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 [...]
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 [...]
I started doing “this” back in 1997. “This” means creating websites, promoting them and monetizing on the traffic (as opposed to creating websites for other people’s business need). It’s a pretty common business model for most of us. The Age of Webmasters Back then, we were called webmasters. As a webmaster, you were expected to [...]
Haven’t done a news & views roundup in a while, so time to check my RSS reader folders and link to some good webmasters reading material. Search Engine News Bing’s Stefan Weitz: Where Is Search Going? Weitz provides some interesting insights about the future of search engine development, and no, social media is not the [...]
I try to make this part of my daily routine (not always successfully): going over the latest headlines for webmasters. To do that, I subscribe to feeds I like and those I think are important (such as Tech Crunch and Mashable). Going over them today, I figured I’d share some of the gems here. May [...]