From the category archives:

Social Networks

Linkedin and Review Begging

November 21, 2006

If you’re using Linkedin or ever wanted to but don’t have anyone to link to consider this a formal invitation. Here’s a link to the profile for Michael Gray and if you want to connect invite or drop me an email at graywolf [at] wolf-howl [dot] com.
Since Guy Kawasaki can beg for links I figure [...]

Read the full article →

Social Photo Sites – Mindshare not Marketshare

November 21, 2006

According to hitwise, Photobucket has 44% of the market share and flickr only has 5% (see Hitwise US: PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites; Flickr at #6). However looking at Flickr for Pubcon and finding 1000+ photos and then finding 0 photos on photobucket for pubcon, tells me who’s winning the mindshare of web publishers. The [...]

Read the full article →

Don’t Join The Game

November 21, 2006

http://www.lost.eu/7d36

Read the full article →

Swag I Want at Pubcon

November 7, 2006

So one of the fun things about going to a conference is all the cool swag you get, here’s my wishlist of stuff I hope to find:

Read the full article →

Who I Want to Meet at Pubcon

November 6, 2006

Since we’re about a week away from Pubcon in Las Vegas 2006 I thought I would run some pubcon related posts this week. First out of the gate, people I’ve never met but want to meet at pubcon.

Read the full article →

Can Pay-Per-Post Blogs be Trusted?

November 4, 2006

So I know there’s something of an undercurrent against the whole pay-per-post issue in the blogosphere and how it compromises journalistic integrity, honesty and truthfullness. Today I came across an example of how it can be done in a clever, funny and entertaining way, with full disclosure. OK technically they didn’t get paid in cash [...]

Read the full article →

The Secret Army of Digg Trolls

November 2, 2006

For all the talk of openness and truth of social media, Web 2.0 and user tagged ad voted bookmarking, there’s a dark dirty little secret that no one wants to talk talk about, the dark army of digg trolls.

Read the full article →

Creating the Ultimate Digg Post

November 2, 2006

Recently I got to thinking, what would it take to create The Ultimate Digg Post?

Read the full article →

Social Bookmark Scripts and Widgets

October 24, 2006

Everyone who’s looking to bring traffic to thier website is pretty focused on social bookmarking right now. However one of the things a lot people miss is making it easy for their readers to do this. So here a tutorial on how to implement some social bookmarking into your site just like the picture below.

Read the full article →

Social Media – The Power of the Title

October 17, 2006

Rand made an interesting observation about a post that got “dugg” (I think he’s nailed it too). However the real gem of wisdom comes from Rob Stevens who makes this observation

Read the full article →

Looking for Mashup Testers

October 13, 2006

Allrighty so I’m getting ready to push out my ultimate mashup. I combined some news feeds, youtube, flickr, amazon, AOL, and technorati API and data all together into one site. The result is about 150,000 pages of web 2.0 mashup good-ness. I’m looking for a handful of people to take a look at it next [...]

Read the full article →

Why the MySpace User Interface is Horrible

October 9, 2006

One of the most common complaints I hear from people who don’t get myspace is, it looks like my teenagers room. It’s a disjointed illogical layout bombarded with pictures and music. Recently I was working on a project and I think I gained some insight into why MySpace looks the way it does.

Read the full article →

Viral Marketing Experiments

October 6, 2006

I think viral marketing experiments are fun to watch …

Read the full article →

Profiting from Social Media

October 4, 2006

Since you’re reading this chances are you know I’m a big fan of social media, and while I do like to ‘get down with my bad self’ keeping up with all the latest trends, I see lots of other people beating up on social media because they can’t correlate actions directly with profit.

Read the full article →

Competing for Attention Against Politics

September 30, 2006

A view of the homepage of Netscape.com for Saturday September 30th shows anybody competing against politics is having a tough time competing for attention. (click image to enlarge). Incase your wondering the cool screen shot was taken with the Pearl Crescent Screen Saver plugin.

Read the full article →

Guy Kawasaki Social Media Panel

September 29, 2006

Guy Kawasaki heads a panel of teens and early twenty-something talking about a whole bunch of stuff. I think this one’s a must watch

http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=wgcqpthubc

Read the full article →

Example of Why You Should Encourage Social Bookmarking

September 26, 2006

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, getting your head wrapped around social bookmarking and why it’s important is really crucial.

Read the full article →

How Social Bookmarking is Supposed to Work

September 25, 2006

So last week I was browsing through my delicious network and came across something interesting I thought I’d share.

Read the full article →

Is P9 Back at Digg

September 22, 2006

Has P9 of Digg changed his mind and gone back to Digg?

Read the full article →

How Do I Get My Website into Digg

September 21, 2006

One of the more frequent questions I get from people via email is ‘How do I get my website into digg‘. Since I’ve been doing the Social Media Optimization thing lately I can share a few tips with you.

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →