A couple of guys work for Google and then leave. They then open a startup that is a social Q&A service. The gist of Aardvark [vark.com] is that it looks at your social graph (a representation of your online connections with people), sees what you know (as self-reported and evident on your various profiles and content), ...
A quick reason why… Some assistance when choosing how best to display data… Some other things to consider with your infographic… Great places to search for infographics (besides Google) are vi.sualize.us, Posterous, Tumblr, and FFFFOUND, as well as some great blogs. ...
The mass printing of words via movable-block type did not reinvent books, it lowered the costs and made them more affordable. The typewriter didn’t reinvent writing, it just made creating content faster and more uniform. These are simplistic statements and certainly provable as false. But the point remains valid – social media is going to change ...
Facebook has published directions (via the Facebook blog) for handling deceased users (via this form) after users complained about the new ’suggestions’ feature recommending users who have shuffled off this mortal coil. ...
This is the latest version of a survey I’m going to use for my capstone (thesis), which is titled “Integrating New Media in your Organization, Corporation, or Institution”. Click see more for the survey. Read more... (39 words, estimated 9 secs reading time) ...
I just deleted 110 links from my blogroll – including many from blogs I read everyday (and some I don’t – sorry Philly Sports Blogs). My logic was that there was no real incentive in linking to blogs who would never link back, secondly, that I frequently link to and mention blogs that I ...
I saw this regarding journalist bloggers – my responses are interspersed into the author’s text. Read more... (567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time) Blogs bury yesterday and make last week disappear. Like the clocks in The Exorcist, blogs demonstrate reverse chronology in an unsettling way. Today’s entry is on top. Until tomorrow, when yesterday ...
The handful of you that know me in real life are already aware that a significant (but temporary) change has happened in my life, one that will no doubt affect my online life… Read more... (200 words, estimated 48 secs reading time) ...
Interesting ideas regarding writing on your own blog (as an example, GigaOm includes blog-platform-as-social-network, specifically Wordpress) versus sharing content on a social network site. I think the win-win is to syndicate your content via limited content RSS feeds linking back to your blog. They get content, you get traffic and referrer links, and hopefully ...
Daily News Sports writer Bill Conlin responds to a reader's email. Read the whole thing – this was Conlin's signature email response at CrashBurnAlley : Know what, pal? Bash this. . .Tell your bloggers, my career against theirs. . . [...] The only positive thing I can think of about Hitler’s time on ...
