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Category Archives: Social Media

Social data at its finest

Today, Facebook launched a few new features including chat and something called Feedcrawler. But the most interesting release today is called Lexicon. Think of it as Google Trends but for social data.

One of the Facebook engineers working on the projects sent me the above query, but the possibilities are endless. This tool will be [...]

SNAP Summit 2.0 notes

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SNAP Summit II
March 25, 2008
Commonwealth Club, SF, Calif., USA
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9:30
Effective Social Interface Design
Josh Porter; Founder, Bokardo: Social Web Design
Teaching us about del.icio.us, and digg.
10:00
PANEL: Methods of Boosting User Engagement
* MODERATOR: Dave McClure; Blogger, 500hats.com
* Rajat Paharia; CEO, Bunchball
* Siqi Chen; Co-Founder, Friends [...]

Just Skitch it

I have been finding Skitch very useful these days.

Brian Caldwell first introduced it to me months ago, but I never thought I would want to save all my screen grabs as much as I do today. Working on the web 10 hours a day, something will catch you eye, and you don’t really have time [...]

Connected to every medium

The web allows us to keep in touch with our friends in so many ways today. When I log into Facebook, I am immediately greeted with a news feed of activity.

Users can update their status too. So whether you like it or not, you know what they are doing.

Twitter is only status:

A can also [...]

Pownce stands for participation

I was listening to Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak argue about the difference between Pownce and Twitter. Guys, THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Twitter simply asks, “What are you doing?”

Pownce doesn’t ask you any questions. Instead, it feels like a comfortable, social web app. Yea, it looks like Twitter, but you can choose different media types, [...]

Zivity: For models and photographers

The first time I heard of Zivity, I was skimming the demos of TechCrunch 40.

I finally got an invite about a month ago, and I have yet to be disappointed. Think of Zivity as a social network for models and photographers to exchange resources. As a regular user on the site, you have the opportunity [...]

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