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social media

I enjoyed you, Tweetdeck, I really did. I love Twitter and I need a Twitter desktop client. Tweetdeck was that for a long while and I enjoyed it: the multi-columns, the groups, the notifications. Then, just over a week ago, I had my screen replaced. I now have one of those large horizontal screens. It’s [...]

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Forums – The Earliest Form of Social Media Web forums were one of the first forms of online social media. Providing a platform for web surfers to interact, they were a welcome change from the old static websites. As forum software evolved, it allowed for actual communities to be formed. Forums are usually focused on a [...]

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Google officially rolled out their Buzz service yesterday. Logging into your Gmail account, you should already be seeing it there. If nothing else, it’s bound to cause a major buzz. I would have skipped the lame joke, but I don’t think I have to since Buzz doesn’t skip the lame questions on its profile page [...]

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Just when you think we’ve seen it all, a new social media application comes along and wham! it rocks the Internet, getting its founders into the digital Hall of Fame. When it seems the online arena is densely populated with huge corporations, is it still possible for you to come up with the next big thing [...]

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This post is not about increasing the number of your followers on Twitter. It is about how you can find interesting people to follow. Now, mind you, I believe that finding cool people to follow on Twitter is actually the right way to gradually and organically grow your own following. Find people you have an [...]

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I’m not sure if it was a matter of focusing on other projects in work and life or just some innate conservatism, but the fact is, I was late in jumping on the social media promotion wagon. When Facebook and Twitter started out, I just didn’t have the attention span for learning new tricks (does [...]

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I can’t believe it’s taken me over a week to get back to my RSS reader and go over the latest headlines and bylines. 2009 Reports and Summaries It’s December, the end of 2009 and some interesting end of year reports have been published. Facebook published its list of trending topics this year. Rather than [...]

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Wow, has been a busy week for me here. It’s a holiday here as well (Hannuka in Israel). With the kids at home, I just don’t have enough time to do everything that I need to be doing. Still, having dedicated a couple of hours this morning to going over the webmasters headlines service (aka [...]

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