John Reese wrote a great post today in response to an attack on him by a couple of bloggers regarding twitter. Basically what happened is John sent out an email to his email list encouraging them to follow him on Twitter. A blogger who received the email predicted that this was a “Pending Sign of [...]
Earlier this week I noticed a little box in the bottom right corner of my Facebook window telling me about Facebook chat, but I didn’t end up trying it out until just today. Although it seemed slow a couple times, I really like this new feature.
Facebook chat reminds me a lot of Gmails built in [...]
I am now blocking all Facebook apps to which I am invited. The reason for this is that I was getting way more invites than I cared to deal with, most of which I was rejecting anyway. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Facebook’s open platform, and still use many facebook [...]
I just got the following e-mail informing me I can no longer listing to Pandora while in the Philippines:
Dear Pandora listener,
Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora’s streaming service for [...]
My blog community on MyBlogLog just reached 400 members today, thanks to to Scott Bradley. Although I am assuming that most of those members never actually read my blog I think it is still a milestone to be proud of, and it is in my opinion a good form of social proof. The 50th largest [...]
A discussion going on on several blogs about whether Digg should be included in Google’s search results has got me thinking about the value that Digg provides to internet users outside of the Digg community. To my understanding the basic argument against Digg being listed in Google’s search results is that Digg provides no new [...]
While keeping informed and up to date about what is being written about Digg over the past several months I have come across a lot of information that really isn’t that insightful or in some cases is even just plain wrong. So to help anyone interested in learning more about Digg sort through the jungle [...]
I just wrote an article at my marketing blog, about the gaming element of Digg, and my take on the fact that a select group of top Digg users have a disproportionate amount of power on the site. In brief I believe that the fact that Digg provides a ranked public record of user’s contributions [...]
I am a Digg Spammer, at least according to Digg users HaltingPoint, dnight, and hobbsy, who left the following comments on the Digg Story of my last post about the $100 dollar business.
The story was buried soon after it made it to the home page, which is too bad because in my opinion it was [...]
It has been said that on social media sites such as Digg the rule of 80-19-1 describes what percentage of users consume, participate, and contribute actively to the community. Eighty percent of the users are just passive consumers, they just visit the site to get the latest news or links. Nineteen percent of users actually [...]
