Man. So far I’m extremely happy.
So what does it do?
Sometimes you get some comments which from very beginning you know they are spam. It is because spam bots used certain words inside [...]
